The first table below looks at the demand for TDD skills in IT jobs advertised for the Northampton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited TDD over the 3 months to 22 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 Northampton region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Rank 18 45 34
Rank change year-on-year
+27 -11
Permanent jobs citing TDD 40 11 28
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northampton 10.15% 2.361% 6.048%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.51% 3.125% 8.777%
Number of salaries quoted 38 11 26
Average salary £37,000 £45,000 £33,125
Average salary % change year-on-year
-17.77% +35.84%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £40,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £42,000 £50,000 £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Northampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
296 352 319
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northampton 75.13% 75.54% 68.90%
Number of salaries quoted 253 340 299
Average salary £38,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.66% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £24,000 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
TDD
Northamptonshire

TDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Northampton 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 Northampton region.

Northampton TDD Salary Trend

TDD
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing TDD across the Northampton region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Northampton TDD Salary Histogram

TDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northampton 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 (81.67%) Scrum
2 46 (76.67%) .NET
3 42 (70.00%) C#
4 39 (65.00%) Selenium
5 35 (58.33%) Agile Software Development
6 34 (56.67%) Java EE
7 33 (55.00%) FitNesse
7 33 (55.00%) OOD
7 33 (55.00%) SQL
7 33 (55.00%) OOP
8 30 (50.00%) JUnit
9 27 (45.00%) MVC
10 26 (43.33%) Java
11 25 (41.67%) ASP.NET
12 23 (38.33%) SQL Server
13 22 (36.67%) Microsoft
14 19 (31.67%) OO
14 19 (31.67%) Dependency Injection
15 18 (30.00%) ASP.NET MVC
16 17 (28.33%) Inversion of Control
16 17 (28.33%) Continuous Integration
16 17 (28.33%) WCF
16 17 (28.33%) WPF
16 17 (28.33%) Software Engineering
16 17 (28.33%) MCTS
16 17 (28.33%) Castle Windsor
16 17 (28.33%) Ninject
16 17 (28.33%) Web Application Development
16 17 (28.33%) ASP.NET MVC 4
16 17 (28.33%) Microsoft Certification

TDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northampton 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 46 (76.67%) .NET
2 34 (56.67%) Java EE
3 25 (41.67%) ASP.NET
4 18 (30.00%) ASP.NET MVC
5 17 (28.33%) WCF
5 17 (28.33%) WPF
5 17 (28.33%) Castle Windsor
5 17 (28.33%) Ninject
5 17 (28.33%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 16 (26.67%) WinForms
6 16 (26.67%) Unity DI Container
6 16 (26.67%) Razor View Engine
6 16 (26.67%) Spring.NET
7 13 (21.67%) CSS
8 10 (16.67%) .NET Framework
9 8 (13.33%) Hibernate
9 8 (13.33%) JSF
9 8 (13.33%) J2EE
9 8 (13.33%) JSP
9 8 (13.33%) Struts
Application Platforms
1 1 (1.667%) Tomcat
1 1 (1.667%) Magento
Applications
1 6 (10.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 8 (13.33%) BSS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (38.33%) SQL Server
2 7 (11.67%) SQL Server 2008
3 6 (10.00%) SQL Server 2000
3 6 (10.00%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (3.333%) SQL Server 2012
5 1 (1.667%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 39 (65.00%) Selenium
2 33 (55.00%) FitNesse
3 30 (50.00%) JUnit
4 17 (28.33%) NUnit
5 16 (26.67%) Rhino Mocks
5 16 (26.67%) Moq
5 16 (26.67%) MSTest
6 1 (1.667%) Maven
6 1 (1.667%) Subversion
6 1 (1.667%) Ant
6 1 (1.667%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.667%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (1.667%) Retail
1 1 (1.667%) Games
1 1 (1.667%) Music
Job Titles
1 30 (50.00%) Developer
2 26 (43.33%) Software Engineer
3 17 (28.33%) .NET Developer
4 13 (21.67%) Senior Software Engineer
5 9 (15.00%) Java Developer
6 8 (13.33%) Java/J2EE Developer
7 6 (10.00%) Senior Developer
7 6 (10.00%) Analyst
7 6 (10.00%) Test Analyst
8 4 (6.667%) Automation Analyst
8 4 (6.667%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
8 4 (6.667%) Automation Test Analyst
8 4 (6.667%) Software Developer
8 4 (6.667%) Senior Java Developer
9 3 (5.000%) Junior .NET Developer
9 3 (5.000%) Graduate Developer
9 3 (5.000%) Junior Developer
9 3 (5.000%) Junior
9 3 (5.000%) Graduate
9 3 (5.000%) Graduate .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 17 (28.33%) Inversion of Control
2 6 (10.00%) N-Tier
2 6 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (5.000%) Computer Science
4 2 (3.333%) Tandem
5 1 (1.667%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.667%) iPhone
5 1 (1.667%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 16 (26.67%) Windows
2 1 (1.667%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (81.67%) Scrum
2 35 (58.33%) Agile Software Development
3 33 (55.00%) OOD
3 33 (55.00%) OOP
4 27 (45.00%) MVC
5 19 (31.67%) OO
5 19 (31.67%) Dependency Injection
6 17 (28.33%) Continuous Integration
6 17 (28.33%) Software Engineering
6 17 (28.33%) Web Application Development
7 16 (26.67%) MVVM
7 16 (26.67%) Kanban
8 7 (11.67%) Unit Testing
8 7 (11.67%) E-Commerce
9 6 (10.00%) Validation
10 4 (6.667%) Web Development
11 1 (1.667%) Information Management
11 1 (1.667%) UML
11 1 (1.667%) Test Strategy
11 1 (1.667%) Domain-Driven Design
Programming Languages
1 42 (70.00%) C#
2 33 (55.00%) SQL
3 26 (43.33%) Java
4 11 (18.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.667%) XAML
Qualifications
1 17 (28.33%) MCTS
1 17 (28.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 17 (28.33%) MCP
1 17 (28.33%) MCAD
1 17 (28.33%) MCSD
2 1 (1.667%) ISEB
2 1 (1.667%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.00%) QA
Vendors
1 22 (36.67%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.33%) JBoss
3 1 (1.667%) ATG
3 1 (1.667%) hybris
3 1 (1.667%) Google
Northampton, Northamptonshire
An excellent planner and communicator with a good knowledge of OOP, OOD, Procedural programming or SQL, it's also important that you have an understanding of Fitnesse, Selenium,...
Emponics Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + bonus + bens
Posted: 21 May 2013
Northampton, Northamptonshire
A leader, planner and communicator with a good knowledge of OOP, OOD, Procedural programming and SQL, it's also important that you're up to speed with all...
Emponics Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £42000 per annum + bonus+ health+ pension
Posted: 21 May 2013