England Unit Testing Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Unit Testing skills within the 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 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London Crawley Croydon Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Exeter Fareham Farnham Guildford Halifax Hampshire Havant Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidstone Merseyside Middlesex Newbury Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Trowbridge Twickenham UK Wales Warrington Waterlooville West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	270	248
Rank change on same period last year	-22
Matching contract IT job ads	298	550
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.469 %	0.589 %
As % of the category below	0.935 %	1.255 %
Daily rates quoted	107	182
Average minimum daily rate	£342	£349
Average daily rate	£367	£370
% change on same period last year	-0.70 %
Average maximum daily rate	£392	£391
UK excluding London average daily rate	£339	£344
% change on same period last year	-1.66 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	32
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.00	£33.07
Average hourly rate	£36.22	£36.27
% change on same period last year	-0.11 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£39.45	£39.46
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£36.03	£36.04
% change on same period last year	-0.03 %
Processes & Methodologies England
Matching contract IT job ads	31879	43836
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	50.21 %	46.97 %
Daily rates quoted	11260	14678
Average minimum daily rate	£381	£387
Average daily rate	£408	£411
% change on same period last year	-0.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£435	£435
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£370
% change on same period last year	+2.76 %
Hourly rates quoted	2391	3052
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.71	£28.91
Average hourly rate	£28.42	£30.69
% change on same period last year	-7.40 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.13	£32.48
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.17	£29.91
% change on same period last year	-5.80 %
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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 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 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 England region over the 3 months to 21 November 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 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 England region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

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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 England region over the 3 months to 21 November 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
London	+26	136	£398	-3.53 %
South East	+40	80	£324	-1.61 %
South West	-46	22	£416	+20.50 %
