Unit Testing Contracts in Scotland

Unit Testing
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 84 98 100
Rank change year-on-year +14 +2 +5
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 47 70 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.13% 2.45% 1.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.40% 2.65% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 58 45
10th Percentile £424 £413 £414
25th Percentile £447 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £479 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -8.76% +23.53%
75th Percentile £544 £533 £548
90th Percentile £592 £574 £575
UK median daily rate £535 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.96% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £53.25
Median hourly rate - £59.03 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year - +5.41% -
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £58.75
% change year-on-year - +10.64% +27.72%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,956 2,645 3,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.63% 92.68% 92.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,192 1,903 2,321
10th Percentile £230 £261 £244
25th Percentile £400 £407 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £588 £554 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 55 49
10th Percentile £12.36 £10.63 £14.94
25th Percentile £16.00 £11.78 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% -46.30% -21.43%
75th Percentile £40.94 £54.13 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.13 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in Scotland

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in Scotland

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in Scotland

Unit Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Unit Testing in Scotland

Unit Testing
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unit Testing within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +7 24 £493 +6.59% 5
Edinburgh +16 13 £484 +0.94% 8
West Lothian - 4 £588 -
Lanarkshire - 1 £725 - 4
Unit Testing
UK

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 7 (14.89%) Confluence
2 2 (4.26%) Apache
2 2 (4.26%) JBoss
2 2 (4.26%) Tomcat
2 2 (4.26%) WildFly
3 1 (2.13%) GeoServer
Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (6.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (4.26%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 17 (36.17%) AWS
2 13 (27.66%) Amazon S3
2 13 (27.66%) AWS CloudFormation
2 13 (27.66%) AWS Lambda
2 13 (27.66%) Serverless
3 9 (19.15%) OpenShift
4 4 (8.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (6.38%) OCI
6 2 (4.26%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (4.26%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (2.13%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (2.13%) Azure
7 1 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.13%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.26%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (34.04%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (27.66%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (12.77%) Oracle Database
4 2 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (4.26%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (4.26%) GIS
4 2 (4.26%) MongoDB
4 2 (4.26%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (2.13%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 21 (44.68%) JIRA
2 12 (25.53%) Jenkins
3 7 (14.89%) JUnit
4 6 (12.77%) Cypress.io
5 5 (10.64%) Cucumber
5 5 (10.64%) Git
5 5 (10.64%) IntelliJ
5 5 (10.64%) Mockito
5 5 (10.64%) Postman
6 2 (4.26%) GitLab
6 2 (4.26%) Maven
6 2 (4.26%) Subversion
General
1 15 (31.91%) Public Sector
2 8 (17.02%) Finance
3 5 (10.64%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.26%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Legal
5 1 (2.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (57.45%) Developer
2 8 (17.02%) Full Stack Developer
3 6 (12.77%) Java Developer
3 6 (12.77%) Lead
4 5 (10.64%) Senior
5 4 (8.51%) Full Stack Java Developer
6 3 (6.38%) Full Stack Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Java Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Lead Java Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Technical Leader
6 3 (6.38%) UAT Manager
7 2 (4.26%) Data Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Project Manager
7 2 (4.26%) React Developer
7 2 (4.26%) Test Manager
8 1 (2.13%) Senior Developer
8 1 (2.13%) Senior Java Developer
8 1 (2.13%) Senior React Developer
8 1 (2.13%) Software Developer
8 1 (2.13%) UAT Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (40.43%) CSS
1 19 (40.43%) HTML
2 18 (38.30%) React
3 15 (31.91%) AWS CDK
4 11 (23.40%) Node.js
5 9 (19.15%) REST
6 8 (17.02%) Spring
7 6 (12.77%) Spring Boot
8 5 (10.64%) GraphQL
8 5 (10.64%) Jest
8 5 (10.64%) Playwright
8 5 (10.64%) Spring MVC
8 5 (10.64%) Spring Web Flow
8 5 (10.64%) Thymeleaf
9 4 (8.51%) OAuth
9 4 (8.51%) OAuth2
9 4 (8.51%) PostGIS
9 4 (8.51%) Spring Security
10 2 (4.26%) Java EE
10 2 (4.26%) JSTL
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.15%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (6.38%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.26%) Unix
2 1 (2.13%) AIX
2 1 (2.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (80.85%) Agile
2 23 (48.94%) Test Automation
3 17 (36.17%) CI/CD
4 16 (34.04%) Code Quality
4 16 (34.04%) Human-Centred Design
4 16 (34.04%) Inclusive Design
5 15 (31.91%) Community of Practice
5 15 (31.91%) CRM
5 15 (31.91%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (27.66%) Full Stack Development
6 13 (27.66%) Microservices
7 11 (23.40%) Analytics
8 10 (21.28%) DevOps
8 10 (21.28%) TDD
9 9 (19.15%) Pair Programming
9 9 (19.15%) User Experience
10 8 (17.02%) Architecture Roadmap
10 8 (17.02%) Product Roadmap
10 8 (17.02%) Roadmaps
11 7 (14.89%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (42.55%) JavaScript
1 20 (42.55%) SQL
2 18 (38.30%) Java
3 12 (25.53%) TypeScript
4 10 (21.28%) PL/SQL
5 8 (17.02%) Python
6 4 (8.51%) Bash
7 3 (6.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (4.26%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.13%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (31.91%) Accessibility
2 7 (14.89%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (4.26%) GDPR
4 1 (2.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (25.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (29.79%) Grafana
2 5 (10.64%) Kibana
Vendors
1 13 (27.66%) Avaloq
2 9 (19.15%) Oracle
3 3 (6.38%) Blue Prism
4 1 (2.13%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.13%) VMware