The first table below looks at the demand for NUnit skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited NUnit 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 for the West Midlands 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
NUnit
Rank 97 101 93
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -8
Contract jobs citing NUnit 2 9 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.119% 0.394% 0.325%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.439% 4.390% 5.217%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 6
Average daily rate £205 £300 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-31.66% +7.14%
UK excluding London average daily rate £297 £350 £300
% change year-on-year
-15.07% +16.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £47.50 - -
All Development Applications
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
139 205 115
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 8.289% 8.972% 6.223%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 105 67
Average daily rate £325 £325 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +13.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £250 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £400 £366
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 6
Average hourly rate £37.80 £35.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.00% +20.68%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
NUnit
England

NUnit
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands 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 across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands NUnit Daily Rate Trend

NUnit
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing NUnit across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands NUnit Hourly Rate Trend

NUnit
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region 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 5 (100.00%) C#
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
2 4 (80.00%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (80.00%) TDD
2 4 (80.00%) MSBuild
3 3 (60.00%) VB.NET
3 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (60.00%) CSS
4 2 (40.00%) IIS
4 2 (40.00%) Visual Studio
4 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET
4 2 (40.00%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (40.00%) Windows
4 2 (40.00%) SpecFlow
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (40.00%) CruiseControl
4 2 (40.00%) NHibernate
4 2 (40.00%) .NET Framework
4 2 (40.00%) WCF
5 1 (20.00%) WPF
5 1 (20.00%) WF
5 1 (20.00%) Silverlight
5 1 (20.00%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (20.00%) Windows SharePoint Services
5 1 (20.00%) VB6
5 1 (20.00%) Ajax
5 1 (20.00%) InfoPath

NUnit
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region 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 5 (100.00%) .NET
2 3 (60.00%) CSS
3 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (40.00%) NHibernate
3 2 (40.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (40.00%) WCF
4 1 (20.00%) WPF
4 1 (20.00%) WF
4 1 (20.00%) Silverlight
4 1 (20.00%) Windows SharePoint Services
4 1 (20.00%) Ajax
4 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (20.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
4 1 (20.00%) ADO.NET
4 1 (20.00%) Web Services
4 1 (20.00%) XML
4 1 (20.00%) XSLT
4 1 (20.00%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) IIS
1 2 (40.00%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (20.00%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (20.00%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (20.00%) SharePoint Foundation
2 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) InfoPath
1 1 (20.00%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) MSBuild
2 2 (40.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (40.00%) SpecFlow
2 2 (40.00%) CruiseControl
3 1 (20.00%) WatiN
3 1 (20.00%) MSTest
3 1 (20.00%) Rhino Mocks
3 1 (20.00%) NMock
3 1 (20.00%) Moq
3 1 (20.00%) Hudson
3 1 (20.00%) WiX
3 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio Team System
3 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (20.00%) MSI
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) .NET Developer
2 2 (40.00%) VB.NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) BizTalk Developer
3 1 (20.00%) BizTalk Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) SharePoint Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior C# Developer
3 1 (20.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile Software Development
1 4 (80.00%) TDD
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (20.00%) MSF
3 1 (20.00%) Unified Process
3 1 (20.00%) UML
3 1 (20.00%) OOA/OOD
3 1 (20.00%) OO
3 1 (20.00%) RUP
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (60.00%) VB.NET
2 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) VB6
3 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (20.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle