The first table below looks at the demand for Unit Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Norwich region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Unit Testing over the 3 months to 23 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 Norwich 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Unit Testing
Rank 16 19 17
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -2
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 10 7 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Norwich 8.065% 4.023% 8.824%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.15% 5.109% 12.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 11
Average daily rate £300 £538 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-44.18% +86.95%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £428 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £320 £648 £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £323 £323
% change year-on-year
+8.52% -
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
Norwich
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
66 137 150
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Norwich 53.23% 78.74% 73.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 48 40
Average daily rate £250 £338 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-25.92% -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £125 £200 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £323 £675 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 6
Average hourly rate £22.25 £25.75 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.59% +17.04%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £18.50 £7.85
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £26.00 £34.00 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Unit Testing
Norfolk

Unit Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Norwich 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 Norwich region.

Norwich Unit Testing Daily Rate Trend

Unit Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Norwich 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 22 (88.00%) jQuery
2 18 (72.00%) PHP
2 18 (72.00%) CSS
2 18 (72.00%) Drupal
3 17 (68.00%) HTML
3 17 (68.00%) JavaScript
4 15 (60.00%) Publishing
4 15 (60.00%) Photoshop
4 15 (60.00%) XHTML
4 15 (60.00%) Code Coverage
5 7 (28.00%) SharePoint
6 5 (20.00%) OO
6 5 (20.00%) Selenium
6 5 (20.00%) BDD
7 4 (16.00%) SpecFlow
7 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
7 4 (16.00%) C#
7 4 (16.00%) .NET
8 3 (12.00%) SQL Server
8 3 (12.00%) Apache
8 3 (12.00%) OOP
8 3 (12.00%) SOAP
8 3 (12.00%) MS Excel
8 3 (12.00%) Workflow
8 3 (12.00%) .NET Framework
8 3 (12.00%) REST
8 3 (12.00%) QA
8 3 (12.00%) WatiN
9 2 (8.000%) Git (software)
9 2 (8.000%) HTML5

Unit Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Norwich 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 22 (88.00%) jQuery
2 18 (72.00%) CSS
3 17 (68.00%) HTML
4 15 (60.00%) XHTML
5 4 (16.00%) .NET
6 3 (12.00%) SOAP
6 3 (12.00%) .NET Framework
6 3 (12.00%) REST
7 2 (8.000%) HTML5
7 2 (8.000%) Spring
7 2 (8.000%) Hibernate
7 2 (8.000%) Struts
7 2 (8.000%) JDBC
7 2 (8.000%) Servlets
7 2 (8.000%) J2EE
8 1 (4.000%) ASP.NET
8 1 (4.000%) Web Services
8 1 (4.000%) XML
8 1 (4.000%) WCF
8 1 (4.000%) LINQ
Application Platforms
1 18 (72.00%) Drupal
2 7 (28.00%) SharePoint
3 3 (12.00%) Apache
4 2 (8.000%) Tomcat
4 2 (8.000%) WebLogic
5 1 (4.000%) CMS
5 1 (4.000%) Apache Solr
5 1 (4.000%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 15 (60.00%) Photoshop
2 3 (12.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.000%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.000%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Selenium
2 4 (16.00%) SpecFlow
3 3 (12.00%) WatiN
4 2 (8.000%) Git (software)
4 2 (8.000%) Jenkins
4 2 (8.000%) JUnit
4 2 (8.000%) Visual Studio
5 1 (4.000%) NUnit
General
1 15 (60.00%) Publishing
2 2 (8.000%) Finance
2 2 (8.000%) Games
3 1 (4.000%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (76.00%) Developer
2 16 (64.00%) PHP Developer
3 11 (44.00%) Drupal Developer
4 9 (36.00%) PHP Drupal Developer
5 7 (28.00%) Software Developer
6 2 (8.000%) Automation Tester
6 2 (8.000%) Java Programmer
6 2 (8.000%) Programmer
6 2 (8.000%) QA Tester
6 2 (8.000%) Tester
7 1 (4.000%) Software Engineer
7 1 (4.000%) .NET Developer
7 1 (4.000%) Test Engineer
7 1 (4.000%) Lead Developer
7 1 (4.000%) Front-End Developer
7 1 (4.000%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (4.000%) Test Automation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.000%) Online Games
2 1 (4.000%) Inversion of Control
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (60.00%) Code Coverage
2 5 (20.00%) OO
2 5 (20.00%) BDD
3 3 (12.00%) OOP
3 3 (12.00%) Workflow
4 2 (8.000%) TDD
4 2 (8.000%) Automated Testing
4 2 (8.000%) Business Analysis
4 2 (8.000%) Requirements Analysis
4 2 (8.000%) OOD
4 2 (8.000%) UML
5 1 (4.000%) E-Commerce
5 1 (4.000%) Regression Testing
5 1 (4.000%) MVC
5 1 (4.000%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (4.000%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (4.000%) User Stories
5 1 (4.000%) Test Automation
5 1 (4.000%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 18 (72.00%) PHP
2 17 (68.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (16.00%) C#
4 2 (8.000%) Java
5 1 (4.000%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.000%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 2 (8.000%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.000%) Varnish
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft