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

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Rank 32 44 42
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -2
Permanent jobs citing TDD 30 18 20
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 5.747% 2.951% 3.861%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.916% 4.176% 5.917%
Number of salaries quoted 27 17 20
Average salary £39,500 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.33% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £30,000 £37,077
10% offered a salary of more than £44,000 £37,500 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Tyne and Wear
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
379 431 338
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 72.61% 70.66% 65.25%
Number of salaries quoted 330 340 283
Average salary £39,500 £37,500 £36,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.33% +2.73%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £25,000 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £62,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
TDD
North East

TDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region.

Tyne and Wear TDD Salary Trend

TDD
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing TDD across the Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Tyne and Wear TDD Salary Histogram

TDD
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing TDD within the Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Newcastle upon Tyne +13 23 £41,000 +17.14% 8
South Shields -5 4 £35,000 +16.66% 1
Sunderland -4 3 £35,000 +16.66% 1
TDD
North East

TDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 61 (81.33%) Scrum
2 58 (77.33%) C#
2 58 (77.33%) .NET
3 57 (76.00%) ASP.NET
4 50 (66.67%) MVC
5 40 (53.33%) SQL Server
6 37 (49.33%) ASP.NET MVC
7 30 (40.00%) Microsoft
8 28 (37.33%) XML
8 28 (37.33%) BDD
9 27 (36.00%) WCF
10 26 (34.67%) Unit Testing
10 26 (34.67%) ASP.NET MVC 4
11 21 (28.00%) Web Application Development
11 21 (28.00%) Kanban
11 21 (28.00%) MCTS
11 21 (28.00%) MCP
11 21 (28.00%) MCAD
11 21 (28.00%) MCSD
11 21 (28.00%) Microsoft Certification
12 20 (26.67%) Razor View Engine
13 19 (25.33%) Web Services
13 19 (25.33%) .NET Framework
14 17 (22.67%) OO
14 17 (22.67%) HTML
14 17 (22.67%) Team Foundation Server
15 16 (21.33%) Rhino Mocks
15 16 (21.33%) Moq
15 16 (21.33%) SQL
15 16 (21.33%) NUnit

TDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 58 (77.33%) .NET
2 57 (76.00%) ASP.NET
3 37 (49.33%) ASP.NET MVC
4 28 (37.33%) XML
5 27 (36.00%) WCF
6 26 (34.67%) ASP.NET MVC 4
7 20 (26.67%) Razor View Engine
8 19 (25.33%) Web Services
8 19 (25.33%) .NET Framework
9 17 (22.67%) HTML
10 13 (17.33%) CSS
11 12 (16.00%) WPF
11 12 (16.00%) LINQ
12 11 (14.67%) jQuery
13 10 (13.33%) NHibernate
14 8 (10.67%) WinForms
15 7 (9.333%) Ninject
16 6 (8.000%) Unity DI Container
16 6 (8.000%) Castle Windsor
16 6 (8.000%) Spring.NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (2.667%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (1.333%) DotNetNuke
Applications
1 10 (13.33%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (4.000%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 9 (12.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (53.33%) SQL Server
2 12 (16.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 7 (9.333%) SQL Server 2005
4 4 (5.333%) SQL Server 2012
4 4 (5.333%) MySQL
5 2 (2.667%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 17 (22.67%) Team Foundation Server
2 16 (21.33%) Rhino Mocks
2 16 (21.33%) Moq
2 16 (21.33%) NUnit
3 7 (9.333%) Selenium
3 7 (9.333%) MSTest
4 5 (6.667%) Cucumber
5 4 (5.333%) Visual Studio
6 2 (2.667%) Jenkins
6 2 (2.667%) Maven
6 2 (2.667%) JIRA
General
1 11 (14.67%) Finance
2 5 (6.667%) Law
3 2 (2.667%) Advertising
4 1 (1.333%) Banking
Job Titles
1 64 (85.33%) Developer
2 36 (48.00%) .NET Developer
3 9 (12.00%) Lead Developer
4 8 (10.67%) Senior Developer
4 8 (10.67%) C# Developer
5 7 (9.333%) Software Developer
5 7 (9.333%) C# .NET Developer
6 6 (8.000%) Tester
6 6 (8.000%) Junior
6 6 (8.000%) Graduate
6 6 (8.000%) Graduate .NET Developer
6 6 (8.000%) Junior .NET Developer
6 6 (8.000%) Graduate Developer
6 6 (8.000%) Junior Developer
7 5 (6.667%) Analyst
8 4 (5.333%) Test Analyst
9 3 (4.000%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 3 (4.000%) ScrumMaster
9 3 (4.000%) ASP.NET Developer
9 3 (4.000%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.33%) DTV
2 7 (9.333%) Computer Science
2 7 (9.333%) Mobile App
3 6 (8.000%) Inversion of Control
3 6 (8.000%) iPhone
3 6 (8.000%) Tandem
4 5 (6.667%) N-Tier
4 5 (6.667%) iPad
5 3 (4.000%) Open Source
6 2 (2.667%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.333%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.333%) W3C
7 1 (1.333%) Streaming Music
7 1 (1.333%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 11 (14.67%) Windows
2 6 (8.000%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (81.33%) Scrum
2 50 (66.67%) MVC
3 28 (37.33%) BDD
4 26 (34.67%) Unit Testing
5 21 (28.00%) Web Application Development
5 21 (28.00%) Kanban
6 17 (22.67%) OO
7 11 (14.67%) Agile Software Development
7 11 (14.67%) OOD
8 9 (12.00%) OOP
9 8 (10.67%) Continuous Integration
10 7 (9.333%) Web Development
10 7 (9.333%) Dependency Injection
11 6 (8.000%) MVVM
12 5 (6.667%) Software Testing
12 5 (6.667%) Domain-Driven Design
13 4 (5.333%) CQRS
13 4 (5.333%) SOA
14 3 (4.000%) UML
14 3 (4.000%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 58 (77.33%) C#
2 16 (21.33%) SQL
3 13 (17.33%) JavaScript
4 5 (6.667%) VB
4 5 (6.667%) VB.NET
5 4 (5.333%) Java
5 4 (5.333%) C++
6 2 (2.667%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.333%) PHP
7 1 (1.333%) VC++
7 1 (1.333%) Python
7 1 (1.333%) Jython
7 1 (1.333%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 21 (28.00%) MCTS
1 21 (28.00%) MCP
1 21 (28.00%) MCAD
1 21 (28.00%) MCSD
1 21 (28.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (10.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.000%) ISO 8583
1 6 (8.000%) QA
2 1 (1.333%) WCAG
Vendors
1 30 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.667%) Red Hat
2 2 (2.667%) JBoss
2 2 (2.667%) Oracle
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
You will need to bring a very robust understanding of SCRUM leadership styles and vast experience of running SCRUM meetings... You will of course bring a strong understanding...
Gem Partnership
Salary: From £38,000 to £44,000 per annum Performance Bonus
Posted: 14 June 2013
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
This role is heavily based around the following skills: .NET Framework. ASP.NET MVC 4. TDD Experience... MVC, Linq, SQL. SQL Server 2008... Win Forms. SCRUM. Windows Server...
Gem Partnership
Salary: From £38,000 to £44,000 per annum Performance Bonus
Posted: 14 June 2013
South Shields, North East
Our client can provide training into: .NET 4.5, WCF, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), SQL Server 2012, Agile, TDD, BDD, DDD, OSS, ALT.NET and CQRS... (.NET...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
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Experience in these areas are key: .NET Framework ASP.NET MVC 4... TDD Experience... MVC, Linq, SQL. SQL Server 2008... Win Forms. Windows Server 2012, 2008 R2... Strong...
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Salary: From £25,000 to £36,000 per annum Performance Bonus
Posted: 14 June 2013
Newcastle upon Tyne, North East
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Salary: £20000 - £30000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
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Salary: £20000 - £30000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
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Salary: c£50,000
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Salary: From £35,000 to £50,000 per annum
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Salary: c£60,000
Posted: 14 June 2013
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Salary: Negotiable - based on experience
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