The first table below looks at the demand for Unit Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Unit Testing over the 3 months to 17 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 Oxford 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Unit Testing
Rank 35 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 0.452% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.649% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £400 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.84% -
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
Oxford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
154 197 69
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 69.68% 56.94% 43.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 125 38
Average daily rate £350 £425 £230
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.64% +84.78%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £284 £178
10% offered a daily rate of more than £498 £500 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 20 2
Average hourly rate £10.33 £20.06 £11.39
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-48.52% +76.15%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Unit Testing
Oxfordshire

Unit Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford Unit Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Unit Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 4 (57.14%) C#
2 3 (42.86%) HTML
2 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
2 3 (42.86%) .NET
2 3 (42.86%) CSS
2 3 (42.86%) Scrum
2 3 (42.86%) TDD
2 3 (42.86%) Ajax
3 2 (28.57%) WebSphere
3 2 (28.57%) Degree
3 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Bash shell
3 2 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (28.57%) Workflow Management
3 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (28.57%) Workflow
3 2 (28.57%) IBM
3 2 (28.57%) XML
3 2 (28.57%) XSL
3 2 (28.57%) Linux
3 2 (28.57%) Python
3 2 (28.57%) N-Tier
3 2 (28.57%) Ingres
3 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
3 2 (28.57%) Perl
4 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL
4 1 (14.29%) IIS

Unit Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 (42.86%) HTML
1 3 (42.86%) .NET
1 3 (42.86%) CSS
1 3 (42.86%) Ajax
2 2 (28.57%) WebSphere
2 2 (28.57%) XML
2 2 (28.57%) XSL
3 1 (14.29%) CGI
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
3 1 (14.29%) WPF
3 1 (14.29%) LINQ
3 1 (14.29%) jQuery
3 1 (14.29%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 1 (14.29%) Web Services
3 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
1 2 (28.57%) Ingres
1 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Subversion
General
1 1 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (14.29%) German Language
1 1 (14.29%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) .NET Developer
2 3 (42.86%) C# Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Agile .NET Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Agile C# Developer
3 2 (28.57%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (14.29%) WPF Developer
4 1 (14.29%) SQL Programmer
4 1 (14.29%) Database Developer
4 1 (14.29%) SQL Developer
4 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Perl Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Software Programmer
4 1 (14.29%) Programmer
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) N-Tier
2 1 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (14.29%) Pharmacovigilance
2 1 (14.29%) Wiki
2 1 (14.29%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Debian
2 1 (14.29%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) TDD
1 3 (42.86%) Scrum
2 2 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
2 2 (28.57%) Workflow Management
2 2 (28.57%) Workflow
2 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) MVC
3 1 (14.29%) Validation
3 1 (14.29%) Web Development
3 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
3 1 (14.29%) Data Migration
3 1 (14.29%) MVVM
3 1 (14.29%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) C#
2 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 2 (28.57%) Perl
3 2 (28.57%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) Python
3 2 (28.57%) Bash shell
4 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) IBM
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle