Unit Testing Contracts in the South West

Unit Testing
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 87 132
Rank change year-on-year -40 +45 -12
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 28 87 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.88% 2.40% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 2.68% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 63 18
10th Percentile £475 £400 £305
25th Percentile £538 £450 £307
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £620 £425
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% +45.79% -5.56%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £540
90th Percentile £706 £735 £553
England median daily rate £540 £595 £550
% change year-on-year -9.24% +8.18% +6.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 3
10th Percentile - £49.85 £52.75
25th Percentile - £52.38 £53.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +18.18% -
75th Percentile - £69.63 £60.63
90th Percentile - £78.00 £62.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year - +13.04% +21.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,651 3,250 3,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.90% 89.63% 88.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,695 2,396 2,328
10th Percentile £217 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +6.84%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £590
90th Percentile £700 £719 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 332 335 194
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.44 £17.00 £20.08
Median hourly rate £50.00 £61.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.70% +26.16% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.36 £69.95
England median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Unit Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in the South West

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in the South West

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in the South West over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in the South West

Unit Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Unit Testing in the South West

Unit Testing
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 29 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
Gloucestershire +8 11 £681 +8.35%
Bristol -13 5 £400 -36.51% 13
Somerset -9 2 - - 2
Wiltshire -11 2 £488 +8.33% 2
Unit Testing
England

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (7.14%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 13 (46.43%) Azure
2 11 (39.29%) AWS
3 3 (10.71%) Power Platform
4 2 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.57%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) Ethernet
1 3 (10.71%) TCP/IP
2 2 (7.14%) Tactical Data Link
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) NoSQL
1 3 (10.71%) Power BI
1 3 (10.71%) Relational Database
1 3 (10.71%) SQL Server
1 3 (10.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 2 (7.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 2 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Eclipse
1 3 (10.71%) Git
1 3 (10.71%) JIRA
1 3 (10.71%) Visual Studio
2 2 (7.14%) HP UFT
2 2 (7.14%) LoadRunner
2 2 (7.14%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (3.57%) git-flow
3 1 (3.57%) GitLab
3 1 (3.57%) webpack
General
1 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Finance
3 3 (10.71%) Military
4 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.57%) Automotive
5 1 (3.57%) Electronics
5 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.57%) Marketing
5 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (60.71%) Developer
2 13 (46.43%) Full Stack Developer
3 3 (10.71%) C# Software Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) C++ Software Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Data Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Software Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Consultant
4 2 (7.14%) DV Cleared Technical Consultant
4 2 (7.14%) Service Management Consultant
4 2 (7.14%) Software Developer
4 2 (7.14%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (3.57%) .NET Development Team Leader
5 1 (3.57%) .NET Team Leader
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Developer
5 1 (3.57%) JavaScript Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Lead .NET Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Lead C# Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Principal .NET Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Principal Developer
5 1 (3.57%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 14 (50.00%) React
2 13 (46.43%) Spring
3 4 (14.29%) Node.js
4 3 (10.71%) Web Services
5 1 (3.57%) .NET
5 1 (3.57%) CSS
5 1 (3.57%) HTML
5 1 (3.57%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.86%) Linux
1 5 (17.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (71.43%) Agile
2 16 (57.14%) OO
3 15 (53.57%) DevOps
4 14 (50.00%) OOP
4 14 (50.00%) Programme Management
4 14 (50.00%) Secure Coding
5 13 (46.43%) Change Management
5 13 (46.43%) Full Stack Development
5 13 (46.43%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (46.43%) Project Management
5 13 (46.43%) Software Architecture
6 10 (35.71%) SDLC
7 6 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (21.43%) Visualisation
8 5 (17.86%) Software Engineering
9 4 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
9 4 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
9 4 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
9 4 (14.29%) TDD
9 4 (14.29%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 17 (60.71%) Java
2 13 (46.43%) C
2 13 (46.43%) Python
3 12 (42.86%) JavaScript
4 7 (25.00%) C#
5 4 (14.29%) C++
6 3 (10.71%) SQL
7 2 (7.14%) T-SQL
8 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
8 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (78.57%) Security Cleared
2 14 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 9 (32.14%) SC Cleared
4 2 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (57.14%) QA
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.14%) OpenText
3 1 (3.57%) Cognos
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle
3 1 (3.57%) SAP
3 1 (3.57%) VMware