The first table below looks at the demand for Unit Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Unit Testing over the 3 months to 20 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 Milton Keynes 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Unit Testing
Rank 48 63 52
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -11
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 6 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 1.156% 0.279% 0.337%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.600% 0.419% 0.575%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 0
Average daily rate £425 £306 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+38.77% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.84% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £33.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -3.57%
All Processes & Methodologies
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
375 477 348
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 72.25% 66.43% 58.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 219 156
Average daily rate £345 £325 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.15% -4.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £210 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £413 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 28 34
Average hourly rate £18.45 £15.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.96% -40.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £10.58 £10.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £17.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
Unit Testing
Buckinghamshire

Unit Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes Unit Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Unit Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 12 (70.59%) C#
1 12 (70.59%) .NET
1 12 (70.59%) MVC
2 9 (52.94%) HTML
2 9 (52.94%) CSS
3 8 (47.06%) JavaScript
3 8 (47.06%) jQuery
4 7 (41.18%) SQL Server 2005
4 7 (41.18%) Agile Software Development
4 7 (41.18%) NUnit
4 7 (41.18%) SQL Server
4 7 (41.18%) ASP.NET
4 7 (41.18%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (41.18%) SQL Server 2008
4 7 (41.18%) Mercurial
4 7 (41.18%) ASP.NET MVC
4 7 (41.18%) Moq
4 7 (41.18%) ASP.NET MVC 3
4 7 (41.18%) FogBugz
5 6 (35.29%) Oracle
5 6 (35.29%) Web Services
5 6 (35.29%) XML
6 5 (29.41%) Web 2.0
6 5 (29.41%) Enterprise Architecture
6 5 (29.41%) XPath
6 5 (29.41%) Oracle 11g
6 5 (29.41%) WCF
6 5 (29.41%) BPEL
6 5 (29.41%) Workflow
6 5 (29.41%) Oracle Workflow

Unit Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 12 (70.59%) .NET
2 9 (52.94%) CSS
2 9 (52.94%) HTML
3 8 (47.06%) jQuery
4 7 (41.18%) ASP.NET
4 7 (41.18%) ASP.NET MVC
4 7 (41.18%) ASP.NET MVC 3
5 6 (35.29%) Web Services
5 6 (35.29%) XML
6 5 (29.41%) XSD
6 5 (29.41%) SOAP
6 5 (29.41%) WCF
6 5 (29.41%) WSDL
6 5 (29.41%) Middleware
6 5 (29.41%) REST
7 2 (11.76%) Ajax
7 2 (11.76%) JSON
8 1 (5.882%) LAMP
8 1 (5.882%) YUI
8 1 (5.882%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 5 (29.41%) Oracle Workflow
1 5 (29.41%) Oracle Service Bus
1 5 (29.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (5.882%) Drupal
2 1 (5.882%) Apache Solr
2 1 (5.882%) Moodle
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (41.18%) SQL Server
1 7 (41.18%) SQL Server 2005
1 7 (41.18%) SQL Server 2008
2 5 (29.41%) Oracle 11g
2 5 (29.41%) Oracle 8/8i
3 2 (11.76%) PowerCenter
3 2 (11.76%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (41.18%) NUnit
1 7 (41.18%) Mercurial
1 7 (41.18%) Moq
1 7 (41.18%) FogBugz
2 5 (29.41%) Team Foundation Server
2 5 (29.41%) Ant
2 5 (29.41%) Eclipse
2 5 (29.41%) JDeveloper
3 2 (11.76%) Git (software)
General
1 2 (11.76%) Financial Institution
1 2 (11.76%) Finance
Job Titles
1 15 (88.24%) Developer
2 6 (35.29%) C# Developer
2 6 (35.29%) Web Developer
2 6 (35.29%) C# Web Developer
3 5 (29.41%) Lead Developer
3 5 (29.41%) Oracle Developer
4 4 (23.53%) Oracle SOA Developer
4 4 (23.53%) SOA Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Informatica Developer
6 1 (5.882%) Oracle Team Leader
6 1 (5.882%) UNIX Team Leader
6 1 (5.882%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (5.882%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (5.882%) Moodle Developer
6 1 (5.882%) .NET Developer
6 1 (5.882%) Team Leader
6 1 (5.882%) Test Manager
6 1 (5.882%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Web 2.0
2 1 (5.882%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.882%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) MVC
2 7 (41.18%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (41.18%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (29.41%) Enterprise Architecture
3 5 (29.41%) BPEL
3 5 (29.41%) Workflow
3 5 (29.41%) Scrum
3 5 (29.41%) UML
3 5 (29.41%) SOA
4 2 (11.76%) ETL
5 1 (5.882%) Service Management
5 1 (5.882%) OOP
5 1 (5.882%) OO
5 1 (5.882%) Software Testing
5 1 (5.882%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (5.882%) Performance Testing
5 1 (5.882%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) C#
2 8 (47.06%) JavaScript
3 5 (29.41%) XQuery
3 5 (29.41%) XPath
4 2 (11.76%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (5.882%) ISEB
1 1 (5.882%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.882%) DV Cleared
1 1 (5.882%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (5.882%) Varnish
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Oracle
2 2 (11.76%) Informatica
3 1 (5.882%) Omniture
3 1 (5.882%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.882%) HP
3 1 (5.882%) Compaq