The first table below looks at the demand for Unit Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Unit Testing over the 3 months to 23 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 Leeds 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Unit Testing
Rank 71 56 36
Rank change year-on-year
-15 -20
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 3 12 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 0.409% 1.362% 2.960%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.559% 1.908% 4.388%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 6
Average daily rate £263 £273 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.48% -0.90%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £323 £323
% change year-on-year
+8.52% -
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
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
537 629 433
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 73.16% 71.40% 67.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 373 209
Average daily rate £310 £345 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.14% -1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £240 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £453 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 15 23
Average hourly rate £34.00 £14.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+142.85% -20.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.20 £11.40 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £62.50 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
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 Leeds region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Leeds Unit Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Leeds Unit Testing Daily Rate Trend

Unit Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Leeds Unit Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Unit Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 15 (88.24%) .NET
2 12 (70.59%) C#
3 10 (58.82%) SQL Server
4 9 (52.94%) ASP.NET
4 9 (52.94%) JavaScript
5 8 (47.06%) NUnit
5 8 (47.06%) NHibernate
5 8 (47.06%) SQL Server 2008
6 7 (41.18%) .NET Framework
6 7 (41.18%) Visual Studio
6 7 (41.18%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 5 (29.41%) SharePoint
7 5 (29.41%) SQL
7 5 (29.41%) NHS
7 5 (29.41%) Migration
7 5 (29.41%) Software Architecture
7 5 (29.41%) SharePoint 2010
7 5 (29.41%) jQuery
7 5 (29.41%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (23.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (23.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (17.65%) Agile Software Development
9 3 (17.65%) Kanban
9 3 (17.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 3 (17.65%) WPF
9 3 (17.65%) Java
9 3 (17.65%) RDBMS
9 3 (17.65%) VB
9 3 (17.65%) VB.NET
9 3 (17.65%) VBA

Unit Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 15 (88.24%) .NET
2 9 (52.94%) ASP.NET
3 8 (47.06%) NHibernate
4 7 (41.18%) .NET Framework
4 7 (41.18%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 5 (29.41%) jQuery
6 3 (17.65%) WPF
6 3 (17.65%) DHTML
7 2 (11.76%) HTML
7 2 (11.76%) CSS
8 1 (5.882%) WCF
8 1 (5.882%) Ajax
8 1 (5.882%) ASP.NET 2.0
Application Platforms
1 5 (29.41%) SharePoint
1 5 (29.41%) SharePoint 2010
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.882%) GSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (58.82%) SQL Server
2 8 (47.06%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (23.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (23.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (17.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 3 (17.65%) RDBMS
5 1 (5.882%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (5.882%) Oracle 11g
5 1 (5.882%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 8 (47.06%) NUnit
2 7 (41.18%) Visual Studio
3 1 (5.882%) SpecFlow
General
1 1 (5.882%) German Language
1 1 (5.882%) Japanese Language
1 1 (5.882%) Electronics
1 1 (5.882%) Telecoms
1 1 (5.882%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 15 (88.24%) Developer
2 8 (47.06%) .NET Developer
3 5 (29.41%) SharePoint Developer
4 3 (17.65%) Java Developer
5 2 (11.76%) C# Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (5.882%) Software Programmer
6 1 (5.882%) Oracle Developer
6 1 (5.882%) Agile .NET Developer
6 1 (5.882%) SQL Developer
6 1 (5.882%) PL/SQL Developer
6 1 (5.882%) Software Developer
6 1 (5.882%) Programmer
6 1 (5.882%) SQL Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) NHS
2 1 (5.882%) Pharmacovigilance
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Migration
1 5 (29.41%) Software Architecture
1 5 (29.41%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (17.65%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (17.65%) Kanban
3 2 (11.76%) Configuration Management
3 2 (11.76%) Service Delivery
3 2 (11.76%) Validation
3 2 (11.76%) TDD
4 1 (5.882%) Automated Testing
4 1 (5.882%) BDD
4 1 (5.882%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (5.882%) Integration Testing
4 1 (5.882%) Test Scripting
4 1 (5.882%) OO
4 1 (5.882%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) C#
2 9 (52.94%) JavaScript
3 5 (29.41%) SQL
4 3 (17.65%) Java
4 3 (17.65%) VB
4 3 (17.65%) VB.NET
4 3 (17.65%) VBA
5 2 (11.76%) VB6
6 1 (5.882%) PL/SQL
6 1 (5.882%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle