The first table below looks at the demand for Unit Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Huddersfield region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Unit Testing over the 3 months to 24 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 Processes & Methodologies category for the Huddersfield 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Unit Testing
Rank - 5 -
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 0 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Huddersfield - 12.50% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 25.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 0
Average daily rate - £300 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £320
% change year-on-year
+7.69% +1.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.75 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -7.14%
All Processes & Methodologies
Huddersfield
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
12 12 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Huddersfield 60.00% 50.00% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 5
Average daily rate £313 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.16% +9.09%
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £22.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Unit Testing
West Yorkshire

Unit Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Unit Testing across the Huddersfield region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Huddersfield Unit Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Unit Testing
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Huddersfield 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 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VB
1 1 (100.00%) VB.NET
1 1 (100.00%) VBA
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing

Unit Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Huddersfield 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 1 (100.00%) .NET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VB
1 1 (100.00%) VB.NET
1 1 (100.00%) VBA