The first table below looks at the demand for Unit Testing 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 Unit Testing over the 3 months to 18 June 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 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Unit Testing
Rank 139 129 97
Rank change year-on-year
-10 -32
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 77 94 174
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 1.117% 1.219% 1.735%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.508% 1.689% 2.437%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 69 124
Average daily rate £425 £450 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.55% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £375 £366
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £575 £700
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
+6.06% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
Average hourly rate £59.00 £57.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.50% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.00 £33.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+0.74% -3.57%
All Processes & Methodologies
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
5107 5566 7140
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 74.07% 72.16% 71.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3861 4093 5266
Average daily rate £450 £475 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.26% -5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £310 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 86 120
Average hourly rate £31.25 £25.00 £26.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -3.84%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.00 £16.60 £14.73
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £125.00 £47.50 £55.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
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 City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London Unit Testing Daily Rate Trend

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

This 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 18 June 2013.

City of London Unit Testing Daily Rate Histogram

Unit Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Unit Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Unit Testing
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Unit Testing across the City of London region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

City of London Unit Testing Hourly Rate Histogram

Unit Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, 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 73 (41.01%) C#
2 72 (40.45%) .NET
3 65 (36.52%) Agile Software Development
4 53 (29.78%) SQL
5 51 (28.65%) Java
5 51 (28.65%) TDD
6 38 (21.35%) ASP.NET
6 38 (21.35%) CSS
7 35 (19.66%) E-Commerce
7 35 (19.66%) Scrum
8 34 (19.10%) HTML
9 33 (18.54%) SQL Server
9 33 (18.54%) Banking
10 32 (17.98%) jQuery
11 31 (17.42%) BDD
12 29 (16.29%) JavaScript
13 27 (15.17%) MVC
13 27 (15.17%) WCF
14 26 (14.61%) .NET Framework
14 26 (14.61%) OO
15 25 (14.04%) Continuous Integration
16 24 (13.48%) Front Office
16 24 (13.48%) Retail
17 23 (12.92%) J2EE
18 22 (12.36%) Microsoft
19 19 (10.67%) NUnit
19 19 (10.67%) HTML5
19 19 (10.67%) ASP.NET MVC
20 18 (10.11%) Investment Banking
21 17 (9.551%) Derivative

