The first table below looks at the demand for Unit Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Brighton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Unit Testing 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 Brighton 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Unit Testing
Rank - - 24
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 0 0 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton - - 1.887%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - 2.752%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 3
Average daily rate - - £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
+6.06% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.50 £33.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-0.74% -3.57%
All Processes & Methodologies
Brighton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
150 213 109
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 80.65% 73.45% 68.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 109 73
Average daily rate £375 £401 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.36% +6.80%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £310 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £524 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 4
Average hourly rate - £27.50 £45.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -38.88%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Unit Testing
East Sussex

Unit Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Unit Testing across the Brighton region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Brighton Unit Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Brighton Unit Testing Daily Rate Trend

Unit Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton region citing Unit Testing 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 Unit Testing.

1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) OO
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) XQuery
2 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (66.67%) Subversion
2 2 (66.67%) XPath
2 2 (66.67%) Apache
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) XML
2 2 (66.67%) XSLT
2 2 (66.67%) UNIX
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) MySQL
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) Perl
2 2 (66.67%) SQLite
2 2 (66.67%) Mason
2 2 (66.67%) Web Development
3 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 1 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 1 (33.33%) LINQ to SQL
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) VB.NET
3 1 (33.33%) .NET
3 1 (33.33%) UML

Unit Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton region citing Unit Testing 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 Unit Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (66.67%) CSS
1 2 (66.67%) XML
1 2 (66.67%) XSLT
1 2 (66.67%) HTML
1 2 (66.67%) Mason
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 1 (33.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (33.33%) LINQ to SQL
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) WF
2 1 (33.33%) LINQ
2 1 (33.33%) ADO.NET
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (66.67%) MySQL
2 2 (66.67%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Subversion
General
1 1 (33.33%) Publishing
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Perl Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) UNIX
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) OO
2 2 (66.67%) Web Development
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) UML
3 1 (33.33%) OOA/OOD
3 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 1 (33.33%) SOA
3 1 (33.33%) Refactoring
3 1 (33.33%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) XQuery
2 2 (66.67%) XPath
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) Perl
3 1 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle