The first table below looks at the demand for Behat skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Behat 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 Development Applications category.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Behat
Rank 845 875 -
Rank change year-on-year
+30 -
Permanent jobs citing Behat 17 23 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.016% 0.019% -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.107% 0.135% -
Number of salaries quoted 16 23 0
Average salary £50,000 £47,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% -
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £29,000 -
% change year-on-year
+3.44% -
All Development Applications
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
15867 17081 16112
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 14.75% 14.15% 12.78%
Number of salaries quoted 13540 14965 14169
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%

Behat
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Behat within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Behat Jobs Demand Trend

Behat
Salary Trend

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

Behat Salary Trend

Behat
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Behat over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 within the UK.

Behat Salary Histogram

Behat
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Behat within the UK over the 3 months to 23 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 +18 17 £50,000 +5.26%
London +33 11 £55,000 +10.00%
North West - 6 £30,000 -
Merseyside - 6 £30,000 -
Liverpool - 6 £30,000 -

Behat
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Behat 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 Behat.

1 54 (90.00%) PHP
2 42 (70.00%) BDD
3 39 (65.00%) Linux
4 37 (61.67%) Automated Testing
5 34 (56.67%) Zend
6 32 (53.33%) TDD
6 32 (53.33%) MySQL
7 31 (51.67%) Selenium
7 31 (51.67%) Magento
8 28 (46.67%) PHPUnit
9 26 (43.33%) Varnish
9 26 (43.33%) Redis
10 25 (41.67%) nginx
10 25 (41.67%) Zend Framework
11 24 (40.00%) Java
12 23 (38.33%) QA
13 22 (36.67%) Agile Software Development
14 20 (33.33%) PHP5
15 17 (28.33%) JavaScript
15 17 (28.33%) CSS
16 16 (26.67%) HTML
16 16 (26.67%) OO
16 16 (26.67%) Apache
16 16 (26.67%) Continuous Integration
16 16 (26.67%) User Stories
17 15 (25.00%) Cucumber
18 14 (23.33%) E-Commerce
18 14 (23.33%) Scrum
19 13 (21.67%) Python
19 13 (21.67%) XML

Behat
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Behat 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 Behat. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 25 (41.67%) Zend Framework
2 17 (28.33%) CSS
3 16 (26.67%) HTML
4 13 (21.67%) XML
5 9 (15.00%) XSD
6 8 (13.33%) HTML5
6 8 (13.33%) CSS3
7 7 (11.67%) jQuery
8 4 (6.667%) Web Services
9 2 (3.333%) LAMP
10 1 (1.667%) .NET
10 1 (1.667%) J2EE
10 1 (1.667%) J2SE
10 1 (1.667%) Backbone.js
10 1 (1.667%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 31 (51.67%) Magento
2 25 (41.67%) nginx
3 16 (26.67%) Apache
4 5 (8.333%) CMS
4 5 (8.333%) WordPress
4 5 (8.333%) Joomla!
Applications
1 1 (1.667%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (53.33%) MySQL
2 26 (43.33%) Redis
3 1 (1.667%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 31 (51.67%) Selenium
2 28 (46.67%) PHPUnit
3 15 (25.00%) Cucumber
4 11 (18.33%) Ant
4 11 (18.33%) WebDriver
4 11 (18.33%) Maven
5 9 (15.00%) Jenkins
5 9 (15.00%) Xcode
5 9 (15.00%) JMeter
6 8 (13.33%) FitNesse
6 8 (13.33%) Hudson
7 6 (10.00%) JBehave
8 5 (8.333%) WATIR
9 4 (6.667%) RSpec
9 4 (6.667%) Subversion
10 3 (5.000%) Rational Robot
10 3 (5.000%) QuickTest Pro
10 3 (5.000%) LoadRunner
10 3 (5.000%) Git (software)
11 2 (3.333%) Mocha
General
1 3 (5.000%) Retail
2 2 (3.333%) Music
3 1 (1.667%) Banking
3 1 (1.667%) Telecoms
3 1 (1.667%) Finance
3 1 (1.667%) Automotive
3 1 (1.667%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 34 (56.67%) Developer
2 25 (41.67%) Senior Developer
3 22 (36.67%) PHP Developer
4 17 (28.33%) Senior PHP Developer
5 14 (23.33%) Test Engineer
6 11 (18.33%) Automation Engineer
7 6 (10.00%) Senior Test Engineer
7 6 (10.00%) Software Engineer
8 4 (6.667%) Tester
9 3 (5.000%) Web Developer
9 3 (5.000%) Test Automation Engineer
10 2 (3.333%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
10 2 (3.333%) Automation Tester
10 2 (3.333%) Senior Web Developer
10 2 (3.333%) Junior Tester
10 2 (3.333%) Junior
11 1 (1.667%) QA Engineer
11 1 (1.667%) MySQL Developer
11 1 (1.667%) PHP Programmer
11 1 (1.667%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.67%) Digital Media
2 7 (11.67%) Mobile App
3 6 (10.00%) Open Source
4 2 (3.333%) BBC
4 2 (3.333%) W3C
5 1 (1.667%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 39 (65.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (70.00%) BDD
2 37 (61.67%) Automated Testing
3 32 (53.33%) TDD
4 22 (36.67%) Agile Software Development
5 16 (26.67%) OO
5 16 (26.67%) Continuous Integration
5 16 (26.67%) User Stories
6 14 (23.33%) E-Commerce
6 14 (23.33%) Scrum
7 13 (21.67%) Automation Testing
8 12 (20.00%) OOP
9 9 (15.00%) Web Development
9 9 (15.00%) Test Automation
10 8 (13.33%) Build Automation
11 7 (11.67%) Unit Testing
12 6 (10.00%) Manual Testing
13 5 (8.333%) MVC
14 4 (6.667%) Kanban
14 4 (6.667%) Continuous Improvement
14 4 (6.667%) ATDD
Programming Languages
1 54 (90.00%) PHP
2 24 (40.00%) Java
3 20 (33.33%) PHP5
4 17 (28.33%) JavaScript
5 13 (21.67%) Python
6 3 (5.000%) Perl
7 2 (3.333%) C#
7 2 (3.333%) SQL
8 1 (1.667%) C++
8 1 (1.667%) Ruby
8 1 (1.667%) Objective-C
8 1 (1.667%) XPath
Qualifications
1 6 (10.00%) ISTQB
1 6 (10.00%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (38.33%) QA
System Software
1 26 (43.33%) Varnish
Vendors
1 34 (56.67%) Zend
2 1 (1.667%) Oracle
2 1 (1.667%) Sybase
2 1 (1.667%) Microsoft
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