Street Unit Testing Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Unit Testing skills within the Street 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 9 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Unit Testing
Location Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London Croydon Devon Docklands, London East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Glasgow Guildford Hampshire Kent Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London M4 Corridor Maidstone Merseyside Newbury Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Norwich Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Rotherham Scotland Shropshire Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Street Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Trowbridge UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 9 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£343
% change on same period last year	+2.46 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.63	£34.21
% change on same period last year	-1.70 %
Processes & Methodologies Street
Matching contract IT job ads	5	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.010 %	0.006 %
Daily rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum daily rate	-	£200
Average daily rate	-	£200
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£200
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.27 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£20.00
Average hourly rate	£30.00	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.65	£28.81
% change on same period last year	-4.03 %
Unit Testing Somerset

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.

Unit Testing
Demand Trend

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