Unit Testing Contracts in Bristol
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Unit Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Unit Testing over the 3 months to 23 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 Processes & Methodologies category for the Bristol 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Unit Testing
Rank 40 61 55
Rank change year-on-year
+21 -6
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 12 4 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 2.348% 0.478% 0.153%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.987% 0.704% 0.227%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 1
Average daily rate £325 £325 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -18.75%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £323 £323
% change year-on-year
+8.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.75 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -7.14%
All Processes & Methodologies
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 301 568 440
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 58.90% 67.94% 67.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 383 253
Average daily rate £325 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £233 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £471 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 24 22
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £36.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -4.10%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £28.70 £16.00 £11.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £55.25 £37.50 £43.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Unit Testing
South West

Unit Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol Unit Testing Daily Rate Trend

Unit Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Bristol Unit Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Unit Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 17 (58.62%) SQL
2 16 (55.17%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (41.38%) C#
3 12 (41.38%) .NET
3 12 (41.38%) jQuery
4 11 (37.93%) RDBMS
5 10 (34.48%) SQL Server
5 10 (34.48%) OLAP
5 10 (34.48%) MVC
5 10 (34.48%) Hyperion
5 10 (34.48%) Essbase
5 10 (34.48%) Teradata
6 8 (27.59%) .NET Framework
7 7 (24.14%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 6 (20.69%) SQL Server 2008
8 6 (20.69%) Oracle
8 6 (20.69%) JavaScript
9 5 (17.24%) Subversion
9 5 (17.24%) User Acceptance Testing
9 5 (17.24%) KnockoutJS
10 4 (13.79%) Inversion of Control
10 4 (13.79%) Agile Software Development
10 4 (13.79%) HTML
10 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
10 4 (13.79%) CSS
11 3 (10.34%) XML
11 3 (10.34%) UML
11 3 (10.34%) Oracle 10g
11 3 (10.34%) Delphi
11 3 (10.34%) ASP.NET

Unit Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 12 (41.38%) .NET
1 12 (41.38%) jQuery
2 8 (27.59%) .NET Framework
3 7 (24.14%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 5 (17.24%) KnockoutJS
5 4 (13.79%) HTML
5 4 (13.79%) CSS
6 3 (10.34%) XML
6 3 (10.34%) ASP.NET
6 3 (10.34%) RESTful
6 3 (10.34%) ASP.NET MVC
6 3 (10.34%) ASP.NET MVC 3
7 2 (6.897%) Reactive Extensions
7 2 (6.897%) OAuth
7 2 (6.897%) LINQ
7 2 (6.897%) Django
7 2 (6.897%) Backbone.js
7 2 (6.897%) Castle Windsor
7 2 (6.897%) CSS3
7 2 (6.897%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.448%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (3.448%) Magento
1 1 (3.448%) Shopify
Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (6.897%) Google Apps
2 2 (6.897%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.448%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (55.17%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (37.93%) RDBMS
3 10 (34.48%) SQL Server
3 10 (34.48%) OLAP
3 10 (34.48%) Essbase
4 6 (20.69%) SQL Server 2008
5 3 (10.34%) Oracle 10g
5 3 (10.34%) MySQL
6 2 (6.897%) DB2
7 1 (3.448%) Oracle 8/8i
7 1 (3.448%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (3.448%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (3.448%) SQL Server 2012
7 1 (3.448%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 5 (17.24%) Subversion
2 3 (10.34%) Visual Studio
2 3 (10.34%) Selenium
2 3 (10.34%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (6.897%) NuGet
3 2 (6.897%) Git (software)
3 2 (6.897%) ReSharper
General
1 1 (3.448%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (79.31%) Developer
2 7 (24.14%) .NET Developer
2 7 (24.14%) Data Warehouse Developer
3 4 (13.79%) Teradata Developer
3 4 (13.79%) C# .NET Developer
3 4 (13.79%) C# Developer
4 3 (10.34%) SQL Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Consultant
4 3 (10.34%) Teradata Consultant
5 2 (6.897%) Front-End Developer
5 2 (6.897%) UI Developer
5 2 (6.897%) UI Programmer
5 2 (6.897%) C# Software Engineer
5 2 (6.897%) Software Developer
5 2 (6.897%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.448%) Web Developer
6 1 (3.448%) PHP Developer
6 1 (3.448%) Database Engineer
6 1 (3.448%) Senior Database Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Inversion of Control
2 2 (6.897%) New Media
2 2 (6.897%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.897%) Android
1 2 (6.897%) Apple iOS
1 2 (6.897%) OS/390
1 2 (6.897%) Windows
2 1 (3.448%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (34.48%) MVC
2 5 (17.24%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (13.79%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (10.34%) UML
4 3 (10.34%) Change Control
5 2 (6.897%) Multithreading
5 2 (6.897%) System Testing
5 2 (6.897%) Requirements Analysis
5 2 (6.897%) Software Architecture
5 2 (6.897%) Software Engineering
5 2 (6.897%) Validation
5 2 (6.897%) ETL
5 2 (6.897%) OO
6 1 (3.448%) RUP
6 1 (3.448%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (3.448%) Scrum
6 1 (3.448%) Test Automation
6 1 (3.448%) Kimball Methodology
Programming Languages
1 17 (58.62%) SQL
2 12 (41.38%) C#
3 6 (20.69%) JavaScript
4 3 (10.34%) Delphi
5 2 (6.897%) VB6
5 2 (6.897%) JCL
5 2 (6.897%) VB
5 2 (6.897%) Python
6 1 (3.448%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.448%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) Degree
2 2 (6.897%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (6.897%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 10 (34.48%) Hyperion
1 10 (34.48%) Teradata
2 6 (20.69%) Oracle
3 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.897%) Facebook
4 2 (6.897%) Twitter
4 2 (6.897%) Google
4 2 (6.897%) IBM
5 1 (3.448%) Zend
PHP Developer - 3-month contract - Cloud-Based Software - Bristol
Bristol, Avon
Desirable, but not essential is experience in any of the following: - Integrating with RESTful web services layer - Agile (Scrum or XP) - Modern web technologies and frameworks such as...
Parham Consulting
Rate: Up to £350 per day Maximum £350 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
PHP Developer
Bristol, South West
The role: We are looking for an experienced PHP developer to join our multi-skilled team. We do not believe in a one-size-fits-all programming language...
Computer Futures
Rate: £200 - £300 per day
Posted: 18 May 2013
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