The first table below looks at the demand for JUnit skills in IT contracts advertised for the Watford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JUnit over the 3 months to 18 June 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 for the Watford 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
JUnit
Rank - 18 17
Contract jobs citing JUnit 0 7 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Watford - 7.447% 4.348%
As % of the Development Applications category - 36.84% 28.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £375 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £338 £375
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +14.28%
All Development Applications
Watford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
7 19 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Watford 8.974% 20.21% 15.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 8
Average daily rate £488 £375 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+30.00% +33.92%
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
- +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+4.16% +2.85%
JUnit
Hertfordshire

JUnit
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing JUnit across the Watford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Watford JUnit Jobs Demand Trend

JUnit
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing JUnit across the Watford region.

Watford JUnit Daily Rate Trend

JUnit
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Watford region citing JUnit 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 JUnit.

1 7 (100.00%) J2EE
1 7 (100.00%) Java
1 7 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 7 (100.00%) Finance
1 7 (100.00%) Ajax
2 6 (85.71%) Bash shell
2 6 (85.71%) Elastic Path
2 6 (85.71%) Blue Martini
2 6 (85.71%) Web 2.0
2 6 (85.71%) WebSphere
2 6 (85.71%) XPath
2 6 (85.71%) JSTL
2 6 (85.71%) Retail
2 6 (85.71%) Subversion
2 6 (85.71%) Content Management
2 6 (85.71%) Log4j
2 6 (85.71%) ATG
2 6 (85.71%) Perl
2 6 (85.71%) SQL
2 6 (85.71%) Struts
2 6 (85.71%) Tridion
2 6 (85.71%) Internet
2 6 (85.71%) XHTML
2 6 (85.71%) MQSeries
2 6 (85.71%) E-Commerce
2 6 (85.71%) JMS
2 6 (85.71%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
2 6 (85.71%) Eclipse
2 6 (85.71%) RDBMS
2 6 (85.71%) IBM

JUnit
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Watford region citing JUnit 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 JUnit. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (100.00%) J2EE
1 7 (100.00%) Ajax
2 6 (85.71%) WebSphere
2 6 (85.71%) JSTL
2 6 (85.71%) Struts
2 6 (85.71%) HTML
2 6 (85.71%) XMLBeans
2 6 (85.71%) EJB
2 6 (85.71%) JDBC
2 6 (85.71%) JSP
2 6 (85.71%) Servlets
2 6 (85.71%) XML
2 6 (85.71%) XSLT
2 6 (85.71%) XHTML
2 6 (85.71%) JMS
3 1 (14.29%) Hibernate
3 1 (14.29%) Spring
3 1 (14.29%) SOAP
3 1 (14.29%) Web Services
3 1 (14.29%) Grails
Application Platforms
1 6 (85.71%) WebSphere Application Server
1 6 (85.71%) MQSeries
2 1 (14.29%) Apache
Business Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) DB2
1 6 (85.71%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Log4j
1 6 (85.71%) Subversion
1 6 (85.71%) Ant
1 6 (85.71%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 6 (85.71%) Eclipse
2 1 (14.29%) LoadRunner
2 1 (14.29%) Maven
2 1 (14.29%) Checkstyle
2 1 (14.29%) FitNesse
2 1 (14.29%) WebDriver
2 1 (14.29%) JProfiler
2 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
2 1 (14.29%) Gradle
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (100.00%) Finance
2 6 (85.71%) Retail
3 5 (71.43%) Games
4 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
1 7 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 7 (100.00%) J2EE Developer
1 7 (100.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) UNIX
1 6 (85.71%) HPUX
1 6 (85.71%) Solaris
1 6 (85.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) UML
1 6 (85.71%) OO
1 6 (85.71%) RAD
1 6 (85.71%) E-Commerce
1 6 (85.71%) Content Management
2 1 (14.29%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (14.29%) Load Testing
2 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
2 1 (14.29%) BDD
2 1 (14.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
1 7 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (85.71%) Perl
2 6 (85.71%) SQL
2 6 (85.71%) XPath
2 6 (85.71%) Bash shell
3 1 (14.29%) Groovy
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) IBM
1 6 (85.71%) Interwoven
1 6 (85.71%) ATG
1 6 (85.71%) Blue Martini
1 6 (85.71%) Elastic Path