The first table below looks at the demand for JUnit skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JUnit over the 3 months to 20 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 Development Applications category for the England 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
JUnit
Rank 212 271 171
Rank change year-on-year
+59 -100
Contract jobs citing JUnit 374 334 626
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.897% 0.626% 1.129%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.088% 6.620% 10.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 223 382
Average daily rate £425 £438 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.85% -7.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £320 £308 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £358 £338 £373
% change year-on-year
+5.92% -9.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 27
Average hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.50% +14.28%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +14.28%
All Development Applications
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
4624 5045 5913
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 11.09% 9.451% 10.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2957 3060 3399
Average daily rate £400 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £270 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £585
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 200 314
Average hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.16% +2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.50 £23.88 £24.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
JUnit
UK

JUnit
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing JUnit across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

England JUnit Jobs Demand Trend

JUnit
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing JUnit across the England region.

England JUnit Daily Rate Trend

JUnit
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JUnit across the England region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

England JUnit Daily Rate Histogram

JUnit
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing JUnit across the England region.

England JUnit Hourly Rate Trend

JUnit
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JUnit within the England region over the 3 months to 20 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
London +56 263 £450 -10.00%
South East +20 73 £350 -
East Midlands +5 11 £320 -8.57%
North West +15 7 £375 +15.38%
South West +11 6 £320 +2.40%
East of England +12 5 £400 +6.66%
Yorkshire -5 4 £352 -12.06%
South Coast - 3 - -
North East +14 1 £375 +11.94%
JUnit
UK

JUnit
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing JUnit 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 JUnit.

1 680 (92.77%) Java
2 369 (50.34%) Spring
3 287 (39.15%) JavaScript
4 277 (37.79%) Maven
5 273 (37.24%) HTML
6 268 (36.56%) J2EE
6 268 (36.56%) TDD
7 266 (36.29%) SQL
8 251 (34.24%) Hibernate
9 241 (32.88%) Agile Software Development
10 233 (31.79%) Web Services
11 226 (30.83%) XML
11 226 (30.83%) CSS
12 195 (26.60%) Oracle
12 195 (26.60%) Subversion
13 192 (26.19%) Continuous Integration
14 188 (25.65%) JMS
15 187 (25.51%) OO
16 182 (24.83%) JSP
17 175 (23.87%) Finance
18 164 (22.37%) MVC
19 160 (21.83%) EJB
20 159 (21.69%) BDD
21 158 (21.56%) Linux
22 154 (21.01%) Selenium
23 151 (20.60%) Ant
23 151 (20.60%) Eclipse
24 150 (20.46%) Tomcat
25 148 (20.19%) E-Commerce
26 147 (20.05%) jQuery

JUnit
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing JUnit 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 JUnit. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 369 (50.34%) Spring
2 273 (37.24%) HTML
3 268 (36.56%) J2EE
4 251 (34.24%) Hibernate
5 233 (31.79%) Web Services
6 226 (30.83%) XML
6 226 (30.83%) CSS
7 188 (25.65%) JMS
8 182 (24.83%) JSP
9 160 (21.83%) EJB
10 147 (20.05%) jQuery
11 140 (19.10%) Java EE
12 139 (18.96%) REST
13 131 (17.87%) SOAP
14 121 (16.51%) JSON
15 120 (16.37%) Spring MVC
16 113 (15.42%) Ajax
17 100 (13.64%) JPA
18 94 (12.82%) Struts
19 91 (12.41%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 150 (20.46%) Tomcat
2 87 (11.87%) Apache
3 63 (8.595%) WebLogic
4 43 (5.866%) CMS
5 34 (4.638%) ESB
6 27 (3.683%) WebSphere Application Server
7 26 (3.547%) Adobe CQ
8 17 (2.319%) GlassFish
8 17 (2.319%) Confluence
9 16 (2.183%) BizTalk Server
10 15 (2.046%) MQSeries
11 13 (1.774%) Alfresco
11 13 (1.774%) Mule
12 11 (1.501%) ActiveMQ
13 10 (1.364%) Jetty
13 10 (1.364%) IIS
14 9 (1.228%) TIBCO EMS
15 7 (0.955%) Liferay
15 7 (0.955%) SharePoint
15 7 (0.955%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 20 (2.729%) MS Excel
2 12 (1.637%) Mingle
3 7 (0.955%) Photoshop
4 4 (0.546%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.273%) Doxygen
5 2 (0.273%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 14 (1.910%) Tridion
2 7 (0.955%) Oracle BPM
3 4 (0.546%) BusinessWorks
3 4 (0.546%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 2 (0.273%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.136%) BASE24
Communications & Networking
1 46 (6.276%) Internet
2 20 (2.729%) HTTP
3 7 (0.955%) LDAP
4 5 (0.682%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.409%) TELNET
5 3 (0.409%) NFC
5 3 (0.409%) SNMP
6 2 (0.273%) SMS
6 2 (0.273%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (0.273%) Intranet
6 2 (0.273%) Extranet
7 1 (0.136%) DNS
7 1 (0.136%) SSL
7 1 (0.136%) WAN
7 1 (0.136%) CDMA
7 1 (0.136%) GSM
7 1 (0.136%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (14.73%) SQL Server
2 54 (7.367%) RDBMS
3 51 (6.958%) MySQL
4 50 (6.821%) DB2
5 38 (5.184%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 36 (4.911%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 32 (4.366%) NoSQL
8 19 (2.592%) Big Data
9 17 (2.319%) MongoDB
10 15 (2.046%) Oracle 11g
10 15 (2.046%) SQLite
11 12 (1.637%) Oracle Reports
12 10 (1.364%) Hadoop
13 9 (1.228%) MarkLogic
14 8 (1.091%) Apache Cassandra
14 8 (1.091%) PostgreSQL
15 7 (0.955%) Redis
15 7 (0.955%) BusinessObjects XI
16 6 (0.819%) Oracle 8/8i
16 6 (0.819%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 277 (37.79%) Maven
2 195 (26.60%) Subversion
3 154 (21.01%) Selenium
4 151 (20.60%) Ant
4 151 (20.60%) Eclipse
5 116 (15.83%) Git (software)
6 114 (15.55%) Mockito
7 101 (13.78%) Jenkins
8 94 (12.82%) Hudson
9 76 (10.37%) JIRA
10 69 (9.413%) Cucumber
11 57 (7.776%) WebDriver
12 53 (7.231%) TeamCity
13 45 (6.139%) jMock
14 44 (6.003%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 41 (5.593%) TestNG
15 41 (5.593%) JBehave
16 39 (5.321%) CruiseControl
17 36 (4.911%) EasyMock
18 25 (3.411%) Log4j
General
1 175 (23.87%) Finance
2 144 (19.65%) Banking
3 78 (10.64%) Investment Banking
4 56 (7.640%) Retail
5 34 (4.638%) Front Office
6 23 (3.138%) Publishing
7 20 (2.729%) Games
7 20 (2.729%) Financial Institution
8 13 (1.774%) Telecoms
9 7 (0.955%) Manufacturing
9 7 (0.955%) Retail Banking
10 6 (0.819%) Marketing
11 5 (0.682%) Back Office
12 4 (0.546%) Electronics
13 2 (0.273%) Advertising
13 2 (0.273%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.273%) Billing
14 1 (0.136%) Wholesale Banking
14 1 (0.136%) Automotive
14 1 (0.136%) Online Betting
Job Titles
1 573 (78.17%) Developer
2 410 (55.93%) Java Developer
3 79 (10.78%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 74 (10.10%) Senior Developer
5 55 (7.503%) Senior Java Developer
6 50 (6.821%) J2EE Developer
7 43 (5.866%) Architect
8 29 (3.956%) WebSphere Developer
8 29 (3.956%) Agile Java Developer
9 27 (3.683%) Technical Leader
10 24 (3.274%) Analyst
10 24 (3.274%) Programmer
11 23 (3.138%) Web Developer
12 21 (2.865%) Tester
13 20 (2.729%) Consultant
14 18 (2.456%) Java Programmer
15 16 (2.183%) Java Swing Developer
15 16 (2.183%) Front-End Developer
16 15 (2.046%) Test Analyst
16 15 (2.046%) Lead Developer
Miscellaneous
1 58 (7.913%) Open Source
2 44 (6.003%) Computer Science
3 42 (5.730%) Derivative
4 35 (4.775%) Enterprise Software
5 29 (3.956%) Mobile App
6 22 (3.001%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 18 (2.456%) Web 2.0
8 17 (2.319%) Fixed Income
9 15 (2.046%) Blackberry
10 13 (1.774%) Equities
11 11 (1.501%) Equity Derivative
11 11 (1.501%) Credit Risk
11 11 (1.501%) Kindle
12 10 (1.364%) iPhone
12 10 (1.364%) Wiki
13 9 (1.228%) W3C
13 9 (1.228%) Mobile Banking
14 8 (1.091%) Market Risk
15 7 (0.955%) Mathematics
16 6 (0.819%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 158 (21.56%) Linux
2 105 (14.32%) UNIX
3 53 (7.231%) Windows
4 26 (3.547%) Apple iOS
5 21 (2.865%) Solaris
6 20 (2.729%) Android
7 14 (1.910%) HPUX
8 6 (0.819%) Windows Mobile
9 2 (0.273%) AIX
9 2 (0.273%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.136%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 268 (36.56%) TDD
2 241 (32.88%) Agile Software Development
3 192 (26.19%) Continuous Integration
4 187 (25.51%) OO
5 164 (22.37%) MVC
6 159 (21.69%) BDD
7 148 (20.19%) E-Commerce
8 142 (19.37%) UML
9 128 (17.46%) Scrum
10 91 (12.41%) Multithreading
11 82 (11.19%) Unit Testing
12 74 (10.10%) SOA
13 73 (9.959%) Pair Programming
14 69 (9.413%) OOD
15 65 (8.868%) Web Development
16 49 (6.685%) Content Management
16 49 (6.685%) Software Architecture
17 47 (6.412%) RAD
18 46 (6.276%) Test Automation
19 39 (5.321%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 680 (92.77%) Java
2 287 (39.15%) JavaScript
3 266 (36.29%) SQL
4 43 (5.866%) Bash shell
5 42 (5.730%) Groovy
6 32 (4.366%) Perl
7 31 (4.229%) PL/SQL
8 30 (4.093%) Shell Script
9 28 (3.820%) Ruby
10 27 (3.683%) Scala
10 27 (3.683%) XPath
10 27 (3.683%) C#
11 21 (2.865%) C++
12 20 (2.729%) Python
13 15 (2.046%) Korn
14 13 (1.774%) C
15 11 (1.501%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.819%) VB
16 6 (0.819%) PHP
17 5 (0.682%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 65 (8.868%) Degree
2 19 (2.592%) Security Cleared
3 11 (1.501%) Sun Certification
4 10 (1.364%) DV Cleared
5 9 (1.228%) SC Cleared
6 5 (0.682%) ISEB
7 4 (0.546%) ISTQB
7 4 (0.546%) BC Cleared
8 2 (0.273%) SCJA
8 2 (0.273%) SCJP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (8.186%) QA
2 13 (1.774%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.091%) WAI
4 4 (0.546%) Basel III
4 4 (0.546%) Basel II
5 3 (0.409%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.136%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.136%) ISO 8583
6 1 (0.136%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.136%) ISO/IEC 14443
6 1 (0.136%) ISO/IEC 7816
System Software
1 3 (0.409%) vSphere
1 3 (0.409%) vCloud
2 2 (0.273%) ClearTrust
2 2 (0.273%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.136%) Shibboleth
3 1 (0.136%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (1.910%) BladeLogic
2 9 (1.228%) HP Quality Center
3 6 (0.819%) Nagios
4 5 (0.682%) MOM
4 5 (0.682%) Puppet
5 2 (0.273%) SCOM
6 1 (0.136%) Business Desktop Deployment
Vendors
1 195 (26.60%) Oracle
2 92 (12.55%) JBoss
3 85 (11.60%) IBM
4 42 (5.730%) hybris
5 30 (4.093%) Adobe
6 22 (3.001%) HP
6 22 (3.001%) Sybase
6 22 (3.001%) Perforce
6 22 (3.001%) Google
7 20 (2.729%) ATG
8 18 (2.456%) TIBCO
9 14 (1.910%) Blue Martini
9 14 (1.910%) Interwoven
9 14 (1.910%) Elastic Path
10 13 (1.774%) Twitter
11 11 (1.501%) Sun
11 11 (1.501%) Endeca
12 10 (1.364%) Intershop
12 10 (1.364%) Sony
13 9 (1.228%) SAP
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