Unit Testing Contracts in Reading

Unit Testing
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for Unit Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Unit Testing over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 60 90
Rank change year-on-year +18 +30 -36
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 50 27 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 4.19% 2.59% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.65% 2.88% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 19 6
10th Percentile £392 £488 £363
25th Percentile £588 £514 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £575 £488
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +17.95% -15.22%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £598
90th Percentile - £750 £606
Berkshire median daily rate £650 £575 £500
% change year-on-year +13.04% +15.00% +0.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Unit Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,075 936 1,232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 90.18% 89.91% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 581 620 824
10th Percentile £213 £363 £252
25th Percentile £413 £455 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £660 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £509 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -3.05% +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 23 8
10th Percentile £27.58 £45.50 £12.73
25th Percentile £53.74 £53.00 £19.44
Median hourly rate £62.07 £65.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% +132.14% -32.93%
75th Percentile £82.55 £74.40 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.19 £40.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £57.82 £21.05
% change year-on-year +6.54% +174.67% -1.06%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Unit Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in Reading

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in Reading

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in Reading over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in Reading

Unit Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for Unit Testing in Reading

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (22.00%) Apache
1 11 (22.00%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (4.00%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (4.00%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (4.00%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (4.00%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 19 (38.00%) AWS
2 16 (32.00%) Azure
3 14 (28.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 14 (28.00%) Azure Monitor
4 10 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 10 (20.00%) Azure Functions
4 10 (20.00%) Serverless
5 9 (18.00%) Entra ID
6 4 (8.00%) Azure Cognitive Search
6 4 (8.00%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 11 (22.00%) BGP
1 11 (22.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 11 (22.00%) MPLS
1 11 (22.00%) Radio Access Network
1 11 (22.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (58.00%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (42.00%) NoSQL
3 20 (40.00%) Oracle Database
4 18 (36.00%) Oracle Database 11g
5 11 (22.00%) MongoDB
6 2 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (32.00%) Git
2 12 (24.00%) JIRA
3 11 (22.00%) GitLab
3 11 (22.00%) Robot Framework
3 11 (22.00%) TestRail
4 2 (4.00%) Selenium
5 1 (2.00%) Appium
5 1 (2.00%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.00%) MSTest
5 1 (2.00%) NUnit
5 1 (2.00%) SpecFlow
5 1 (2.00%) TeamCity
General
1 17 (34.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (4.00%) Finance
3 1 (2.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (56.00%) Developer
2 15 (30.00%) PostgreSQL Developer
3 10 (20.00%) Azure Developer
3 10 (20.00%) Full Stack Developer
3 10 (20.00%) Network Engineer
3 10 (20.00%) Test Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Designer
4 5 (10.00%) Full Stack Python Developer
4 5 (10.00%) Lead
4 5 (10.00%) Lead Designer
4 5 (10.00%) Python Developer
5 2 (4.00%) Consultant
5 2 (4.00%) Database Developer
5 2 (4.00%) Functional Consultant
5 2 (4.00%) Migration Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) Oracle Consultant
5 2 (4.00%) Oracle Functional Consultant
5 2 (4.00%) Software Developer
6 1 (2.00%) Software Engineer
6 1 (2.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (22.00%) NETCONF
1 11 (22.00%) REST
1 11 (22.00%) RESTCONF
1 11 (22.00%) SOAP
1 11 (22.00%) YANG
2 10 (20.00%) React
3 7 (14.00%) CSS
3 7 (14.00%) HTML
4 5 (10.00%) AngularJS
4 5 (10.00%) Node.js
5 3 (6.00%) .NET
6 2 (4.00%) ASP.NET
6 2 (4.00%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (2.00%) .NET Core
7 1 (2.00%) .NET Framework
7 1 (2.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (66.00%) DevOps
2 29 (58.00%) Agile
3 27 (54.00%) CI/CD
4 22 (44.00%) Software Testing
5 19 (38.00%) Software Engineering
6 18 (36.00%) Data Migration
6 18 (36.00%) Integration Testing
6 18 (36.00%) Migration
6 18 (36.00%) Performance Tuning
6 18 (36.00%) Secure Coding
6 18 (36.00%) Test Automation
7 17 (34.00%) Architectural Design
7 17 (34.00%) Clean Code
8 16 (32.00%) Security Testing
9 13 (26.00%) Regression Testing
9 13 (26.00%) Scrum
10 12 (24.00%) Containerisation
11 11 (22.00%) Performance Testing
11 11 (22.00%) Product Backlog
11 11 (22.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 32 (64.00%) SQL
2 21 (42.00%) PL/SQL
2 21 (42.00%) Python
3 7 (14.00%) JavaScript
4 5 (10.00%) PHP
5 3 (6.00%) C
6 1 (2.00%) Bash
6 1 (2.00%) C#
6 1 (2.00%) Java
6 1 (2.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (38.00%) SC Cleared
1 19 (38.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 12 (24.00%) Docker
2 10 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.00%) Ansible
1 1 (2.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (2.00%) Puppet
1 1 (2.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (40.00%) Oracle
2 1 (2.00%) Avaloq
2 1 (2.00%) Google