Unit Testing Contracts in Manchester

Unit Testing
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for Unit Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Unit Testing over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 62 91 94
Rank change year-on-year +29 +3 -19
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 39 26 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.54% 1.37% 1.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.92% 1.49% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 17 38
10th Percentile £426 £459 £409
25th Percentile £431 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £650 £615
Median % change year-on-year -23.85% +5.69% +56.19%
75th Percentile £538 - £638
90th Percentile £550 £665 £658
North West median daily rate £495 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -5.71% -4.55% +33.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Unit Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,335 1,743 2,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 87.08% 91.88% 88.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 911 1,278 1,823
10th Percentile £313 £315 £263
25th Percentile £406 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.46% +8.44%
75th Percentile £588 £590 £575
90th Percentile £694 £658 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 61 50
10th Percentile £12.42 £14.65 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £11.75
Median hourly rate £24.19 £37.30 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year -35.15% +144.59% -4.69%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £23.69
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £33.88
North West median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +10.64%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Unit Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in Manchester

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in Manchester

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in Manchester over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in Manchester

Unit Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Unit Testing in Manchester

Unit Testing
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unit Testing within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Oldham - 1 £450 -
Unit Testing
North West

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.13%) nginx
1 2 (5.13%) Traefik
2 1 (2.56%) Alfresco
Business Applications
1 4 (10.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (5.13%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 9 (23.08%) Dynamics 365
2 6 (15.38%) AWS
3 4 (10.26%) Azure
3 4 (10.26%) OCI
3 4 (10.26%) Power Platform
4 2 (5.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (5.13%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (5.13%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (5.13%) GCP
4 2 (5.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.56%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) DNS
1 2 (5.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (15.38%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (35.90%) Android Studio
2 9 (23.08%) Git
3 7 (17.95%) Mockito
4 6 (15.38%) JUnit
5 3 (7.69%) Mocha
6 2 (5.13%) GitLab
6 2 (5.13%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (23.08%) Public Sector
2 5 (12.82%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.69%) Law
3 3 (7.69%) Legal
4 2 (5.13%) Finance
5 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Banking
5 1 (2.56%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (87.18%) Developer
2 14 (35.90%) Android Developer
3 7 (17.95%) Java Developer
4 4 (10.26%) Systems Developer
5 2 (5.13%) Consultant
5 2 (5.13%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Full Stack Developer
5 2 (5.13%) Junior
5 2 (5.13%) Junior Developer
5 2 (5.13%) Junior Java Developer
5 2 (5.13%) Lead
5 2 (5.13%) Lead Developer
5 2 (5.13%) Lead Java Developer
5 2 (5.13%) Power Platform Developer
6 1 (2.56%) Azure Developer
6 1 (2.56%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (2.56%) Digital Developer
6 1 (2.56%) Integration Developer
6 1 (2.56%) Power Apps Developer
6 1 (2.56%) Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (38.46%) RESTful
2 11 (28.21%) React
3 7 (17.95%) Spring Boot
4 6 (15.38%) Hibernate
4 6 (15.38%) JPA
4 6 (15.38%) REST
4 6 (15.38%) Spring
5 4 (10.26%) .NET
6 3 (7.69%) Jest
6 3 (7.69%) Node.js
6 3 (7.69%) Redux
7 2 (5.13%) cloud-init
8 1 (2.56%) HTML
8 1 (2.56%) Play Framework
8 1 (2.56%) Web Services
8 1 (2.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.95%) Greenfield Project
1 7 (17.95%) Mobile App
2 2 (5.13%) Clustering
2 2 (5.13%) PKI
3 1 (2.56%) Blockchain
3 1 (2.56%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.56%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 15 (38.46%) Android
2 2 (5.13%) CentOS
2 2 (5.13%) Linux
2 2 (5.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (35.90%) Agile
1 14 (35.90%) Android Development
2 12 (30.77%) DevOps
3 10 (25.64%) Scrum
4 7 (17.95%) Front End Development
4 7 (17.95%) Microservices
4 7 (17.95%) Mobile Development
5 6 (15.38%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 6 (15.38%) High Availability
5 6 (15.38%) Mentoring
5 6 (15.38%) Test Automation
6 5 (12.82%) CI/CD
6 5 (12.82%) Design Patterns
6 5 (12.82%) User Acceptance Testing
7 4 (10.26%) API Development
7 4 (10.26%) Architectural Patterns
7 4 (10.26%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (10.26%) CRM
7 4 (10.26%) Software Engineering
7 4 (10.26%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 25 (64.10%) Java
2 14 (35.90%) Kotlin
3 7 (17.95%) TypeScript
4 4 (10.26%) C#
5 3 (7.69%) Python
6 2 (5.13%) Bash
6 2 (5.13%) Go
6 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.13%) Ruby
7 1 (2.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (25.64%) SC Cleared
1 10 (25.64%) Security Cleared
2 6 (15.38%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.95%) QA
2 3 (7.69%) GDPR
2 3 (7.69%) SLA
3 2 (5.13%) NCSC
4 1 (2.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (23.08%) Docker
2 2 (5.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (28.21%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.13%) Ansible
2 2 (5.13%) Consul
2 2 (5.13%) Docker Swarm
2 2 (5.13%) Graphite
2 2 (5.13%) HAProxy
2 2 (5.13%) Istio
2 2 (5.13%) linkerd
2 2 (5.13%) Packer
2 2 (5.13%) Podman
2 2 (5.13%) Prometheus
2 2 (5.13%) Puppet
2 2 (5.13%) Terraform
2 2 (5.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5 (12.82%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.26%) Oracle
3 2 (5.13%) PagerDuty
3 2 (5.13%) SAP
3 2 (5.13%) Siemens
3 2 (5.13%) Splunk
3 2 (5.13%) VMware