The first table below looks at the demand for TDD skills in IT jobs advertised for the North East region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited TDD over the 3 months to 24 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 North East region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Rank 37 47 48
Rank change year-on-year
+10 +1
Permanent jobs citing TDD 36 26 21
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North East 5.217% 3.020% 2.869%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.407% 4.377% 4.393%
Number of salaries quoted 29 24 19
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £39,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% -5.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £35,000 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £44,500 £40,000 £43,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
North East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
486 594 478
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North East 70.43% 68.99% 65.30%
Number of salaries quoted 434 478 383
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £24,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £60,250 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
TDD
England

TDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North East 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 North East region.

North East TDD Salary Trend

TDD
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing TDD across the North East region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

North East TDD Salary Histogram

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 North East region over the 3 months to 24 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
Tyne and Wear +5 36 £35,000 -6.66%
TDD
England

TDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the North East 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 73 (79.35%) .NET
2 68 (73.91%) ASP.NET
3 66 (71.74%) C#
3 66 (71.74%) Scrum
4 59 (64.13%) MVC
5 52 (56.52%) SQL Server
6 47 (51.09%) ASP.NET MVC
7 37 (40.22%) WCF
8 34 (36.96%) ASP.NET MVC 4
9 33 (35.87%) BDD
10 32 (34.78%) Microsoft Certification
11 31 (33.70%) MCP
11 31 (33.70%) MCAD
11 31 (33.70%) MCSD
11 31 (33.70%) MCTS
11 31 (33.70%) Web Application Development
12 29 (31.52%) XML
13 28 (30.43%) Kanban
14 27 (29.35%) Razor View Engine
15 26 (28.26%) Microsoft
16 25 (27.17%) Unit Testing
17 23 (25.00%) Rhino Mocks
17 23 (25.00%) Moq
17 23 (25.00%) NUnit
18 22 (23.91%) HTML
19 19 (20.65%) .NET Framework
19 19 (20.65%) jQuery
20 18 (19.57%) JavaScript
20 18 (19.57%) Web Services
21 16 (17.39%) SQL

TDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the North East 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 73 (79.35%) .NET
2 68 (73.91%) ASP.NET
3 47 (51.09%) ASP.NET MVC
4 37 (40.22%) WCF
5 34 (36.96%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 29 (31.52%) XML
7 27 (29.35%) Razor View Engine
8 22 (23.91%) HTML
9 19 (20.65%) .NET Framework
9 19 (20.65%) jQuery
10 18 (19.57%) Web Services
11 16 (17.39%) CSS
12 15 (16.30%) LINQ
12 15 (16.30%) NHibernate
13 13 (14.13%) WPF
14 12 (13.04%) Ninject
15 10 (10.87%) WinForms
16 8 (8.696%) Spring.NET
16 8 (8.696%) Castle Windsor
16 8 (8.696%) Unity DI Container
Application Platforms
1 3 (3.261%) Windows Azure
1 3 (3.261%) Amazon AWS
2 1 (1.087%) DotNetNuke
2 1 (1.087%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 7 (7.609%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.174%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.783%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (56.52%) SQL Server
2 16 (17.39%) SQL Server 2008
3 10 (10.87%) SQL Server 2005
4 4 (4.348%) MySQL
4 4 (4.348%) SQL Server 2012
5 3 (3.261%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.087%) Oracle 11g
6 1 (1.087%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.087%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 23 (25.00%) Rhino Mocks
1 23 (25.00%) Moq
1 23 (25.00%) NUnit
2 14 (15.22%) Team Foundation Server
3 9 (9.783%) MSTest
4 7 (7.609%) Selenium
5 5 (5.435%) Cucumber
6 4 (4.348%) Visual Studio
7 2 (2.174%) Maven
7 2 (2.174%) JIRA
7 2 (2.174%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (11.96%) Finance
2 6 (6.522%) Music
3 5 (5.435%) Law
4 2 (2.174%) Music Industry
5 1 (1.087%) Banking
5 1 (1.087%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 78 (84.78%) Developer
2 48 (52.17%) .NET Developer
3 15 (16.30%) Senior Developer
4 11 (11.96%) Software Developer
5 7 (7.609%) Graduate .NET Developer
5 7 (7.609%) Junior .NET Developer
5 7 (7.609%) Graduate Developer
5 7 (7.609%) Junior Developer
5 7 (7.609%) Graduate
5 7 (7.609%) Tester
5 7 (7.609%) Junior
6 6 (6.522%) Analyst
6 6 (6.522%) Lead Developer
6 6 (6.522%) C# Developer
7 5 (5.435%) C# .NET Developer
7 5 (5.435%) Senior .NET Developer
7 5 (5.435%) Test Analyst
8 3 (3.261%) ScrumMaster
8 3 (3.261%) C# ASP.NET Developer
8 3 (3.261%) .NET Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.13%) DTV
2 8 (8.696%) Computer Science
2 8 (8.696%) Inversion of Control
3 7 (7.609%) Mobile App
4 6 (6.522%) iPhone
5 5 (5.435%) iPad
5 5 (5.435%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (5.435%) Tandem
6 4 (4.348%) N-Tier
6 4 (4.348%) Streaming Music
6 4 (4.348%) Open Source
7 2 (2.174%) SaaS
8 1 (1.087%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.087%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 12 (13.04%) Windows
2 6 (6.522%) Android
3 1 (1.087%) Linux
3 1 (1.087%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (71.74%) Scrum
2 59 (64.13%) MVC
3 33 (35.87%) BDD
4 31 (33.70%) Web Application Development
5 28 (30.43%) Kanban
6 25 (27.17%) Unit Testing
7 14 (15.22%) OO
8 12 (13.04%) Agile Software Development
8 12 (13.04%) OOD
8 12 (13.04%) Dependency Injection
9 10 (10.87%) Web Development
9 10 (10.87%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (8.696%) OOP
10 8 (8.696%) Domain-Driven Design
11 5 (5.435%) MVVM
11 5 (5.435%) Software Testing
12 4 (4.348%) UML
12 4 (4.348%) Business Intelligence
12 4 (4.348%) CQRS
13 3 (3.261%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 66 (71.74%) C#
2 18 (19.57%) JavaScript
3 16 (17.39%) SQL
4 8 (8.696%) VB
4 8 (8.696%) VB.NET
5 7 (7.609%) C++
6 4 (4.348%) Java
7 2 (2.174%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.087%) Ruby
8 1 (1.087%) Jython
8 1 (1.087%) VC++
8 1 (1.087%) Python
8 1 (1.087%) PHP
Qualifications
1 32 (34.78%) Microsoft Certification
2 31 (33.70%) MCP
2 31 (33.70%) MCAD
2 31 (33.70%) MCSD
2 31 (33.70%) MCTS
3 7 (7.609%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.696%) QA
2 6 (6.522%) ISO 8583
3 1 (1.087%) WCAG
Vendors
1 26 (28.26%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.261%) Oracle
3 2 (2.174%) Red Hat
3 2 (2.174%) JBoss
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