Cambridgeshire Unit Testing Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Unit Testing skills within the Cambridgeshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Unit Testing over the 3 months to 14 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheshire Chester City of London Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Farnham Glamorgan Guildford Halifax Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Kettering Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tring Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 14 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	52	57
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching contract IT job ads	6	20
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.020 %
As % of the category below	1.791 %	3.759 %
Daily rates quoted	2	3
Average minimum daily rate	£200	£300
Average daily rate	£263	£333
% change on same period last year	-21.24 %
Average maximum daily rate	£325	£367
UK excluding London average daily rate	£346	£345
% change on same period last year	+0.27 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£40.00	£40.00
Average hourly rate	£42.50	£40.00
% change on same period last year	+6.25 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£45.00	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£38.63	£37.51
% change on same period last year	+2.99 %
Processes & Methodologies Cambridgeshire
Matching contract IT job ads	335	532
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.482 %	0.542 %
Daily rates quoted	78	115
Average minimum daily rate	£304	£350
Average daily rate	£332	£368
% change on same period last year	-9.75 %
Average maximum daily rate	£361	£386
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£371
% change on same period last year	+1.83 %
Hourly rates quoted	68	77
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.90	£34.83
Average hourly rate	£24.97	£37.40
% change on same period last year	-33.25 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.03	£39.98
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.35	£29.75
% change on same period last year	-1.35 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Unit Testing
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Unit Testing across the Cambridgeshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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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 14 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Cambridge	-7	1	£225	-32.49 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 14 October 2008, 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 7 (53.85 %) SQL 2 6 (46.15 %) Java 3 5 (38.46 %) HTML 3 5 (38.46 %) OO 4 4 (30.77 %) JSP 4 4 (30.77 %) C# 4 4 (30.77 %) C++ 5 3 (23.08 %) Linux 5 3 (23.08 %) Agile Software Development 5 3 (23.08 %) C 5 3 (23.08 %) .NET 5 3 (23.08 %) J2EE 5 3 (23.08 %) JUnit 5 3 (23.08 %) EJB 5 3 (23.08 %) Struts

5 3 (23.08 %) RAD 5 3 (23.08 %) RUP 5 3 (23.08 %) IBM 6 2 (15.38 %) N-Tier 6 2 (15.38 %) WebServices 6 2 (15.38 %) CSS 6 2 (15.38 %) Visual Studio 6 2 (15.38 %) ASP.NET 6 2 (15.38 %) SQL Server 6 2 (15.38 %) JavaScript 6 2 (15.38 %) Transact-SQL 6 2 (15.38 %) Software Engineering 6 2 (15.38 %) .NET Framework 6 2 (15.38 %) UNIX 6 2 (15.38 %) NUnit

Unit Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 14 October 2008, 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 5 (38.46 %) HTML 2 4 (30.77 %) JSP 3 3 (23.08 %) Struts 3 3 (23.08 %) .NET 3 3 (23.08 %) J2EE 3 3 (23.08 %) EJB 4 2 (15.38 %) CSS 4 2 (15.38 %) .NET Framework 4 2 (15.38 %) ASP.NET 4 2 (15.38 %) WebServices 5 1 (7.692 %) XML	Applications 1 1 (7.692 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 1 (7.692 %) 3GPP 1 1 (7.692 %) Internet 1 1 (7.692 %) LTE	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (15.38 %) SQL Server
Development Applications 1 3 (23.08 %) JUnit 2 2 (15.38 %) Visual Studio 2 2 (15.38 %) NUnit 3 1 (7.692 %) Selenium 3 1 (7.692 %) Firebug 3 1 (7.692 %) Ant 3 1 (7.692 %) Flash 3 1 (7.692 %) Eclipse	General 1 1 (7.692 %) Telecoms 1 1 (7.692 %) Finance 1 1 (7.692 %) Retail
Job Titles 1 9 (69.23 %) Developer 2 4 (30.77 %) Java Developer 3 3 (23.08 %) C++ Developer 4 2 (15.38 %) C# Developer 4 2 (15.38 %) Web Developer 4 2 (15.38 %) Applications Developer 4 2 (15.38 %) Software Developer 4 2 (15.38 %) Web Applications Developer 4 2 (15.38 %) C++ Software Developer 4 2 (15.38 %) .NET Web Developer 4 2 (15.38 %) C# Web Developer 4 2 (15.38 %) C# Application Developer 4 2 (15.38 %) .NET Applications Developer 4 2 (15.38 %) .NET Developer 4 2 (15.38 %) Software Engineer 5 1 (7.692 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 5 1 (7.692 %) Web Tester 5 1 (7.692 %) Tester 5 1 (7.692 %) Test Engineer 5 1 (7.692 %) Java Software Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (15.38 %) N-Tier 2 1 (7.692 %) Computer Science
Operating Systems 1 3 (23.08 %) Linux 2 2 (15.38 %) UNIX 3 1 (7.692 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (38.46 %) OO 2 3 (23.08 %) RAD 2 3 (23.08 %) RUP 2 3 (23.08 %) Agile Software Development 3 2 (15.38 %) Software Engineering 3 2 (15.38 %) Performance Testing 4 1 (7.692 %) TDD 4 1 (7.692 %) E-Commerce 4 1 (7.692 %) OOD 4 1 (7.692 %) Configuration Management
Programming Languages 1 7 (53.85 %) SQL 2 6 (46.15 %) Java 3 4 (30.77 %) C# 3 4 (30.77 %) C++ 4 3 (23.08 %) C 5 2 (15.38 %) Transact-SQL 5 2 (15.38 %) JavaScript	Qualifications 1 1 (7.692 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (7.692 %) QA	Vendors 1 3 (23.08 %) IBM 2 1 (7.692 %) Microsoft 2 1 (7.692 %) Sybase