The first table below looks at the demand for Unit Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Unit Testing over the 3 months to 19 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 Processes & Methodologies category for the West Yorkshire 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Unit Testing
Rank 84 51 46
Rank change year-on-year
-33 -5
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 11 47 37
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.802% 2.701% 3.083%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.138% 3.652% 4.540%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 19 11
Average daily rate £289 £290 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.34% -3.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £257 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £363 £375 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
+6.06% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.50 £33.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-0.74% -3.57%
All Processes & Methodologies
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
967 1287 815
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 70.48% 73.97% 67.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 530 732 408
Average daily rate £325 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 27 35
Average hourly rate £29.25 £15.00 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+95.00% -31.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.35 £11.76 £7.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.60 £62.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Unit Testing
Yorkshire

Unit Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Unit Testing across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

West Yorkshire Unit Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Unit Testing across the West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire Unit Testing Daily Rate Trend

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Unit Testing across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

West Yorkshire Unit Testing Daily Rate Histogram

Unit Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire Unit Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Unit Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unit Testing within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Leeds -24 6 £263 -4.36% 5
Bradford -2 4 - - 2
Halifax - - - -
Huddersfield - - - -
Wakefield - - - -
Batley - - - - 1
Unit Testing
Yorkshire

Unit Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing Unit Testing 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 Unit Testing.

1 19 (86.36%) .NET
2 16 (72.73%) C#
3 12 (54.55%) SQL Server
3 12 (54.55%) ASP.NET
4 10 (45.45%) SQL Server 2008
5 9 (40.91%) JavaScript
5 9 (40.91%) SharePoint
6 7 (31.82%) Agile Software Development
6 7 (31.82%) Test Scripting
7 6 (27.27%) .NET Framework
7 6 (27.27%) NHibernate
7 6 (27.27%) NUnit
7 6 (27.27%) Migration
7 6 (27.27%) Visual Studio
7 6 (27.27%) Software Architecture
7 6 (27.27%) SharePoint 2010
8 5 (22.73%) CSS
8 5 (22.73%) SQL
8 5 (22.73%) HTML
8 5 (22.73%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (18.18%) OO
9 4 (18.18%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
10 3 (13.64%) jQuery
10 3 (13.64%) EPiServer
10 3 (13.64%) Kanban
10 3 (13.64%) EPiServer CMS
10 3 (13.64%) Web Application Development
10 3 (13.64%) WPF
10 3 (13.64%) RDBMS
10 3 (13.64%) Java

Unit Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing Unit Testing 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 Unit Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 19 (86.36%) .NET
2 12 (54.55%) ASP.NET
3 6 (27.27%) .NET Framework
3 6 (27.27%) NHibernate
4 5 (22.73%) CSS
4 5 (22.73%) HTML
5 4 (18.18%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 3 (13.64%) jQuery
6 3 (13.64%) WPF
7 2 (9.091%) DHTML
7 2 (9.091%) Web Services
7 2 (9.091%) XML
7 2 (9.091%) CAML
8 1 (4.545%) ASP.NET 2.0
8 1 (4.545%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 9 (40.91%) SharePoint
2 6 (27.27%) SharePoint 2010
3 3 (13.64%) EPiServer CMS
3 3 (13.64%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (9.091%) InfoPath
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.545%) GSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (54.55%) SQL Server
2 10 (45.45%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (13.64%) RDBMS
3 3 (13.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (13.64%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (13.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (9.091%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (9.091%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 6 (27.27%) NUnit
1 6 (27.27%) Visual Studio
2 1 (4.545%) SpecFlow
General
1 3 (13.64%) Finance
2 1 (4.545%) Electronics
2 1 (4.545%) Telecoms
2 1 (4.545%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (81.82%) Developer
2 10 (45.45%) .NET Developer
3 6 (27.27%) SharePoint Developer
3 6 (27.27%) C# Developer
3 6 (27.27%) C# .NET Developer
4 4 (18.18%) ASP.NET Developer
4 4 (18.18%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 3 (13.64%) Software Developer
5 3 (13.64%) Java Developer
6 2 (9.091%) Applications Developer
7 1 (4.545%) Agile Project Manager
7 1 (4.545%) Web Developer
7 1 (4.545%) Project Manager
7 1 (4.545%) Software Engineer
7 1 (4.545%) .NET Web Developer
7 1 (4.545%) C# Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.091%) NHS
2 1 (4.545%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (31.82%) Agile Software Development
1 7 (31.82%) Test Scripting
2 6 (27.27%) Migration
2 6 (27.27%) Software Architecture
3 5 (22.73%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (18.18%) OO
5 3 (13.64%) Kanban
5 3 (13.64%) Web Application Development
5 3 (13.64%) TDD
6 2 (9.091%) Software Engineering
6 2 (9.091%) Configuration Management
6 2 (9.091%) ETL
6 2 (9.091%) Workflow
6 2 (9.091%) Service Delivery
7 1 (4.545%) BDD
7 1 (4.545%) Waterfall
7 1 (4.545%) Agile Project Management
7 1 (4.545%) Business Transformation
7 1 (4.545%) Project Management
7 1 (4.545%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 16 (72.73%) C#
2 9 (40.91%) JavaScript
3 5 (22.73%) SQL
4 3 (13.64%) Java
5 2 (9.091%) VB6
5 2 (9.091%) VB
5 2 (9.091%) VB.NET
5 2 (9.091%) VBA
6 1 (4.545%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (9.091%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.545%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.545%) RACF
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) EPiServer
2 1 (4.545%) Oracle
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