The first table below looks at the demand for BDD skills in IT jobs advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited BDD 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 Reading region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
Rank 132 129 117
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -12
Permanent jobs citing BDD 3 6 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 0.139% 0.258% 0.374%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.209% 0.361% 0.579%
Number of salaries quoted 3 6 7
Average salary £47,500 £31,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+53.22% -4.61%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Reading
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1432 1662 1208
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 66.23% 71.51% 64.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1106 1400 951
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £32,375 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £70,000 £63,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
BDD
Berkshire

BDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading BDD Jobs Demand Trend

BDD
Salary Trend

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

Reading BDD Salary Trend

BDD
Salary Histogram

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

Reading BDD Salary Histogram

BDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading region citing BDD 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 BDD.

1 19 (95.00%) Scrum
2 17 (85.00%) C#
3 16 (80.00%) .NET
3 16 (80.00%) ASP.NET
3 16 (80.00%) TDD
4 14 (70.00%) MVC
4 14 (70.00%) ASP.NET MVC
5 13 (65.00%) Selenium
6 12 (60.00%) Kanban
6 12 (60.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
7 11 (55.00%) MySQL
7 11 (55.00%) SQL
7 11 (55.00%) JavaScript
8 10 (50.00%) Subversion
8 10 (50.00%) SpecFlow
9 8 (40.00%) Git (software)
9 8 (40.00%) ReSharper
9 8 (40.00%) jQuery
9 8 (40.00%) SQL Server
10 6 (30.00%) LINQ
10 6 (30.00%) SQL Server 2008
10 6 (30.00%) Cucumber
10 6 (30.00%) Digital Media
11 5 (25.00%) XML
12 4 (20.00%) OO
12 4 (20.00%) MS Excel
12 4 (20.00%) NUnit
12 4 (20.00%) Lucene
12 4 (20.00%) NHibernate
12 4 (20.00%) WCF

BDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading region citing BDD 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 BDD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 16 (80.00%) .NET
1 16 (80.00%) ASP.NET
2 14 (70.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 12 (60.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 8 (40.00%) jQuery
5 6 (30.00%) LINQ
6 5 (25.00%) XML
7 4 (20.00%) Lucene
7 4 (20.00%) NHibernate
7 4 (20.00%) WCF
7 4 (20.00%) Silverlight
7 4 (20.00%) Castle Windsor
7 4 (20.00%) Razor View Engine
8 2 (10.00%) J2EE
8 2 (10.00%) XSLT
8 2 (10.00%) JDBC
8 2 (10.00%) Web Services
8 2 (10.00%) J2SE
8 2 (10.00%) JMS
8 2 (10.00%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 3 (15.00%) CMS
2 2 (10.00%) Tomcat
2 2 (10.00%) Umbraco
2 2 (10.00%) Sitecore CMS
2 2 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (5.000%) Kentico
3 1 (5.000%) Drupal
Applications
1 4 (20.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (55.00%) MySQL
2 8 (40.00%) SQL Server
3 6 (30.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (10.00%) RDBMS
4 2 (10.00%) Hadoop
4 2 (10.00%) Big Data
4 2 (10.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (65.00%) Selenium
2 10 (50.00%) Subversion
2 10 (50.00%) SpecFlow
3 8 (40.00%) Git (software)
3 8 (40.00%) ReSharper
4 6 (30.00%) Cucumber
5 4 (20.00%) NUnit
5 4 (20.00%) Rhino Mocks
6 2 (10.00%) JMeter
6 2 (10.00%) JIRA
6 2 (10.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
7 1 (5.000%) WATIR
7 1 (5.000%) FitNesse
General
1 1 (5.000%) Finance
1 1 (5.000%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 16 (80.00%) Developer
2 14 (70.00%) .NET Developer
3 8 (40.00%) Agile .NET Developer
4 7 (35.00%) Software Engineer
4 7 (35.00%) .NET Software Engineer
4 7 (35.00%) C# Software Engineer
5 5 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
5 5 (25.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 5 (25.00%) ASP.NET Developer
5 5 (25.00%) C# Developer
6 4 (20.00%) Senior Developer
6 4 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
6 4 (20.00%) Senior .NET Developer
6 4 (20.00%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
6 4 (20.00%) Senior C# Software Engineer
7 3 (15.00%) C# Programmer
7 3 (15.00%) ASP.NET Programmer
7 3 (15.00%) .NET Programmer
7 3 (15.00%) QA Analyst
7 3 (15.00%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Digital Media
2 4 (20.00%) Social Media
2 4 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (10.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (5.000%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (95.00%) Scrum
2 16 (80.00%) TDD
3 14 (70.00%) MVC
4 12 (60.00%) Kanban
5 4 (20.00%) OO
5 4 (20.00%) Scrum-ban
5 4 (20.00%) Web Application Development
6 3 (15.00%) Test Scripting
6 3 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (10.00%) Regression Testing
7 2 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
7 2 (10.00%) Software Engineering
7 2 (10.00%) Risk Analysis
8 1 (5.000%) V-Model
8 1 (5.000%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 17 (85.00%) C#
2 11 (55.00%) SQL
2 11 (55.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (15.00%) Java
4 2 (10.00%) Scala
5 1 (5.000%) Python
5 1 (5.000%) Perl
5 1 (5.000%) PHP
5 1 (5.000%) C
5 1 (5.000%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) ISEB
1 2 (10.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (10.00%) Sitecore
2 1 (5.000%) EPiServer