The first table below looks at the demand for JUnit skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JUnit 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 Development Applications category for the Scotland 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
JUnit
Rank 79 95 106
Rank change year-on-year
+16 +11
Contract jobs citing JUnit 41 10 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 1.681% 0.378% 0.285%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.65% 6.452% 2.963%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 5 6
Average daily rate £400 £338 £398
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.51% -15.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £338 £310 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £380 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £358 £350 £358
% change year-on-year
+2.14% -2.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +14.28%
All Development Applications
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
262 155 270
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 10.74% 5.851% 9.626%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 71 142
Average daily rate £350 £325 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -13.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £223 £288
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 1
Average hourly rate - £27.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +30.95%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
JUnit
UK

JUnit
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing JUnit across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Scotland JUnit Jobs Demand Trend

JUnit
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing JUnit across the Scotland region.

Scotland JUnit Daily Rate Trend

JUnit
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JUnit across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Scotland JUnit Daily Rate Histogram

JUnit
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing JUnit across the Scotland region.

Scotland JUnit Hourly Rate Trend

JUnit
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JUnit within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Glasgow +2 25 £375 +17.64%
Edinburgh +9 4 £438 +20.68%
West Lothian - 2 £388 -
Stirling -10 1 - -
JUnit
UK

JUnit
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing JUnit 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 JUnit.

1 56 (98.25%) Java
2 42 (73.68%) Spring
3 36 (63.16%) SQL
4 29 (50.88%) Sybase
5 25 (43.86%) JMS
6 24 (42.11%) Linux
7 21 (36.84%) UNIX
8 20 (35.09%) J2SE
9 17 (29.82%) Tomcat
9 17 (29.82%) DB2
10 16 (28.07%) XML
11 15 (26.32%) Oracle
11 15 (26.32%) Eclipse
11 15 (26.32%) Maven
11 15 (26.32%) Hibernate
12 13 (22.81%) J2EE
12 13 (22.81%) Ant
13 11 (19.30%) HTML
13 11 (19.30%) UML
13 11 (19.30%) Finance
13 11 (19.30%) Jenkins
14 10 (17.54%) Unit Testing
14 10 (17.54%) TDD
14 10 (17.54%) OO
14 10 (17.54%) SOA
15 9 (15.79%) Subversion
15 9 (15.79%) Git (software)
15 9 (15.79%) soapUI
16 8 (14.04%) Agile Software Development
16 8 (14.04%) RDBMS

