South West Unit Testing Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Unit Testing skills within the South West region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Unit Testing over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Batley Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands City of London County Antrim Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glamorgan Glasgow Guildford Halifax Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire Huddersfield Ipswich Kent Kettering Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tring Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	124	99
Rank change on same period last year	-25
Matching contract IT job ads	18	71
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.071 %
As % of the category below	0.653 %	2.131 %
Daily rates quoted	5	36
Average minimum daily rate	£252	£324
Average daily rate	£291	£338
% change on same period last year	-13.79 %
Average maximum daily rate	£330	£351
UK excluding London average daily rate	£366	£346
% change on same period last year	+5.63 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.67	£34.22
Average hourly rate	£37.50	£34.61
% change on same period last year	+8.34 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£43.33	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£37.26	£38.82
% change on same period last year	-4.01 %
Processes & Methodologies South West
Matching contract IT job ads	2758	3332
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.640 %	3.318 %
Daily rates quoted	988	1089
Average minimum daily rate	£370	£365
Average daily rate	£395	£385
% change on same period last year	+2.52 %
Average maximum daily rate	£420	£405
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£377
% change on same period last year	+0.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	300	381
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.40	£28.54
Average hourly rate	£34.10	£30.43
% change on same period last year	+12.07 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.80	£32.31
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.34	£30.18
% change on same period last year	+0.55 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Unit Testing across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Unit Testing across the South West region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The 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 August 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Unit Testing across the South West region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Unit Testing across the South West region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section 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 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Bristol	+13	10	£285	+20.00 %
Somerset	-	4	£315	-
Wiltshire	-17	3	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, 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 26 (53.06 %) Java 1 26 (53.06 %) OO 2 25 (51.02 %) Struts 2 25 (51.02 %) Hibernate 3 24 (48.98 %) Linux 4 23 (46.94 %) Eclipse 4 23 (46.94 %) JSF 5 22 (44.90 %) Spring 6 19 (38.78 %) Tapestry 6 19 (38.78 %) iBATIS 7 18 (36.73 %) Systems Analysis 8 15 (30.61 %) SQL 9 8 (16.33 %) .NET 10 7 (14.29 %) J2EE 10 7 (14.29 %) C#

10 7 (14.29 %) ISEB 11 6 (12.24 %) Software Testing 11 6 (12.24 %) Microsoft 11 6 (12.24 %) Oracle 12 5 (10.20 %) JUnit 12 5 (10.20 %) XML 12 5 (10.20 %) UNIX 12 5 (10.20 %) E-Commerce 12 5 (10.20 %) Test Scripting 13 4 (8.163 %) Security Cleared 13 4 (8.163 %) UML 13 4 (8.163 %) HP 13 4 (8.163 %) Compaq 13 4 (8.163 %) Ant 13 4 (8.163 %) OpenVMS

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, 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 25 (51.02 %) Struts 1 25 (51.02 %) Hibernate 2 23 (46.94 %) JSF 3 22 (44.90 %) Spring 4 19 (38.78 %) Tapestry 4 19 (38.78 %) iBATIS 5 8 (16.33 %) .NET 6 7 (14.29 %) J2EE 7 5 (10.20 %) XML 8 3 (6.122 %) .NET Framework 8 3 (6.122 %) HTML 9 2 (4.082 %) ASP.NET 9 2 (4.082 %) XSLT 9 2 (4.082 %) JSP 10 1 (2.041 %) MVC 10 1 (2.041 %) WebSphere 10 1 (2.041 %) SOAP 10 1 (2.041 %) WebServices 10 1 (2.041 %) EJB 10 1 (2.041 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 2 (4.082 %) ATG Dynamo 2 1 (2.041 %) JBoss 2 1 (2.041 %) WebSphere MQ 2 1 (2.041 %) WebLogic Portal 2 1 (2.041 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 1 (2.041 %) WebLogic
Business Applications 1 1 (2.041 %) Oracle EBS	Communications & Networking 1 1 (2.041 %) 3G 1 1 (2.041 %) HSDPA 1 1 (2.041 %) 2G 1 1 (2.041 %) RNC 1 1 (2.041 %) HSUPA 1 1 (2.041 %) UMTS 1 1 (2.041 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (6.122 %) SQL Server 2 2 (4.082 %) Oracle 9i 2 2 (4.082 %) Oracle 10g 3 1 (2.041 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (2.041 %) SQL Server Integration Services 3 1 (2.041 %) Oracle Reports 3 1 (2.041 %) Oracle 8/8i 3 1 (2.041 %) OLTP 3 1 (2.041 %) Oracle Discoverer 3 1 (2.041 %) VLDB	Development Applications 1 23 (46.94 %) Eclipse 2 5 (10.20 %) JUnit 3 4 (8.163 %) Ant 4 3 (6.122 %) PVCS 4 3 (6.122 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 2 (4.082 %) Oracle Forms 6 1 (2.041 %) NUnit 6 1 (2.041 %) LSMW 6 1 (2.041 %) Subversion 6 1 (2.041 %) WebLogic Workshop 6 1 (2.041 %) TestDirector 6 1 (2.041 %) Visual Studio 6 1 (2.041 %) FitNesse 6 1 (2.041 %) jMock
General 1 4 (8.163 %) Finance 2 2 (4.082 %) Telecoms 3 1 (2.041 %) Games 3 1 (2.041 %) Aerospace 3 1 (2.041 %) Government 3 1 (2.041 %) Retail 3 1 (2.041 %) Military 3 1 (2.041 %) Marketing 3 1 (2.041 %) Insurance	Job Titles 1 33 (67.35 %) Developer 2 21 (42.86 %) Java Developer 3 7 (14.29 %) Analyst 3 7 (14.29 %) Analyst Programmer 3 7 (14.29 %) Programmer 4 3 (6.122 %) Software Engineer 4 3 (6.122 %) Senior Developer 4 3 (6.122 %) J2EE Developer 4 3 (6.122 %) Senior J2EE Developer 5 2 (4.082 %) Oracle Developer 5 2 (4.082 %) .NET Developer 6 1 (2.041 %) C# Developer 6 1 (2.041 %) Embedded Software Engineer 6 1 (2.041 %) SQL Server DBA 6 1 (2.041 %) Test Engineer 6 1 (2.041 %) Senior Software Engineer 6 1 (2.041 %) Software Developer 6 1 (2.041 %) Tester 6 1 (2.041 %) Consultant 6 1 (2.041 %) DBA
Miscellaneous 1 4 (8.163 %) Equities 2 2 (4.082 %) Fat Client 2 2 (4.082 %) Thin Client 3 1 (2.041 %) Handset 3 1 (2.041 %) Replication	Operating Systems 1 24 (48.98 %) Linux 2 5 (10.20 %) UNIX 3 4 (8.163 %) OpenVMS 4 2 (4.082 %) Windows 4 2 (4.082 %) VMS 5 1 (2.041 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 26 (53.06 %) OO 2 18 (36.73 %) Systems Analysis 3 6 (12.24 %) Software Testing 4 5 (10.20 %) E-Commerce 4 5 (10.20 %) Test Scripting 5 4 (8.163 %) Security Cleared 5 4 (8.163 %) UML 6 3 (6.122 %) Continuous Integration 7 2 (4.082 %) SC Cleared 7 2 (4.082 %) Agile Software Development 8 1 (2.041 %) Migration 8 1 (2.041 %) Regression Testing 8 1 (2.041 %) TDD 8 1 (2.041 %) Automated Testing 8 1 (2.041 %) EAI 8 1 (2.041 %) OOD 8 1 (2.041 %) SOA 8 1 (2.041 %) BC Cleared 8 1 (2.041 %) Volume Testing 8 1 (2.041 %) Integration Testing	Programming Languages 1 26 (53.06 %) Java 2 15 (30.61 %) SQL 3 7 (14.29 %) C# 4 4 (8.163 %) C++ 5 2 (4.082 %) PL/SQL 5 2 (4.082 %) JavaScript 6 1 (2.041 %) VB6 6 1 (2.041 %) Python 6 1 (2.041 %) VC++ 6 1 (2.041 %) Tcl 6 1 (2.041 %) Perl 6 1 (2.041 %) Transact-SQL 6 1 (2.041 %) VB 6 1 (2.041 %) VB.NET 6 1 (2.041 %) C
Qualifications 1 7 (14.29 %) ISEB 2 3 (6.122 %) Degree	System Software 1 1 (2.041 %) MSMQ
Vendors 1 6 (12.24 %) Microsoft 1 6 (12.24 %) Oracle 2 4 (8.163 %) HP 2 4 (8.163 %) Compaq 3 2 (4.082 %) BEA 3 2 (4.082 %) webMethods 3 2 (4.082 %) ATG 4 1 (2.041 %) NetHawk 4 1 (2.041 %) SAP