North West	-1	17	£350	-4.54 %
East of England	+9	13	£263	-22.68 %
West Midlands	+9	13	£294	-24.09 %
Yorkshire	+1	10	-	-
East Midlands	+1	5	-	-
South Coast	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the 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.

1 270 (35.48 %) Java 2 207 (27.20 %) SQL 3 196 (25.76 %) .NET 4 179 (23.52 %) SQL Server 4 179 (23.52 %) C# 5 172 (22.60 %) XML 6 153 (20.11 %) Oracle 7 128 (16.82 %) Banking 8 120 (15.77 %) OO 9 117 (15.37 %) J2EE 10 110 (14.45 %) JUnit 10 110 (14.45 %) Windows 11 106 (13.93 %) ASP.NET 12 100 (13.14 %) WebServices 13 99 (13.01 %) Investment Banking

14 98 (12.88 %) Finance 15 95 (12.48 %) UML 16 90 (11.83 %) Agile Software Development 17 88 (11.56 %) JavaScript 18 87 (11.43 %) HTML 19 82 (10.78 %) UNIX 20 81 (10.64 %) C++ 21 76 (9.987 %) TDD 22 74 (9.724 %) Integration Testing 22 74 (9.724 %) Security Cleared 23 73 (9.593 %) Ant 24 72 (9.461 %) Microsoft 24 72 (9.461 %) SQL Server 2005 25 71 (9.330 %) Linux 26 63 (8.279 %) CSS

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the 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 1 196 (25.76 %) .NET 2 172 (22.60 %) XML 3 117 (15.37 %) J2EE 4 106 (13.93 %) ASP.NET 5 100 (13.14 %) WebServices 6 87 (11.43 %) HTML 7 63 (8.279 %) CSS 8 50 (6.570 %) Spring 9 48 (6.307 %) Hibernate 10 45 (5.913 %) Adobe Flex 11 44 (5.782 %) XSLT 12 41 (5.388 %) MVC 13 38 (4.993 %) .NET Framework 14 35 (4.599 %) JSP 14 35 (4.599 %) Struts 15 34 (4.468 %) AJAX 16 32 (4.205 %) WebSphere 17 31 (4.074 %) WPF 17 31 (4.074 %) SOAP 18 29 (3.811 %) WinForms	Application Platforms 1 33 (4.336 %) Apache 2 32 (4.205 %) Tomcat 3 27 (3.548 %) WebLogic 4 19 (2.497 %) CMS 5 15 (1.971 %) IIS 6 14 (1.840 %) WebSphere Application Server 7 10 (1.314 %) BizTalk Server 8 9 (1.183 %) ColdFusion 8 9 (1.183 %) Oracle Application Server 9 7 (0.920 %) ESB 9 7 (0.920 %) SharePoint 10 6 (0.788 %) JBoss 10 6 (0.788 %) WebSphere MQ 11 5 (0.657 %) SharePoint Server 2007 11 5 (0.657 %) Lotus Notes 11 5 (0.657 %) MS Exchange 11 5 (0.657 %) Exchange Server 2007 11 5 (0.657 %) Exchange Server 2003 12 4 (0.526 %) NetWeaver 12 4 (0.526 %) Lotus Domino
Applications 1 25 (3.285 %) MS Excel 2 12 (1.577 %) Photoshop 3 5 (0.657 %) MS Project 4 4 (0.526 %) MS Office 4 4 (0.526 %) MS Visio 5 3 (0.394 %) Quicktime 6 1 (0.131 %) Fireworks 6 1 (0.131 %) Maya 6 1 (0.131 %) 3ds Max 6 1 (0.131 %) InfoPath 6 1 (0.131 %) Open Workbench	Business Applications 1 6 (0.788 %) Oracle EBS 2 4 (0.526 %) SAP FI/CO 2 4 (0.526 %) Summit 2 4 (0.526 %) SAP CO 2 4 (0.526 %) SAP FI 3 3 (0.394 %) Loan IQ 3 3 (0.394 %) Global One 3 3 (0.394 %) SAP R/3 4 2 (0.263 %) Oracle Financials 4 2 (0.263 %) ADP Wilco Gloss 4 2 (0.263 %) SageBI 4 2 (0.263 %) SAP FS 5 1 (0.131 %) Oracle Applications 5 1 (0.131 %) Kondor+
Communications & Networking 1 21 (2.760 %) Internet 2 6 (0.788 %) SSL 3 4 (0.526 %) SMS 4 3 (0.394 %) Intranet 4 3 (0.394 %) HTTP 4 3 (0.394 %) TCP/IP 5 2 (0.263 %) DNS 5 2 (0.263 %) DSL 5 2 (0.263 %) SS7 5 2 (0.263 %) 3GPP 5 2 (0.263 %) LDAP 5 2 (0.263 %) CDMA 5 2 (0.263 %) GSM 5 2 (0.263 %) 3G 5 2 (0.263 %) FTP 5 2 (0.263 %) ISUP 5 2 (0.263 %) Wireless 5 2 (0.263 %) 2G 5 2 (0.263 %) TETRA 6 1 (0.131 %) SSH	Database & Business Intelligence 1 179 (23.52 %) SQL Server 2 72 (9.461 %) SQL Server 2005 3 47 (6.176 %) SQL Server 2000 4 28 (3.679 %) Oracle 10g 5 18 (2.365 %) Oracle 9i 6 17 (2.234 %) MySQL 6 17 (2.234 %) BusinessObjects 7 15 (1.971 %) RDBMS 8 14 (1.840 %) SQL Server Integration Services 9 11 (1.445 %) Oracle 8/8i 10 10 (1.314 %) Datawarehouse 11 9 (1.183 %) DB2 11 9 (1.183 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 12 8 (1.051 %) PostgreSQL 12 8 (1.051 %) OLTP 13 7 (0.920 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 13 7 (0.920 %) Oracle Reports 14 6 (0.788 %) DTS 15 5 (0.657 %) ETL 15 5 (0.657 %) Crystal Reports
Development Applications 1 110 (14.45 %) JUnit 2 73 (9.593 %) Ant 3 51 (6.702 %) Visual Studio 4 42 (5.519 %) Subversion 5 41 (5.388 %) Eclipse 6 37 (4.862 %) NUnit 7 24 (3.154 %) VSS/SourceSafe 8 21 (2.760 %) ClearCase 9 18 (2.365 %) CruiseControl 10 11 (1.445 %) QuickTest Pro 11 10 (1.314 %) Oracle Forms 11 10 (1.314 %) Flash 12 7 (0.920 %) JDeveloper 12 7 (0.920 %) ClearQuest 13 6 (0.788 %) LoadRunner 13 6 (0.788 %) PowerBuilder 13 6 (0.788 %) Rational Rose 14 5 (0.657 %) PVCS 14 5 (0.657 %) ARTiSAN 15 4 (0.526 %) TestDirector	General 1 128 (16.82 %) Banking 2 99 (13.01 %) Investment Banking 3 98 (12.88 %) Finance 4 46 (6.045 %) Government 5 27 (3.548 %) Front Office 6 26 (3.417 %) Insurance 7 21 (2.760 %) Telecoms 8 15 (1.971 %) Retail 8 15 (1.971 %) Construction 9 14 (1.840 %) Games 10 10 (1.314 %) Military 11 9 (1.183 %) Publishing 11 9 (1.183 %) Multimedia 12 8 (1.051 %) Education 13 7 (0.920 %) Back Office 14 6 (0.788 %) Avionics 15 5 (0.657 %) Graphic Design 15 5 (0.657 %) Aerospace 15 5 (0.657 %) Health 16 4 (0.526 %) Legal
Job Titles 1 472 (62.02 %) Developer 2 98 (12.88 %) Java Developer 3 85 (11.17 %) .NET Developer 4 79 (10.38 %) C# Developer 5 74 (9.724 %) Analyst 6 50 (6.570 %) Senior Developer 7 41 (5.388 %) Software Engineer 8 38 (4.993 %) Web Developer 9 35 (4.599 %) Flex Developer 10 33 (4.336 %) Consultant 10 33 (4.336 %) Programmer 11 29 (3.811 %) Tester 11 29 (3.811 %) C++ Developer 11 29 (3.811 %) ASP.NET Developer 12 27 (3.548 %) SQL Developer 13 25 (3.285 %) Test Analyst 14 24 (3.154 %) Analyst Programmer 14 24 (3.154 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 15 22 (2.891 %) J2EE Developer 16 20 (2.628 %) Oracle Developer	Miscellaneous 1 33 (4.336 %) Computer Science 2 30 (3.942 %) RIA 3 27 (3.548 %) Derivative 4 21 (2.760 %) N-Tier 5 18 (2.365 %) Multithreading 6 17 (2.234 %) Fixed Income 7 11 (1.445 %) Mathematics 7 11 (1.445 %) Biometrics 8 10 (1.314 %) DTV 8 10 (1.314 %) Client/Server 9 9 (1.183 %) Equities 10 8 (1.051 %) Grid Computing 10 8 (1.051 %) STB 10 8 (1.051 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 11 7 (0.920 %) W3C 11 7 (0.920 %) Credit Risk 12 6 (0.788 %) Credit Derivative 13 5 (0.657 %) VAX 13 5 (0.657 %) Data Conversion 14 4 (0.526 %) iSeries
Operating Systems 1 110 (14.45 %) Windows 2 82 (10.78 %) UNIX 3 71 (9.330 %) Linux 4 12 (1.577 %) Solaris 5 11 (1.445 %) VMS 6 9 (1.183 %) Mac OS X 6 9 (1.183 %) Windows Server 2003 7 7 (0.920 %) Windows XP 7 7 (0.920 %) Red Hat Linux 8 6 (0.788 %) MVS 9 4 (0.526 %) OpenVMS 10 3 (0.394 %) VxWorks 11 2 (0.263 %) Windows NT 12 1 (0.131 %) Windows 2000 12 1 (0.131 %) AIX 12 1 (0.131 %) Embedded Linux 12 1 (0.131 %) Windows Vista	Processes & Methodologies 1 120 (15.77 %) OO 2 95 (12.48 %) UML 3 90 (11.83 %) Agile Software Development 4 76 (9.987 %) TDD 5 74 (9.724 %) Integration Testing 5 74 (9.724 %) Security Cleared 6 54 (7.096 %) User Acceptance Testing 7 49 (6.439 %) SC Cleared 8 47 (6.176 %) Configuration Management 9 41 (5.388 %) System Testing 10 39 (5.125 %) Continuous Integration 11 38 (4.993 %) Test Scripting 12 33 (4.336 %) SOA 13 32 (4.205 %) Scrum 14 27 (3.548 %) Web Development 15 25 (3.285 %) OOD 16 24 (3.154 %) Performance Testing 17 23 (3.022 %) Regression Testing 18 21 (2.760 %) E-Commerce 18 21 (2.760 %) OOP
Programming Languages 1 270 (35.48 %) Java 2 207 (27.20 %) SQL 3 179 (23.52 %) C# 4 88 (11.56 %) JavaScript 5 81 (10.64 %) C++ 6 44 (5.782 %) C 7 41 (5.388 %) PL/SQL 8 33 (4.336 %) VB 9 22 (2.891 %) PHP 10 19 (2.497 %) DHTML 10 19 (2.497 %) Shell Script 11 15 (1.971 %) Transact-SQL 11 15 (1.971 %) PHP5 12 14 (1.840 %) Python 13 13 (1.708 %) Perl 14 12 (1.577 %) Ada 15 11 (1.445 %) VB6 16 9 (1.183 %) Uniface 16 9 (1.183 %) VBA 16 9 (1.183 %) Delphi	Qualifications 1 48 (6.307 %) Degree 2 19 (2.497 %) ISEB 3 7 (0.920 %) Sun Certification 4 6 (0.788 %) MBA 5 2 (0.263 %) SCJP 5 2 (0.263 %) SCJA 5 2 (0.263 %) ISTQB 6 1 (0.131 %) Microsoft Certification 6 1 (0.131 %) PRINCE2 Certification 6 1 (0.131 %) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 22 (2.891 %) QA 2 10 (1.314 %) WAI 3 5 (0.657 %) SLA 4 4 (0.526 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 5 1 (0.131 %) HIPAA	System Software 1 10 (1.314 %) AquaLogic 2 6 (0.788 %) Active Directory 3 3 (0.394 %) MSMQ 4 2 (0.263 %) NDS 4 2 (0.263 %) Citrix Presentation Server 5 1 (0.131 %) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management 1 8 (1.051 %) Tivoli 2 2 (0.263 %) Netcool 2 2 (0.263 %) CONTROL-M 2 2 (0.263 %) Netcool/Proviso 2 2 (0.263 %) OpenView 3 1 (0.131 %) AutoSys	Vendors 1 153 (20.11 %) Oracle 2 72 (9.461 %) Microsoft 3 28 (3.679 %) Adobe 4 23 (3.022 %) SAP 4 23 (3.022 %) BEA 4 23 (3.022 %) IBM 5 19 (2.497 %) HP 6 17 (2.234 %) Business Objects 7 16 (2.102 %) Sun 8 11 (1.445 %) Sybase 9 9 (1.183 %) Calypso 10 7 (0.920 %) Red Hat 10 7 (0.920 %) TIBCO 10 7 (0.920 %) Perforce 11 5 (0.657 %) ILOG 11 5 (0.657 %) Lotus 12 4 (0.526 %) webMethods 12 4 (0.526 %) Compaq 12 4 (0.526 %) Cognos 12 4 (0.526 %) DataSynapse