The first table below looks at the demand for BDD skills in IT jobs advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited BDD over the 3 months to 20 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 Yorkshire region.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
Rank 160 199 187
Rank change year-on-year
+39 -12
Permanent jobs citing BDD 52 18 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.948% 0.349% 0.256%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.203% 0.461% 0.358%
Number of salaries quoted 42 17 13
Average salary £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.14% +7.69%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Yorkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
4321 3901 3629
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Yorkshire 78.79% 75.59% 71.42%
Number of salaries quoted 3339 3164 3077
Average salary £37,500 £36,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.73% +4.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
BDD
England

BDD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire BDD Salary Trend

BDD
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing BDD across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Yorkshire BDD Salary Histogram

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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 20 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
West Yorkshire +16 27 £31,500 -30.00% 7
South Yorkshire +13 15 £32,500 -7.14% 2
North Yorkshire +4 6 - - 1
BDD
England

BDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Yorkshire 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 67 (73.63%) TDD
2 46 (50.55%) Scrum
3 42 (46.15%) Agile Software Development
4 36 (39.56%) QA
5 34 (37.36%) Java
6 33 (36.26%) Pair Programming
7 29 (31.87%) Selenium
7 29 (31.87%) DSDM
7 29 (31.87%) User Stories
8 25 (27.47%) Web Services
8 25 (27.47%) Spring
9 24 (26.37%) Unit Testing
9 24 (26.37%) MVC
9 24 (26.37%) Cucumber
10 23 (25.27%) Hibernate
10 23 (25.27%) Business Analysis
11 22 (24.18%) Continuous Integration
11 22 (24.18%) OO
12 20 (21.98%) FitNesse
13 19 (20.88%) J2EE
14 18 (19.78%) Project Management
14 18 (19.78%) Spring MVC
14 18 (19.78%) Spring Web Flow
14 18 (19.78%) Kanban
14 18 (19.78%) Agile Project Management
15 17 (18.68%) Test Automation
15 17 (18.68%) JavaScript
16 16 (17.58%) J2SE
16 16 (17.58%) CMS
16 16 (17.58%) FreeMarker

BDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Yorkshire 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 25 (27.47%) Web Services
1 25 (27.47%) Spring
2 23 (25.27%) Hibernate
3 19 (20.88%) J2EE
4 18 (19.78%) Spring MVC
4 18 (19.78%) Spring Web Flow
5 16 (17.58%) J2SE
5 16 (17.58%) FreeMarker
6 15 (16.48%) .NET
7 12 (13.19%) RESTful
7 12 (13.19%) XML
7 12 (13.19%) SOAP
8 11 (12.09%) Spring Integration
9 10 (10.99%) WSDL
9 10 (10.99%) soapUI
10 9 (9.890%) JSP
10 9 (9.890%) JSF
11 8 (8.791%) XSD
12 7 (7.692%) CSS
12 7 (7.692%) Velocity
Application Platforms
1 16 (17.58%) CMS
2 11 (12.09%) Liferay
3 9 (9.890%) Apache
4 7 (7.692%) Apache Solr
5 4 (4.396%) Tomcat
6 1 (1.099%) SharePoint
6 1 (1.099%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.099%) Photoshop
1 1 (1.099%) Fireworks
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.198%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.593%) MySQL
3 1 (1.099%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 29 (31.87%) Selenium
2 24 (26.37%) Cucumber
3 20 (21.98%) FitNesse
4 12 (13.19%) Maven
5 11 (12.09%) SpecFlow
5 11 (12.09%) Team Foundation Server
5 11 (12.09%) QuickTest Pro
6 9 (9.890%) Ant
7 6 (6.593%) JUnit
8 3 (3.297%) Subversion
8 3 (3.297%) Git (software)
9 2 (2.198%) JBehave
9 2 (2.198%) PHPUnit
10 1 (1.099%) Moq
10 1 (1.099%) WebDriver
10 1 (1.099%) Behat
10 1 (1.099%) NUnit
General
1 10 (10.99%) Finance
2 3 (3.297%) Telecoms
3 2 (2.198%) Games
Job Titles
1 33 (36.26%) Developer
2 28 (30.77%) Java Developer
3 24 (26.37%) Analyst
4 18 (19.78%) Agile Coach
5 16 (17.58%) ScrumMaster
6 15 (16.48%) Test Analyst
7 13 (14.29%) QA Analyst
8 9 (9.890%) Senior Developer
8 9 (9.890%) Senior Java Developer
9 8 (8.791%) Java/J2EE Developer
9 8 (8.791%) J2EE Developer
10 6 (6.593%) Agile Test Analyst
11 5 (5.495%) Tester
12 4 (4.396%) PHP Developer
13 3 (3.297%) QA Manager
13 3 (3.297%) Programmer
13 3 (3.297%) Test Manager
13 3 (3.297%) Java Programmer
13 3 (3.297%) QA Test Manager
14 2 (2.198%) Agile Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.890%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (4.396%) Digital Media
3 2 (2.198%) Mathematics
3 2 (2.198%) Computer Science
4 1 (1.099%) Open Source
4 1 (1.099%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.198%) Linux
1 2 (2.198%) UNIX
2 1 (1.099%) Windows
2 1 (1.099%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (73.63%) TDD
2 46 (50.55%) Scrum
3 42 (46.15%) Agile Software Development
4 33 (36.26%) Pair Programming
5 29 (31.87%) DSDM
5 29 (31.87%) User Stories
6 24 (26.37%) Unit Testing
6 24 (26.37%) MVC
7 23 (25.27%) Business Analysis
8 22 (24.18%) Continuous Integration
8 22 (24.18%) OO
9 18 (19.78%) Project Management
9 18 (19.78%) Kanban
9 18 (19.78%) Agile Project Management
10 17 (18.68%) Test Automation
11 16 (17.58%) Automated Testing
12 13 (14.29%) Test Management
12 13 (14.29%) Test Scripting
13 12 (13.19%) ATDD
14 10 (10.99%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 34 (37.36%) Java
2 17 (18.68%) JavaScript
3 14 (15.38%) SQL
3 14 (15.38%) Scala
4 9 (9.890%) PHP
5 6 (6.593%) C++
6 4 (4.396%) C#
7 2 (2.198%) PHP5
7 2 (2.198%) Ruby
7 2 (2.198%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.099%) R
8 1 (1.099%) Perl
Qualifications
1 10 (10.99%) ISEB
2 6 (6.593%) ISTQB
3 2 (2.198%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (39.56%) QA
2 2 (2.198%) SLA
Systems Management
1 11 (12.09%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 11 (12.09%) HP
2 10 (10.99%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.297%) Zend
4 2 (2.198%) Oracle
4 2 (2.198%) JBoss
5 1 (1.099%) Red Gate
5 1 (1.099%) Telerik
Yorkshire
The team is Agile with a particular focus on TDD, BDD, Pair Programming, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery... * Understanding of frameworks, ideally Spring * Knowledge of HTML, CSS, Javascript -...
Coal IT Services
Salary: From £30,000 to £35,000 per annum plus package
Posted: 17 June 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Strong SQL Server Skills & Knowledge - T-SQL... Other beneficial technical skills include: Open source Web Development technologies: Ruby, PHP, Java etc. Knowledge of NHibernate. Agile experience - Ideally TDD /...
CoreCom Consulting
Salary: £41 - £45000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Sheffield, Yorkshire
In terms of technical competence, You'll have strong commercial experience win Java web development, using frameworks such as Spring, Spring MVC, webflow or J2EE. As well as...
Hamlin Knight
Salary: £30,000 - £40,000 per year
Posted: 10 June 2013
Sheffield, South Yorkshire
c) Experience with Git and/or SVN... b) Knowledge of / some experience of: BackBone, JQuery, Require JS, CoffeeScript, Modernizr, Cordova, node.js. You may have experience of the...
EasyWebRecruitment.com
Salary: £24,000
Posted: 13 June 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
WE ARE LOOKING FOR GRADUATE/ JUNIOR LEVEL & ABOVE; PHP Developers, Frontend or JavaScript Developers with good experience within p hp, Cake/Zend Lamp development environment with excellent HTML5,...
Conex Europe Ltd
Salary: £24000 - £34000 per annum + full benefits plus GTeed bonus
Posted: 14 June 2013
Leeds, Yorkshire
E-Resourcing
Salary: £25000 - £35000 per annum + Package
Posted: 12 June 2013
York, North Yorkshire
4it Recruitment Ltd
Salary: Unspecified Please get in touch to discuss salary information
Posted: 18 June 2013
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