The first table below looks at the demand for Unit Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Northern Ireland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Unit Testing over the 3 months to 22 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 Northern Ireland 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Unit Testing
Rank 34 24 44
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +20
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 2 5 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Northern Ireland 0.813% 2.500% 0.833%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.342% 4.274% 1.596%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
Average daily rate £350 £350 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £344 £325 £320
% change year-on-year
+5.76% +1.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
All Processes & Methodologies
Northern Ireland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
149 117 188
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Northern Ireland 60.57% 58.50% 52.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 35 60
Average daily rate £350 £400 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% +23.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £260 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £439 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £10.50 - £12.42
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Unit Testing
UK

Unit Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Northern Ireland 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 Northern Ireland region.

Northern Ireland 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 Northern Ireland region over the 3 months to 22 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
County Antrim -5 2 £350 -
Unit Testing
UK

Unit Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Northern Ireland 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 3 (75.00%) Java
1 3 (75.00%) J2EE
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Web Services
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) ESB
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 2 (50.00%) WebSphere
3 1 (25.00%) Java EE
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (25.00%) MSTest
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
3 1 (25.00%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (25.00%) HttpUnit
3 1 (25.00%) Spring MVC
3 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (25.00%) NUnit
3 1 (25.00%) Spring
3 1 (25.00%) Maven
3 1 (25.00%) Ant
3 1 (25.00%) JUnit
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) JDBC
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) XML
3 1 (25.00%) XSL

Unit Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Northern Ireland 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 3 (75.00%) J2EE
2 2 (50.00%) Web Services
2 2 (50.00%) WebSphere
3 1 (25.00%) Java EE
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
3 1 (25.00%) Spring MVC
3 1 (25.00%) Spring
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) JDBC
3 1 (25.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) XML
3 1 (25.00%) XSL
3 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (25.00%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) ESB
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) LDAP
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MSTest
1 1 (25.00%) HttpUnit
1 1 (25.00%) NUnit
1 1 (25.00%) Maven
1 1 (25.00%) Ant
1 1 (25.00%) JUnit
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leader
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Performance Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (25.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) C#
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Jaspersoft
Belfast, County Antrim
C# - ASP.NET MVC3 - £350 per day - Belfast... The successful candidate will require extensive experience around the following technologies: -C# 3.5-4.0 -ASP.NET MVC3 -HTML,...
Stott & May
Rate: £350 per day + extensions
Posted: 16 May 2013