Essex JUnit Contracts

This section looks at the demand for JUnit skills within the Essex region with a comparison to our Development Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited JUnit over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire City of London Coventry Crewe Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hull Ipswich Kent Leeds Liverpool London Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Peterborough Portsmouth Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Stevenage Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Watford West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	43
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	17
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.017 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	12.23 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£388	£314
% change on same period last year	+23.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	5
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£32.86
Average hourly rate	-	£34.86
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£36.86
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.41	£39.79
% change on same period last year	-11.00 %
Development Applications Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	62	139
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.083 %	0.141 %
Daily rates quoted	19	44
Average minimum daily rate	£372	£428
Average daily rate	£407	£452
% change on same period last year	-9.95 %
Average maximum daily rate	£442	£476
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£331
% change on same period last year	-0.66 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	28
Average minimum hourly rate	£38.00	£30.43
Average hourly rate	£39.06	£31.59
% change on same period last year	+23.64 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.13	£32.76
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.89	£34.13
% change on same period last year	-3.63 %
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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 JUnit across the Essex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications 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 JUnit across the Essex region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 8 (100.00 %) SQL 2 7 (87.50 %) Ant 3 6 (75.00 %) Client/Server 4 5 (62.50 %) WebServices 4 5 (62.50 %) Java 4 5 (62.50 %) Configuration Management 4 5 (62.50 %) Log4j 5 4 (50.00 %) Agile Software Development 5 4 (50.00 %) Extreme Programming 5 4 (50.00 %) PL/SQL 5 4 (50.00 %) J2EE 5 4 (50.00 %) Oracle 5 4 (50.00 %) OO 5 4 (50.00 %) JBoss 5 4 (50.00 %) Eclipse

5 4 (50.00 %) JSF 6 3 (37.50 %) Ruby 6 3 (37.50 %) Ruby on Rails 6 3 (37.50 %) QA 6 3 (37.50 %) FitNesse 6 3 (37.50 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 3 (37.50 %) Performance Testing 6 3 (37.50 %) TestDirector 6 3 (37.50 %) PVCS 6 3 (37.50 %) Pharmaceutical 7 2 (25.00 %) Subversion 8 1 (12.50 %) Delphi 8 1 (12.50 %) TDD 8 1 (12.50 %) JDBC 8 1 (12.50 %) SOAP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 5 (62.50 %) WebServices 2 4 (50.00 %) J2EE 2 4 (50.00 %) JSF 3 3 (37.50 %) Ruby on Rails 4 1 (12.50 %) WebSphere 4 1 (12.50 %) JDBC 4 1 (12.50 %) SOAP 4 1 (12.50 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 4 (50.00 %) JBoss 2 1 (12.50 %) WebSphere Application Server
Development Applications 1 7 (87.50 %) Ant 2 5 (62.50 %) Log4j 3 4 (50.00 %) Eclipse 4 3 (37.50 %) TestDirector 4 3 (37.50 %) PVCS 4 3 (37.50 %) FitNesse 5 2 (25.00 %) Subversion	General 1 3 (37.50 %) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles 1 7 (87.50 %) Developer 2 5 (62.50 %) Java Developer 3 1 (12.50 %) Java Analyst Programmer 3 1 (12.50 %) Java Programmer 3 1 (12.50 %) Developer Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Analyst Programmer 3 1 (12.50 %) Programmer	Miscellaneous 1 6 (75.00 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 1 (12.50 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (62.50 %) Configuration Management 2 4 (50.00 %) Extreme Programming 2 4 (50.00 %) Agile Software Development 2 4 (50.00 %) OO 3 3 (37.50 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 3 (37.50 %) Performance Testing 4 1 (12.50 %) RAD 4 1 (12.50 %) TDD
Programming Languages 1 8 (100.00 %) SQL 2 5 (62.50 %) Java 3 4 (50.00 %) PL/SQL 4 3 (37.50 %) Ruby 5 1 (12.50 %) Delphi 5 1 (12.50 %) Shell Script	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (37.50 %) QA
Vendors 1 4 (50.00 %) Oracle