Unit Testing Contracts in Berkshire

Unit Testing
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Unit Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Unit Testing over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 67 83 118
Rank change year-on-year +16 +35 -40
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 50 29 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.53% 1.60% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.85% 1.76% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 20 9
10th Percentile £379 £488 £363
25th Percentile £584 £513 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £563 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% +12.50% +0.90%
75th Percentile £688 £642 £580
90th Percentile - £750 £606
South East median daily rate £625 £525 £540
% change year-on-year +19.05% -2.78% +10.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Unit Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,756 1,652 2,175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 88.91% 91.07% 90.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 910 1,062 1,384
10th Percentile £213 £350 £268
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% +5.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £676 £702 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.38% +1.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 48 43
10th Percentile £20.17 £19.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.75 £25.72 £17.25
Median hourly rate £61.60 £57.82 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% +174.67% -2.09%
75th Percentile £72.18 £73.69 £33.75
90th Percentile £87.41 £79.51 £68.10
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -13.46%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Unit Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in Berkshire

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in Berkshire

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in Berkshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in Berkshire

Unit Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Unit Testing in Berkshire

Unit Testing
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unit Testing within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading +17 49 £650 +15.56% 3
Newbury - 1 - - 1
Unit Testing
South East

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (22.00%) Apache
1 11 (22.00%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (4.00%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (4.00%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (4.00%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (4.00%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 19 (38.00%) AWS
2 15 (30.00%) Azure
3 13 (26.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 13 (26.00%) Azure Monitor
4 9 (18.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 9 (18.00%) Azure Functions
4 9 (18.00%) Serverless
5 8 (16.00%) Entra ID
6 4 (8.00%) Azure Cognitive Search
6 4 (8.00%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 11 (22.00%) BGP
1 11 (22.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 11 (22.00%) MPLS
1 11 (22.00%) Radio Access Network
1 11 (22.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (58.00%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (40.00%) NoSQL
2 20 (40.00%) Oracle Database
3 18 (36.00%) Oracle Database 11g
4 11 (22.00%) MongoDB
5 2 (4.00%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.00%) Neo4j
6 1 (2.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (32.00%) Git
2 12 (24.00%) JIRA
3 11 (22.00%) GitLab
3 11 (22.00%) Robot Framework
3 11 (22.00%) TestRail
4 2 (4.00%) Selenium
5 1 (2.00%) Appium
5 1 (2.00%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.00%) MSTest
5 1 (2.00%) NUnit
5 1 (2.00%) SpecFlow
5 1 (2.00%) TeamCity
General
1 16 (32.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (4.00%) Finance
2 2 (4.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (56.00%) Developer
2 15 (30.00%) PostgreSQL Developer
3 10 (20.00%) Full Stack Developer
3 10 (20.00%) Network Engineer
3 10 (20.00%) Test Engineer
4 9 (18.00%) Azure Developer
5 6 (12.00%) Full Stack Python Developer
5 6 (12.00%) Python Developer
6 5 (10.00%) Designer
6 5 (10.00%) Lead
6 5 (10.00%) Lead Designer
7 2 (4.00%) Consultant
7 2 (4.00%) Database Developer
7 2 (4.00%) Functional Consultant
7 2 (4.00%) Migration Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Oracle Consultant
7 2 (4.00%) Oracle Functional Consultant
7 2 (4.00%) Software Developer
8 1 (2.00%) C# Software Engineer
8 1 (2.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (22.00%) NETCONF
1 11 (22.00%) REST
1 11 (22.00%) RESTCONF
1 11 (22.00%) SOAP
1 11 (22.00%) YANG
2 9 (18.00%) React
3 8 (16.00%) CSS
3 8 (16.00%) HTML
4 5 (10.00%) AngularJS
4 5 (10.00%) Node.js
5 3 (6.00%) .NET
6 2 (4.00%) ASP.NET
6 2 (4.00%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (2.00%) .NET Core
7 1 (2.00%) .NET Framework
7 1 (2.00%) ARM Templates
7 1 (2.00%) Django
7 1 (2.00%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.00%) Android
1 1 (2.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (2.00%) Linux
1 1 (2.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (64.00%) DevOps
2 28 (56.00%) Agile
3 26 (52.00%) CI/CD
4 22 (44.00%) Software Testing
5 19 (38.00%) Software Engineering
5 19 (38.00%) Test Automation
6 18 (36.00%) Data Migration
6 18 (36.00%) Integration Testing
6 18 (36.00%) Migration
6 18 (36.00%) Performance Tuning
6 18 (36.00%) Secure Coding
7 17 (34.00%) Architectural Design
7 17 (34.00%) Clean Code
8 16 (32.00%) Security Testing
9 13 (26.00%) Containerisation
9 13 (26.00%) Regression Testing
9 13 (26.00%) Scrum
10 11 (22.00%) Performance Testing
10 11 (22.00%) Product Backlog
10 11 (22.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 32 (64.00%) SQL
2 21 (42.00%) PL/SQL
2 21 (42.00%) Python
3 8 (16.00%) JavaScript
4 5 (10.00%) PHP
5 3 (6.00%) C
6 1 (2.00%) Bash
6 1 (2.00%) C#
6 1 (2.00%) Java
6 1 (2.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (38.00%) SC Cleared
1 19 (38.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.00%) QA
System Software
1 12 (24.00%) Docker
2 9 (18.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.00%) Ansible
1 1 (2.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (2.00%) Puppet
1 1 (2.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (42.00%) Oracle
2 1 (2.00%) Avaloq
2 1 (2.00%) Google