Unit Testing Contracts in South Yorkshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Unit Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the South Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Unit Testing over the 3 months to 17 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 Yorkshire 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Unit Testing
Rank - 28 29
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 0 5 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire - 1.961% 3.509%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 3.448% 6.757%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 7
Average daily rate - £310 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -3.12%
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.84% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
All Processes & Methodologies
South Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 182 145 148
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 67.91% 56.86% 51.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 77 87
Average daily rate £330 £310 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.45% -4.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £185 £200 £232
10% offered a daily rate of more than £515 £464 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 7 18
Average hourly rate £25.00 £27.00 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.40% -36.47%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.44 £19.72 £20.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £93.75 £30.00 £60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Unit Testing
Yorkshire

Unit Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire Unit Testing Daily Rate Trend

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 Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire Unit Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Unit Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) OLAP
2 1 (33.33%) MVC
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
2 1 (33.33%) OO
2 1 (33.33%) Mainframe
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 1 (33.33%) WCF
2 1 (33.33%) WPF
2 1 (33.33%) jQuery
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (33.33%) Dependency Injection
2 1 (33.33%) Moq
2 1 (33.33%) MbUnit
2 1 (33.33%) StructureMap
2 1 (33.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework

Unit Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 1 (33.33%) WCF
2 1 (33.33%) WPF
2 1 (33.33%) jQuery
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (33.33%) StructureMap
2 1 (33.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) OLAP
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Moq
1 1 (33.33%) MbUnit
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) C# Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) OO
1 1 (33.33%) MVC
1 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
1 1 (33.33%) Dependency Injection
1 1 (33.33%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
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