Unit Testing Contracts in Scotland
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Unit Testing 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 Unit Testing over the 3 months to 24 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 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Unit Testing
Rank 55 76 54
Rank change year-on-year
+21 -22
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 67 34 61
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 2.747% 1.278% 2.208%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.002% 1.985% 3.290%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 16 35
Average daily rate £285 £273 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.39% -22.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £235 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £440 £375 £515
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £320
% change year-on-year
+7.69% +1.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £28.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.75 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -7.14%
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Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 1674 1713 1854
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 68.63% 64.40% 67.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 866 868 956
Average daily rate £365 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.28% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £261 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 67 50
Average hourly rate £20.00 £22.75 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.08% -24.16%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £9.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.30 £35.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
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Unit Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland Unit Testing Daily Rate Trend

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Unit Testing across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Scotland Unit Testing Daily Rate Histogram

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 Scotland region.

Scotland Unit Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Unit Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unit Testing within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 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 +1 47 £285 +4.39%
Edinburgh +11 8 £255 -49.00%
Stirling -9 3 £488 +39.28%
Fife - 3 - -
Dundee +7 1 - -
West Lothian - 1 £400 -
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Unit Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 59 (47.97%) SQL
2 58 (47.15%) Java
3 55 (44.72%) Oracle
4 50 (40.65%) XML
5 41 (33.33%) Finance
6 34 (27.64%) Spring
7 32 (26.02%) QA
8 31 (25.20%) WebSphere
9 30 (24.39%) JavaScript
10 29 (23.58%) C#
10 29 (23.58%) PL/SQL
10 29 (23.58%) Change Management
11 26 (21.14%) RDBMS
11 26 (21.14%) Agile Software Development
12 25 (20.33%) .NET
12 25 (20.33%) UNIX
12 25 (20.33%) OO
13 23 (18.70%) Banking
13 23 (18.70%) Subversion
14 22 (17.89%) J2EE
14 22 (17.89%) SQL Server
14 22 (17.89%) Microsoft
15 20 (16.26%) MVC
16 19 (15.45%) JMS
16 19 (15.45%) HTML
16 19 (15.45%) CSS
16 19 (15.45%) JSP
16 19 (15.45%) Struts
17 18 (14.63%) WPF
18 17 (13.82%) Hibernate

Unit Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 50 (40.65%) XML
2 34 (27.64%) Spring
3 31 (25.20%) WebSphere
4 25 (20.33%) .NET
5 22 (17.89%) J2EE
6 19 (15.45%) JMS
6 19 (15.45%) HTML
6 19 (15.45%) CSS
6 19 (15.45%) JSP
6 19 (15.45%) Struts
7 18 (14.63%) WPF
8 17 (13.82%) Hibernate
9 16 (13.01%) XSLT
9 16 (13.01%) .NET Framework
9 16 (13.01%) Ajax
10 15 (12.20%) WCF
10 15 (12.20%) JDBC
11 13 (10.57%) Web Services
12 12 (9.756%) GWT
12 12 (9.756%) Spring MVC
Application Platforms
1 15 (12.20%) TIBCO EMS
1 15 (12.20%) WebSphere MQ
2 13 (10.57%) Tomcat
3 8 (6.504%) Lotus Notes
3 8 (6.504%) Lotus Domino
4 4 (3.252%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (2.439%) WebSphere Portal
5 3 (2.439%) WebLogic
5 3 (2.439%) Mule
6 1 (0.813%) GemFire
6 1 (0.813%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.813%) Documentum
6 1 (0.813%) Apache
6 1 (0.813%) Captiva
Applications
1 4 (3.252%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.813%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.626%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.813%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.813%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.252%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.626%) SSL
2 2 (1.626%) FTP
2 2 (1.626%) HTTP
3 1 (0.813%) Internet
3 1 (0.813%) SMS
3 1 (0.813%) Softphone
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (21.14%) RDBMS
2 22 (17.89%) SQL Server
3 12 (9.756%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (8.130%) Oracle 10g
5 7 (5.691%) Oracle 11g
6 5 (4.065%) Oracle 9i
6 5 (4.065%) SQL Server 2005
6 5 (4.065%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (3.252%) SQL Server 2000
7 4 (3.252%) GIS
8 3 (2.439%) DTS
8 3 (2.439%) SQL Server 2008
9 2 (1.626%) Oracle BI EE
9 2 (1.626%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.626%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.626%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (1.626%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.813%) TOAD
10 1 (0.813%) PowerCenter
10 1 (0.813%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 23 (18.70%) Subversion
2 16 (13.01%) Maven
2 16 (13.01%) Selenium
3 12 (9.756%) CruiseControl
4 11 (8.943%) JUnit
5 10 (8.130%) Eclipse
6 8 (6.504%) JIRA
7 7 (5.691%) Ant
8 4 (3.252%) ClearCase
8 4 (3.252%) Jenkins
8 4 (3.252%) Cucumber
9 3 (2.439%) JDeveloper
9 3 (2.439%) Visual Studio
9 3 (2.439%) PVCS
10 2 (1.626%) NUnit
10 2 (1.626%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (1.626%) QuickTest Pro
10 2 (1.626%) MSTest
10 2 (1.626%) Hudson
11 1 (0.813%) Concordion
General
1 41 (33.33%) Finance
2 23 (18.70%) Banking
3 10 (8.130%) Investment Banking
4 4 (3.252%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 95 (77.24%) Developer
2 32 (26.02%) Java Developer
3 18 (14.63%) .NET Developer
4 15 (12.20%) Programmer
5 12 (9.756%) C# Developer
5 12 (9.756%) Analyst
6 10 (8.130%) C# .NET Developer
7 9 (7.317%) Analyst Programmer
8 8 (6.504%) Oracle Developer
8 8 (6.504%) Senior Developer
9 6 (4.878%) Senior .NET Developer
9 6 (4.878%) Lotus Notes Developer
9 6 (4.878%) Software Developer
10 4 (3.252%) Oracle Analyst
10 4 (3.252%) Oracle Analyst Programmer
10 4 (3.252%) Data Warehouse Developer
10 4 (3.252%) Senior C# Developer
10 4 (3.252%) Lotus Notes Administrator
10 4 (3.252%) Software Engineer
10 4 (3.252%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.38%) N-Tier
2 5 (4.065%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (3.252%) Clustering
4 3 (2.439%) Inversion of Control
4 3 (2.439%) Client/Server
4 3 (2.439%) Derivative
4 3 (2.439%) PDA
5 2 (1.626%) Equity Derivative
5 2 (1.626%) Computer Science
5 2 (1.626%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (1.626%) W3C
6 1 (0.813%) Digital Media
6 1 (0.813%) Open Source
6 1 (0.813%) Thin Client
6 1 (0.813%) IVR
6 1 (0.813%) Fat Client
6 1 (0.813%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 25 (20.33%) UNIX
2 11 (8.943%) Windows
3 10 (8.130%) Linux
4 2 (1.626%) Solaris
5 1 (0.813%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.813%) Windows XP
5 1 (0.813%) Windows CE
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (23.58%) Change Management
2 26 (21.14%) Agile Software Development
3 25 (20.33%) OO
4 20 (16.26%) MVC
5 17 (13.82%) Data Modelling
6 14 (11.38%) Web Application Development
7 13 (10.57%) Continuous Integration
8 12 (9.756%) TDD
8 12 (9.756%) RAD
9 10 (8.130%) SOA
10 9 (7.317%) Scrum
11 8 (6.504%) UML
12 6 (4.878%) Test Scripting
12 6 (4.878%) ETL
12 6 (4.878%) Product Management
13 5 (4.065%) User Acceptance Testing
13 5 (4.065%) Multithreading
14 4 (3.252%) Web Development
14 4 (3.252%) Integration Testing
14 4 (3.252%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (47.97%) SQL
2 58 (47.15%) Java
3 30 (24.39%) JavaScript
4 29 (23.58%) C#
4 29 (23.58%) PL/SQL
5 16 (13.01%) Shell Script
6 11 (8.943%) Perl
7 10 (8.130%) C++
8 9 (7.317%) C
8 9 (7.317%) T-SQL
9 3 (2.439%) Bash shell
9 3 (2.439%) VB
9 3 (2.439%) VB.NET
10 2 (1.626%) Korn
10 2 (1.626%) Jython
10 2 (1.626%) Python
11 1 (0.813%) VBA
11 1 (0.813%) VB6
11 1 (0.813%) AWK
11 1 (0.813%) XPath
Qualifications
1 2 (1.626%) Degree
2 1 (0.813%) Sun Certification
2 1 (0.813%) Postgraduate
2 1 (0.813%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (26.02%) QA
2 2 (1.626%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (1.626%) Oracle RAC
1 2 (1.626%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (0.813%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.626%) Data Guard
1 2 (1.626%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (0.813%) Oracle Identity Management
2 1 (0.813%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.813%) SCCM
Vendors
1 55 (44.72%) Oracle
2 22 (17.89%) Microsoft
3 15 (12.20%) TIBCO
4 13 (10.57%) Sybase
5 8 (6.504%) Lotus
6 5 (4.065%) Informatica
7 4 (3.252%) Perforce
8 3 (2.439%) IBM
8 3 (2.439%) HP
9 2 (1.626%) JBoss
9 2 (1.626%) Cadis
10 1 (0.813%) Citrix
10 1 (0.813%) Genesys
10 1 (0.813%) BEA
10 1 (0.813%) Sun
10 1 (0.813%) Ab Initio
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