The first table below looks at the demand for Unit Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the East Sussex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Unit Testing 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 Processes & Methodologies category for the East Sussex 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
Unit Testing
Rank 28 - 25
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 3 0 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in East Sussex 1.282% - 2.030%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.724% - 3.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
Average daily rate £375 - £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £320
% change year-on-year
+7.69% +1.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.75 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -7.14%
All Processes & Methodologies
East Sussex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
174 220 132
As % of all contract IT jobs located in East Sussex 74.36% 68.75% 67.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 116 80
Average daily rate £375 £400 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £225 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £510 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 12 3
Average hourly rate £20.75 £21.75 £45.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.59% -51.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Unit Testing
South East

Unit Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Unit Testing across the East Sussex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

East Sussex 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 East Sussex region.

East Sussex 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 East Sussex region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

East Sussex Unit Testing Daily Rate Histogram

Unit Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unit Testing within the East Sussex region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Eastbourne - 2 £438 -
Unit Testing
South East

Unit Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Sussex 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 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) OO
2 3 (50.00%) C#
2 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (33.33%) Linux
3 2 (33.33%) CSS
3 2 (33.33%) XML
3 2 (33.33%) XSLT
3 2 (33.33%) UNIX
3 2 (33.33%) HTML
3 2 (33.33%) Java
3 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (33.33%) Perl
3 2 (33.33%) .NET
3 2 (33.33%) MySQL
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle
3 2 (33.33%) Apache
3 2 (33.33%) XQuery
3 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (33.33%) MVC
3 2 (33.33%) Subversion
3 2 (33.33%) XPath
3 2 (33.33%) SQLite
3 2 (33.33%) Mason
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Azure
3 2 (33.33%) BDD
3 2 (33.33%) Web Development
4 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
4 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (16.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework

Unit Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Sussex 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 (33.33%) CSS
1 2 (33.33%) XML
1 2 (33.33%) XSLT
1 2 (33.33%) HTML
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
1 2 (33.33%) Mason
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
2 1 (16.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (16.67%) LINQ to SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Task Parallel Library
2 1 (16.67%) WF
2 1 (16.67%) LINQ
2 1 (16.67%) ADO.NET
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Apache
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (33.33%) MySQL
2 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (33.33%) SQLite
3 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Subversion
2 1 (16.67%) SpecFlow
2 1 (16.67%) Moq
General
1 1 (16.67%) Publishing
1 1 (16.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) C# Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Perl Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Programme Test Manager
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Programme Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) PaaS
1 1 (16.67%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) UNIX
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) OO
2 2 (33.33%) MVC
2 2 (33.33%) BDD
2 2 (33.33%) Web Development
3 1 (16.67%) High Availability
3 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Multithreading
3 1 (16.67%) System Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Refactoring
3 1 (16.67%) Content Management
3 1 (16.67%) TDD
3 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce
3 1 (16.67%) SOA
3 1 (16.67%) UML
3 1 (16.67%) OOA/OOD
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) C#
3 2 (33.33%) Java
3 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (33.33%) Perl
3 2 (33.33%) XQuery
3 2 (33.33%) XPath
4 1 (16.67%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft