The first table below looks at the demand for Unit Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Unit Testing over the 3 months to 19 June 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 North West 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Unit Testing
Rank 102 112 109
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -3
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 15 22 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.628% 0.724% 0.529%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.898% 1.143% 0.832%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 9
Average daily rate £388 £313 £351
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+24.00% -10.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £306 £300 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £700
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
+6.06% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.50 £33.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-0.74% -3.57%
All Processes & Methodologies
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1671 1924 1924
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 70.00% 63.33% 63.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 811 989 1018
Average daily rate £350 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £239 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £480 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 85 88
Average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% -11.11%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.50 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £37.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
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England

Unit Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West Unit Testing Daily Rate Trend

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Unit Testing across the North West region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

North West Unit Testing Daily Rate Histogram

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 North West region.

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Cheshire +7 13 £394 +29.09% 5
Merseyside +9 1 - - 4
Manchester -2 1 £310 -0.80% 9
Lancashire - - - - 2
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England

Unit Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 (29.27%) JavaScript
2 11 (26.83%) Java
2 11 (26.83%) SQL
3 10 (24.39%) Agile Software Development
3 10 (24.39%) SAP
3 10 (24.39%) Integration Testing
4 9 (21.95%) SQL Server 2008
4 9 (21.95%) SQL Server
4 9 (21.95%) SQL Server 2005
5 8 (19.51%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (17.07%) SQL Server 2000
6 7 (17.07%) CRM
6 7 (17.07%) T-SQL
6 7 (17.07%) HTML
6 7 (17.07%) CSS
6 7 (17.07%) Web Services
6 7 (17.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (17.07%) Six Sigma
6 7 (17.07%) SAP CRM
7 6 (14.63%) MVC
7 6 (14.63%) Disaster Recovery
7 6 (14.63%) Hibernate
7 6 (14.63%) Data Modelling
7 6 (14.63%) OLTP
7 6 (14.63%) Data Integration
7 6 (14.63%) jQuery
7 6 (14.63%) Mobile App
8 5 (12.20%) HTML5
8 5 (12.20%) Selenium
8 5 (12.20%) IDMS

Unit Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 7 (17.07%) HTML
1 7 (17.07%) CSS
1 7 (17.07%) Web Services
2 6 (14.63%) Hibernate
2 6 (14.63%) jQuery
3 5 (12.20%) HTML5
3 5 (12.20%) XML
3 5 (12.20%) J2EE
3 5 (12.20%) Spring
3 5 (12.20%) Ajax
4 4 (9.756%) SOAP
5 3 (7.317%) REST
5 3 (7.317%) CSS3
5 3 (7.317%) Django
5 3 (7.317%) .NET
6 2 (4.878%) JSON
6 2 (4.878%) .NET Framework
6 2 (4.878%) Flash
6 2 (4.878%) ASP.NET
6 2 (4.878%) Apache Flex
Application Platforms
1 2 (4.878%) Apache
2 1 (2.439%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.439%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (2.439%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 7 (17.07%) SAP CRM
2 1 (2.439%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.20%) HTTP
2 2 (4.878%) TELNET
2 2 (4.878%) SNMP
2 2 (4.878%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.439%) SMTP
3 1 (2.439%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (21.95%) SQL Server 2008
1 9 (21.95%) SQL Server
1 9 (21.95%) SQL Server 2005
2 7 (17.07%) SQL Server 2000
2 7 (17.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 6 (14.63%) OLTP
4 5 (12.20%) IDMS
4 5 (12.20%) VLDB
4 5 (12.20%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (9.756%) MySQL
5 4 (9.756%) SQL Server 2012
6 3 (7.317%) NoSQL
6 3 (7.317%) Informix
7 2 (4.878%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (4.878%) CouchDB
7 2 (4.878%) Redis
8 1 (2.439%) MongoDB
8 1 (2.439%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (2.439%) Oracle 8/8i
8 1 (2.439%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 5 (12.20%) Selenium
1 5 (12.20%) Subversion
2 4 (9.756%) Eclipse
3 3 (7.317%) TestNG
3 3 (7.317%) JUnit
4 2 (4.878%) Ant
4 2 (4.878%) WATIR
4 2 (4.878%) FitNesse
4 2 (4.878%) Git (software)
4 2 (4.878%) PHPUnit
4 2 (4.878%) QUnit
5 1 (2.439%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.439%) Jasmine
5 1 (2.439%) WebDriver
5 1 (2.439%) Mercurial
5 1 (2.439%) MyEclipse
5 1 (2.439%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (2.439%) InstallShield
5 1 (2.439%) NUnit
5 1 (2.439%) JIRA
General
1 2 (4.878%) Retail
1 2 (4.878%) Games
2 1 (2.439%) Finance
2 1 (2.439%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 21 (51.22%) Developer
2 11 (26.83%) Consultant
3 7 (17.07%) SAP Consultant
4 6 (14.63%) DBA
5 5 (12.20%) Java Developer
6 4 (9.756%) SQL DBA
6 4 (9.756%) SAP CRM Consultant
6 4 (9.756%) CRM Consultant
7 3 (7.317%) Web Developer
7 3 (7.317%) Software Developer
7 3 (7.317%) JavaScript Developer
8 2 (4.878%) C Developer
8 2 (4.878%) Uniface Developer
8 2 (4.878%) Test Consultant
8 2 (4.878%) Java/J2EE Developer
8 2 (4.878%) Android Developer
9 1 (2.439%) SAP PI Consultant
9 1 (2.439%) Build Engineer
9 1 (2.439%) SAP BI Consultant
9 1 (2.439%) C# Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) Data Integration
1 6 (14.63%) Mobile App
2 4 (9.756%) Replication
2 4 (9.756%) Computer Science
3 2 (4.878%) Smartphone
3 2 (4.878%) BBC
3 2 (4.878%) Client/Server
3 2 (4.878%) Mathematics
3 2 (4.878%) Semantic Web
3 2 (4.878%) Linked Data
3 2 (4.878%) Mobile Payment
4 1 (2.439%) N-Tier
4 1 (2.439%) NHS
4 1 (2.439%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.439%) Graphic Design
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.756%) UNIX
1 4 (9.756%) Android
1 4 (9.756%) Apple iOS
2 2 (4.878%) Windows
3 1 (2.439%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (2.439%) Solaris
3 1 (2.439%) Linux
3 1 (2.439%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (24.39%) Agile Software Development
1 10 (24.39%) Integration Testing
2 8 (19.51%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (17.07%) CRM
3 7 (17.07%) Six Sigma
4 6 (14.63%) MVC
4 6 (14.63%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (14.63%) Data Modelling
5 4 (9.756%) Scrum
5 4 (9.756%) TDD
5 4 (9.756%) Change Management
5 4 (9.756%) Load Testing
5 4 (9.756%) Progressive Enhancement
6 3 (7.317%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (7.317%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (7.317%) ITIL
6 3 (7.317%) OOP
6 3 (7.317%) OO
6 3 (7.317%) Configuration Management
7 2 (4.878%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 12 (29.27%) JavaScript
2 11 (26.83%) Java
2 11 (26.83%) SQL
3 7 (17.07%) T-SQL
4 5 (12.20%) Python
4 5 (12.20%) C
4 5 (12.20%) PHP
5 4 (9.756%) C#
6 3 (7.317%) C++
6 3 (7.317%) Perl
6 3 (7.317%) Uniface
7 2 (4.878%) Ruby
7 2 (4.878%) Objective-C
7 2 (4.878%) PL/SQL
7 2 (4.878%) JCL
Qualifications
1 3 (7.317%) Degree
2 2 (4.878%) Sun Certification
3 1 (2.439%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.439%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.878%) PCI DSS
1 2 (4.878%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.439%) Microsoft App-V
Vendors
1 10 (24.39%) SAP
2 5 (12.20%) Oracle
3 3 (7.317%) Adobe
4 2 (4.878%) Apple
4 2 (4.878%) Zend
5 1 (2.439%) Informatica
5 1 (2.439%) webMethods
5 1 (2.439%) Business Objects
5 1 (2.439%) Primavera
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