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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 55 54 92
Rank change year-on-year -1 +38 -39
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 45 34 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 3.87% 3.35% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.31% 3.71% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 24 6
10th Percentile £339 £495 £363
25th Percentile £588 £523 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £600 £488
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +23.08% -15.22%
75th Percentile £688 £706 £598
90th Percentile - £750 £606
Berkshire median daily rate £675 £588 £475
% change year-on-year +14.89% +23.68% -4.26%

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 1,045 916 1,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 89.78% 90.34% 90.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 565 616 808
10th Percentile £213 £363 £246
25th Percentile £413 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £660 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £654
Berkshire median daily rate £508 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -3.24% +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 23 8
10th Percentile £20.17 £45.50 £12.73
25th Percentile £52.90 £53.00 £19.44
Median hourly rate £61.65 £65.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.16% +132.14% +1.82%
75th Percentile £80.69 £74.40 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.49 £79.19 £40.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.00 £57.82 £21.03
% change year-on-year +5.50% +174.99% -0.12%

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 7 May 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 (24.44%) Apache
1 11 (24.44%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (4.44%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (4.44%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (4.44%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (4.44%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 17 (37.78%) AWS
2 13 (28.89%) Azure
3 11 (24.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 11 (24.44%) Azure Monitor
4 10 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
4 10 (22.22%) Azure Functions
4 10 (22.22%) Serverless
5 9 (20.00%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Cognitive Search
6 1 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (2.22%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 11 (24.44%) BGP
1 11 (24.44%) Ethernet VPN
1 11 (24.44%) MPLS
1 11 (24.44%) Radio Access Network
1 11 (24.44%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (46.67%) NoSQL
3 18 (40.00%) Oracle Database
4 16 (35.56%) Oracle Database 11g
5 11 (24.44%) MongoDB
6 2 (4.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (28.89%) Git
2 12 (26.67%) JIRA
3 11 (24.44%) GitLab
3 11 (24.44%) Robot Framework
3 11 (24.44%) TestRail
4 2 (4.44%) Selenium
5 1 (2.22%) Appium
5 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.22%) MSTest
5 1 (2.22%) NUnit
5 1 (2.22%) SpecFlow
5 1 (2.22%) TeamCity
General
1 14 (31.11%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (4.44%) Finance
3 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (60.00%) Developer
2 14 (31.11%) PostgreSQL Developer
3 10 (22.22%) Azure Developer
3 10 (22.22%) Full Stack Developer
3 10 (22.22%) Network Engineer
3 10 (22.22%) Test Engineer
4 5 (11.11%) Full Stack Python Developer
4 5 (11.11%) Python Developer
5 2 (4.44%) Consultant
5 2 (4.44%) Designer
5 2 (4.44%) Functional Consultant
5 2 (4.44%) Lead
5 2 (4.44%) Lead Designer
5 2 (4.44%) Oracle Consultant
5 2 (4.44%) Oracle Functional Consultant
5 2 (4.44%) Software Developer
6 1 (2.22%) C# Software Engineer
6 1 (2.22%) Migration Engineer
6 1 (2.22%) Software Engineer
6 1 (2.22%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (24.44%) NETCONF
1 11 (24.44%) REST
1 11 (24.44%) RESTCONF
1 11 (24.44%) SOAP
1 11 (24.44%) YANG
2 10 (22.22%) React
3 4 (8.89%) CSS
3 4 (8.89%) HTML
4 3 (6.67%) .NET
5 2 (4.44%) AngularJS
5 2 (4.44%) ASP.NET
5 2 (4.44%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (4.44%) Node.js
6 1 (2.22%) .NET Core
6 1 (2.22%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.22%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.78%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (62.22%) DevOps
2 26 (57.78%) Agile
3 24 (53.33%) CI/CD
4 17 (37.78%) Software Engineering
4 17 (37.78%) Software Testing
5 16 (35.56%) Data Migration
5 16 (35.56%) Migration
5 16 (35.56%) Performance Tuning
5 16 (35.56%) Secure Coding
6 15 (33.33%) Architectural Design
6 15 (33.33%) Clean Code
6 15 (33.33%) Integration Testing
6 15 (33.33%) Test Automation
7 13 (28.89%) Regression Testing
7 13 (28.89%) Scrum
7 13 (28.89%) Security Testing
8 12 (26.67%) Containerisation
9 11 (24.44%) Performance Testing
9 11 (24.44%) Workflow
10 10 (22.22%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (66.67%) SQL
2 21 (46.67%) Python
3 19 (42.22%) PL/SQL
4 4 (8.89%) JavaScript
5 3 (6.67%) C
6 2 (4.44%) PHP
7 1 (2.22%) Bash
7 1 (2.22%) C#
7 1 (2.22%) Java
7 1 (2.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (37.78%) SC Cleared
1 17 (37.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.44%) QA
System Software
1 12 (26.67%) Docker
2 10 (22.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.22%) Ansible
1 1 (2.22%) Progress Chef
1 1 (2.22%) Puppet
1 1 (2.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (40.00%) Oracle
2 1 (2.22%) Avaloq
2 1 (2.22%) Google