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

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 82 106 103
Rank change year-on-year +24 -3 -9
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 45 66 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.08% 2.39% 2.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 2.58% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 54 50
10th Percentile £418 £421 £416
25th Percentile £431 £452 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £488 £506
Median % change year-on-year -0.92% -3.56% +18.94%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £547
90th Percentile £594 £588 £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 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +25.00%

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 1,916 2,556 3,184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.38% 92.51% 93.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,164 1,817 2,256
10th Percentile £225 £260 £250
25th Percentile £375 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £556 £550
90th Percentile £656 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 55 50
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.75 £11.78 £18.35
Median hourly rate £19.34 £16.50 £38.71
Median % change year-on-year +17.18% -57.38% -7.83%
75th Percentile £46.24 £50.74 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.93 £67.13 £55.86
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

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 12 May 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 12 May 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 +24 28 £479 -8.76% 8
Edinburgh +8 9 £484 -0.82% 7
West Lothian - 4 £588 -
Lanarkshire - 1 £725 - 3
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 (15.56%) Confluence
2 2 (4.44%) Apache
2 2 (4.44%) JBoss
2 2 (4.44%) Tomcat
2 2 (4.44%) WildFly
3 1 (2.22%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.22%) GeoServer
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (4.44%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 13 (28.89%) AWS
2 7 (15.56%) Amazon S3
2 7 (15.56%) AWS CloudFormation
2 7 (15.56%) AWS Lambda
2 7 (15.56%) Azure
2 7 (15.56%) Serverless
3 4 (8.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (8.89%) GCP
3 4 (8.89%) OpenShift
4 3 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (6.67%) OCI
5 2 (4.44%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (4.44%) AWS CodePipeline
5 2 (4.44%) SaaS
6 1 (2.22%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (2.22%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.44%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (15.56%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (13.33%) Oracle Database
4 2 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (4.44%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (4.44%) GIS
4 2 (4.44%) MongoDB
4 2 (4.44%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (2.22%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (53.33%) JIRA
2 9 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 7 (15.56%) Git
3 7 (15.56%) JUnit
4 6 (13.33%) Mockito
5 5 (11.11%) Cucumber
5 5 (11.11%) IntelliJ
5 5 (11.11%) Postman
6 2 (4.44%) GitLab
6 2 (4.44%) Maven
6 2 (4.44%) Subversion
General
1 11 (24.44%) Public Sector
2 8 (17.78%) Finance
3 6 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 3 (6.67%) Banking
5 2 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.22%) Legal
6 1 (2.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (60.00%) Developer
2 9 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 4 (8.89%) Senior
4 3 (6.67%) Full Stack Developer
4 3 (6.67%) Full Stack Engineer
4 3 (6.67%) Full Stack Java Developer
4 3 (6.67%) Java Engineer
4 3 (6.67%) Lead
4 3 (6.67%) Lead Java Engineer
4 3 (6.67%) UAT Manager
5 2 (4.44%) Data Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Project Manager
5 2 (4.44%) Test Manager
6 1 (2.22%) Applications Developer
6 1 (2.22%) AWS Developer
6 1 (2.22%) Backend Developer
6 1 (2.22%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (2.22%) React Developer
6 1 (2.22%) Software Engineer
6 1 (2.22%) Xamarin Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (26.67%) CSS
2 11 (24.44%) HTML
2 11 (24.44%) Node.js
2 11 (24.44%) React
3 9 (20.00%) AWS CDK
4 8 (17.78%) Spring
5 7 (15.56%) Spring Boot
6 5 (11.11%) GraphQL
6 5 (11.11%) Jest
6 5 (11.11%) Playwright
7 4 (8.89%) Kafka
7 4 (8.89%) PostGIS
7 4 (8.89%) REST
8 3 (6.67%) RESTful
8 3 (6.67%) Web Services
9 2 (4.44%) JSP
9 2 (4.44%) Servlets
9 2 (4.44%) STL
9 2 (4.44%) XML
9 2 (4.44%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.33%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (8.89%) Data Structures
3 3 (6.67%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.44%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.22%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.44%) Unix
2 1 (2.22%) AIX
2 1 (2.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (75.56%) Agile
2 16 (35.56%) Test Automation
3 15 (33.33%) CRM
4 14 (31.11%) CI/CD
4 14 (31.11%) Code Quality
5 12 (26.67%) Community of Practice
6 10 (22.22%) Microservices
7 9 (20.00%) DevOps
8 8 (17.78%) Full Stack Development
8 8 (17.78%) Human-Centred Design
8 8 (17.78%) Inclusive Design
8 8 (17.78%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (15.56%) Analytics
10 6 (13.33%) Pair Programming
10 6 (13.33%) Software Engineering
10 6 (13.33%) TDD
10 6 (13.33%) User Experience
11 5 (11.11%) Project Management
11 5 (11.11%) Scrum
12 4 (8.89%) Code Coverage
Programming Languages
1 17 (37.78%) Java
1 17 (37.78%) SQL
2 13 (28.89%) JavaScript
3 10 (22.22%) PL/SQL
4 5 (11.11%) Python
4 5 (11.11%) TypeScript
5 4 (8.89%) Bash
6 3 (6.67%) Shell Script
7 2 (4.44%) C#
8 1 (2.22%) Kotlin
8 1 (2.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (4.44%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.56%) Accessibility
2 6 (13.33%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (4.44%) GDPR
4 1 (2.22%) NCSC
System Software
1 13 (28.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (22.22%) Grafana
2 5 (11.11%) Kibana
3 4 (8.89%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.22%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.22%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 13 (28.89%) Avaloq
2 9 (20.00%) Oracle
3 3 (6.67%) Blue Prism
3 3 (6.67%) Splunk
4 2 (4.44%) Adobe
4 2 (4.44%) Xamarin
5 1 (2.22%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.22%) VMware