Unit Testing Contracts in Yorkshire

Unit Testing
England > Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire with a requirement for Unit Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Unit Testing over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 83 101 114
Rank change year-on-year +18 +13 -32
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 18 20 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.07% 0.87% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 0.96% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 16 20
10th Percentile £375 £403 £359
25th Percentile £450 £486 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year - +7.32% +10.81%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £675
90th Percentile £650 £644 £690
England median daily rate £543 £595 £550
% change year-on-year -8.82% +8.18% +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £37.32
25th Percentile - £37.67 £38.55
Median hourly rate - £40.58 £41.85
Median % change year-on-year - -3.04% -
75th Percentile - £43.48 £43.89
90th Percentile - - £44.37
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +26.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

Unit Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,449 2,088 2,415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 86.40% 90.86% 89.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 871 1,389 1,765
10th Percentile £275 £288 £263
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £485
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +8.25% +10.86%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £553
90th Percentile £650 £700 £639
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 61 81
10th Percentile £11.30 - £10.70
25th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.00
Median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year +27.00% -39.74% -9.54%
75th Percentile £22.00 £20.19 £22.75
90th Percentile £53.75 £56.00 £27.50
England median hourly rate £36.00 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -3.59% +53.69% +1.23%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Unit Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in Yorkshire

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in Yorkshire

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in Yorkshire

Unit Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Unit Testing in Yorkshire

Unit Testing
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unit Testing within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 2 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Yorkshire +18 11 £450 -18.18% 4
South Yorkshire +6 6 £550 +62.96% 1
Unit Testing
England

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (5.56%) SAP CO
2 1 (5.56%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) Azure
1 5 (27.78%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.56%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 5 (27.78%) SQL Server
2 5 (27.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (61.11%) Git
2 9 (50.00%) JUnit
3 5 (27.78%) JIRA
3 5 (27.78%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (5.56%) REST Assured
General
1 6 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 4 (22.22%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Retail
3 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (72.22%) Developer
2 6 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 5 (27.78%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 5 (27.78%) SQL BI Developer
3 5 (27.78%) SQL Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Consultant
4 2 (11.11%) Junior
4 2 (11.11%) Junior Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Junior Java Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Lead
4 2 (11.11%) Lead Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Lead Java Developer
4 2 (11.11%) SAP Consultant
4 2 (11.11%) Test Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Data Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) PHP Developer
5 1 (5.56%) SAP CO Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) SAP Data Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) SAP Retail Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (38.89%) REST
2 6 (33.33%) Hibernate
2 6 (33.33%) JPA
2 6 (33.33%) React
2 6 (33.33%) Spring
2 6 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 3 (16.67%) Gherkin
4 1 (5.56%) Akka
4 1 (5.56%) HTML
4 1 (5.56%) Kafka
4 1 (5.56%) Laravel
4 1 (5.56%) RESTful
4 1 (5.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) DevOps
2 10 (55.56%) Agile
3 9 (50.00%) Scrum
4 8 (44.44%) Software Testing
5 7 (38.89%) High Availability
6 6 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 6 (33.33%) Front End Development
6 6 (33.33%) Mentoring
6 6 (33.33%) Microservices
7 5 (27.78%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (27.78%) User Acceptance Testing
8 4 (22.22%) Acceptance Criteria
8 4 (22.22%) Software Delivery
8 4 (22.22%) TDD
9 3 (16.67%) Analytics
9 3 (16.67%) API Testing
9 3 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
9 3 (16.67%) Test Scripting
9 3 (16.67%) Test Strategy
9 3 (16.67%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) Java
2 6 (33.33%) SQL
2 6 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 1 (5.56%) ABAP
3 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.56%) PHP
3 1 (5.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (61.11%) SC Cleared
1 11 (61.11%) Security Cleared
2 6 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) QA
System Software
1 7 (38.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) Grafana
2 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) SAP
3 1 (5.56%) JDA