Unit Testing Contracts in Reading
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Unit Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading 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 Reading 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 70 63 62
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -1
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 3 18 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.350% 1.629% 1.650%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.523% 2.597% 2.496%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 9 2
Average daily rate £380 £338 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.59% -18.18%
UK excluding London average daily rate £343 £325 £323
% change year-on-year
+5.38% +0.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £33.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -3.57%
All Processes & Methodologies
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 574 693 681
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 67.06% 62.71% 66.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 267 304
Average daily rate £390 £370 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.40% +5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £253 £235 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 24 16
Average hourly rate £16.00 £14.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.34% -47.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.20 £11.00 £13.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £23.80 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Unit Testing
Berkshire

Unit Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading 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 Reading 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 6 (85.71%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) OO
2 3 (42.86%) GSM
2 3 (42.86%) J2EE
3 2 (28.57%) VBA
3 2 (28.57%) .NET
3 2 (28.57%) HTML
3 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
3 2 (28.57%) OOD
3 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2000
3 2 (28.57%) MS Excel
3 2 (28.57%) MS Access
3 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
3 2 (28.57%) 3G
3 2 (28.57%) MSI
3 2 (28.57%) Wireless
3 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
3 2 (28.57%) Cramer
3 2 (28.57%) VMware
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
3 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
3 2 (28.57%) Systems Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) StarTeam
3 2 (28.57%) UNIX
4 1 (14.29%) WebSphere
4 1 (14.29%) Ajax
4 1 (14.29%) Smartphone
4 1 (14.29%) JTAG

Unit Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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%) J2EE
2 2 (28.57%) .NET
2 2 (28.57%) HTML
3 1 (14.29%) WebSphere
3 1 (14.29%) Ajax
3 1 (14.29%) Struts2
3 1 (14.29%) HTML5
3 1 (14.29%) REST
3 1 (14.29%) CSS3
3 1 (14.29%) Sencha Touch
3 1 (14.29%) JSON
3 1 (14.29%) KML
3 1 (14.29%) jQuery
3 1 (14.29%) Spring
3 1 (14.29%) SyncML
3 1 (14.29%) Flash
3 1 (14.29%) J2ME
3 1 (14.29%) WAP
3 1 (14.29%) CSS
3 1 (14.29%) JDBC
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) CMS
1 1 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Agresso
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) GSM
2 2 (28.57%) 3G
2 2 (28.57%) Wireless
3 1 (14.29%) RFID
3 1 (14.29%) RTCP
3 1 (14.29%) RTP
3 1 (14.29%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2000
1 2 (28.57%) MS Access
2 1 (14.29%) GIS
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) MSI
1 2 (28.57%) StarTeam
2 1 (14.29%) Subversion
2 1 (14.29%) Eclipse
General
1 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
2 1 (14.29%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Applications Packager
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Leader
2 1 (14.29%) Mobile Applications Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Mobile Developer
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Tester
2 1 (14.29%) Web Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Smartphone
1 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
1 1 (14.29%) Device Driver
1 1 (14.29%) Blackberry
1 1 (14.29%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) UNIX
3 1 (14.29%) Android
3 1 (14.29%) Apple iOS
3 1 (14.29%) Windows 8
3 1 (14.29%) Windows CE
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) OO
2 2 (28.57%) OOD
2 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Architecture
2 2 (28.57%) Systems Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Web Application Development
3 1 (14.29%) Web Development
3 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Integration Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Time Management
3 1 (14.29%) Content Management
3 1 (14.29%) E-business
3 1 (14.29%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) VBA
1 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) JTAG
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Cramer
1 2 (28.57%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) Sencha
2 1 (14.29%) ESRI
2 1 (14.29%) HP
2 1 (14.29%) Mapinfo
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
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