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

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
Rank 89 94 81
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -13
Permanent jobs citing BDD 5 3 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wales 0.398% 0.264% 0.694%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.564% 0.364% 0.963%
Number of salaries quoted 5 3 8
Average salary £35,000 £40,000 £38,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.50% +3.22%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,200 £40,000 £33,500
10% offered a salary of more than £39,000 £40,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Wales
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
887 824 831
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wales 70.56% 72.54% 72.07%
Number of salaries quoted 782 749 785
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -2.77%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £26,000 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £55,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
BDD
UK

BDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wales BDD Jobs Demand Trend

BDD
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing BDD across the Wales region.

Wales BDD Salary Trend

BDD
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the Wales 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
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Job
Vacancies
South Wales +3 5 £35,000 -12.50% 1
BDD
UK

BDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Wales region citing BDD 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 BDD.

1 7 (87.50%) Selenium
1 7 (87.50%) soapUI
1 7 (87.50%) Jenkins
2 6 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (75.00%) Maven
2 6 (75.00%) Web Services
3 5 (62.50%) SQL
3 5 (62.50%) TDD
4 4 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (50.00%) Groovy
4 4 (50.00%) Java
4 4 (50.00%) Scrum
5 3 (37.50%) Blackberry
5 3 (37.50%) SOAP
5 3 (37.50%) Handset
5 3 (37.50%) Regression Testing
5 3 (37.50%) SOA
5 3 (37.50%) J2EE
5 3 (37.50%) Windows
5 3 (37.50%) Ant
5 3 (37.50%) Android
5 3 (37.50%) Banking
5 3 (37.50%) CruiseControl
5 3 (37.50%) WebDriver
5 3 (37.50%) REST
5 3 (37.50%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (37.50%) Apple iOS
5 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (37.50%) Mobile Banking
6 2 (25.00%) JavaScript

BDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Wales region citing BDD 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 BDD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (87.50%) soapUI
2 6 (75.00%) Web Services
3 3 (37.50%) SOAP
3 3 (37.50%) J2EE
3 3 (37.50%) REST
4 1 (12.50%) HTML
4 1 (12.50%) .NET
4 1 (12.50%) ADO
4 1 (12.50%) ASP
4 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
4 1 (12.50%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Excel
1 1 (12.50%) InfoPath
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 7 (87.50%) Selenium
1 7 (87.50%) Jenkins
2 6 (75.00%) Maven
3 3 (37.50%) Ant
3 3 (37.50%) CruiseControl
3 3 (37.50%) WebDriver
4 1 (12.50%) JUnit
4 1 (12.50%) JBehave
General
1 3 (37.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
1 4 (50.00%) Analyst
1 4 (50.00%) Test Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) Senior Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) Senior Test Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Tester
4 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
4 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) C# Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Analyst Developer
4 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Blackberry
1 3 (37.50%) Handset
1 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (37.50%) Mobile Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Client/Server
2 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
1 3 (37.50%) Android
1 3 (37.50%) Apple iOS
2 1 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (62.50%) TDD
3 4 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (50.00%) Scrum
4 3 (37.50%) Regression Testing
4 3 (37.50%) SOA
4 3 (37.50%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (12.50%) Code Coverage
5 1 (12.50%) MVC
5 1 (12.50%) Web Application Development
5 1 (12.50%) Product Management
5 1 (12.50%) Domain-Driven Design
5 1 (12.50%) V-Model
5 1 (12.50%) Automated Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 4 (50.00%) Groovy
2 4 (50.00%) Java
3 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (12.50%) Perl
4 1 (12.50%) C#
4 1 (12.50%) Bash shell
4 1 (12.50%) Korn
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) ISEB
1 1 (12.50%) Sun Certification
1 1 (12.50%) ISTQB
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle
Cwmbran, Gwent
My South Wales based client are looking for an experienced Test Engineer to translate Functional and feature requirements from Product Management and Research & Development into documented and approved...
CPS Group UK
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 12 June 2013
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