The first table below looks at the demand for NUnit skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited NUnit over the 3 months to 24 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 Development Applications category for the City of London 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
NUnit
Rank 175 175 169
Rank change year-on-year
0 -6
Contract jobs citing NUnit 28 43 78
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.439% 0.547% 0.796%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.567% 6.595% 7.761%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 35 76
Average daily rate £415 £400 £575
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.75% -30.43%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £355 £311 £425
10% offered a daily rate of more than £505 £550 £638
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £350 £300
% change year-on-year
-14.28% +16.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £47.50 - -
All Development Applications
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
785 652 1005
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 12.31% 8.290% 10.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 602 489 757
Average daily rate £405 £438 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.42% -7.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 7
Average hourly rate £42.00 £37.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.51% +48.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £16.20 £13.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.50 £39.70 £75.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
NUnit
London

NUnit
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing NUnit across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

City of London NUnit Jobs Demand Trend

NUnit
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing NUnit across the City of London region.

City of London NUnit Daily Rate Trend

NUnit
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing NUnit across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London NUnit Daily Rate Histogram

NUnit
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing NUnit across the City of London region.

City of London NUnit Hourly Rate Trend

NUnit
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing NUnit 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 NUnit.

1 50 (87.72%) C#
2 49 (85.96%) .NET
3 34 (59.65%) Microsoft
4 31 (54.39%) TDD
5 29 (50.88%) SQL Server
6 24 (42.11%) Visual Studio
7 21 (36.84%) .NET Framework
8 20 (35.09%) SQL Server 2008
8 20 (35.09%) CruiseControl
9 18 (31.58%) Subversion
9 18 (31.58%) Unit Testing
10 17 (29.82%) Continuous Integration
10 17 (29.82%) ASP.NET
11 16 (28.07%) Finance
12 15 (26.32%) Agile Software Development
12 15 (26.32%) SQL
12 15 (26.32%) Windows
13 14 (24.56%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
14 13 (22.81%) OO
14 13 (22.81%) MVC
15 12 (21.05%) Banking
15 12 (21.05%) Oracle
15 12 (21.05%) Release Management
15 12 (21.05%) WCF
16 11 (19.30%) Scrum
17 10 (17.54%) VSS/SourceSafe
17 10 (17.54%) CSS
17 10 (17.54%) Team Foundation Server
17 10 (17.54%) BDD
18 9 (15.79%) SQL Server 2005

