East of England Unit Testing Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Unit Testing skills within the East of England 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Basingstoke Batley Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bolton Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Channel Islands City of London County Antrim Croydon Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Guildford Halifax Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire Huddersfield Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	122	109
Rank change on same period last year	-13
Matching contract IT job ads	25	44
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.033 %	0.045 %
As % of the category below	1.133 %	1.891 %
Daily rates quoted	7	12
Average minimum daily rate	£361	£319
Average daily rate	£383	£342
% change on same period last year	+12.10 %
Average maximum daily rate	£404	£364
UK excluding London average daily rate	£364	£354
% change on same period last year	+2.95 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.75	£43.13
Average hourly rate	£27.38	£44.50
% change on same period last year	-38.48 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.00	£45.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£37.12	£38.14
% change on same period last year	-2.68 %
Processes & Methodologies East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	2207	2327
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.942 %	2.354 %
Daily rates quoted	810	817
Average minimum daily rate	£375	£362
Average daily rate	£399	£383
% change on same period last year	+4.14 %
Average maximum daily rate	£422	£403
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	209	236
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.47	£28.76
Average hourly rate	£30.60	£30.20
% change on same period last year	+1.32 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.74	£31.65
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
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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 East of England 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 East of England 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 East of England region over the 3 months to 25 July 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 East of England region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Unit Testing across the East of England region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unit Testing within the East of England region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Cambridgeshire	-3	9	-	-
Essex	+3	6	£408	-15.68 %
Norfolk	-	4	-	-
East Anglia	-	3	£350	-
Hertfordshire	-12	3	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 27 (55.10 %) J2EE 1 27 (55.10 %) Java 2 24 (48.98 %) WebSphere 3 22 (44.90 %) SQL 3 22 (44.90 %) XML 4 17 (34.69 %) Struts 5 16 (32.65 %) UML 5 16 (32.65 %) OO 5 16 (32.65 %) N-Tier 6 13 (26.53 %) ILOG 6 13 (26.53 %) JRules 7 12 (24.49 %) Agile Software Development 7 12 (24.49 %) WebServices 7 12 (24.49 %) C# 8 11 (22.45 %) .NET

9 10 (20.41 %) XSLT 9 10 (20.41 %) Oracle 9 10 (20.41 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 10 9 (18.37 %) HTML 10 9 (18.37 %) CSS 11 8 (16.33 %) SQL Server 11 8 (16.33 %) OOD 11 8 (16.33 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 12 7 (14.29 %) NUnit 12 7 (14.29 %) WPF 12 7 (14.29 %) JSP 12 7 (14.29 %) UNIX 13 6 (12.24 %) Business Objects 13 6 (12.24 %) C++ 13 6 (12.24 %) EAI

