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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
Rank 116 137 155
Rank change year-on-year
+21 +18
Permanent jobs citing BDD 37 18 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 1.176% 0.521% 0.115%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.586% 0.736% 0.150%
Number of salaries quoted 36 16 4
Average salary £31,000 £35,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.42% -12.50%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
2333 2445 2660
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 74.13% 70.77% 76.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1403 1740 1920
Average salary £41,000 £40,000 £42,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.50% -4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,500 £27,500 £29,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
BDD
UK

BDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland BDD Salary Trend

BDD
Salary Histogram

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

Scotland BDD Salary Histogram

BDD
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the Scotland 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
Glasgow -9 24 £35,000 -3.44%
Dundee - 17 £26,000 -
Edinburgh +9 6 £31,000 -31.11%
BDD
UK

BDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 47 (90.38%) TDD
2 35 (67.31%) Scrum
2 35 (67.31%) .NET
3 30 (57.69%) C#
3 30 (57.69%) ASP.NET
3 30 (57.69%) Agile Software Development
3 30 (57.69%) ASP.NET MVC
3 30 (57.69%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 26 (50.00%) CSS
4 26 (50.00%) JavaScript
5 24 (46.15%) MVC
6 20 (38.46%) Kanban
6 20 (38.46%) jQuery
7 19 (36.54%) HTML
8 18 (34.62%) HTML5
8 18 (34.62%) Web Application Development
9 16 (30.77%) Publishing
10 13 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
10 13 (25.00%) SQL Server
10 13 (25.00%) MCP
10 13 (25.00%) MCAD
10 13 (25.00%) MCSD
10 13 (25.00%) Web Services
10 13 (25.00%) Razor View Engine
10 13 (25.00%) Rhino Mocks
10 13 (25.00%) Moq
10 13 (25.00%) WCF
10 13 (25.00%) NUnit
10 13 (25.00%) MCTS
10 13 (25.00%) NHibernate

BDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 35 (67.31%) .NET
2 30 (57.69%) ASP.NET
2 30 (57.69%) ASP.NET MVC
2 30 (57.69%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 26 (50.00%) CSS
4 20 (38.46%) jQuery
5 19 (36.54%) HTML
6 18 (34.62%) HTML5
7 13 (25.00%) Web Services
7 13 (25.00%) Razor View Engine
7 13 (25.00%) WCF
7 13 (25.00%) NHibernate
8 9 (17.31%) .NET Framework
8 9 (17.31%) KnockoutJS
8 9 (17.31%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 9 (17.31%) Sass
8 9 (17.31%) LESS
8 9 (17.31%) AngularJS
9 4 (7.692%) Hibernate
9 4 (7.692%) Spring
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.923%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (13.46%) SQL Server 2012
3 6 (11.54%) SQL Server 2008
4 5 (9.615%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.923%) Oracle 11g
5 1 (1.923%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.923%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 13 (25.00%) Rhino Mocks
1 13 (25.00%) Moq
1 13 (25.00%) NUnit
2 2 (3.846%) JUnit
2 2 (3.846%) Cucumber
2 2 (3.846%) FitNesse
2 2 (3.846%) Maven
3 1 (1.923%) CruiseControl
3 1 (1.923%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.923%) PVCS
General
1 16 (30.77%) Publishing
2 13 (25.00%) Music
2 13 (25.00%) Music Industry
3 7 (13.46%) Marketing
4 5 (9.615%) Finance
5 4 (7.692%) Financial Institution
6 2 (3.846%) Banking
7 1 (1.923%) Back Office
7 1 (1.923%) Games
Job Titles
1 45 (86.54%) Developer
2 30 (57.69%) .NET Developer
3 21 (40.38%) Web Developer
4 17 (32.69%) .NET Web Developer
4 17 (32.69%) ASP.NET Developer
5 5 (9.615%) Oracle Developer
6 4 (7.692%) Senior Oracle Developer
6 4 (7.692%) Test Engineer
6 4 (7.692%) Web Designer
6 4 (7.692%) Senior Developer
6 4 (7.692%) Designer
7 3 (5.769%) Ruby Developer
7 3 (5.769%) Java Developer
8 1 (1.923%) Software Engineer
8 1 (1.923%) Java Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.769%) Mobile App
2 2 (3.846%) N-Tier
3 1 (1.923%) Interactive TV
3 1 (1.923%) Mathematics
3 1 (1.923%) Computer Science
3 1 (1.923%) Online Games
3 1 (1.923%) Digital Media
3 1 (1.923%) Social Media
3 1 (1.923%) Semantic Web
3 1 (1.923%) BBC
3 1 (1.923%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.846%) Linux
1 2 (3.846%) UNIX
2 1 (1.923%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.923%) Android
2 1 (1.923%) Windows
2 1 (1.923%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (90.38%) TDD
2 35 (67.31%) Scrum
3 30 (57.69%) Agile Software Development
4 24 (46.15%) MVC
5 20 (38.46%) Kanban
6 18 (34.62%) Web Application Development
7 6 (11.54%) Unit Testing
8 5 (9.615%) Test Strategy
9 4 (7.692%) Test Automation
9 4 (7.692%) Continuous Integration
10 3 (5.769%) Automated Testing
10 3 (5.769%) Digital Marketing
10 3 (5.769%) OO
11 2 (3.846%) Regression Testing
11 2 (3.846%) SOA
11 2 (3.846%) UML
11 2 (3.846%) Test Scripting
11 2 (3.846%) Investment Management
11 2 (3.846%) User Acceptance Testing
11 2 (3.846%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 30 (57.69%) C#
2 26 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 8 (15.38%) Ruby
3 8 (15.38%) Java
3 8 (15.38%) SQL
4 7 (13.46%) PL/SQL
5 5 (9.615%) PHP
6 4 (7.692%) Python
7 2 (3.846%) Scala
8 1 (1.923%) Haskell
8 1 (1.923%) Erlang
8 1 (1.923%) Clojure
8 1 (1.923%) F#
8 1 (1.923%) OCaml
8 1 (1.923%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 13 (25.00%) MCP
1 13 (25.00%) MCAD
1 13 (25.00%) MCSD
1 13 (25.00%) MCTS
2 1 (1.923%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.846%) QA
2 1 (1.923%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (1.923%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 9 (17.31%) Twitter
2 7 (13.46%) Oracle
3 1 (1.923%) HP
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Salary: From £25,000 to £40,000 per annum
Posted: 29 April 2013
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Salary: Attractive, plus flexible benefits
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