The first table below looks at the demand for NUnit skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited NUnit over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
NUnit
Rank 393 368 258
Rank change year-on-year
-25 -110
Contract jobs citing NUnit 149 206 413
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.322% 0.353% 0.665%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.923% 3.866% 6.310%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 138 296
Average daily rate £366 £375 £528
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.33% -28.97%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £274 £286
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £558 £613
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £350 £300
% change year-on-year
-14.28% +16.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
Average hourly rate £47.50 £33.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+41.79% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £47.50 - -
All Development Applications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
5098 5328 6545
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 11.00% 9.128% 10.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3210 3142 3691
Average daily rate £375 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £269 £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 142 221 320
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% -

NUnit
Jobs Demand Trend

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

NUnit Jobs Demand Trend

NUnit
Daily Rate Trend

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

NUnit Daily Rate Trend

NUnit
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing NUnit within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

NUnit Daily Rate Histogram

NUnit
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing NUnit within the UK.

NUnit Hourly Rate Trend

NUnit
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NUnit within the UK over the 3 months to 23 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 -24 128 £400 +6.66%
London -13 67 £415 -17.00%
South East +12 45 £325 -7.14%
City of London +7 28 £415 +3.75%
Hampshire +16 27 £290 -10.76%
West Sussex +7 9 £425 +21.42%
South West +32 5 - -
North West +3 4 - -
Merseyside +1 4 - -
Basingstoke -12 4 £290 -
Harrow - 4 £283 -
Brighton +8 3 £350 -
Liverpool +7 3 - -
East Sussex +4 3 £350 +64.70%
Dorset - 3 - -
Berkshire - 3 £300 -
East of England +14 2 £350 +21.73%
Surrey +10 2 - -
Somerset - 2 - -
Hungerford - 2 £300 -
Taunton - 2 - -
Bedfordshire +6 1 £350 +16.66%
Milton Keynes +2 1 £475 +40.74%
Buckinghamshire +2 1 £475 +40.74%
West Midlands +2 1 £225 -28.00%
West Yorkshire -6 1 - -
Yorkshire -10 1 - -
Leeds -13 1 - -
Essex - 1 - -
Luton - 1 £350 -

NUnit
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing NUnit 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 NUnit.

1 284 (80.23%) .NET
2 250 (70.62%) C#
3 163 (46.05%) SQL
4 151 (42.66%) TDD
5 146 (41.24%) SQL Server
6 140 (39.55%) ASP.NET
7 126 (35.59%) Microsoft
8 119 (33.62%) Continuous Integration
9 104 (29.38%) Unit Testing
10 102 (28.81%) OO
11 100 (28.25%) Agile Software Development
12 99 (27.97%) JavaScript
13 97 (27.40%) XML
14 96 (27.12%) UML
15 91 (25.71%) Subversion
16 90 (25.42%) WCF
17 89 (25.14%) MVC
18 86 (24.29%) Windows
19 85 (24.01%) .NET Framework
20 82 (23.16%) jQuery
21 77 (21.75%) Oracle
21 77 (21.75%) Scrum
22 75 (21.19%) CSS
23 72 (20.34%) HTML
23 72 (20.34%) CruiseControl
24 68 (19.21%) C++
24 68 (19.21%) Visual Studio
24 68 (19.21%) OOD
25 65 (18.36%) SQL Server 2008
26 64 (18.08%) UNIX

NUnit
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing NUnit 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 NUnit. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 284 (80.23%) .NET
2 140 (39.55%) ASP.NET
3 97 (27.40%) XML
4 90 (25.42%) WCF
5 85 (24.01%) .NET Framework
6 82 (23.16%) jQuery
7 75 (21.19%) CSS
8 72 (20.34%) HTML
9 62 (17.51%) ASP.NET MVC
10 61 (17.23%) NHibernate
11 54 (15.25%) WPF
12 52 (14.69%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
13 39 (11.02%) Motif
14 35 (9.887%) wxWidgets
15 34 (9.605%) Ajax
16 33 (9.322%) Silverlight
17 30 (8.475%) WinForms
18 25 (7.062%) Web Services
18 25 (7.062%) ASP
19 22 (6.215%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Application Platforms
1 53 (14.97%) IIS
2 32 (9.040%) SharePoint
3 31 (8.757%) CMS
4 27 (7.627%) Umbraco
5 12 (3.390%) Sitecore CMS
6 11 (3.107%) OpenROAD
7 10 (2.825%) SharePoint Server
7 10 (2.825%) MSMQ
8 9 (2.542%) Oracle Workflow
8 9 (2.542%) Sitefinity
9 8 (2.260%) Kentico
9 8 (2.260%) SharePoint 2010
10 6 (1.695%) BizTalk Server
10 6 (1.695%) Documentum
11 5 (1.412%) MQSeries
12 4 (1.130%) Oracle Coherence
12 4 (1.130%) DotNetNuke
13 3 (0.847%) EPiServer CMS
14 2 (0.565%) RabbitMQ
14 2 (0.565%) Joomla!
Applications
1 24 (6.780%) MS Excel
2 7 (1.977%) MS Office
3 2 (0.565%) PowerPivot
4 1 (0.282%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 1 (0.282%) Adaptiv
1 1 (0.282%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 1 (0.282%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.107%) HTTP
2 3 (0.847%) BSS
3 2 (0.565%) Intranet
3 2 (0.565%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.282%) Firewall
4 1 (0.282%) SSL
4 1 (0.282%) Internet
4 1 (0.282%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (41.24%) SQL Server
2 65 (18.36%) SQL Server 2008
3 45 (12.71%) Ingres
4 42 (11.86%) SQL Server 2005
5 30 (8.475%) PostgreSQL
6 17 (4.802%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 11 (3.107%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 11 (3.107%) SQL Server 2012
8 8 (2.260%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 7 (1.977%) SQL Server 2000
9 7 (1.977%) Oracle 11g
10 6 (1.695%) Oracle 8/8i
10 6 (1.695%) MySQL
11 4 (1.130%) Oracle 10g
12 3 (0.847%) RDBMS
12 3 (0.847%) MarkLogic
12 3 (0.847%) MongoDB
13 2 (0.565%) CouchDB
13 2 (0.565%) PerformancePoint
13 2 (0.565%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 91 (25.71%) Subversion
2 72 (20.34%) CruiseControl
3 68 (19.21%) Visual Studio
4 52 (14.69%) MSTest
5 46 (12.99%) Ant
5 46 (12.99%) ClearCase
6 45 (12.71%) CppUnit
6 45 (12.71%) GoogleTest
7 41 (11.58%) Team Foundation Server
8 38 (10.73%) VSS/SourceSafe
8 38 (10.73%) TeamCity
9 37 (10.45%) Moq
10 31 (8.757%) MSBuild
11 30 (8.475%) Jenkins
12 28 (7.910%) Rhino Mocks
13 25 (7.062%) Selenium
14 24 (6.780%) ClearQuest
15 23 (6.497%) SpecFlow
16 17 (4.802%) Git (software)
17 12 (3.390%) MSI
General
1 54 (15.25%) Finance
2 28 (7.910%) Banking
3 20 (5.650%) Back Office
4 12 (3.390%) Investment Banking
4 12 (3.390%) Telecoms
5 8 (2.260%) Front Office
5 8 (2.260%) Retail
6 5 (1.412%) Marketing
7 4 (1.130%) Financial Institution
8 3 (0.847%) Games
9 2 (0.565%) Wholesale Banking
9 2 (0.565%) Electronics
9 2 (0.565%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.565%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.282%) Billing
10 1 (0.282%) Military
10 1 (0.282%) Advertising
10 1 (0.282%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 244 (68.93%) Developer
2 116 (32.77%) .NET Developer
3 99 (27.97%) C# Developer
4 50 (14.12%) C# .NET Developer
5 33 (9.322%) Senior Developer
6 31 (8.757%) Software Engineer
7 30 (8.475%) Analyst
8 27 (7.627%) ASP.NET Developer
9 20 (5.650%) Web Developer
10 19 (5.367%) Software Developer
10 19 (5.367%) WPF Developer
11 17 (4.802%) Senior C# Developer
12 16 (4.520%) C# ASP.NET Developer
13 14 (3.955%) Senior .NET Developer
14 13 (3.672%) Build Engineer
15 12 (3.390%) C++ Software Engineer
16 11 (3.107%) Senior Analyst
16 11 (3.107%) C++ Developer
17 10 (2.825%) Agile .NET Developer
17 10 (2.825%) QA Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 19 (5.367%) Derivative
2 16 (4.520%) Inversion of Control
3 12 (3.390%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 12 (3.390%) N-Tier
3 12 (3.390%) Fixed Income
4 10 (2.825%) Client/Server
5 7 (1.977%) RIA
5 7 (1.977%) Web 2.0
5 7 (1.977%) Social Media
6 6 (1.695%) iPad
6 6 (1.695%) Open Source
6 6 (1.695%) iPhone
6 6 (1.695%) Mathematics
7 5 (1.412%) NHS
7 5 (1.412%) W3C
7 5 (1.412%) Computer Science
8 3 (0.847%) 3D Graphics
8 3 (0.847%) Management Information System
8 3 (0.847%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.565%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 86 (24.29%) Windows
2 64 (18.08%) UNIX
3 63 (17.80%) Linux
4 17 (4.802%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (2.825%) Windows Server 2008
6 9 (2.542%) Windows Server 2003
7 6 (1.695%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (1.130%) Windows 7
9 3 (0.847%) Windows XP
10 2 (0.565%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.565%) Android
11 1 (0.282%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (42.66%) TDD
2 119 (33.62%) Continuous Integration
3 104 (29.38%) Unit Testing
4 102 (28.81%) OO
5 100 (28.25%) Agile Software Development
6 96 (27.12%) UML
7 89 (25.14%) MVC
8 77 (21.75%) Scrum
9 68 (19.21%) OOD
10 50 (14.12%) Multithreading
10 50 (14.12%) Configuration Management
11 42 (11.86%) BDD
12 36 (10.17%) Software Engineering
13 30 (8.475%) Use Case
13 30 (8.475%) Project Management
14 23 (6.497%) RUP
15 20 (5.650%) ITIL
16 19 (5.367%) Automation Testing
17 18 (5.085%) Memory Management
17 18 (5.085%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 250 (70.62%) C#
2 163 (46.05%) SQL
3 99 (27.97%) JavaScript
4 68 (19.21%) C++
5 49 (13.84%) C
6 43 (12.15%) VB
7 40 (11.30%) Java
8 38 (10.73%) VB.NET
9 34 (9.605%) T-SQL
10 30 (8.475%) Python
11 14 (3.955%) Perl
12 10 (2.825%) VB6
13 8 (2.260%) PL/SQL
14 7 (1.977%) VBA
15 6 (1.695%) VBScript
15 6 (1.695%) AWK
16 4 (1.130%) sed
16 4 (1.130%) Groovy
16 4 (1.130%) XAML
17 3 (0.847%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 53 (14.97%) Security Cleared
2 42 (11.86%) SC Cleared
3 37 (10.45%) Microsoft Certification
4 19 (5.367%) MCP
4 19 (5.367%) MCTS
5 15 (4.237%) Degree
6 12 (3.390%) MCSD
7 11 (3.107%) MCAD
8 8 (2.260%) MCPD
8 8 (2.260%) ISEB
9 3 (0.847%) HND
9 3 (0.847%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.565%) BC Cleared
11 1 (0.282%) LPIC
11 1 (0.282%) ISEB Practitioner
11 1 (0.282%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.282%) MCSE
11 1 (0.282%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (9.322%) QA
2 6 (1.695%) ISO 9001
3 4 (1.130%) DO-178B
4 2 (0.565%) TickIT
5 1 (0.282%) ISO 9000
5 1 (0.282%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (2.260%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (1.695%) VMware Workstation
3 1 (0.282%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (1.412%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (0.282%) Puppet
Vendors
1 126 (35.59%) Microsoft
2 77 (21.75%) Oracle
3 17 (4.802%) Red Hat
4 14 (3.955%) Sitecore
5 13 (3.672%) Google
6 10 (2.825%) Aquila
6 10 (2.825%) Telerik
7 8 (2.260%) VMware
8 6 (1.695%) Coverity
8 6 (1.695%) Serena
9 5 (1.412%) Teradata
10 4 (1.130%) EPiServer
10 4 (1.130%) Perforce
11 3 (0.847%) Infragistics
11 3 (0.847%) Sybase
12 2 (0.565%) Xamarin
12 2 (0.565%) DevExpress
12 2 (0.565%) Reuters
12 2 (0.565%) Bloomberg
12 2 (0.565%) Charles River
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