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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Unit Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Unit Testing over the 3 months to 15 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the London region.

 Unit Testing
Location
3 months to
15 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank127151256
Rank change year-on-year
Up+24Up+105
Matching contract IT job ads342165190
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London1.353 %0.988 %0.525 %
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category2.212 %1.760 %1.004 %
Daily rates quoted1978088
Average daily rate£468£450£413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.880 %+9.090 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£300£300£320
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£575£553£625
UK excluding London average daily rate£350£340£320
% change year-on-year
+2.940 %+6.250 %
Hourly rates quoted116
Average hourly rate£50.00£22.50£27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+122.22 %-18.18 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate£36.50£41.00£33.50
% change year-on-year
-10.97 %+22.38 %
London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryAll Processes & Methodologies
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
15464937318920
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London61.19 %56.15 %52.27 %
Daily rates quoted853538727828
Average daily rate£450£413£438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.090 %-5.710 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£290£250£275
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£575£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£350£365£375
% change year-on-year
-4.100 %-2.660 %
Hourly rates quoted288297738
Average hourly rate£30.00£26.38£27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.74 %-4.090 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£15.00£13.45£15.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£43.00£50.00£42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£24.50£28.62£30.00
% change year-on-year
-14.38 %-4.600 %
Unit Testing EnglandUnit Testing
England

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.

Unit Testing
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Unit Testing across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

London Unit Testing Demand Trend

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Unit Testing Daily Rate Trend

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Unit Testing across the London region over the 3 months to 15 March 2010.

London Unit Testing Daily Rate Histogram

Unit Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Unit Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Unit Testing
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 London region over the 3 months to 15 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of LondonUp+28157£550+22.22 %
Canary WharfDown-1513£538-
UxbridgeUp+18£400+25.49 %
Docklands, LondonDown-132£513-14.58 %
HammersmithDown-11£340-
CroydonNew entry-1--
FelthamNew entry-1--
Unit Testing EnglandUnit Testing
England

Unit Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the London 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.

1274 (42.35 %)Java
2256 (39.57 %)C#
3200 (30.91 %)Banking
4188 (29.06 %).NET
5182 (28.13 %)Oracle
6165 (25.50 %)SQL Server
7161 (24.88 %)SQL
8149 (23.03 %)OO
9148 (22.87 %)Spring
10138 (21.33 %)Agile Software Development
11136 (21.02 %)XML
11136 (21.02 %)Investment Banking
12131 (20.25 %)ASP.NET
13130 (20.09 %)TDD
14128 (19.78 %)Finance
15121 (18.70 %)Continuous Integration
16120 (18.55 %)JavaScript
17114 (17.62 %)Subversion
18109 (16.85 %)Web Services
19104 (16.07 %)SQL Server 2005
20102 (15.77 %)HTML
20102 (15.77 %)JUnit
2193 (14.37 %)NUnit
2289 (13.76 %)Windows
2388 (13.60 %)UNIX
2388 (13.60 %)AJAX
2487 (13.45 %)J2EE
2584 (12.98 %)MVC
2682 (12.67 %)C++
2773 (11.28 %)Hibernate

Unit Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the London 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.

London IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1188 (29.06 %).NET
2148 (22.87 %)Spring
3136 (21.02 %)XML
4131 (20.25 %)ASP.NET
5109 (16.85 %)Web Services
6102 (15.77 %)HTML
788 (13.60 %)AJAX
887 (13.45 %)J2EE
984 (12.98 %)MVC
1073 (11.28 %)Hibernate
1171 (10.97 %)WCF
1263 (9.737 %)CSS
1360 (9.274 %)NHibernate
1455 (8.501 %)WinForms
1553 (8.192 %).NET Framework
1643 (6.646 %)WPF
1742 (6.491 %)XHTML
1839 (6.028 %)Struts
1935 (5.410 %)WF
2034 (5.255 %)STL
London IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
131 (4.791 %)Tomcat
229 (4.482 %)SharePoint
327 (4.173 %)WebLogic
420 (3.091 %)WebLogic Portal
517 (2.628 %)Apache
612 (1.855 %)BizTalk Server
612 (1.855 %)TIBCO EMS
710 (1.546 %)Liferay
710 (1.546 %)IIS
88 (1.236 %)AquaLogic
88 (1.236 %)Oracle Service Bus
95 (0.773 %)AquaLogic Service Bus
95 (0.773 %)ActiveMQ
104 (0.618 %)Confluence
113 (0.464 %)Office Communications Server
113 (0.464 %)ESB
113 (0.464 %)SharePoint Server 2007
113 (0.464 %)Lotus Domino
113 (0.464 %)MQSeries
122 (0.309 %)SAS
London IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
17 (1.082 %)MS Excel
23 (0.464 %)MS Visio
23 (0.464 %)MS Office
32 (0.309 %)Spreadsheet
41 (0.155 %)MS Project
41 (0.155 %)XMetaL
41 (0.155 %)InfoPath
London IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
16 (0.927 %)BusinessWorks
25 (0.773 %)Summit
33 (0.464 %)Oracle Applications
33 (0.464 %)SAP EHS
42 (0.309 %)SAP SRM
42 (0.309 %)BancWare
51 (0.155 %)ProfileStage
51 (0.155 %)SAP MM
51 (0.155 %)Endur
51 (0.155 %)Oracle EBS R12
51 (0.155 %)Oracle BPM
51 (0.155 %)Front Arena
51 (0.155 %)FENICS FX
London IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
114 (2.164 %)HTTP
28 (1.236 %)Internet
32 (0.309 %)SNMP
41 (0.155 %)Intranet
41 (0.155 %)Bluetooth
41 (0.155 %)VoIP
41 (0.155 %)WLAN
London IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1165 (25.50 %)SQL Server
2104 (16.07 %)SQL Server 2005
343 (6.646 %)OLTP
440 (6.182 %)SQL Server 2000
534 (5.255 %)SQL Server 2008
632 (4.946 %)ETL
729 (4.482 %)RDBMS
823 (3.555 %)Oracle 10g
921 (3.246 %)Datawarehouse
1018 (2.782 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1115 (2.318 %)Oracle 11g
1214 (2.164 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1313 (2.009 %)MySQL
1313 (2.009 %)Oracle Reports
1412 (1.855 %)Crystal Reports
1511 (1.700 %)SQL Server Integration Services
1610 (1.546 %)Reference Data
179 (1.391 %)Oracle OWB
188 (1.236 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
197 (1.082 %)OLAP
London IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1114 (17.62 %)Subversion
2102 (15.77 %)JUnit
393 (14.37 %)NUnit
466 (10.20 %)Maven
551 (7.883 %)JIRA
649 (7.573 %)NCover
736 (5.564 %)Selenium
835 (5.410 %)TeamCity
835 (5.410 %)Visual Studio
933 (5.100 %)csUnit
1032 (4.946 %)FitNesse
1131 (4.791 %)ReSharper
1230 (4.637 %)jMock
1324 (3.709 %)NDepend
1423 (3.555 %)WatiN
1522 (3.400 %)WATIR
1522 (3.400 %)CruiseControl
1621 (3.246 %)ClearCase
1621 (3.246 %)Ant
1718 (2.782 %)Team Foundation Server
London IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1200 (30.91 %)Banking
2136 (21.02 %)Investment Banking
3128 (19.78 %)Finance
460 (9.274 %)Front Office
531 (4.791 %)Government
614 (2.164 %)Back Office
78 (1.236 %)Publishing
78 (1.236 %)Home Office
87 (1.082 %)Games
87 (1.082 %)Marketing
94 (0.618 %)Construction
102 (0.309 %)Education
102 (0.309 %)Telecoms
102 (0.309 %)Insurance
102 (0.309 %)Music
111 (0.155 %)Retail Banking
111 (0.155 %)Advertising
111 (0.155 %)Financial Institution
111 (0.155 %)Electronics
111 (0.155 %)Electric
London IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1544 (84.08 %)Developer
2138 (21.33 %)C# Developer
3124 (19.17 %)Java Developer
4100 (15.46 %)Senior Developer
576 (11.75 %).NET Developer
643 (6.646 %)Analyst
737 (5.719 %)C++ Developer
832 (4.946 %)J2EE Developer
930 (4.637 %)Java/J2EE Developer
1028 (4.328 %)Senior C# Developer
1028 (4.328 %)Senior Java Developer
1125 (3.864 %)GUI Developer
1224 (3.709 %)Senior .NET Developer
1323 (3.555 %)Software Developer
1323 (3.555 %)Web Developer
1422 (3.400 %)ASP.NET Developer
1422 (3.400 %)WinForms Developer
1521 (3.246 %)PHP Developer
1620 (3.091 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
1716 (2.473 %)Lead Developer
London IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
149 (7.573 %)Derivative
239 (6.028 %)Equities
335 (5.410 %)Multithreading
430 (4.637 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
525 (3.864 %)Market Risk
624 (3.709 %)Client/Server
723 (3.555 %)Fixed Income
822 (3.400 %)Interest Rate Derivative
915 (2.318 %)Open Source
1011 (1.700 %)Credit Derivative
1011 (1.700 %)Computer Science
1110 (1.546 %)Dependency Injection
127 (1.082 %)Web 2.0
136 (0.927 %)Equity Derivative
136 (0.927 %)W3C
145 (0.773 %)Replication
145 (0.773 %)Credit Risk
145 (0.773 %)RIA
154 (0.618 %)N-Tier
162 (0.309 %)NHS
London IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
189 (13.76 %)Windows
288 (13.60 %)UNIX
357 (8.810 %)Linux
413 (2.009 %)Solaris
52 (0.309 %)Windows XP
52 (0.309 %)Windows Server 2003
61 (0.155 %)Android
61 (0.155 %)Red Hat Linux
61 (0.155 %)Mac OS
London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1149 (23.03 %)OO
2138 (21.33 %)Agile Software Development
3130 (20.09 %)TDD
4121 (18.70 %)Continuous Integration
568 (10.51 %)Regression Testing
653 (8.192 %)User Acceptance Testing
750 (7.728 %)Scrum
847 (7.264 %)UML
943 (6.646 %)OOD
1037 (5.719 %)Pair Programming
1135 (5.410 %)Refactoring
1231 (4.791 %)Integration Testing
1231 (4.791 %)Risk Management
1330 (4.637 %)Validation
1429 (4.482 %)Configuration Management
1526 (4.019 %)Web Development
1622 (3.400 %)Workflow
1720 (3.091 %)OOP
1720 (3.091 %)Performance Testing
1818 (2.782 %)SOA
London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1274 (42.35 %)Java
2256 (39.57 %)C#
3161 (24.88 %)SQL
4120 (18.55 %)JavaScript
582 (12.67 %)C++
656 (8.655 %)Perl
747 (7.264 %)T-SQL
840 (6.182 %)Python
930 (4.637 %)PL/SQL
1028 (4.328 %)C
1028 (4.328 %)VB
1125 (3.864 %)PHP
1214 (2.164 %)Shell Script
1214 (2.164 %)VB6
1310 (1.546 %)Korn
146 (0.927 %)XPath
154 (0.618 %)VBA
154 (0.618 %)Ruby
163 (0.464 %)VB.NET
163 (0.464 %)ActionScript
London IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
157 (8.810 %)Security Cleared
235 (5.410 %)SC Cleared
39 (1.391 %)Degree
48 (1.236 %)CTC Cleared
56 (0.927 %)MCTS
64 (0.618 %)DV Cleared
71 (0.155 %)PhD
71 (0.155 %)Siebel Certification
71 (0.155 %)OCP
71 (0.155 %)Oracle Certification
71 (0.155 %)MBA
London IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
127 (4.173 %)QA
24 (0.618 %)WCAG
24 (0.618 %)WAI
32 (0.309 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
41 (0.155 %)Basel II
London IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
110 (1.546 %)OpenSSO
25 (0.773 %)MSMQ
34 (0.618 %)VMware Infrastructure
42 (0.309 %)Oracle RAC
London IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
12 (0.309 %)AutoSys
12 (0.309 %)Zenoss
21 (0.155 %)Tivoli
London IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1182 (28.13 %)Oracle
239 (6.028 %)Microsoft
333 (5.100 %)TIBCO
428 (4.328 %)Sybase
522 (3.400 %)Zend
620 (3.091 %)Perforce
715 (2.318 %)Caplin
715 (2.318 %)IBM
811 (1.700 %)SAP
98 (1.236 %)Ab Initio
107 (1.082 %)Microgen
107 (1.082 %)Siebel
116 (0.927 %)BEA
125 (0.773 %)Business Objects
134 (0.618 %)JBoss
134 (0.618 %)Adobe
134 (0.618 %)VMware
143 (0.464 %)DevExpress
143 (0.464 %)Pega
143 (0.464 %)Informatica