The first table below looks at the demand for Test-First Development skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Test-First Development over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test-First Development
Rank 859 888 849
Rank change year-on-year
+29 -39
Permanent jobs citing Test-First Development 5 12 21
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.005% 0.010% 0.017%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.006% 0.013% 0.023%
Number of salaries quoted 5 6 11
Average salary £50,000 £61,250 £60,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-18.36% +2.08%
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year
-16.66% -4.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
83042 91442 90017
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 76.35% 74.55% 73.64%
Number of salaries quoted 68087 77706 75411
Average salary £45,000 £47,250 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.76% -0.52%
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%

Test-First Development
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

Test-First Development Salary Trend

Test-First Development
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test-First Development within the UK over the 3 months to 22 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
Glasgow - 4 £50,000 -
Scotland - 4 £50,000 -
England +21 1 £50,000 -18.36%
Southampton +3 1 £50,000 +25.00%
South East +2 1 £50,000 -16.66%
Hampshire -1 1 £50,000 -16.66%

Test-First Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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 9 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (66.67%) J2EE
2 6 (66.67%) MySQL
3 5 (55.56%) PHP
3 5 (55.56%) SQL
3 5 (55.56%) Ant
3 5 (55.56%) XML
3 5 (55.56%) XSLT
3 5 (55.56%) RUP
3 5 (55.56%) Tomcat
3 5 (55.56%) DSDM
3 5 (55.56%) Python
3 5 (55.56%) SOA
3 5 (55.56%) Eclipse
3 5 (55.56%) IBM
3 5 (55.56%) Citrix
3 5 (55.56%) JMeter
3 5 (55.56%) Scrum
3 5 (55.56%) VMware
3 5 (55.56%) Subversion
3 5 (55.56%) Spring
3 5 (55.56%) Maven
3 5 (55.56%) AppFuse
3 5 (55.56%) GWT
3 5 (55.56%) jQuery
3 5 (55.56%) Eucalyptus
3 5 (55.56%) Waterfall
3 5 (55.56%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (55.56%) Hudson
3 5 (55.56%) Continuous Integration

Test-First Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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 6 (66.67%) J2EE
2 5 (55.56%) XML
2 5 (55.56%) XSLT
2 5 (55.56%) Spring
2 5 (55.56%) AppFuse
2 5 (55.56%) GWT
2 5 (55.56%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 5 (55.56%) Tomcat
1 5 (55.56%) RabbitMQ
1 5 (55.56%) OpenStack
2 2 (22.22%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (11.11%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Ant
1 5 (55.56%) Eclipse
1 5 (55.56%) JMeter
1 5 (55.56%) Subversion
1 5 (55.56%) Maven
1 5 (55.56%) Hudson
General
1 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Developer
2 6 (66.67%) Senior Developer
2 6 (66.67%) Lead Developer
3 5 (55.56%) Team Leader
3 5 (55.56%) Java Team Leader
4 2 (22.22%) Analyst
4 2 (22.22%) Systems Analyst
5 1 (11.11%) Architect
5 1 (11.11%) Lead Designer
5 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
5 1 (11.11%) J2EE Developer
5 1 (11.11%) J2EE Architect
5 1 (11.11%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Lead Architect
5 1 (11.11%) Java Architect
5 1 (11.11%) Java/J2EE Architect
5 1 (11.11%) Designer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Eucalyptus
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) RUP
1 5 (55.56%) DSDM
1 5 (55.56%) SOA
1 5 (55.56%) Scrum
1 5 (55.56%) Waterfall
1 5 (55.56%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (44.44%) Release Management
2 4 (44.44%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 3 (33.33%) Performance Testing
3 3 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (22.22%) OOA/OOD
4 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (55.56%) PHP
2 5 (55.56%) SQL
2 5 (55.56%) Python
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) IBM
1 5 (55.56%) Citrix
1 5 (55.56%) VMware
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle