City of London Unit Testing Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Unit Testing skills within the City of London 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 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Batley Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands City of London Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glamorgan Glasgow Guildford Halifax Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire Huddersfield Ipswich Kent Kettering Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tring Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	154	164
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching contract IT job ads	67	34
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.089 %	0.034 %
As % of the category below	1.348 %	0.962 %
Daily rates quoted	38	15
Average minimum daily rate	£478	£490
Average daily rate	£512	£580
% change on same period last year	-11.74 %
Average maximum daily rate	£545	£670
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£352
% change on same period last year	+3.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£47.50
Average hourly rate	-	£51.25
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£55.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£37.31	£38.95
% change on same period last year	-4.20 %
Processes & Methodologies City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	4971	3533
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	6.626 %	3.524 %
Daily rates quoted	2866	1556
Average minimum daily rate	£425	£439
Average daily rate	£467	£473
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
Average maximum daily rate	£508	£507
UK excluding London average daily rate	£379	£376
% change on same period last year	+0.60 %
Hourly rates quoted	101	85
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.24	£24.68
Average hourly rate	£28.21	£26.91
% change on same period last year	+4.81 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.17	£29.13
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.35	£30.32
% change on same period last year	+0.10 %
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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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Unit Testing across the City of London 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 City of London region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Unit Testing across the City of London region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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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 City of London region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 69 (55.20 %) Banking 2 60 (48.00 %) Investment Banking 3 56 (44.80 %) Java 4 41 (32.80 %) Finance 5 38 (30.40 %) SQL 6 35 (28.00 %) Windows 7 31 (24.80 %) Oracle 8 28 (22.40 %) SQL Server 8 28 (22.40 %) XML 9 27 (21.60 %) .NET 9 27 (21.60 %) J2EE 10 25 (20.00 %) C# 11 24 (19.20 %) UNIX 12 23 (18.40 %) Derivative 13 19 (15.20 %) Front Office

14 18 (14.40 %) C++ 15 17 (13.60 %) Agile Software Development 15 17 (13.60 %) Continuous Integration 16 16 (12.80 %) ASP.NET 17 15 (12.00 %) BEA 17 15 (12.00 %) Integration Testing 18 14 (11.20 %) User Acceptance Testing 18 14 (11.20 %) Adobe Flex 18 14 (11.20 %) JUnit 19 13 (10.40 %) Ant 19 13 (10.40 %) UML 20 12 (9.600 %) Degree 20 12 (9.600 %) WebServices 21 11 (8.800 %) OO 21 11 (8.800 %) WebLogic

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 28 (22.40 %) XML 2 27 (21.60 %) .NET 2 27 (21.60 %) J2EE 3 16 (12.80 %) ASP.NET 4 14 (11.20 %) Adobe Flex 5 12 (9.600 %) WebServices 6 10 (8.000 %) Hibernate 6 10 (8.000 %) Spring 7 8 (6.400 %) WinForms 8 6 (4.800 %) Struts 9 5 (4.000 %) SOAP 9 5 (4.000 %) MVC 10 4 (3.200 %) Middleware 10 4 (3.200 %) XSLT 10 4 (3.200 %) Swing 10 4 (3.200 %) J2SE 10 4 (3.200 %) JNI 11 3 (2.400 %) WebSphere 11 3 (2.400 %) .NET Framework 11 3 (2.400 %) WSE	Application Platforms 1 11 (8.800 %) WebLogic 2 7 (5.600 %) Apache 3 4 (3.200 %) Tomcat 4 3 (2.400 %) SharePoint 4 3 (2.400 %) Lotus Notes 4 3 (2.400 %) Lotus Domino 4 3 (2.400 %) BizTalk Server 5 1 (0.800 %) WebSphere MQ 5 1 (0.800 %) LiveLink 5 1 (0.800 %) ESB 5 1 (0.800 %) Flash Media Server 5 1 (0.800 %) WebSphere Message Broker 5 1 (0.800 %) JBoss 5 1 (0.800 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 5 (4.000 %) MS Project 1 5 (4.000 %) MS Office 2 4 (3.200 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 3 (2.400 %) Global One 2 1 (0.800 %) SAP R/3
Communications & Networking 1 9 (7.200 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 28 (22.40 %) SQL Server 2 6 (4.800 %) SQL Server 2005 3 4 (3.200 %) SQL Server Integration Services 3 4 (3.200 %) RDBMS 4 2 (1.600 %) Oracle 10g 4 2 (1.600 %) OLAP 4 2 (1.600 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 1 (0.800 %) Oracle OLAP 5 1 (0.800 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 5 1 (0.800 %) Reference Data 5 1 (0.800 %) Oracle 9i 5 1 (0.800 %) Datawarehouse 5 1 (0.800 %) DTS 5 1 (0.800 %) BusinessObjects 5 1 (0.800 %) SAP BW 5 1 (0.800 %) SQL Server 2000 5 1 (0.800 %) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications 1 14 (11.20 %) JUnit 2 13 (10.40 %) Ant 3 6 (4.800 %) TestDirector 3 6 (4.800 %) QuickTest Pro 4 4 (3.200 %) Selenium 4 4 (3.200 %) FitNesse 5 2 (1.600 %) LoadRunner 5 2 (1.600 %) NUnit 6 1 (0.800 %) CruiseControl 6 1 (0.800 %) Subversion 6 1 (0.800 %) Visual Studio 6 1 (0.800 %) VSS/SourceSafe 6 1 (0.800 %) Flash 6 1 (0.800 %) ClearCase 6 1 (0.800 %) WinRunner	General 1 69 (55.20 %) Banking 2 60 (48.00 %) Investment Banking 3 41 (32.80 %) Finance 4 19 (15.20 %) Front Office 5 7 (5.600 %) Games 6 5 (4.000 %) Construction 7 3 (2.400 %) Insurance 8 2 (1.600 %) Back Office 9 1 (0.800 %) Financial Institution 9 1 (0.800 %) Education 9 1 (0.800 %) Government 9 1 (0.800 %) Retail
Job Titles 1 87 (69.60 %) Developer 2 22 (17.60 %) Java Developer 3 15 (12.00 %) Analyst 4 14 (11.20 %) C++ Developer 5 13 (10.40 %) Flex Developer 6 11 (8.800 %) Senior Developer 7 10 (8.000 %) C# Developer 8 9 (7.200 %) Test Analyst 9 7 (5.600 %) Systems Developer 9 7 (5.600 %) Senior Java Developer 10 6 (4.800 %) .NET Developer 10 6 (4.800 %) Lead Developer 11 5 (4.000 %) Senior Analyst 11 5 (4.000 %) Software Developer 11 5 (4.000 %) Web Developer 11 5 (4.000 %) Senior Test Analyst 12 4 (3.200 %) ASP.NET Developer 12 4 (3.200 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 12 4 (3.200 %) Consultant 12 4 (3.200 %) Architect	Miscellaneous 1 23 (18.40 %) Derivative 2 10 (8.000 %) Fixed Income 3 9 (7.200 %) Computer Science 4 8 (6.400 %) Credit Risk 4 8 (6.400 %) RIA 4 8 (6.400 %) Equities 4 8 (6.400 %) Credit Derivative 5 5 (4.000 %) N-Tier 6 4 (3.200 %) Grid Computing 6 4 (3.200 %) Market Risk 7 3 (2.400 %) Mathematics 8 2 (1.600 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 8 2 (1.600 %) Biometrics 9 1 (0.800 %) Equity Derivative 9 1 (0.800 %) Client/Server 9 1 (0.800 %) Data Conversion
Operating Systems 1 35 (28.00 %) Windows 2 24 (19.20 %) UNIX 3 3 (2.400 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 17 (13.60 %) Agile Software Development 1 17 (13.60 %) Continuous Integration 2 15 (12.00 %) Integration Testing 3 14 (11.20 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 13 (10.40 %) UML 5 11 (8.800 %) OO 5 11 (8.800 %) Configuration Management 6 8 (6.400 %) TDD 7 7 (5.600 %) Scrum 7 7 (5.600 %) SOA 8 6 (4.800 %) OOA/OOD 8 6 (4.800 %) Test Scripting 9 5 (4.000 %) Software Engineering 10 4 (3.200 %) Workflow 10 4 (3.200 %) Refactoring 11 3 (2.400 %) Investment Management 11 3 (2.400 %) Security Cleared 11 3 (2.400 %) RUP 12 2 (1.600 %) CRM 12 2 (1.600 %) ERP
Programming Languages 1 56 (44.80 %) Java 2 38 (30.40 %) SQL 3 25 (20.00 %) C# 4 18 (14.40 %) C++ 5 4 (3.200 %) VC++ 6 3 (2.400 %) C 6 3 (2.400 %) PL/SQL 6 3 (2.400 %) VBA 7 2 (1.600 %) XQuery 7 2 (1.600 %) Shell Script 7 2 (1.600 %) JavaScript 7 2 (1.600 %) Perl 7 2 (1.600 %) Transact-SQL 8 1 (0.800 %) VB 8 1 (0.800 %) VB.NET 8 1 (0.800 %) ABAP 8 1 (0.800 %) AWK 8 1 (0.800 %) Ruby 8 1 (0.800 %) Korn 8 1 (0.800 %) Tcl	Qualifications 1 12 (9.600 %) Degree 2 1 (0.800 %) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (3.200 %) QA	System Software 1 8 (6.400 %) AquaLogic 2 1 (0.800 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 4 (3.200 %) Tivoli 2 1 (0.800 %) AutoSys	Vendors 1 31 (24.80 %) Oracle 2 15 (12.00 %) BEA 3 8 (6.400 %) Adobe 4 7 (5.600 %) Microsoft 5 4 (3.200 %) Progress 6 3 (2.400 %) IBM 6 3 (2.400 %) Sybase 6 3 (2.400 %) Lotus 7 2 (1.600 %) TIBCO 7 2 (1.600 %) DataSynapse 7 2 (1.600 %) SAP 8 1 (0.800 %) Sun 8 1 (0.800 %) HP 8 1 (0.800 %) Business Objects 8 1 (0.800 %) Hyperion 8 1 (0.800 %) Infragistics 8 1 (0.800 %) Hummingbird 8 1 (0.800 %) Open Text