The first table below looks at the demand for TDD skills in IT jobs advertised for the Newcastle upon Tyne region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited TDD over the 3 months to 17 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Rank 26 37 35
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -2
Permanent jobs citing TDD 31 12 15
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 6.327% 2.649% 3.659%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.708% 3.846% 5.338%
Number of salaries quoted 24 11 14
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,250 £25,000 £38,875
10% offered a salary of more than £49,500 £40,000 £46,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Newcastle upon Tyne
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
356 312 281
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 72.65% 68.87% 68.54%
Number of salaries quoted 315 263 228
Average salary £38,000 £35,000 £36,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.57% -4.10%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,650 £25,000 £22,150
10% offered a salary of more than £54,000 £62,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
TDD
Tyne and Wear

TDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Newcastle upon Tyne TDD Salary Trend

TDD
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing TDD across the Newcastle upon Tyne region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Newcastle upon Tyne TDD Salary Histogram

TDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 66 (79.52%) .NET
2 63 (75.90%) Scrum
3 62 (74.70%) ASP.NET
4 59 (71.08%) C#
5 52 (62.65%) MVC
6 47 (56.63%) SQL Server
7 41 (49.40%) ASP.NET MVC
8 30 (36.14%) WCF
9 28 (33.73%) BDD
9 28 (33.73%) ASP.NET MVC 4
10 27 (32.53%) Microsoft Certification
11 26 (31.33%) Microsoft
11 26 (31.33%) MCP
11 26 (31.33%) MCAD
11 26 (31.33%) MCSD
11 26 (31.33%) MCTS
11 26 (31.33%) Web Application Development
12 25 (30.12%) Kanban
13 24 (28.92%) XML
14 22 (26.51%) NUnit
14 22 (26.51%) Razor View Engine
14 22 (26.51%) Rhino Mocks
14 22 (26.51%) Moq
15 21 (25.30%) Unit Testing
16 19 (22.89%) .NET Framework
16 19 (22.89%) HTML
17 18 (21.69%) jQuery
17 18 (21.69%) SQL Server 2008
18 17 (20.48%) NHibernate
18 17 (20.48%) JavaScript

TDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 66 (79.52%) .NET
2 62 (74.70%) ASP.NET
3 41 (49.40%) ASP.NET MVC
4 30 (36.14%) WCF
5 28 (33.73%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 24 (28.92%) XML
7 22 (26.51%) Razor View Engine
8 19 (22.89%) HTML
8 19 (22.89%) .NET Framework
9 18 (21.69%) jQuery
10 17 (20.48%) NHibernate
11 15 (18.07%) Web Services
11 15 (18.07%) LINQ
12 13 (15.66%) CSS
13 12 (14.46%) WPF
14 10 (12.05%) WinForms
15 9 (10.84%) Ninject
16 5 (6.024%) Unity DI Container
16 5 (6.024%) Castle Windsor
16 5 (6.024%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 3 (3.614%) Windows Azure
1 3 (3.614%) Amazon AWS
2 1 (1.205%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (1.205%) DotNetNuke
Applications
1 7 (8.434%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.410%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.024%) Internet
2 1 (1.205%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (56.63%) SQL Server
2 18 (21.69%) SQL Server 2008
3 10 (12.05%) SQL Server 2005
4 4 (4.819%) MySQL
5 3 (3.614%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.205%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 22 (26.51%) NUnit
1 22 (26.51%) Rhino Mocks
1 22 (26.51%) Moq
2 13 (15.66%) Team Foundation Server
3 6 (7.229%) MSTest
4 5 (6.024%) Selenium
4 5 (6.024%) Cucumber
5 3 (3.614%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (13.25%) Finance
2 7 (8.434%) Music
3 5 (6.024%) Law
4 3 (3.614%) Music Industry
5 1 (1.205%) Advertising
5 1 (1.205%) Banking
Job Titles
1 69 (83.13%) Developer
2 41 (49.40%) .NET Developer
3 14 (16.87%) Senior Developer
4 12 (14.46%) Software Developer
5 8 (9.639%) Graduate
5 8 (9.639%) Junior
5 8 (9.639%) Junior Developer
5 8 (9.639%) Junior .NET Developer
5 8 (9.639%) Graduate Developer
5 8 (9.639%) Graduate .NET Developer
6 7 (8.434%) Tester
7 6 (7.229%) Analyst
7 6 (7.229%) Lead Developer
8 5 (6.024%) Test Analyst
8 5 (6.024%) C# Developer
9 4 (4.819%) Senior .NET Developer
9 4 (4.819%) Senior Software Developer
9 4 (4.819%) C# .NET Developer
10 3 (3.614%) ScrumMaster
10 3 (3.614%) .NET Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.87%) DTV
2 9 (10.84%) Computer Science
3 7 (8.434%) Mobile App
4 6 (7.229%) iPhone
5 5 (6.024%) Inversion of Control
5 5 (6.024%) Tandem
5 5 (6.024%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (6.024%) iPad
6 4 (4.819%) Streaming Music
7 3 (3.614%) Open Source
8 2 (2.410%) SaaS
8 2 (2.410%) N-Tier
9 1 (1.205%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 12 (14.46%) Windows
2 6 (7.229%) Android
3 1 (1.205%) UNIX
3 1 (1.205%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (75.90%) Scrum
2 52 (62.65%) MVC
3 28 (33.73%) BDD
4 26 (31.33%) Web Application Development
5 25 (30.12%) Kanban
6 21 (25.30%) Unit Testing
7 11 (13.25%) Web Development
7 11 (13.25%) OOD
8 9 (10.84%) Dependency Injection
9 8 (9.639%) OOP
9 8 (9.639%) Agile Software Development
10 7 (8.434%) OO
11 5 (6.024%) Software Testing
11 5 (6.024%) MVVM
11 5 (6.024%) Continuous Integration
12 4 (4.819%) Domain-Driven Design
13 3 (3.614%) Performance Testing
13 3 (3.614%) Enterprise Architecture
13 3 (3.614%) Technical Architecture
13 3 (3.614%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 59 (71.08%) C#
2 17 (20.48%) JavaScript
3 14 (16.87%) SQL
4 7 (8.434%) C++
5 4 (4.819%) VB
5 4 (4.819%) VB.NET
6 2 (2.410%) Ruby
7 1 (1.205%) VC++
7 1 (1.205%) Python
7 1 (1.205%) Jython
7 1 (1.205%) Java
7 1 (1.205%) PHP
Qualifications
1 27 (32.53%) Microsoft Certification
2 26 (31.33%) MCTS
2 26 (31.33%) MCP
2 26 (31.33%) MCAD
2 26 (31.33%) MCSD
3 7 (8.434%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.639%) QA
2 6 (7.229%) ISO 8583
Vendors
1 26 (31.33%) Microsoft
Newcastle upon Tyne, North East
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Salary: £35000 - £50000 per annum + benefits
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Salary: £40k - 47k per year + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 30 April 2013