The first table below looks at the demand for Unit Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Unit Testing over the 3 months to 20 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 South West 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Unit Testing
Rank 78 112 79
Rank change year-on-year
+34 -33
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 39 28 40
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 1.898% 0.852% 1.453%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.868% 1.251% 2.256%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 18 20
Average daily rate £325 £375 £278
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% +35.13%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £425 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.84% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £37.50 - £17.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £33.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -3.57%
All Processes & Methodologies
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1360 2239 1773
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 66.18% 68.10% 64.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 850 1384 912
Average daily rate £375 £390 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% +0.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £499 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 111 125
Average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -16.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.25 £16.85 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.75 £37.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
Unit Testing
England

Unit Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 South West region.

South West 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 South West region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

South West 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 South West region.

South West 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 South West region over the 3 months to 20 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
Bristol +23 14 £325 -
Wiltshire +12 14 £525 +70.73%
Devon +4 5 £278 -11.20%
Somerset - 4 £315 -
Dorset +2 2 £335 +3.07%
Unit Testing
England

Unit Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 64 (61.54%) C#
2 60 (57.69%) .NET
3 57 (54.81%) SQL
4 45 (43.27%) SQL Server
5 42 (40.38%) XML
6 41 (39.42%) JavaScript
6 41 (39.42%) .NET Framework
7 40 (38.46%) ASP.NET
8 39 (37.50%) Oracle
9 37 (35.58%) UML
10 36 (34.62%) HTML
11 33 (31.73%) IIS
12 32 (30.77%) Java
13 31 (29.81%) Team Foundation Server
14 29 (27.88%) Microsoft
15 27 (25.96%) VB.NET
16 26 (25.00%) UNIX
17 25 (24.04%) ASP
17 25 (24.04%) VB
17 25 (24.04%) MSTest
17 25 (24.04%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
17 25 (24.04%) Security Cleared
18 24 (23.08%) SharePoint
19 23 (22.12%) Web Services
19 23 (22.12%) jQuery
20 22 (21.15%) C++
20 22 (21.15%) Ingres
21 21 (20.19%) Continuous Integration
22 20 (19.23%) ITIL
22 20 (19.23%) Subversion

Unit Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 60 (57.69%) .NET
2 42 (40.38%) XML
3 41 (39.42%) .NET Framework
4 40 (38.46%) ASP.NET
5 36 (34.62%) HTML
6 25 (24.04%) ASP
6 25 (24.04%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 23 (22.12%) Web Services
7 23 (22.12%) jQuery
8 17 (16.35%) WCF
9 12 (11.54%) CSS
10 11 (10.58%) XSLT
11 10 (9.615%) Spring
11 10 (9.615%) JSON
11 10 (9.615%) Silverlight
12 9 (8.654%) Ajax
13 8 (7.692%) Managed Extensibility Framework
14 7 (6.731%) Hibernate
15 6 (5.769%) Java EE
15 6 (5.769%) JPA
Application Platforms
1 33 (31.73%) IIS
2 24 (23.08%) SharePoint
3 18 (17.31%) OpenROAD
4 8 (7.692%) ArcGIS
5 3 (2.885%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.923%) GlassFish
7 1 (0.962%) Magento
7 1 (0.962%) AquaLogic Service Bus
7 1 (0.962%) Oracle Service Bus
7 1 (0.962%) Shopify
7 1 (0.962%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.962%) Apache
7 1 (0.962%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (0.962%) AquaLogic
Applications
1 3 (2.885%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (1.923%) Google Apps
2 2 (1.923%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.962%) Agresso
1 1 (0.962%) BASE24
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.962%) Intranet
1 1 (0.962%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (43.27%) SQL Server
2 22 (21.15%) Ingres
3 18 (17.31%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (16.35%) SQL Server 2008
5 11 (10.58%) RDBMS
6 10 (9.615%) Essbase
6 10 (9.615%) OLAP
7 7 (6.731%) Oracle 10g
7 7 (6.731%) SQLPlus
8 5 (4.808%) Oracle 11g
9 4 (3.846%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (3.846%) MySQL
9 4 (3.846%) TOAD
10 3 (2.885%) Oracle BI EE
10 3 (2.885%) Data Mart
11 2 (1.923%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (1.923%) DB2
12 1 (0.962%) Oracle 8/8i
12 1 (0.962%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.962%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 31 (29.81%) Team Foundation Server
2 25 (24.04%) MSTest
3 20 (19.23%) Subversion
4 17 (16.35%) NUnit
4 17 (16.35%) Visual Studio
5 15 (14.42%) Jenkins
6 12 (11.54%) VSS/SourceSafe
6 12 (11.54%) CruiseControl
6 12 (11.54%) TeamCity
7 8 (7.692%) Moq
8 5 (4.808%) Selenium
9 3 (2.885%) Git (software)
10 2 (1.923%) jMock
10 2 (1.923%) Mockito
10 2 (1.923%) Maven
10 2 (1.923%) ReSharper
10 2 (1.923%) JUnit
10 2 (1.923%) NuGet
11 1 (0.962%) Eclipse
11 1 (0.962%) NetBeans
General
1 15 (14.42%) Finance
2 4 (3.846%) Retail
Job Titles
1 91 (87.50%) Developer
2 40 (38.46%) .NET Developer
3 28 (26.92%) C# Developer
4 24 (23.08%) C# .NET Developer
5 17 (16.35%) Analyst
6 14 (13.46%) Analyst Developer
7 11 (10.58%) Software Developer
7 11 (10.58%) Software Engineer
7 11 (10.58%) Senior Developer
8 10 (9.615%) Programmer
9 9 (8.654%) Senior Analyst
10 8 (7.692%) Java Developer
10 8 (7.692%) Software Programmer
11 7 (6.731%) Senior Analyst Developer
11 7 (6.731%) C# Programmer
11 7 (6.731%) Data Warehouse Developer
12 6 (5.769%) ASP.NET Developer
12 6 (5.769%) Support Analyst
12 6 (5.769%) C# ASP.NET Developer
13 5 (4.808%) SQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.692%) Client/Server
1 8 (7.692%) RIA
2 5 (4.808%) Inversion of Control
3 2 (1.923%) Social Media
3 2 (1.923%) Firmware
3 2 (1.923%) New Media
4 1 (0.962%) Thin Client
4 1 (0.962%) Fat Client
4 1 (0.962%) NHS
4 1 (0.962%) Hedge funds
4 1 (0.962%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 26 (25.00%) UNIX
2 11 (10.58%) Windows
3 8 (7.692%) Windows 7
4 6 (5.769%) Linux
5 2 (1.923%) OS/390
5 2 (1.923%) Android
5 2 (1.923%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.962%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (35.58%) UML
2 21 (20.19%) Continuous Integration
3 20 (19.23%) ITIL
4 15 (14.42%) Service Delivery
5 14 (13.46%) MVC
6 13 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
7 11 (10.58%) Scrum
8 8 (7.692%) User Acceptance Testing
8 8 (7.692%) OO
9 7 (6.731%) ITSM
9 7 (6.731%) Service Management
10 6 (5.769%) Test Scripting
11 5 (4.808%) Requirements Analysis
12 4 (3.846%) TDD
12 4 (3.846%) Quality Management
12 4 (3.846%) Data Modelling
12 4 (3.846%) SOA
13 3 (2.885%) Change Control
14 2 (1.923%) Software Architecture
14 2 (1.923%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 64 (61.54%) C#
2 57 (54.81%) SQL
3 41 (39.42%) JavaScript
4 32 (30.77%) Java
5 27 (25.96%) VB.NET
6 25 (24.04%) VB
7 22 (21.15%) C++
8 7 (6.731%) PL/SQL
9 5 (4.808%) C
10 3 (2.885%) Delphi
10 3 (2.885%) Assembly Language
10 3 (2.885%) VB6
11 2 (1.923%) JCL
11 2 (1.923%) Python
11 2 (1.923%) PHP
12 1 (0.962%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.962%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.962%) XQuery
12 1 (0.962%) XPath
Qualifications
1 25 (24.04%) Security Cleared
2 14 (13.46%) ISEB
3 11 (10.58%) SC Cleared
4 9 (8.654%) DV Cleared
5 8 (7.692%) MCP
5 8 (7.692%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (7.692%) MCTS
5 8 (7.692%) MCPD
5 8 (7.692%) Degree
6 3 (2.885%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.846%) QA
2 2 (1.923%) IEC 61508
2 2 (1.923%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.962%) TickIT
Systems Management
1 2 (1.923%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 39 (37.50%) Oracle
2 29 (27.88%) Microsoft
3 10 (9.615%) Hyperion
3 10 (9.615%) Teradata
4 8 (7.692%) ESRI
5 6 (5.769%) IBM
6 2 (1.923%) JBoss
6 2 (1.923%) Google
6 2 (1.923%) Zend
6 2 (1.923%) Facebook
6 2 (1.923%) Twitter
Bristol, Avon
Desirable, but not essential is experience in any of the following: - Integrating with RESTful web services layer - Agile (Scrum or XP) - Modern web technologies and frameworks such as...
Parham Consulting
Rate: Up to £350 per day Maximum £350 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Bristol, South West
The role: We are looking for an experienced PHP developer to join our multi-skilled team. We do not believe in a one-size-fits-all programming language...
Computer Futures
Rate: £200 - £300 per day
Posted: 18 May 2013
Taunton, South West
Skills/ Experience Required Essential Skills The post-holder must have: *Have demonstrable working knowledge of the following programming languages:- oC# oASP.net oSQL *Have demonstrable working knowledge of...
Capita Resourcing
Posted: 14 May 2013
Bath, South West
You will be testing low level C code to ensure it measures up to the rigorous safety standards required in the sector where they operate. The role: + Experience...
Progressive Recruitment
Rate: £25 - £28 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013