NUnit
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing NUnit 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 NUnit. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 49 (85.96%) .NET
2 21 (36.84%) .NET Framework
3 17 (29.82%) ASP.NET
4 14 (24.56%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 12 (21.05%) WCF
6 10 (17.54%) CSS
7 9 (15.79%) HTML
8 8 (14.04%) Ajax
8 8 (14.04%) jQuery
9 7 (12.28%) XML
10 6 (10.53%) ASP.NET MVC
11 5 (8.772%) WebSphere
12 4 (7.018%) XSLT
12 4 (7.018%) WPF
12 4 (7.018%) WF
13 3 (5.263%) NHibernate
13 3 (5.263%) RESTful
13 3 (5.263%) ASP
13 3 (5.263%) Web Services
13 3 (5.263%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 6 (10.53%) IIS
2 4 (7.018%) MQSeries
2 4 (7.018%) Umbraco
3 3 (5.263%) Sitecore CMS
3 3 (5.263%) Kentico
3 3 (5.263%) EPiServer CMS
3 3 (5.263%) CMS
4 2 (3.509%) MSMQ
4 2 (3.509%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.754%) Drupal
5 1 (1.754%) DotNetNuke
5 1 (1.754%) Joomla!
5 1 (1.754%) Apache
5 1 (1.754%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.754%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (5.263%) MS Office
2 2 (3.509%) MS Excel
3 1 (1.754%) PowerPivot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.509%) HTTP
2 1 (1.754%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (50.88%) SQL Server
2 20 (35.09%) SQL Server 2008
3 9 (15.79%) SQL Server 2005
4 3 (5.263%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (5.263%) Oracle 8/8i
4 3 (5.263%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (3.509%) SQL Server 2000
5 2 (3.509%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.754%) PerformancePoint
6 1 (1.754%) Oracle 11g
6 1 (1.754%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.754%) CouchDB
6 1 (1.754%) MarkLogic
6 1 (1.754%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (1.754%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 24 (42.11%) Visual Studio
2 20 (35.09%) CruiseControl
3 18 (31.58%) Subversion
4 10 (17.54%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 10 (17.54%) Team Foundation Server
5 8 (14.04%) MSBuild
6 7 (12.28%) Git (software)
6 7 (12.28%) MSI
7 6 (10.53%) WiX
7 6 (10.53%) Rhino Mocks
8 5 (8.772%) SpecFlow
9 4 (7.018%) Moq
9 4 (7.018%) MSTest
9 4 (7.018%) Selenium
10 3 (5.263%) TeamCity
10 3 (5.263%) WebDriver
10 3 (5.263%) JUnit
10 3 (5.263%) Eclipse
10 3 (5.263%) InstallShield
11 2 (3.509%) JMeter
General
1 16 (28.07%) Finance
2 12 (21.05%) Banking
3 5 (8.772%) Front Office
4 3 (5.263%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.754%) Wholesale Banking
5 1 (1.754%) Retail
5 1 (1.754%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 31 (54.39%) Developer
2 18 (31.58%) .NET Developer
3 11 (19.30%) C# Developer
4 8 (14.04%) Build Engineer
5 7 (12.28%) C# .NET Developer
5 7 (12.28%) Analyst
6 6 (10.53%) Software Engineer
7 5 (8.772%) Integration Analyst
7 5 (8.772%) Systems Integration Analyst
7 5 (8.772%) Systems Analyst
8 4 (7.018%) ASP.NET Developer
8 4 (7.018%) Integration Engineer
8 4 (7.018%) Release Engineer
8 4 (7.018%) Software Build Engineer
9 3 (5.263%) QA Engineer
9 3 (5.263%) Programmer
10 2 (3.509%) Senior Developer
10 2 (3.509%) Analyst Programmer
10 2 (3.509%) Senior Analyst Programmer
10 2 (3.509%) Senior Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.53%) iPad
1 6 (10.53%) iPhone
2 2 (3.509%) W3C
2 2 (3.509%) Open Source
2 2 (3.509%) Mathematics
3 1 (1.754%) Market Risk
3 1 (1.754%) Kindle
3 1 (1.754%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.754%) Fixed Income
3 1 (1.754%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 15 (26.32%) Windows
2 6 (10.53%) Linux
3 4 (7.018%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (5.263%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (5.263%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (3.509%) UNIX
6 1 (1.754%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (54.39%) TDD
2 18 (31.58%) Unit Testing
3 17 (29.82%) Continuous Integration
4 15 (26.32%) Agile Software Development
5 13 (22.81%) OO
5 13 (22.81%) MVC
6 12 (21.05%) Release Management
7 11 (19.30%) Scrum
8 10 (17.54%) BDD
9 6 (10.53%) Migration
9 6 (10.53%) RUP
9 6 (10.53%) Waterfall
10 4 (7.018%) Workflow
10 4 (7.018%) ITIL
10 4 (7.018%) Software Deployment
11 3 (5.263%) Web Development
11 3 (5.263%) Analytics
11 3 (5.263%) Automation Testing
11 3 (5.263%) Build Automation
11 3 (5.263%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 50 (87.72%) C#
2 15 (26.32%) SQL
3 8 (14.04%) JavaScript
4 7 (12.28%) Java
5 3 (5.263%) VBA
5 3 (5.263%) VB
6 2 (3.509%) VB6
6 2 (3.509%) Perl
6 2 (3.509%) PL/SQL
6 2 (3.509%) T-SQL
6 2 (3.509%) VBScript
6 2 (3.509%) C-shell
6 2 (3.509%) Bash shell
6 2 (3.509%) Groovy
7 1 (1.754%) Korn
7 1 (1.754%) C++
7 1 (1.754%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 7 (12.28%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (10.53%) MCP
2 6 (10.53%) MCAD
2 6 (10.53%) MCSD
2 6 (10.53%) MCTS
3 2 (3.509%) Degree
4 1 (1.754%) LPIC
4 1 (1.754%) MCSE
4 1 (1.754%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.53%) QA
2 5 (8.772%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 1 (1.754%) Hyper-V
1 1 (1.754%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (5.263%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 34 (59.65%) Microsoft
2 12 (21.05%) Oracle
3 4 (7.018%) Sitecore
4 3 (5.263%) EPiServer
5 2 (3.509%) Sybase
6 1 (1.754%) Reuters
6 1 (1.754%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.754%) Charles River
6 1 (1.754%) VMware
6 1 (1.754%) Infragistics
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