The first table below looks at the demand for ATDD skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited ATDD over the 3 months to 17 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.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD)
Rank 777 870 852
Rank change year-on-year
+93 -18
Permanent jobs citing ATDD 81 26 19
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.075% 0.021% 0.015%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.098% 0.029% 0.021%
Number of salaries quoted 63 21 11
Average salary £50,000 £50,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +42.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £44,000 £41,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £37,500
UK excluding London average salary £46,000 £62,500 £27,500
% change year-on-year
-26.40% +127.27%
All Processes & Methodologies
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
82363 90112 90953
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 76.41% 74.51% 73.67%
Number of salaries quoted 67577 76622 76058
Average salary £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.26% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%

ATDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

ATDD Jobs Demand Trend

ATDD
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing ATDD within the UK.

ATDD Salary Trend

ATDD
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing ATDD over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 within the UK.

ATDD Salary Histogram

ATDD
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ATDD within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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
England +88 81 £50,000 -
London +60 48 £57,500 +20.41%
South East +29 29 £48,000 -23.20%
West Sussex - 16 £48,000 -
Surrey +24 13 £45,000 -28.00%
Gatwick - 11 £48,000 -
Leeds - 3 £30,500 -
Crawley - 3 £44,000 -
Yorkshire - 3 £30,500 -
West Yorkshire - 3 £30,500 -
City of London +8 2 £61,250 +16.66%
Reigate - 2 £53,000 -
East of England - 1 £52,500 -
Hertfordshire - 1 £52,500 -
Welwyn Garden City - 1 £52,500 -

ATDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing ATDD 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 ATDD.

1 127 (92.70%) TDD
2 125 (91.24%) Agile Software Development
3 105 (76.64%) BDD
4 61 (44.53%) Scrum
5 58 (42.34%) QuickTest Pro
6 55 (40.15%) Java
6 55 (40.15%) Continuous Integration
7 54 (39.42%) .NET
8 44 (32.12%) Test Automation
9 43 (31.39%) QA
10 41 (29.93%) Selenium
11 38 (27.74%) OO
12 36 (26.28%) Kanban
12 36 (26.28%) Test Scripting
13 33 (24.09%) Spring
13 33 (24.09%) Software Testing
14 31 (22.63%) ISEB
15 30 (21.90%) Servlets
15 30 (21.90%) Hibernate
15 30 (21.90%) Jetty
15 30 (21.90%) REST
16 29 (21.17%) Automation Testing
16 29 (21.17%) FitNesse
17 28 (20.44%) ISTQB
17 28 (20.44%) VB
18 27 (19.71%) Games
19 26 (18.98%) HP
19 26 (18.98%) HP Quality Center
19 26 (18.98%) Time Management
20 25 (18.25%) Agile Testing

ATDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing ATDD 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 ATDD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 54 (39.42%) .NET
2 33 (24.09%) Spring
3 30 (21.90%) Hibernate
3 30 (21.90%) Servlets
3 30 (21.90%) REST
4 24 (17.52%) JMS
5 23 (16.79%) .NET Framework
6 11 (8.029%) XML
7 9 (6.569%) Web Services
8 8 (5.839%) HTML
8 8 (5.839%) Grails
9 7 (5.109%) CSS
10 6 (4.380%) JSON
10 6 (4.380%) Gherkin
11 5 (3.650%) SOAP
12 4 (2.920%) XSD
12 4 (2.920%) WSDL
12 4 (2.920%) soapUI
13 3 (2.190%) Spring MVC
14 2 (1.460%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 30 (21.90%) Jetty
2 1 (0.730%) ActiveMQ
Applications
1 3 (2.190%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 24 (17.52%) Broadband
2 18 (13.14%) Ethernet
3 9 (6.569%) HTTP
4 6 (4.380%) AMQP
5 4 (2.920%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (17.52%) RDBMS
2 7 (5.109%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.190%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.460%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 58 (42.34%) QuickTest Pro
2 41 (29.93%) Selenium
3 29 (21.17%) FitNesse
4 24 (17.52%) LoadRunner
5 23 (16.79%) Cucumber
6 20 (14.60%) WinRunner
7 9 (6.569%) Team Foundation Server
8 7 (5.109%) RSpec
8 7 (5.109%) JBehave
9 6 (4.380%) SpecFlow
10 5 (3.650%) Behat
10 5 (3.650%) Hudson
10 5 (3.650%) Jenkins
10 5 (3.650%) WebDriver
10 5 (3.650%) WATIR
10 5 (3.650%) JMeter
11 4 (2.920%) Firebug
11 4 (2.920%) Cobertura
12 3 (2.190%) Jasmine
12 3 (2.190%) Rational Robot
General
1 27 (19.71%) Games
2 22 (16.06%) Telecoms
3 19 (13.87%) Banking
4 9 (6.569%) Investment Banking
5 2 (1.460%) Retail
6 1 (0.730%) Marketing
6 1 (0.730%) Finance
6 1 (0.730%) Law
6 1 (0.730%) Advertising
6 1 (0.730%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 38 (27.74%) Developer
1 38 (27.74%) Analyst
2 32 (23.36%) Java Developer
3 30 (21.90%) Agile Java Developer
4 28 (20.44%) Test Engineer
5 24 (17.52%) QA Analyst
6 22 (16.06%) Tester
7 18 (13.14%) Test Analyst
8 17 (12.41%) Software Tester
9 9 (6.569%) Software Engineer
10 8 (5.839%) Senior Analyst
10 8 (5.839%) Senior QA Analyst
11 6 (4.380%) Software Test Engineer
12 5 (3.650%) Software Development Engineer
12 5 (3.650%) Senior Test Engineer
12 5 (3.650%) Test Development Engineer
12 5 (3.650%) Development Engineer
13 4 (2.920%) QA Engineer
13 4 (2.920%) QA Test Analyst
14 3 (2.190%) Systems Tester
Miscellaneous
1 24 (17.52%) Inversion of Control
2 19 (13.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 19 (13.87%) Equities
2 19 (13.87%) Derivative
3 4 (2.920%) Computer Science
3 4 (2.920%) iDTV
3 4 (2.920%) Open Source
4 3 (2.190%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.460%) Semantic Web
6 1 (0.730%) Video on Demand
6 1 (0.730%) Digital Media
6 1 (0.730%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.920%) UNIX
2 2 (1.460%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (92.70%) TDD
2 125 (91.24%) Agile Software Development
3 105 (76.64%) BDD
4 61 (44.53%) Scrum
5 55 (40.15%) Continuous Integration
6 44 (32.12%) Test Automation
7 38 (27.74%) OO
8 36 (26.28%) Kanban
8 36 (26.28%) Test Scripting
9 33 (24.09%) Software Testing
10 29 (21.17%) Automation Testing
11 26 (18.98%) Time Management
12 25 (18.25%) Agile Testing
13 24 (17.52%) Scalability Testing
13 24 (17.52%) Manual Testing
13 24 (17.52%) OOD
13 24 (17.52%) Pair Programming
14 23 (16.79%) Regression Testing
14 23 (16.79%) Waterfall
15 9 (6.569%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 55 (40.15%) Java
2 28 (20.44%) VB
3 25 (18.25%) VBScript
4 24 (17.52%) C#
4 24 (17.52%) C++
5 12 (8.759%) SQL
5 12 (8.759%) JavaScript
5 12 (8.759%) Ruby
6 8 (5.839%) Python
7 6 (4.380%) Groovy
8 4 (2.920%) Objective-C
9 2 (1.460%) Scala
9 2 (1.460%) Perl
10 1 (0.730%) PHP
10 1 (0.730%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (22.63%) ISEB
2 28 (20.44%) ISTQB
3 4 (2.920%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (31.39%) QA
Systems Management
1 26 (18.98%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 26 (18.98%) HP
2 24 (17.52%) Oracle
3 6 (4.380%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.730%) Cadence
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Preferred: - Experience of BDD/ATDD techniques... HP Quality Center, Microsoft TFS 2010) - Use of automated test tools (e.g. HP QTP, Selenium, SoapUI) - Use of agile acceptance test...
The Bridge Ltd
Salary: From £27,000 to £34,000 per annum + Bonus + Bens
Posted: 13 May 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Preferred: - Experience of BDD/ATDD techniques... Preferred: - Use of test management tools (eg HP Quality Center, Microsoft TFS 2010) - Use of automated test tools (eg HP QTP, Selenium,...
The Bridge Ltd
Salary: From £25,000 to £35,000 per annum + Bonus + Bens
Posted: 17 May 2013
London
Experienced in coding test scripts in one or more of the following; Java, Ruby, Python, Groovy, JavaScript, Objective C, and/or Visual Basic. Experience in two or more...
News International
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 18 May 2013