The first table below looks at the demand for Test-First Development skills in IT jobs advertised for the Southampton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Test-First Development over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Southampton region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test-First Development
Rank - 87 68
Permanent jobs citing Test-First Development 0 5 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton - 0.532% 0.464%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 0.728% 0.630%
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 2
Average salary - £40,000 £63,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -36.50%
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £62,500 £63,000
% change year-on-year
-20.00% -0.79%
All Processes & Methodologies
Southampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
643 687 476
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 72.82% 73.16% 73.68%
Number of salaries quoted 592 636 428
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% -
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £62,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Test-First Development
Hampshire

Test-First Development
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton Test-First Development Jobs Demand Trend

Test-First Development
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Test-First Development across the Southampton region.

Southampton Test-First Development Salary Trend

Test-First Development
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton region citing Test-First Development 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 Test-First Development.

1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) OOA/OOD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) ActiveMQ
1 2 (100.00%) Release Management
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) Retail
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Apache
2 1 (50.00%) J2EE
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) UNIX

Test-First Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton region citing Test-First Development 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 Test-First Development. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (50.00%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
General
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Designer
2 1 (50.00%) Java/J2EE Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Java Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Lead Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Lead Designer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Lead Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (50.00%) J2EE Developer
2 1 (50.00%) J2EE Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Architect
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) OOA/OOD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Release Management
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle