Hampshire Unit Testing Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Unit Testing skills within the Hampshire 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Basingstoke Batley Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bolton Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Channel Islands City of London County Antrim Croydon Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Guildford Halifax Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire Huddersfield Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	60	43
Rank change on same period last year	-17
Matching contract IT job ads	46	99
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.061 %	0.100 %
As % of the category below	3.821 %	5.868 %
Daily rates quoted	3	17
Average minimum daily rate	£333	£347
Average daily rate	£342	£353
% change on same period last year	-3.27 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£359
UK excluding London average daily rate	£364	£354
% change on same period last year	+2.95 %
Hourly rates quoted	26	52
Average minimum hourly rate	£36.81	£35.16
Average hourly rate	£38.02	£36.73
% change on same period last year	+3.50 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£39.22	£38.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£37.12	£38.14
% change on same period last year	-2.68 %
Processes & Methodologies Hampshire
Matching contract IT job ads	1204	1687
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.605 %	1.707 %
Daily rates quoted	331	522
Average minimum daily rate	£356	£363
Average daily rate	£380	£385
% change on same period last year	-1.38 %
Average maximum daily rate	£404	£408
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	195	323
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.48	£30.71
Average hourly rate	£33.04	£32.48
% change on same period last year	+1.70 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.60	£34.26
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
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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 Hampshire 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 Hampshire 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 Hampshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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 Hampshire 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 Hampshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unit Testing within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Portsmouth	+13	19	-	-
Basingstoke	-13	16	£325	-8.59 %
Havant	-	3	-	-
Southampton	-	1	-	-
Winchester	+3	1	-	-
Farnborough	+5	1	£375	-6.25 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 33 (53.23 %) OO 2 31 (50.00 %) Java 3 25 (40.32 %) UML 4 22 (35.48 %) C++ 5 19 (30.65 %) CORBA 6 18 (29.03 %) Linux 7 16 (25.81 %) Configuration Management 7 16 (25.81 %) Security Cleared 8 14 (22.58 %) JUnit 9 13 (20.97 %) OOD 10 12 (19.35 %) Windows 10 12 (19.35 %) C# 11 11 (17.74 %) Agile Software Development 12 10 (16.13 %) .NET 12 10 (16.13 %) Ada

12 10 (16.13 %) SC Cleared 13 9 (14.52 %) Mac OS X 13 9 (14.52 %) ARTiSAN 13 9 (14.52 %) SQL Server 13 9 (14.52 %) Test-First Development 13 9 (14.52 %) Software Engineering 13 9 (14.52 %) Government 13 9 (14.52 %) Military 14 8 (12.90 %) Eclipse 14 8 (12.90 %) Swing 15 7 (11.29 %) J2SE 15 7 (11.29 %) Ant 15 7 (11.29 %) XML 15 7 (11.29 %) CruiseControl 15 7 (11.29 %) Subversion

