The first table below looks at the demand for MbUnit skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MbUnit over the 3 months to 22 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 Development Applications category.

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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
MbUnit
Rank 523 584 582
Rank change year-on-year
+61 -2
Contract jobs citing MbUnit 11 2 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.023% 0.003% 0.007%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.214% 0.037% 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 3
Average daily rate £390 - £531
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 - £386
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 - £546
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 - £531
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Development Applications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
5152 5423 6348
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 10.93% 9.148% 10.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3252 3202 3576
Average daily rate £375 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £270 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £550 £585
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 221 316
Average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.66 £23.88 £25.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -

MbUnit
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing MbUnit within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

MbUnit Jobs Demand Trend

MbUnit
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing MbUnit within the UK.

MbUnit Daily Rate Trend

MbUnit
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MbUnit within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

MbUnit Daily Rate Histogram

MbUnit
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MbUnit within the UK over the 3 months to 22 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
England +62 8 £650 -
London - 7 £650 -
Scotland - 3 £375 -
Glasgow - 3 £375 -
East Midlands - 1 - -
Nottinghamshire - 1 - -
Nottingham - 1 - -

MbUnit
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing MbUnit 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 MbUnit.

1 15 (100.00%) .NET
2 14 (93.33%) C#
3 11 (73.33%) .NET Framework
4 8 (53.33%) jQuery
4 8 (53.33%) Unit Testing
4 8 (53.33%) ASP.NET
4 8 (53.33%) Web Services
4 8 (53.33%) JavaScript
5 7 (46.67%) PL/SQL
5 7 (46.67%) SQL
5 7 (46.67%) Oracle
5 7 (46.67%) Microsoft
5 7 (46.67%) Visual Studio
5 7 (46.67%) TDD
5 7 (46.67%) NUnit
5 7 (46.67%) CruiseControl
5 7 (46.67%) Subversion
5 7 (46.67%) MSTest
6 6 (40.00%) StyleCop
7 5 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
7 5 (33.33%) Moq
7 5 (33.33%) SQL Server
8 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (26.67%) SQL Server 2012
8 4 (26.67%) xUnit.net
8 4 (26.67%) Dependency Injection
8 4 (26.67%) Agile Software Development
8 4 (26.67%) Rhino Mocks
8 4 (26.67%) StructureMap
8 4 (26.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework

MbUnit
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing MbUnit 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 MbUnit. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 15 (100.00%) .NET
2 11 (73.33%) .NET Framework
3 8 (53.33%) jQuery
3 8 (53.33%) ASP.NET
3 8 (53.33%) Web Services
4 4 (26.67%) StructureMap
4 4 (26.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 3 (20.00%) Castle Windsor
5 3 (20.00%) Ninject
5 3 (20.00%) Spring.NET
5 3 (20.00%) Autofac
5 3 (20.00%) Unity DI Container
5 3 (20.00%) NHibernate
6 2 (13.33%) Ajax
7 1 (6.667%) RESTful
7 1 (6.667%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (6.667%) ASP.NET MVC 4
7 1 (6.667%) CSS
7 1 (6.667%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 3 (20.00%) Sitefinity
1 3 (20.00%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
1 5 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (26.67%) SQL Server 2012
3 1 (6.667%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 7 (46.67%) Visual Studio
1 7 (46.67%) NUnit
1 7 (46.67%) CruiseControl
1 7 (46.67%) Subversion
1 7 (46.67%) MSTest
2 6 (40.00%) StyleCop
3 5 (33.33%) Moq
4 4 (26.67%) xUnit.net
4 4 (26.67%) Rhino Mocks
General
1 3 (20.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 15 (100.00%) Developer
2 9 (60.00%) .NET Developer
2 9 (60.00%) C# Developer
2 9 (60.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Software Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) .NET Software Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) Front-End Developer
4 1 (6.667%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (6.667%) Java Developer
4 1 (6.667%) ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (6.667%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Inversion of Control
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Unit Testing
2 7 (46.67%) TDD
3 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (26.67%) Dependency Injection
3 4 (26.67%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (13.33%) Scrum
5 1 (6.667%) Analytics
5 1 (6.667%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 14 (93.33%) C#
2 8 (53.33%) JavaScript
3 7 (46.67%) PL/SQL
3 7 (46.67%) SQL
4 1 (6.667%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Oracle
1 7 (46.67%) Microsoft