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 27 (55.10 %) J2EE 2 24 (48.98 %) WebSphere 3 22 (44.90 %) XML 4 17 (34.69 %) Struts 5 13 (26.53 %) JRules 6 12 (24.49 %) WebServices 7 11 (22.45 %) .NET 8 10 (20.41 %) XSLT 9 9 (18.37 %) HTML 9 9 (18.37 %) CSS 10 7 (14.29 %) JSP 10 7 (14.29 %) WPF 11 5 (10.20 %) .NET Framework 11 5 (10.20 %) SOAP 11 5 (10.20 %) ASP.NET 12 4 (8.163 %) MVC 13 3 (6.122 %) XSD 13 3 (6.122 %) XSL 13 3 (6.122 %) EJB 14 2 (4.082 %) JMS	Application Platforms 1 6 (12.24 %) WPS
Applications 1 1 (2.041 %) MS Excel 1 1 (2.041 %) Doxygen	Business Applications 1 2 (4.082 %) SAP Retail 2 1 (2.041 %) SAP MM
Communications & Networking 1 5 (10.20 %) HTTP 2 3 (6.122 %) DSL 3 1 (2.041 %) TETRA 3 1 (2.041 %) CTI 3 1 (2.041 %) Internet 3 1 (2.041 %) VoIP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (16.33 %) SQL Server 2 6 (12.24 %) BusinessObjects 3 3 (6.122 %) SQL Server 2005 4 2 (4.082 %) BODI 4 2 (4.082 %) ETL 5 1 (2.041 %) SAP BW 5 1 (2.041 %) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications 1 8 (16.33 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 2 7 (14.29 %) NUnit 3 4 (8.163 %) Visual Studio 4 1 (2.041 %) Flash 4 1 (2.041 %) Eclipse 4 1 (2.041 %) Selenium 4 1 (2.041 %) Firebug 4 1 (2.041 %) JUnit	General 1 3 (6.122 %) Retail 2 2 (4.082 %) Government 3 1 (2.041 %) Electronics 3 1 (2.041 %) Finance 3 1 (2.041 %) Automotive
Job Titles 1 41 (83.67 %) Developer 2 8 (16.33 %) C# Developer 3 6 (12.24 %) Java Developer 3 6 (12.24 %) .NET Developer 4 5 (10.20 %) J2EE Developer 4 5 (10.20 %) WebSphere Developer 5 4 (8.163 %) Software Developer 6 3 (6.122 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 3 (6.122 %) C++ Developer 6 3 (6.122 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 7 2 (4.082 %) SAP Retail Consultant 7 2 (4.082 %) C# Application Developer 7 2 (4.082 %) .NET Applications Developer 7 2 (4.082 %) C# Web Developer 7 2 (4.082 %) WinForms Developer 7 2 (4.082 %) Web Applications Developer 7 2 (4.082 %) C++ Software Developer 7 2 (4.082 %) .NET Web Developer 7 2 (4.082 %) Senior J2EE Developer 7 2 (4.082 %) SAP MM Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 16 (32.65 %) N-Tier 2 1 (2.041 %) Firmware 2 1 (2.041 %) Computer Science
Operating Systems 1 7 (14.29 %) UNIX 2 3 (6.122 %) Linux 3 1 (2.041 %) Embedded Linux 3 1 (2.041 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 16 (32.65 %) OO 1 16 (32.65 %) UML 2 12 (24.49 %) Agile Software Development 3 8 (16.33 %) OOD 4 6 (12.24 %) RAD 4 6 (12.24 %) EAI 5 4 (8.163 %) Web Development 6 3 (6.122 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 3 (6.122 %) Scrum 7 2 (4.082 %) Software Engineering 7 2 (4.082 %) Enterprise Architecture 7 2 (4.082 %) RUP 7 2 (4.082 %) DSDM 8 1 (2.041 %) CRM 8 1 (2.041 %) E-Commerce 8 1 (2.041 %) Regression Testing 8 1 (2.041 %) Migration 8 1 (2.041 %) OOP 8 1 (2.041 %) Web Testing 8 1 (2.041 %) Test Scripting
Programming Languages 1 27 (55.10 %) Java 2 22 (44.90 %) SQL 3 12 (24.49 %) C# 4 6 (12.24 %) C++ 5 5 (10.20 %) DHTML 5 5 (10.20 %) Transact-SQL 6 4 (8.163 %) JavaScript 6 4 (8.163 %) C 7 3 (6.122 %) VB6 7 3 (6.122 %) VB 7 3 (6.122 %) VB.NET 8 2 (4.082 %) Embedded C 9 1 (2.041 %) Embedded C++	Qualifications 1 1 (2.041 %) ISEB 1 1 (2.041 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 10 (20.41 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 1 (2.041 %) QA	Vendors 1 13 (26.53 %) ILOG 2 10 (20.41 %) Oracle 3 6 (12.24 %) Business Objects 4 2 (4.082 %) SAP 4 2 (4.082 %) IBM 5 1 (2.041 %) Microsoft 5 1 (2.041 %) Sybase