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 19 (30.65 %) CORBA 2 10 (16.13 %) .NET 3 8 (12.90 %) Swing 4 7 (11.29 %) J2SE 4 7 (11.29 %) XML 5 6 (9.677 %) ASP.NET 6 3 (4.839 %) J2EE 6 3 (4.839 %) ASP 6 3 (4.839 %) WebServices 6 3 (4.839 %) .NET Framework 7 2 (3.226 %) HTML 7 2 (3.226 %) JSP 7 2 (3.226 %) VXML 7 2 (3.226 %) WinForms 7 2 (3.226 %) OpenGL 8 1 (1.613 %) Middleware 8 1 (1.613 %) WebSphere 8 1 (1.613 %) XSLT 8 1 (1.613 %) Servlets 8 1 (1.613 %) EJB	Application Platforms 1 2 (3.226 %) MQSeries 2 1 (1.613 %) CICS 2 1 (1.613 %) BizTalk Server 2 1 (1.613 %) WPS 2 1 (1.613 %) IIS
Applications 1 4 (6.452 %) Quicktime 2 1 (1.613 %) MS Project 2 1 (1.613 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 2 (3.226 %) Oracle EBS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (14.52 %) SQL Server 2 4 (6.452 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (3.226 %) Oracle Reports 3 2 (3.226 %) Oracle 9i 3 2 (3.226 %) Oracle 10g 4 1 (1.613 %) BusinessObjects	Development Applications 1 14 (22.58 %) JUnit 2 9 (14.52 %) ARTiSAN 3 8 (12.90 %) Eclipse 4 7 (11.29 %) Ant 4 7 (11.29 %) CruiseControl 4 7 (11.29 %) Subversion 5 5 (8.065 %) Visual Studio 6 4 (6.452 %) NUnit 7 2 (3.226 %) VSS/SourceSafe 7 2 (3.226 %) Oracle Forms
General 1 9 (14.52 %) Government 1 9 (14.52 %) Military 2 5 (8.065 %) Finance 3 4 (6.452 %) Multimedia 3 4 (6.452 %) Video Editing 4 2 (3.226 %) Insurance 4 2 (3.226 %) Aerospace 5 1 (1.613 %) Construction 5 1 (1.613 %) Banking 5 1 (1.613 %) Pensions 5 1 (1.613 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 30 (48.39 %) Developer 2 23 (37.10 %) Software Engineer 3 12 (19.35 %) Software Developer 4 11 (17.74 %) Tester 5 7 (11.29 %) Java Developer 6 4 (6.452 %) Coordinator 7 3 (4.839 %) Analyst 7 3 (4.839 %) Test Engineer 7 3 (4.839 %) C# Developer 7 3 (4.839 %) Java Software Engineer 7 3 (4.839 %) Integration Engineer 7 3 (4.839 %) Software Integration Engineer 7 3 (4.839 %) Software Test Engineer 7 3 (4.839 %) Java Swing Developer 8 2 (3.226 %) Principal Software Engineer 8 2 (3.226 %) Principal Engineer 8 2 (3.226 %) Team Leader 8 2 (3.226 %) Systems Architect 8 2 (3.226 %) QA Analyst 8 2 (3.226 %) J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous 1 4 (6.452 %) MPEG 1 4 (6.452 %) Computer Science	Operating Systems 1 18 (29.03 %) Linux 2 12 (19.35 %) Windows 3 9 (14.52 %) Mac OS X 4 4 (6.452 %) UNIX 5 1 (1.613 %) AIX 5 1 (1.613 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 33 (53.23 %) OO 2 25 (40.32 %) UML 3 16 (25.81 %) Configuration Management 3 16 (25.81 %) Security Cleared 4 13 (20.97 %) OOD 5 11 (17.74 %) Agile Software Development 6 10 (16.13 %) SC Cleared 7 9 (14.52 %) Test-First Development 7 9 (14.52 %) Software Engineering 8 3 (4.839 %) Validation 8 3 (4.839 %) Project Management 8 3 (4.839 %) Integration Testing 8 3 (4.839 %) Continuous Integration 9 2 (3.226 %) Test Management 9 2 (3.226 %) BC Cleared 9 2 (3.226 %) Software Testing 9 2 (3.226 %) Performance Testing 9 2 (3.226 %) Stress Testing 9 2 (3.226 %) OOP 9 2 (3.226 %) OOA/OOD	Programming Languages 1 31 (50.00 %) Java 2 22 (35.48 %) C++ 3 12 (19.35 %) C# 4 10 (16.13 %) Ada 5 5 (8.065 %) SQL 6 4 (6.452 %) C 6 4 (6.452 %) VB 6 4 (6.452 %) Python 7 3 (4.839 %) VB6 8 2 (3.226 %) VBA 8 2 (3.226 %) Transact-SQL 8 2 (3.226 %) JavaScript 8 2 (3.226 %) PL/SQL 9 1 (1.613 %) DHTML
Qualifications 1 4 (6.452 %) Degree 2 2 (3.226 %) ISEB 3 1 (1.613 %) Sun Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (3.226 %) QA
Vendors 1 5 (8.065 %) Oracle 2 2 (3.226 %) Microsoft 2 2 (3.226 %) SAP 3 1 (1.613 %) Siebel 3 1 (1.613 %) Cisco 3 1 (1.613 %) IBM 3 1 (1.613 %) Cramer 3 1 (1.613 %) Business Objects