Unit Testing Contracts in Canary Wharf
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Unit Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Canary Wharf region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Unit Testing over the 3 months to 21 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 Canary Wharf 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Unit Testing
Rank 53 35 53
Rank change year-on-year
-18 +18
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 1 14 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 0.249% 3.665% 1.606%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.300% 4.698% 2.145%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 8
Average daily rate £550 - £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £343 £325 £323
% change year-on-year
+5.38% +0.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £33.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -3.57%
All Processes & Methodologies
Canary Wharf
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 333 298 373
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 82.84% 78.01% 74.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 256 188 281
Average daily rate £550 £550 £550
90% offered a daily rate of more than £258 £350 £425
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £650 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
Average hourly rate - £65.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +333.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Unit Testing
London

Unit Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf Unit Testing Daily Rate Trend

Unit Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 13 (68.42%) SQL Server
2 12 (63.16%) Market Risk
3 11 (57.89%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 11 (57.89%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (52.63%) SQL
4 10 (52.63%) Oracle
4 10 (52.63%) User Acceptance Testing
5 8 (42.11%) Release Management
5 8 (42.11%) PowerPivot
6 7 (36.84%) Computer Science
6 7 (36.84%) Degree
7 6 (31.58%) Code Coverage
7 6 (31.58%) Software Engineering
8 5 (26.32%) Banking
8 5 (26.32%) Change Management
8 5 (26.32%) Perforce
8 5 (26.32%) JIRA
8 5 (26.32%) Project Planning
8 5 (26.32%) Data Modelling
8 5 (26.32%) Investment Banking
9 4 (21.05%) Credit Risk
9 4 (21.05%) Finance
9 4 (21.05%) SQL Server 2005
10 3 (15.79%) Derivative
11 2 (10.53%) .NET Framework
11 2 (10.53%) Mathematics
11 2 (10.53%) Risk Management
11 2 (10.53%) OO
11 2 (10.53%) .NET
11 2 (10.53%) JavaScript

Unit Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 (10.53%) .NET Framework
1 2 (10.53%) .NET
1 2 (10.53%) ASP.NET
2 1 (5.263%) DCOM
2 1 (5.263%) EJB
2 1 (5.263%) Struts
2 1 (5.263%) Web Services
2 1 (5.263%) XML
2 1 (5.263%) XSLT
2 1 (5.263%) HTML
2 1 (5.263%) XHTML
2 1 (5.263%) Hibernate
2 1 (5.263%) Spring
2 1 (5.263%) JSF
2 1 (5.263%) Ajax
2 1 (5.263%) Java EE
2 1 (5.263%) EJB 3.0
2 1 (5.263%) jQuery
2 1 (5.263%) WCF
2 1 (5.263%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.263%) Apache
Applications
1 8 (42.11%) PowerPivot
2 1 (5.263%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.263%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.263%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (68.42%) SQL Server
2 11 (57.89%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 11 (57.89%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (21.05%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (5.263%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) JIRA
General
1 5 (26.32%) Banking
1 5 (26.32%) Investment Banking
2 4 (21.05%) Finance
3 1 (5.263%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.263%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 17 (89.47%) Developer
2 7 (36.84%) Senior Developer
3 6 (31.58%) SQL Developer
3 6 (31.58%) SQL Server Developer
4 4 (21.05%) Lead SQL Server Developer
4 4 (21.05%) Lead Developer
5 3 (15.79%) Market Risk Developer
6 2 (10.53%) Senior SQL Developer
6 2 (10.53%) Senior SQL Server Developer
7 1 (5.263%) Consultant
7 1 (5.263%) Software Architect
7 1 (5.263%) Software Developer
7 1 (5.263%) Architect
7 1 (5.263%) C# Developer
7 1 (5.263%) Microsoft Consultant
7 1 (5.263%) CRM Consultant
7 1 (5.263%) Dynamics CRM Consultant
7 1 (5.263%) Microsoft CRM Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 12 (63.16%) Market Risk
2 7 (36.84%) Computer Science
3 4 (21.05%) Credit Risk
4 3 (15.79%) Derivative
5 2 (10.53%) Mathematics
6 1 (5.263%) Management Information System
6 1 (5.263%) Economics
6 1 (5.263%) Physics
6 1 (5.263%) Open Source
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) User Acceptance Testing
2 8 (42.11%) Release Management
3 6 (31.58%) Code Coverage
3 6 (31.58%) Software Engineering
4 5 (26.32%) Change Management
4 5 (26.32%) Project Planning
4 5 (26.32%) Data Modelling
5 2 (10.53%) Risk Management
5 2 (10.53%) OO
6 1 (5.263%) RUP
6 1 (5.263%) CRM
6 1 (5.263%) OOD
6 1 (5.263%) Configuration Management
6 1 (5.263%) Scrum
6 1 (5.263%) Data Analysis
6 1 (5.263%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (5.263%) Stress Testing
6 1 (5.263%) Integration Testing
6 1 (5.263%) Multithreading
6 1 (5.263%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 10 (52.63%) SQL
2 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
2 2 (10.53%) C#
3 1 (5.263%) C++
3 1 (5.263%) Java
3 1 (5.263%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (36.84%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.263%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 10 (52.63%) Oracle
2 5 (26.32%) Perforce
3 1 (5.263%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.263%) SmartStream
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