The first table below looks at the demand for Unit Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Unit Testing over the 3 months to 22 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 Cambridgeshire 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Unit Testing
Rank 45 37 40
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +3
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 6 28 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 1.095% 4.000% 1.544%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.961% 6.914% 2.402%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 17 5
Average daily rate £388 £360 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.63% -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £305 £351
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £460 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £344 £325 £320
% change year-on-year
+5.76% +1.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Average hourly rate - £43.00 £50.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -14.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
All Processes & Methodologies
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
306 405 333
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 55.84% 57.86% 64.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 200 171
Average daily rate £375 £390 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% +4.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £275 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £550 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 35 40
Average hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.88% +54.54%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.75 £12.00 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £56.50 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Unit Testing
East of England

Unit Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire Unit Testing Daily Rate Trend

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Unit Testing across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Cambridgeshire Unit Testing Daily Rate Histogram

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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire Unit Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Unit Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unit Testing within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Cambridge -10 1 £325 -5.45%
Unit Testing
East of England

Unit Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 19 (76.00%) Oracle
2 17 (68.00%) TDD
3 15 (60.00%) Agile Software Development
3 15 (60.00%) Web Services
4 11 (44.00%) Apache
5 10 (40.00%) C#
6 9 (36.00%) HTML
6 9 (36.00%) Java
6 9 (36.00%) .NET
6 9 (36.00%) SQL Server
6 9 (36.00%) MySQL
6 9 (36.00%) CSS
6 9 (36.00%) Linux
6 9 (36.00%) .NET Framework
6 9 (36.00%) JSON
7 8 (32.00%) MVC
7 8 (32.00%) SQL
8 7 (28.00%) J2EE
8 7 (28.00%) JavaScript
8 7 (28.00%) XML
8 7 (28.00%) Hibernate
8 7 (28.00%) Subversion
8 7 (28.00%) Spring
8 7 (28.00%) Git (software)
9 6 (24.00%) Computer Science
9 6 (24.00%) Tomcat
10 5 (20.00%) PHP
10 5 (20.00%) WPF
10 5 (20.00%) Symfony
10 5 (20.00%) RESTful

Unit Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 15 (60.00%) Web Services
2 9 (36.00%) HTML
2 9 (36.00%) .NET
2 9 (36.00%) CSS
2 9 (36.00%) .NET Framework
2 9 (36.00%) JSON
3 7 (28.00%) J2EE
3 7 (28.00%) XML
3 7 (28.00%) Hibernate
3 7 (28.00%) Spring
4 5 (20.00%) WPF
4 5 (20.00%) Symfony
4 5 (20.00%) RESTful
5 4 (16.00%) ASP.NET MVC
5 4 (16.00%) WCF
5 4 (16.00%) jQuery
5 4 (16.00%) Ruby on Rails
5 4 (16.00%) ASP.NET
5 4 (16.00%) ADO.NET
5 4 (16.00%) Swing
Application Platforms
1 11 (44.00%) Apache
2 6 (24.00%) Tomcat
3 4 (16.00%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (12.00%) nginx
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.000%) 3GPP
1 1 (4.000%) CTI
1 1 (4.000%) 3G
1 1 (4.000%) 2G
1 1 (4.000%) LTE
1 1 (4.000%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (36.00%) SQL Server
1 9 (36.00%) MySQL
2 4 (16.00%) Oracle 8/8i
3 3 (12.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (28.00%) Subversion
1 7 (28.00%) Git (software)
2 4 (16.00%) Maven
3 3 (12.00%) JSUnit
4 2 (8.000%) TestNG
General
1 3 (12.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 16 (64.00%) Developer
2 9 (36.00%) Java Developer
3 8 (32.00%) Software Engineer
4 7 (28.00%) Senior Software Engineer
5 5 (20.00%) .NET Developer
6 2 (8.000%) Senior Developer
6 2 (8.000%) Senior PHP Developer
6 2 (8.000%) PHP Developer
7 1 (4.000%) Test Engineer
7 1 (4.000%) Software Test Engineer
7 1 (4.000%) Agile .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (16.00%) Informatics
3 2 (8.000%) Biology
3 2 (8.000%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 9 (36.00%) Linux
2 3 (12.00%) UNIX
2 3 (12.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (68.00%) TDD
2 15 (60.00%) Agile Software Development
3 8 (32.00%) MVC
4 5 (20.00%) MVVM
5 4 (16.00%) Information Management
5 4 (16.00%) OOD
5 4 (16.00%) OOA/OOD
6 3 (12.00%) Scrum
7 2 (8.000%) Multithreading
8 1 (4.000%) Software Testing
8 1 (4.000%) Logistics
8 1 (4.000%) Automated Testing
8 1 (4.000%) Load Testing
8 1 (4.000%) Manual Testing
8 1 (4.000%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (40.00%) C#
2 9 (36.00%) Java
3 8 (32.00%) SQL
4 7 (28.00%) JavaScript
5 5 (20.00%) PHP
6 4 (16.00%) Ruby
6 4 (16.00%) Lisp
6 4 (16.00%) Perl
6 4 (16.00%) Python
7 1 (4.000%) C
7 1 (4.000%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) Degree
1 4 (16.00%) PhD
2 1 (4.000%) ISEB
2 1 (4.000%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.000%) QA
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 19 (76.00%) Oracle
2 4 (16.00%) VMware
3 2 (8.000%) webMethods
3 2 (8.000%) Microsoft
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