Unit Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, 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 72 (40.45%) .NET
2 38 (21.35%) ASP.NET
2 38 (21.35%) CSS
3 34 (19.10%) HTML
4 32 (17.98%) jQuery
5 27 (15.17%) WCF
6 26 (14.61%) .NET Framework
7 23 (12.92%) J2EE
8 19 (10.67%) ASP.NET MVC
8 19 (10.67%) HTML5
9 15 (8.427%) JSON
9 15 (8.427%) Web Services
10 13 (7.303%) XML
11 12 (6.742%) Ajax
11 12 (6.742%) WPF
11 12 (6.742%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
12 11 (6.180%) SOAP
13 9 (5.056%) XHTML
13 9 (5.056%) CSS3
14 7 (3.933%) Silverlight
Application Platforms
1 9 (5.056%) CMS
2 8 (4.494%) WebLogic
3 7 (3.933%) Apache
3 7 (3.933%) Drupal
3 7 (3.933%) SharePoint
4 6 (3.371%) Umbraco
4 6 (3.371%) Kentico
5 4 (2.247%) EPiServer CMS
5 4 (2.247%) Sitecore CMS
5 4 (2.247%) Magento
6 3 (1.685%) Sitefinity
6 3 (1.685%) SAS
6 3 (1.685%) SharePoint 2010
7 2 (1.124%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.562%) IIS
8 1 (0.562%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.562%) AquaLogic
8 1 (0.562%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.562%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.562%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 8 (4.494%) MS Excel
2 7 (3.933%) Photoshop
3 6 (3.371%) MS Office
4 3 (1.685%) Fireworks
5 2 (1.124%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.562%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.562%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.303%) HTTP
2 10 (5.618%) Internet
3 2 (1.124%) RTP
3 2 (1.124%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (18.54%) SQL Server
2 15 (8.427%) SQL Server 2008
3 10 (5.618%) MySQL
4 9 (5.056%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 8 (4.494%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (2.809%) DB2
6 5 (2.809%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.685%) Oracle 8/8i
7 3 (1.685%) SQL Server 2005
7 3 (1.685%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.685%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (1.685%) HBase
7 3 (1.685%) Big Data
8 2 (1.124%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (1.124%) Oracle BI EE
8 2 (1.124%) Essbase
8 2 (1.124%) Oracle OLAP
8 2 (1.124%) Oracle 11g
8 2 (1.124%) OLAP
8 2 (1.124%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (10.67%) NUnit
2 15 (8.427%) Subversion
2 15 (8.427%) Git (software)
3 12 (6.742%) Visual Studio
4 11 (6.180%) JUnit
5 9 (5.056%) JIRA
6 8 (4.494%) Maven
7 7 (3.933%) Selenium
8 6 (3.371%) Ant
9 5 (2.809%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (2.809%) Jenkins
10 4 (2.247%) VisualAge
10 4 (2.247%) Eclipse
10 4 (2.247%) Dreamweaver
11 3 (1.685%) QUnit
11 3 (1.685%) Jasmine
11 3 (1.685%) Rhino Mocks
12 2 (1.124%) Moq
12 2 (1.124%) TeamCity
12 2 (1.124%) MSTest
General
1 33 (18.54%) Banking
2 24 (13.48%) Retail
2 24 (13.48%) Front Office
3 18 (10.11%) Investment Banking
4 16 (8.989%) Finance
5 7 (3.933%) Marketing
6 5 (2.809%) Publishing
7 2 (1.124%) Back Office
8 1 (0.562%) Legal
8 1 (0.562%) Advertising
8 1 (0.562%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 141 (79.21%) Developer
2 31 (17.42%) .NET Developer
3 29 (16.29%) C# Developer
4 19 (10.67%) Java Developer
5 16 (8.989%) C# .NET Developer
6 14 (7.865%) Senior Developer
7 12 (6.742%) Lead Developer
8 11 (6.180%) Agile Java Developer
9 9 (5.056%) ASP.NET Developer
9 9 (5.056%) PHP Developer
10 7 (3.933%) Architect
11 6 (3.371%) Web Developer
12 5 (2.809%) Analyst
12 5 (2.809%) Consultant
12 5 (2.809%) SQL Developer
12 5 (2.809%) Software Engineer
12 5 (2.809%) Senior C# Developer
12 5 (2.809%) Drupal Developer
12 5 (2.809%) PHP Drupal Developer
13 4 (2.247%) Front-End Developer
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.551%) Derivative
2 11 (6.180%) Equity Derivative
3 7 (3.933%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 7 (3.933%) Computer Science
4 6 (3.371%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.809%) W3C
6 4 (2.247%) Blackberry
6 4 (2.247%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.247%) Open Source
7 3 (1.685%) Visualisation
7 3 (1.685%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.124%) N-Tier
8 2 (1.124%) iPhone
8 2 (1.124%) iSeries
8 2 (1.124%) Video on Demand
8 2 (1.124%) iPad
8 2 (1.124%) Equities
8 2 (1.124%) Reference Data
8 2 (1.124%) Market Risk
8 2 (1.124%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.180%) Windows
1 11 (6.180%) Linux
2 5 (2.809%) Android
2 5 (2.809%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.124%) UNIX
3 2 (1.124%) Windows 8
4 1 (0.562%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (0.562%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.562%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (36.52%) Agile Software Development
2 51 (28.65%) TDD
3 35 (19.66%) Scrum
3 35 (19.66%) E-Commerce
4 31 (17.42%) BDD
5 27 (15.17%) MVC
6 26 (14.61%) OO
7 25 (14.04%) Continuous Integration
8 16 (8.989%) Multithreading
9 14 (7.865%) Dependency Injection
10 13 (7.303%) User Acceptance Testing
10 13 (7.303%) Pair Programming
11 9 (5.056%) ETL
12 8 (4.494%) Business Intelligence
13 7 (3.933%) UML
13 7 (3.933%) Web Development
14 6 (3.371%) Data Modelling
14 6 (3.371%) OOD
15 5 (2.809%) Integration Testing
15 5 (2.809%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 73 (41.01%) C#
2 53 (29.78%) SQL
3 51 (28.65%) Java
4 29 (16.29%) JavaScript
5 14 (7.865%) T-SQL
6 10 (5.618%) PHP
7 9 (5.056%) C++
8 4 (2.247%) Perl
8 4 (2.247%) PL/SQL
8 4 (2.247%) Objective-C
9 3 (1.685%) VBA
9 3 (1.685%) F#
10 2 (1.124%) Ruby
10 2 (1.124%) PHP5
10 2 (1.124%) RPG IV
10 2 (1.124%) RPG
11 1 (0.562%) VB6
11 1 (0.562%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.562%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.562%) XAML
Qualifications
1 10 (5.618%) Degree
2 3 (1.685%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.124%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.562%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.494%) QA
2 5 (2.809%) WAI
3 1 (0.562%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.562%) SLA
3 1 (0.562%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (0.562%) RACF
Systems Management
1 1 (0.562%) Tivoli
1 1 (0.562%) Tivoli Identity Manager
1 1 (0.562%) Control-M
Vendors
1 22 (12.36%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.427%) hybris
3 14 (7.865%) Oracle
4 7 (3.933%) Informatica
4 7 (3.933%) ATG
5 6 (3.371%) Pega
6 5 (2.809%) IBM
7 4 (2.247%) Sitecore
7 4 (2.247%) Perforce
7 4 (2.247%) Zend
7 4 (2.247%) Atlassian
7 4 (2.247%) EPiServer
7 4 (2.247%) Apple
8 2 (1.124%) TIBCO
8 2 (1.124%) Sybase
8 2 (1.124%) JBoss
8 2 (1.124%) Siebel
8 2 (1.124%) Teradata
8 2 (1.124%) Cadis
9 1 (0.562%) Cordys
City of London
C# Developer with strong ASP.NET MVC skills required by my client, a top-tier Investment Ban to work for a highly technolgy focused team... Essential skills: - Very...
Real Staffing
Rate: £400 - £500 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
City, London
Hybris Developer with experience in Java required working on a large ecommerce implementation project based in London... Previous E-commerce and Retail markets/sector/project experience ideally with...
Salt
Rate: £400 - £550 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
City, London
Keywords: C#, .Net, C#.Net, ASP.Net, MVC, TDD, BDD, Agile, Scrum, SQL Server, SQL, contract, software development, London, City, City of London, Greater London... The software will...
Think IT Recruitment
Rate: £300 - £400 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
City of London
Our client a high profile government body is looking to recruit an experienced .NET Developer with experience of SharePoint to join an existing team responsible for Web Application...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £400.00 - £450.00 per day
Posted: 31 May 2013
City, London
My a client, a very well established name in the travel industry, has the requirement for several developers to undertake various new projects throughout 2013-most of which...
Parallel Consulting
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
City, London
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 13 June 2013