The first table below looks at the demand for TDD skills in IT jobs advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited TDD over the 3 months to 20 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Merseyside region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Rank 27 50 55
Rank change year-on-year
+23 +5
Permanent jobs citing TDD 27 33 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 6.027% 4.925% 2.832%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.397% 6.587% 4.050%
Number of salaries quoted 24 26 12
Average salary £35,000 £45,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-22.22% +12.50%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Merseyside
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
365 501 321
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 81.47% 74.78% 69.93%
Number of salaries quoted 304 444 261
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £29,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
TDD
North West

TDD
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing TDD across the Merseyside region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Merseyside TDD Jobs Demand Trend

TDD
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing TDD across the Merseyside region.

Merseyside TDD Salary Trend

TDD
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing TDD within the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Liverpool +17 23 £32,500 -27.77%
Wirral +4 3 £40,000 -20.00%
TDD
North West

TDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside region citing TDD also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited TDD.

1 49 (59.04%) SQL Server
2 38 (45.78%) OO
3 36 (43.37%) C#
4 35 (42.17%) .NET
5 32 (38.55%) Scrum
6 31 (37.35%) Java
7 28 (33.73%) ASP.NET
8 24 (28.92%) MVC
9 22 (26.51%) Spring
9 22 (26.51%) WCF
10 21 (25.30%) SQL
10 21 (25.30%) ASP.NET MVC
11 20 (24.10%) BDD
11 20 (24.10%) Web Application Development
11 20 (24.10%) ASP.NET MVC 4
11 20 (24.10%) Microsoft Certification
11 20 (24.10%) HTML
11 20 (24.10%) CSS
11 20 (24.10%) MCP
11 20 (24.10%) MCAD
11 20 (24.10%) MCSD
11 20 (24.10%) MCTS
12 19 (22.89%) Swing
12 19 (22.89%) Razor View Engine
12 19 (22.89%) jQuery
13 17 (20.48%) Unit Testing
13 17 (20.48%) Oracle
14 16 (19.28%) LAMP
14 16 (19.28%) Agile Software Development
15 15 (18.07%) Retail

TDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside region citing TDD also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited TDD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 35 (42.17%) .NET
2 28 (33.73%) ASP.NET
3 22 (26.51%) Spring
3 22 (26.51%) WCF
4 21 (25.30%) ASP.NET MVC
5 20 (24.10%) ASP.NET MVC 4
5 20 (24.10%) HTML
5 20 (24.10%) CSS
6 19 (22.89%) Swing
6 19 (22.89%) Razor View Engine
6 19 (22.89%) jQuery
7 16 (19.28%) LAMP
8 12 (14.46%) J2EE
9 10 (12.05%) Hibernate
9 10 (12.05%) .NET Framework
10 9 (10.84%) Web Services
10 9 (10.84%) EJB
10 9 (10.84%) EJB 3.0
11 8 (9.639%) Castle Windsor
12 7 (8.434%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 6 (7.229%) Apache
2 2 (2.410%) Tomcat
2 2 (2.410%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (1.205%) Orchard CMS
3 1 (1.205%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (7.229%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 11 (13.25%) Internet
2 1 (1.205%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (59.04%) SQL Server
2 13 (15.66%) MySQL
3 11 (13.25%) SQL Server 2012
4 9 (10.84%) Oracle 10g
5 7 (8.434%) SQL Server 2008
6 6 (7.229%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (4.819%) SQL Server 2000
7 4 (4.819%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (3.614%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (2.410%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (12.05%) JIRA
2 9 (10.84%) NUnit
3 8 (9.639%) Subversion
3 8 (9.639%) Rhino Mocks
4 6 (7.229%) Moq
5 5 (6.024%) MSTest
6 4 (4.819%) Team Foundation Server
6 4 (4.819%) Visual Studio
7 3 (3.614%) JUnit
8 2 (2.410%) TeamCity
8 2 (2.410%) Git (software)
8 2 (2.410%) Maven
9 1 (1.205%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (1.205%) Eclipse
9 1 (1.205%) CruiseControl
General
1 15 (18.07%) Retail
2 7 (8.434%) Finance
3 2 (2.410%) Law
4 1 (1.205%) Multimedia
4 1 (1.205%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 74 (89.16%) Developer
2 28 (33.73%) .NET Developer
3 21 (25.30%) Software Developer
4 15 (18.07%) Senior Developer
5 13 (15.66%) Java Developer
6 10 (12.05%) PHP Developer
7 9 (10.84%) Java Software Developer
7 9 (10.84%) Java/J2EE Developer
8 8 (9.639%) PHP MySQL Developer
9 7 (8.434%) Software Manager
9 7 (8.434%) Quality Manager
9 7 (8.434%) QA Manager
10 6 (7.229%) Web Developer
10 6 (7.229%) Senior .NET Developer
11 5 (6.024%) Senior Java Software Developer
11 5 (6.024%) Senior Software Developer
11 5 (6.024%) Senior Java Developer
12 4 (4.819%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
12 4 (4.819%) C# Developer
13 3 (3.614%) Java Swing Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.229%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (6.024%) Inversion of Control
3 4 (4.819%) Computer Science
4 2 (2.410%) RIA
4 2 (2.410%) Open Source
4 2 (2.410%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.205%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.205%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (13.25%) UNIX
2 9 (10.84%) Windows
3 7 (8.434%) Linux
4 3 (3.614%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.205%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (45.78%) OO
2 32 (38.55%) Scrum
3 24 (28.92%) MVC
4 20 (24.10%) BDD
4 20 (24.10%) Web Application Development
5 17 (20.48%) Unit Testing
6 16 (19.28%) Agile Software Development
7 13 (15.66%) E-Commerce
8 12 (14.46%) Domain-Driven Design
9 11 (13.25%) CQRS
10 9 (10.84%) Use Case
10 9 (10.84%) Release Management
10 9 (10.84%) OOP
11 8 (9.639%) Web Development
11 8 (9.639%) Continuous Integration
12 7 (8.434%) System Testing
12 7 (8.434%) Test Scripting
12 7 (8.434%) Resource Management
12 7 (8.434%) Kanban
12 7 (8.434%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 36 (43.37%) C#
2 31 (37.35%) Java
3 21 (25.30%) SQL
4 14 (16.87%) PHP
5 12 (14.46%) VB
5 12 (14.46%) VB.NET
6 10 (12.05%) JavaScript
7 7 (8.434%) Ruby
7 7 (8.434%) PHP5
8 5 (6.024%) C++
9 3 (3.614%) Scala
10 1 (1.205%) Python
10 1 (1.205%) Perl
10 1 (1.205%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.205%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (24.10%) MCP
1 20 (24.10%) MCAD
1 20 (24.10%) MCSD
1 20 (24.10%) Microsoft Certification
1 20 (24.10%) MCTS
2 12 (14.46%) Degree
3 9 (10.84%) HND
4 6 (7.229%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.205%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.84%) QA
Vendors
1 17 (20.48%) Oracle
2 9 (10.84%) Microsoft
3 8 (9.639%) Twitter
4 3 (3.614%) Zend
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Posted: 14 May 2013
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Salary: £30k - 38k per year + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013
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Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
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Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 18 May 2013
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Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
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Salary: £41000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Birkenhead, Merseyside
Key skills: - NET 2.x to 4.x (MVC ASP.NET) - C# - WCF, SOAP - SQL Server and T-SQL, Oracle and PL/SQL - IIS, Apache, Tomcat - Javascript, jQuery -...
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Salary: From £30,000 to £35,000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
Liverpool, Merseyside
5+ year’s development in Javascript. 2+ years experience with PHP. 2+ years experience with CSS2, CSS3, and HTML5 coding... TDD & Unit testing... Excellent JQuery skills. Knowledge of...
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Salary: Up to £35,000 per annum plus Excellent Benefits
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Salary: £28000.00 - £35000.00 per annum + bens
Posted: 8 May 2013
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Salary: From £25,000 to £35,000 per annum
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