The first table below looks at the demand for Unit Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Basildon region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Unit Testing over the 3 months to 24 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 Processes & Methodologies category for the Basildon region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Unit Testing
Rank 31 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 5 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Basildon 3.472% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.032% - -
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 0
Average salary £45,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.31% +1.33%
All Processes & Methodologies
Basildon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
124 83 136
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Basildon 86.11% 81.37% 88.31%
Number of salaries quoted 94 72 100
Average salary £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% -11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £34,000 £32,250 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £70,000 £70,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Unit Testing
Essex

Unit Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Basildon Unit Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Unit Testing
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Unit Testing across the Basildon region.

Basildon Unit Testing Salary Trend

Unit Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Basildon 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Unit Testing.

1 9 (100.00%) C#
1 9 (100.00%) .NET
1 9 (100.00%) OOP
1 9 (100.00%) WCF
1 9 (100.00%) WPF
1 9 (100.00%) Silverlight
2 8 (88.89%) TDD
3 7 (77.78%) .NET Framework
3 7 (77.78%) XAML
3 7 (77.78%) Web Services
3 7 (77.78%) SQL
3 7 (77.78%) T-SQL
3 7 (77.78%) MSTest
3 7 (77.78%) Rhino Mocks
3 7 (77.78%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 7 (77.78%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (77.78%) Unity DI Container
4 6 (66.67%) Dependency Injection
4 6 (66.67%) Finance
5 5 (55.56%) System Testing
6 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET MVC 3
6 2 (22.22%) jQuery
6 2 (22.22%) Internet
6 2 (22.22%) MVC
6 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
6 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET
7 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
7 1 (11.11%) OO
7 1 (11.11%) OOD

Unit Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Basildon 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Unit Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (100.00%) .NET
1 9 (100.00%) WCF
1 9 (100.00%) WPF
1 9 (100.00%) Silverlight
2 7 (77.78%) .NET Framework
2 7 (77.78%) Web Services
2 7 (77.78%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 7 (77.78%) Unity DI Container
3 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET MVC 3
3 2 (22.22%) jQuery
3 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET
4 1 (11.11%) KnockoutJS
4 1 (11.11%) HTML5
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 7 (77.78%) MSTest
1 7 (77.78%) Rhino Mocks
General
1 6 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Developer
2 6 (66.67%) Analyst
3 5 (55.56%) C# Developer
3 5 (55.56%) Technical Analyst
4 4 (44.44%) Developer Analyst
4 4 (44.44%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Web Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Silverlight Developer
5 1 (11.11%) .NET Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Software Analyst
5 1 (11.11%) WPF Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Senior Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) OOP
2 8 (88.89%) TDD
3 6 (66.67%) Dependency Injection
4 5 (55.56%) System Testing
5 2 (22.22%) MVC
6 1 (11.11%) OO
6 1 (11.11%) OOD
6 1 (11.11%) Multithreading
6 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) C#
2 7 (77.78%) XAML
2 7 (77.78%) SQL
2 7 (77.78%) T-SQL
3 2 (22.22%) JavaScript