The first table below looks at the demand for Unit Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Nottingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Unit Testing over the 3 months to 21 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 Nottingham 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Unit Testing
Rank 36 27 27
Rank change year-on-year
-9 0
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 2 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 0.694% 1.339% 0.429%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.000% 1.911% 0.685%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
Average daily rate £425 £250 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+70.00% +11.11%
UK excluding London average daily rate £343 £325 £323
% change year-on-year
+5.38% +0.77%
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
Nottingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
200 157 146
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 69.44% 70.09% 62.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 78 43
Average daily rate £351 £338 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.85% -3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £250 £251
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £500 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 12 8
Average hourly rate £27.50 £17.50 £26.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+57.14% -32.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.39 £8.50 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £30.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Unit Testing
Nottinghamshire

Unit Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottingham 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 Nottingham region.

Nottingham 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 Nottingham region.

Nottingham Unit Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Unit Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 2 (50.00%) QMS
2 2 (50.00%) QA
2 2 (50.00%) WCF
2 2 (50.00%) Quality Management
2 2 (50.00%) Uniface
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle 10g
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) CSS
2 2 (50.00%) XML
3 1 (25.00%) CRM
3 1 (25.00%) N-Tier
3 1 (25.00%) .NET
3 1 (25.00%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Silverlight
3 1 (25.00%) LINQ
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (25.00%) MVVM

Unit Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 2 (50.00%) WCF
1 2 (50.00%) HTML
1 2 (50.00%) CSS
1 2 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) Silverlight
2 1 (25.00%) LINQ
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (25.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) BizTalk Server
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Uniface Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Silverlight Developer
3 1 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 2 (50.00%) QMS
2 2 (50.00%) Quality Management
3 1 (25.00%) CRM
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Uniface
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle