The first table below looks at the demand for Unit Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the North Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Unit Testing over the 3 months to 24 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 North Yorkshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Unit Testing
Rank 11 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 14 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in North Yorkshire 9.272% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.38% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £346 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £320
% change year-on-year
+7.69% +1.56%
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
North Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
91 119 133
As % of all contract IT jobs located in North Yorkshire 60.26% 68.00% 70.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 62 47
Average daily rate £354 £300 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.83% -20.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £239 £224
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £514
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 9
Average hourly rate £175.00 £16.50 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+960.60% -41.07%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Unit Testing
Yorkshire

Unit Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

North Yorkshire Unit Testing Daily 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
York - 14 £346 -
Unit Testing
Yorkshire

Unit Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North Yorkshire 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 10 (71.43%) Java
1 10 (71.43%) J2EE
1 10 (71.43%) Oracle
2 7 (50.00%) PL/SQL
2 7 (50.00%) SQL
2 7 (50.00%) ITIL
2 7 (50.00%) Oracle Forms
2 7 (50.00%) Oracle 10g
3 6 (42.86%) OO
4 5 (35.71%) OOD
5 4 (28.57%) HTML
5 4 (28.57%) Flash
5 4 (28.57%) CSS
5 4 (28.57%) ActionScript
5 4 (28.57%) JavaScript
5 4 (28.57%) Silverlight
5 4 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (21.43%) Hibernate
6 3 (21.43%) MySQL
6 3 (21.43%) WebLogic
6 3 (21.43%) Tomcat
6 3 (21.43%) Subversion
6 3 (21.43%) Spring
6 3 (21.43%) Maven
7 2 (14.29%) Tapestry
7 2 (14.29%) WebSphere
7 2 (14.29%) Spring MVC
7 2 (14.29%) MVC
7 2 (14.29%) JMS
7 2 (14.29%) JSP

Unit Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North Yorkshire 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 10 (71.43%) J2EE
2 4 (28.57%) HTML
2 4 (28.57%) Flash
2 4 (28.57%) CSS
2 4 (28.57%) Silverlight
3 3 (21.43%) Hibernate
3 3 (21.43%) Spring
4 2 (14.29%) Tapestry
4 2 (14.29%) WebSphere
4 2 (14.29%) Spring MVC
4 2 (14.29%) JMS
4 2 (14.29%) JSP
4 2 (14.29%) Struts
Application Platforms
1 3 (21.43%) WebLogic
1 3 (21.43%) Tomcat
2 2 (14.29%) Jetty
3 1 (7.143%) CMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (50.00%) Oracle 10g
2 3 (21.43%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (50.00%) Oracle Forms
2 3 (21.43%) Subversion
2 3 (21.43%) Maven
3 2 (14.29%) Hudson
4 1 (7.143%) JUnit
4 1 (7.143%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 14 (100.00%) Developer
2 7 (50.00%) Oracle Developer
3 4 (28.57%) Web Developer
4 3 (21.43%) Java Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 2 (14.29%) J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.143%) Open Source
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) ITIL
2 6 (42.86%) OO
3 5 (35.71%) OOD
4 2 (14.29%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) Java
2 7 (50.00%) PL/SQL
2 7 (50.00%) SQL
3 4 (28.57%) ActionScript
3 4 (28.57%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 10 (71.43%) Oracle
2 1 (7.143%) Vignette