The first table below looks at the demand for JUnit skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JUnit 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 Development Applications category for the Berkshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
JUnit
Rank 98 131 107
Rank change year-on-year
+33 -24
Contract jobs citing JUnit 25 8 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 1.033% 0.262% 0.605%
As % of the Development Applications category 9.225% 4.494% 5.696%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 3 3
Average daily rate £425 £310 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+37.09% -11.42%
UK excluding London average daily rate £358 £350 £358
% change year-on-year
+2.14% -2.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +14.28%
All Development Applications
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
271 178 316
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 11.20% 5.838% 10.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 62 100
Average daily rate £375 £310 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.96% +3.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £207
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £395 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 18
Average hourly rate £15.00 £28.00 £45.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-46.42% -37.77%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
JUnit
South East

JUnit
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing JUnit across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Berkshire JUnit Jobs Demand Trend

JUnit
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing JUnit across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire JUnit Daily Rate Trend

JUnit
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JUnit across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Berkshire JUnit Daily Rate Histogram

JUnit
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing JUnit across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire JUnit Hourly Rate Trend

JUnit
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JUnit within the Berkshire region 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Bracknell +2 13 £425 -
Reading +11 3 £300 +33.33%
JUnit
South East

JUnit
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing JUnit 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited JUnit.

1 40 (100.00%) Java
2 27 (67.50%) SQL
3 26 (65.00%) JavaScript
3 26 (65.00%) XML
3 26 (65.00%) HTML
3 26 (65.00%) JMS
4 25 (62.50%) E-Commerce
4 25 (62.50%) J2EE
4 25 (62.50%) EJB
4 25 (62.50%) CSS
4 25 (62.50%) JSP
4 25 (62.50%) Ajax
4 25 (62.50%) JSTL
5 24 (60.00%) WebSphere
6 18 (45.00%) Retail
7 16 (40.00%) IBM
8 14 (35.00%) Spring
8 14 (35.00%) Software Testing
9 13 (32.50%) Maven
9 13 (32.50%) Finance
9 13 (32.50%) Hibernate
9 13 (32.50%) Tomcat
9 13 (32.50%) Eclipse
10 12 (30.00%) Apache
10 12 (30.00%) UNIX
10 12 (30.00%) Apache CXF
11 11 (27.50%) RAD
11 11 (27.50%) DB2
11 11 (27.50%) ETL
12 9 (22.50%) System Testing

JUnit
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing JUnit also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited JUnit. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 26 (65.00%) HTML
1 26 (65.00%) XML
1 26 (65.00%) JMS
2 25 (62.50%) J2EE
2 25 (62.50%) EJB
2 25 (62.50%) CSS
2 25 (62.50%) JSP
2 25 (62.50%) JSTL
2 25 (62.50%) Ajax
3 24 (60.00%) WebSphere
4 14 (35.00%) Spring
5 13 (32.50%) Hibernate
6 12 (30.00%) Apache CXF
7 8 (20.00%) jQuery
8 7 (17.50%) Struts
9 6 (15.00%) Struts2
10 1 (2.500%) HTML5
10 1 (2.500%) REST
10 1 (2.500%) Gherkin
10 1 (2.500%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 13 (32.50%) Tomcat
2 12 (30.00%) Apache
3 2 (5.000%) Commerce Server
4 1 (2.500%) Jetty
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.500%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (27.50%) DB2
Development Applications
1 13 (32.50%) Eclipse
1 13 (32.50%) Maven
2 7 (17.50%) Subversion
2 7 (17.50%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.000%) Selenium
4 1 (2.500%) FitNesse
4 1 (2.500%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.500%) Ant
4 1 (2.500%) IntelliJ
General
1 18 (45.00%) Retail
2 13 (32.50%) Finance
3 1 (2.500%) Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (87.50%) Developer
2 16 (40.00%) WebSphere Developer
3 8 (20.00%) Java Developer
4 7 (17.50%) Systems Developer
5 6 (15.00%) Analyst
5 6 (15.00%) Analyst Programmer
5 6 (15.00%) Programmer
6 5 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
6 5 (12.50%) Senior Analyst Programmer
6 5 (12.50%) Senior Programmer
7 4 (10.00%) Front-End Developer
8 3 (7.500%) Senior Java Developer
8 3 (7.500%) Senior Developer
9 2 (5.000%) Java/J2EE Developer
9 2 (5.000%) Agile Java Developer
10 1 (2.500%) SOA Developer
10 1 (2.500%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 1 (2.500%) Analyst Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.500%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 12 (30.00%) UNIX
2 1 (2.500%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (62.50%) E-Commerce
2 14 (35.00%) Software Testing
3 11 (27.50%) RAD
3 11 (27.50%) ETL
4 9 (22.50%) System Testing
5 7 (17.50%) Performance Testing
6 6 (15.00%) Automated Testing
6 6 (15.00%) SOA
7 3 (7.500%) Agile Software Development
8 2 (5.000%) TDD
8 2 (5.000%) BDD
9 1 (2.500%) Analytics
9 1 (2.500%) Time Management
9 1 (2.500%) Kanban
9 1 (2.500%) OWASP
9 1 (2.500%) Test Automation
9 1 (2.500%) HOOD
9 1 (2.500%) Scrum
9 1 (2.500%) Extreme Programming
9 1 (2.500%) Predictive Analytics
Programming Languages
1 40 (100.00%) Java
2 27 (67.50%) SQL
3 26 (65.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.500%) Groovy
4 1 (2.500%) Scala
4 1 (2.500%) Bash shell
Systems Management
1 2 (5.000%) SCOM
Vendors
1 16 (40.00%) IBM
2 5 (12.50%) Adobe
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