Unit Testing Contracts in Edinburgh

Unit Testing
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for Unit Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Unit Testing over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 58 72 92
Rank change year-on-year +14 +20 -17
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 13 40 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.60% 3.07% 1.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% 3.23% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 34 26
10th Percentile £452 £428 £436
25th Percentile £476 £458 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £483 £530
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% -8.82% +24.71%
75th Percentile £553 £507 £547
90th Percentile £586 £565 £575
Scotland median daily rate £486 £479 £500
% change year-on-year +1.46% -4.20% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £53.25
Median hourly rate - - £54.50
75th Percentile - - £55.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate - £59.03 £56.00
% change year-on-year - +5.41% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Unit Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 720 1,240 1,828
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 88.34% 95.17% 93.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 421 884 1,254
10th Percentile £228 £254 £257
25th Percentile £413 £406 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.68% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £568
90th Percentile £675 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £465
% change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 11 17
10th Percentile £15.10 £13.16 £14.84
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.72 £17.50
Median hourly rate £22.87 £21.26 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.57% -46.85% -26.57%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile - £54.50 £53.97
Scotland median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £40.00
% change year-on-year +9.11% -55.69% -0.01%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Unit Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in Edinburgh

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in Edinburgh

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in Edinburgh

Unit Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Unit Testing in Edinburgh

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) Apache
1 2 (15.38%) Confluence
1 2 (15.38%) JBoss
1 2 (15.38%) Tomcat
1 2 (15.38%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) AWS
2 6 (46.15%) Amazon S3
2 6 (46.15%) AWS CloudFormation
2 6 (46.15%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (46.15%) Serverless
3 4 (30.77%) OpenShift
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (15.38%) OCI
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (7.69%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (7.69%) Azure
5 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (38.46%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (30.77%) Oracle Database
4 2 (15.38%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (7.69%) GIS
5 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
5 1 (7.69%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Cypress.io
1 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
1 3 (23.08%) JIRA
2 2 (15.38%) JUnit
2 2 (15.38%) Maven
2 2 (15.38%) Subversion
3 1 (7.69%) GitLab
General
1 11 (84.62%) Public Sector
2 3 (23.08%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Developer
2 5 (38.46%) Full Stack Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Full Stack Java Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Java Developer
3 2 (15.38%) UAT Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Leader
4 1 (7.69%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) AWS CDK
1 6 (46.15%) CSS
1 6 (46.15%) HTML
1 6 (46.15%) React
2 4 (30.77%) REST
2 4 (30.77%) Spring
3 2 (15.38%) Hibernate
3 2 (15.38%) Java EE
3 2 (15.38%) JPA
3 2 (15.38%) JSP
3 2 (15.38%) JSTL
3 2 (15.38%) Node.js
3 2 (15.38%) OAuth
3 2 (15.38%) Servlets
3 2 (15.38%) Spring MVC
3 2 (15.38%) Spring Security
3 2 (15.38%) Spring Web Flow
3 2 (15.38%) STL
3 2 (15.38%) XML
3 2 (15.38%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (15.38%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Unix
2 1 (7.69%) AIX
2 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Agile
2 8 (61.54%) Test Automation
3 6 (46.15%) Human-Centred Design
3 6 (46.15%) Inclusive Design
3 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (46.15%) Microservices
4 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
4 5 (38.46%) DevOps
4 5 (38.46%) Full Stack Development
5 4 (30.77%) Analytics
5 4 (30.77%) Architecture Roadmap
5 4 (30.77%) Code Quality
5 4 (30.77%) Product Roadmap
5 4 (30.77%) Roadmaps
5 4 (30.77%) User Experience
6 3 (23.08%) Code Coverage
6 3 (23.08%) Defect Management
6 3 (23.08%) Housing Management
6 3 (23.08%) Pair Programming
6 3 (23.08%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) Java
2 6 (46.15%) JavaScript
3 5 (38.46%) Python
3 5 (38.46%) TypeScript
4 3 (23.08%) SQL
5 2 (15.38%) Bash
5 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (46.15%) Accessibility
1 6 (46.15%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (7.69%) GDPR
2 1 (7.69%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Oracle
2 2 (15.38%) Blue Prism
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) VMware