Cardiff Unit Testing Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Unit Testing skills within the Cardiff 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 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Unit Testing
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London Crawley Croydon Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Exeter Fareham Farnham Guildford Halifax Hampshire Havant Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidstone Merseyside Middlesex Newbury Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Trowbridge Twickenham UK Wales Warrington Waterlooville West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	23	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	2	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	2.222 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£339	£344
% change on same period last year	-1.66 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£36.03	£36.04
% change on same period last year	-0.03 %
Processes & Methodologies Cardiff
Matching contract IT job ads	90	104
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.142 %	0.111 %
Daily rates quoted	32	29
Average minimum daily rate	£347	£287
Average daily rate	£374	£359
% change on same period last year	+4.18 %
Average maximum daily rate	£402	£431
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£370
% change on same period last year	+2.76 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	17
Average minimum hourly rate	£36.00	£28.79
Average hourly rate	£37.29	£29.90
% change on same period last year	+24.72 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.58	£31.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.17	£29.91
% change on same period last year	-5.80 %
Unit Testing South Wales

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 Cardiff region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Unit Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 2 2 (66.67 %) J2EE 2 2 (66.67 %) Solaris 2 2 (66.67 %) UML 2 2 (66.67 %) Swing 2 2 (66.67 %) LDAP 2 2 (66.67 %) JBuilder 2 2 (66.67 %) Ant 2 2 (66.67 %) JUnit 2 2 (66.67 %) PVCS 2 2 (66.67 %) DCOM 2 2 (66.67 %) EJB 2 2 (66.67 %) Struts 2 2 (66.67 %) XML 2 2 (66.67 %) ODBC

2 2 (66.67 %) N-Tier 2 2 (66.67 %) Unified Process 2 2 (66.67 %) JRules 2 2 (66.67 %) Java 3 1 (33.33 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 1 (33.33 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 1 (33.33 %) CTC Cleared 3 1 (33.33 %) Security Cleared 3 1 (33.33 %) SoftGrid 3 1 (33.33 %) Government 3 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 3 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory 3 1 (33.33 %) Citrix 3 1 (33.33 %) Terminal Services 3 1 (33.33 %) MSI

Unit Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 %) J2EE 1 2 (66.67 %) DCOM 1 2 (66.67 %) EJB 1 2 (66.67 %) Struts 1 2 (66.67 %) XML 1 2 (66.67 %) ODBC 1 2 (66.67 %) Swing 1 2 (66.67 %) JRules	Business Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) SoftGrid
Communications & Networking 1 2 (66.67 %) LDAP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server
Development Applications 1 2 (66.67 %) Ant 1 2 (66.67 %) JUnit 1 2 (66.67 %) PVCS 1 2 (66.67 %) JBuilder 2 1 (33.33 %) MSI 2 1 (33.33 %) InstallShield 2 1 (33.33 %) AdminStudio	General 1 1 (33.33 %) Government
Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Developer 1 2 (66.67 %) Java Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) Applications Packager	Miscellaneous 1 2 (66.67 %) N-Tier 2 1 (33.33 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 2 (66.67 %) Solaris 2 1 (33.33 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) UML 1 2 (66.67 %) Unified Process 2 1 (33.33 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 1 (33.33 %) CTC Cleared 2 1 (33.33 %) Security Cleared
Programming Languages 1 3 (100.00 %) SQL 2 2 (66.67 %) Java 3 1 (33.33 %) VBScript	System Software 1 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory 1 1 (33.33 %) Terminal Services 1 1 (33.33 %) Citrix Presentation Server
Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 1 1 (33.33 %) Citrix