JUnit
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing JUnit 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 JUnit. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 42 (73.68%) Spring
2 25 (43.86%) JMS
3 20 (35.09%) J2SE
4 16 (28.07%) XML
5 15 (26.32%) Hibernate
6 13 (22.81%) J2EE
7 11 (19.30%) HTML
8 9 (15.79%) soapUI
9 8 (14.04%) CSS
9 8 (14.04%) JDBC
10 7 (12.28%) JSP
11 6 (10.53%) .NET
11 6 (10.53%) Web Services
11 6 (10.53%) JSF
11 6 (10.53%) Java EE
11 6 (10.53%) JAX-WS
11 6 (10.53%) RESTful
12 5 (8.772%) iBATIS
12 5 (8.772%) XSLT
12 5 (8.772%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 17 (29.82%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.754%) CMS
2 1 (1.754%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (1.754%) IIS
2 1 (1.754%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (5.263%) Photoshop
1 3 (5.263%) Fireworks
Business Applications
1 1 (1.754%) Advent Geneva
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.509%) FTP
2 1 (1.754%) SAN
2 1 (1.754%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (29.82%) DB2
2 8 (14.04%) RDBMS
3 6 (10.53%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.509%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.754%) MySQL
5 1 (1.754%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.754%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 15 (26.32%) Eclipse
1 15 (26.32%) Maven
2 13 (22.81%) Ant
3 11 (19.30%) Jenkins
4 9 (15.79%) Git (software)
4 9 (15.79%) Subversion
5 6 (10.53%) Selenium
6 5 (8.772%) FitNesse
6 5 (8.772%) Eclipse RCP
6 5 (8.772%) ClearCase
7 3 (5.263%) Firebug
8 2 (3.509%) JIRA
8 2 (3.509%) JMeter
8 2 (3.509%) CruiseControl
9 1 (1.754%) Visual Studio
9 1 (1.754%) ClearQuest
9 1 (1.754%) HttpUnit
General
1 11 (19.30%) Finance
2 6 (10.53%) Front Office
3 2 (3.509%) Banking
3 2 (3.509%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 52 (91.23%) Developer
2 49 (85.96%) Java Developer
3 3 (5.263%) Senior Java Developer
3 3 (5.263%) Senior Developer
4 2 (3.509%) Java Architect
4 2 (3.509%) Scala Developer
4 2 (3.509%) Java Software Engineer
4 2 (3.509%) Architect
4 2 (3.509%) Software Engineer
5 1 (1.754%) .NET Developer
5 1 (1.754%) Technical Architect
5 1 (1.754%) Web Developer
5 1 (1.754%) Development Specialist
5 1 (1.754%) Applications Developer
5 1 (1.754%) Team Leader
5 1 (1.754%) Development Team Leader
5 1 (1.754%) Java Team Leader
5 1 (1.754%) Java Technical Architect
5 1 (1.754%) Java Web Developer
5 1 (1.754%) Java Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.53%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (8.772%) N-Tier
3 4 (7.018%) Derivative
3 4 (7.018%) Equity Derivative
4 2 (3.509%) Mathematics
4 2 (3.509%) Computer Science
4 2 (3.509%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.754%) Open Source
5 1 (1.754%) W3C
5 1 (1.754%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 24 (42.11%) Linux
2 21 (36.84%) UNIX
3 6 (10.53%) Windows
4 3 (5.263%) Android
5 1 (1.754%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (19.30%) UML
2 10 (17.54%) SOA
2 10 (17.54%) OO
2 10 (17.54%) TDD
2 10 (17.54%) Unit Testing
3 8 (14.04%) Agile Software Development
4 7 (12.28%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (12.28%) Data Modelling
5 4 (7.018%) ETL
5 4 (7.018%) User Acceptance Testing
5 4 (7.018%) Pair Programming
5 4 (7.018%) Software Engineering
6 3 (5.263%) Integration Testing
6 3 (5.263%) Scrum
6 3 (5.263%) MVC
6 3 (5.263%) Risk Management
7 2 (3.509%) Workflow
7 2 (3.509%) Extreme Programming
7 2 (3.509%) Code Coverage
7 2 (3.509%) OOA/OOD
Programming Languages
1 56 (98.25%) Java
2 36 (63.16%) SQL
3 7 (12.28%) JavaScript
4 6 (10.53%) PL/SQL
4 6 (10.53%) Shell Script
5 5 (8.772%) C#
6 4 (7.018%) Perl
6 4 (7.018%) Python
6 4 (7.018%) Jython
6 4 (7.018%) Korn
7 3 (5.263%) Scala
7 3 (5.263%) Bash shell
7 3 (5.263%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.754%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (3.509%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.754%) QA
System Software
1 3 (5.263%) MetaFrame
Vendors
1 29 (50.88%) Sybase
2 15 (26.32%) Oracle
3 6 (10.53%) JBoss
4 4 (7.018%) Informatica
4 4 (7.018%) Perforce
5 3 (5.263%) Citrix
6 2 (3.509%) IBM
6 2 (3.509%) Intel
6 2 (3.509%) Sun
7 1 (1.754%) HP
7 1 (1.754%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.754%) Advent
Livingston, West Lothian
Java/Agile/TDD/PP/JMS/Spring/JUnit/Hibernate/XML/Fitnesse/Tomcat/Mobile development/HTML... Experience of developing using the Spring Framework and JUnit ? RDMS experience using JDBC with...
Experis IT
Rate: £350 - £450 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
Glasgow, Scotland
The role would particularly suit candidates who have a foundation in Java with particular emphasis on Scala and DB2. You should also possess good business analytical skills, strong...
Harvey Nash Consulting (Scotland) Limited
Rate: market rates
Posted: 24 April 2013