The first table below looks at the demand for TDD skills in IT jobs advertised for the St Albans region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited TDD over the 3 months to 23 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 St Albans region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Rank 24 19 32
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +13
Permanent jobs citing TDD 12 12 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Albans 6.818% 8.696% 3.627%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.160% 13.79% 4.895%
Number of salaries quoted 12 12 7
Average salary £45,000 £65,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-30.76% +44.44%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
St Albans
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
131 87 143
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Albans 74.43% 63.04% 74.09%
Number of salaries quoted 70 57 54
Average salary £45,000 £50,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.00% +25.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,667 £26,500 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £55,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
TDD
Hertfordshire

TDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

St Albans 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 St Albans region.

St Albans TDD Salary Trend

TDD
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing TDD across the St Albans region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

St Albans TDD Salary Histogram

TDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the St Albans 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 28 (80.00%) MVC
1 28 (80.00%) Finance
2 26 (74.29%) C#
3 24 (68.57%) OO
4 21 (60.00%) .NET
4 21 (60.00%) ASP.NET
5 17 (48.57%) Scrum
5 17 (48.57%) NUnit
5 17 (48.57%) ASP.NET MVC
6 16 (45.71%) Agile Software Development
7 15 (42.86%) Kanban
7 15 (42.86%) SQL Server 2008
7 15 (42.86%) Selenium
7 15 (42.86%) WCF
7 15 (42.86%) Silverlight
7 15 (42.86%) LINQ
7 15 (42.86%) Lucene
7 15 (42.86%) MCTS
7 15 (42.86%) NHibernate
7 15 (42.86%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (42.86%) SQL Server
7 15 (42.86%) MCP
7 15 (42.86%) MCAD
7 15 (42.86%) MCSD
7 15 (42.86%) Rhino Mocks
7 15 (42.86%) Cucumber
7 15 (42.86%) BDD
7 15 (42.86%) Castle Windsor
7 15 (42.86%) Scrum-ban
7 15 (42.86%) Web Application Development

TDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the St Albans 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 21 (60.00%) .NET
1 21 (60.00%) ASP.NET
2 17 (48.57%) ASP.NET MVC
3 15 (42.86%) WCF
3 15 (42.86%) Silverlight
3 15 (42.86%) LINQ
3 15 (42.86%) Lucene
3 15 (42.86%) NHibernate
3 15 (42.86%) Castle Windsor
4 9 (25.71%) CSS
4 9 (25.71%) Web Services
4 9 (25.71%) Spring
4 9 (25.71%) Spring MVC
4 9 (25.71%) REST
5 6 (17.14%) jQuery
6 5 (14.29%) XMPP
7 4 (11.43%) HTML5
7 4 (11.43%) CSS3
8 2 (5.714%) ASP.NET MVC 3
8 2 (5.714%) KnockoutJS
Applications
1 2 (5.714%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Taleo
Communications & Networking
1 9 (25.71%) Internet
2 5 (14.29%) SMPP
2 5 (14.29%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (42.86%) SQL Server 2008
1 15 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 9 (25.71%) Apache Cassandra
2 9 (25.71%) NoSQL
2 9 (25.71%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 17 (48.57%) NUnit
2 15 (42.86%) Selenium
2 15 (42.86%) Rhino Mocks
2 15 (42.86%) Cucumber
3 9 (25.71%) Maven
3 9 (25.71%) Jenkins
4 2 (5.714%) Jasmine
4 2 (5.714%) FitNesse
General
1 28 (80.00%) Finance
2 14 (40.00%) Telecoms
3 9 (25.71%) Games
3 9 (25.71%) Online Betting
Job Titles
1 25 (71.43%) Developer
2 15 (42.86%) .NET Developer
3 8 (22.86%) Agile Java Developer
3 8 (22.86%) Java Developer
4 5 (14.29%) Development Engineer
5 2 (5.714%) Team Leader
5 2 (5.714%) Development Team Leader
5 2 (5.714%) Development Manager
5 2 (5.714%) Senior Developer
6 1 (2.857%) Software Engineer
6 1 (2.857%) Java Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 15 (42.86%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (25.71%) Online Games
3 2 (5.714%) Animation
3 2 (5.714%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.29%) Solaris
1 5 (14.29%) Linux
1 5 (14.29%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (80.00%) MVC
2 24 (68.57%) OO
3 17 (48.57%) Scrum
4 16 (45.71%) Agile Software Development
5 15 (42.86%) Kanban
5 15 (42.86%) BDD
5 15 (42.86%) Scrum-ban
5 15 (42.86%) Web Application Development
6 9 (25.71%) Test Automation
6 9 (25.71%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (14.29%) Project Management
8 2 (5.714%) Responsive Web Design
8 2 (5.714%) Asset Management
8 2 (5.714%) Wealth Management
8 2 (5.714%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 26 (74.29%) C#
2 14 (40.00%) Java
3 6 (17.14%) JavaScript
4 5 (14.29%) C++
4 5 (14.29%) Erlang
4 5 (14.29%) C
5 2 (5.714%) CoffeeScript
5 2 (5.714%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (42.86%) MCTS
1 15 (42.86%) Microsoft Certification
1 15 (42.86%) MCP
1 15 (42.86%) MCAD
1 15 (42.86%) MCSD
2 2 (5.714%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (5.714%) Microsoft