The first table below looks at the demand for Unit Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Unit Testing over the 3 months to 17 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 Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Unit Testing
Rank 69 59 91
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +32
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 47 33 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 2.804% 2.271% 0.226%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.763% 3.284% 0.353%
Number of salaries quoted 46 32 2
Average salary £40,000 £31,750 £46,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+25.98% -31.35%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,250 £26,550 £41,250
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £42,500 £51,250
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
All Processes & Methodologies
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1249 1005 851
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 74.52% 69.17% 63.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1055 876 728
Average salary £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.88% -
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £27,500 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Unit Testing
West Midlands

Unit Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham Unit Testing Salary Trend

Unit Testing
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Unit Testing across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Birmingham Unit Testing Salary Histogram

Unit Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 48 (67.61%) SQL Server
2 33 (46.48%) TDD
3 31 (43.66%) C#
4 30 (42.25%) Java
4 30 (42.25%) OO
5 29 (40.85%) SQL
6 27 (38.03%) SQL Server 2005
6 27 (38.03%) SQL Server 2008
7 25 (35.21%) MVC
8 24 (33.80%) Agile Software Development
9 22 (30.99%) Subversion
10 21 (29.58%) J2EE
10 21 (29.58%) SOAP
11 19 (26.76%) XML
11 19 (26.76%) .NET
11 19 (26.76%) Oracle
12 18 (25.35%) JavaScript
12 18 (25.35%) Web Services
12 18 (25.35%) Ajax
13 17 (23.94%) JasperReports
13 17 (23.94%) Multithreading
13 17 (23.94%) Visual Studio
13 17 (23.94%) Oracle Reports
13 17 (23.94%) Spring
13 17 (23.94%) Hibernate
14 16 (22.54%) Selenium
15 15 (21.13%) FitNesse
15 15 (21.13%) Spring MVC
15 15 (21.13%) ActiveMQ
15 15 (21.13%) TeamCity

Unit Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 21 (29.58%) J2EE
1 21 (29.58%) SOAP
2 19 (26.76%) .NET
2 19 (26.76%) XML
3 18 (25.35%) Web Services
3 18 (25.35%) Ajax
4 17 (23.94%) Spring
4 17 (23.94%) Hibernate
5 15 (21.13%) JMS
5 15 (21.13%) JMX
5 15 (21.13%) Spring MVC
6 14 (19.72%) HTML5
7 13 (18.31%) WCF
8 9 (12.68%) Java EE
8 9 (12.68%) ASP.NET
9 8 (11.27%) XSLT
10 7 (9.859%) CSS
10 7 (9.859%) HTML
10 7 (9.859%) jQuery
11 6 (8.451%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 15 (21.13%) Tomcat
1 15 (21.13%) ActiveMQ
2 10 (14.08%) SharePoint
3 5 (7.042%) Amazon AWS
4 3 (4.225%) IIS
4 3 (4.225%) MSMQ
5 2 (2.817%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (1.408%) SugarCRM
6 1 (1.408%) Apache Solr
6 1 (1.408%) Windows Azure
6 1 (1.408%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.408%) Apache Pig
Applications
1 8 (11.27%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.408%) PowerPivot
Business Applications
1 8 (11.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.817%) Agresso
3 1 (1.408%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.408%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (1.408%) SAP CO
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.451%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (67.61%) SQL Server
2 27 (38.03%) SQL Server 2005
2 27 (38.03%) SQL Server 2008
3 17 (23.94%) JasperReports
3 17 (23.94%) Oracle Reports
4 12 (16.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (7.042%) MySQL
5 5 (7.042%) Oracle 8/8i
6 3 (4.225%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (4.225%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.817%) Redis
7 2 (2.817%) Hadoop
7 2 (2.817%) Data Mining
7 2 (2.817%) GIS
8 1 (1.408%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (1.408%) OLAP
8 1 (1.408%) OLTP
8 1 (1.408%) PerformancePoint
8 1 (1.408%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (1.408%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 22 (30.99%) Subversion
2 17 (23.94%) Visual Studio
3 16 (22.54%) Selenium
4 15 (21.13%) FitNesse
4 15 (21.13%) TeamCity
4 15 (21.13%) Apache Continuum
4 15 (21.13%) Eclipse
4 15 (21.13%) Maven
5 12 (16.90%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (7.042%) NUnit
7 3 (4.225%) Git (software)
8 2 (2.817%) CruiseControl
8 2 (2.817%) JIRA
8 2 (2.817%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (2.817%) TestDirector
8 2 (2.817%) QuickTest Pro
8 2 (2.817%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 6 (8.451%) Finance
2 1 (1.408%) Advertising
2 1 (1.408%) Publishing
2 1 (1.408%) Banking
2 1 (1.408%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 50 (70.42%) Developer
2 23 (32.39%) Senior Developer
3 13 (18.31%) Java Developer
4 12 (16.90%) C# Developer
4 12 (16.90%) Senior Java Developer
5 10 (14.08%) Senior C# Developer
5 10 (14.08%) .NET Developer
6 9 (12.68%) Java/J2EE Developer
7 7 (9.859%) Junior
8 6 (8.451%) CRM Developer
9 5 (7.042%) Dynamics CRM Developer
9 5 (7.042%) Junior .NET Developer
9 5 (7.042%) Junior Developer
9 5 (7.042%) Analyst
10 4 (5.634%) Test Analyst
10 4 (5.634%) PHP Developer
10 4 (5.634%) Team Leader
11 3 (4.225%) Java Software Engineer
11 3 (4.225%) Java Team Leader
11 3 (4.225%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.68%) Firmware
2 5 (7.042%) Computer Science
3 4 (5.634%) Mathematics
4 3 (4.225%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.817%) Inversion of Control
5 2 (2.817%) Pocket PC
5 2 (2.817%) AS400
6 1 (1.408%) Replication
6 1 (1.408%) Blog
6 1 (1.408%) FMCG
6 1 (1.408%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 12 (16.90%) Windows
2 6 (8.451%) Linux
3 5 (7.042%) Android
4 2 (2.817%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.817%) Windows 8
4 2 (2.817%) Windows Phone 8
4 2 (2.817%) Windows Phone
4 2 (2.817%) Windows CE
4 2 (2.817%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (46.48%) TDD
2 30 (42.25%) OO
3 25 (35.21%) MVC
4 24 (33.80%) Agile Software Development
5 17 (23.94%) Multithreading
6 11 (15.49%) OOP
7 9 (12.68%) SOA
7 9 (12.68%) Web Development
8 8 (11.27%) Automated Testing
8 8 (11.27%) CRM
9 7 (9.859%) Scrum
10 6 (8.451%) Integration Testing
10 6 (8.451%) Continuous Integration
10 6 (8.451%) Waterfall
11 5 (7.042%) Test Scripting
12 4 (5.634%) System Testing
13 3 (4.225%) Data Modelling
14 2 (2.817%) Code Coverage
14 2 (2.817%) Validation
14 2 (2.817%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 31 (43.66%) C#
2 30 (42.25%) Java
3 29 (40.85%) SQL
4 18 (25.35%) JavaScript
5 11 (15.49%) PHP
6 5 (7.042%) T-SQL
6 5 (7.042%) Scala
7 4 (5.634%) PHP5
8 3 (4.225%) VB.NET
8 3 (4.225%) Objective-C
9 2 (2.817%) VB6
9 2 (2.817%) Ruby
9 2 (2.817%) Embedded C++
9 2 (2.817%) VB
9 2 (2.817%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.817%) C++
10 1 (1.408%) Delphi
10 1 (1.408%) Perl
10 1 (1.408%) R
10 1 (1.408%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (16.90%) Degree
2 4 (5.634%) ISEB
3 1 (1.408%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.408%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.634%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (5.634%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 19 (26.76%) Oracle
2 15 (21.13%) JBoss
3 11 (15.49%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.634%) Zend
5 2 (2.817%) Sencha
6 1 (1.408%) SAP
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Additionally a good grounding in OOP, Web Services, MySQL and JavaScript is required. On top of this if you have knowledge of some of the following areas it...
Edgar Cowen
Salary: £26000 - £30000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Java, J2EE, SQL,MVC, Development Graduate Birmingham, Software House... Core skills in Java, MVC, J2EE, HTTP,SOAP, REST, XML, XSLT and unit testing using NUnit are all important...
Spring Technology
Salary: £18000.00 - £25000.00 per annum
Posted: 13 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Java... Hibernate. JBoss. Tomcat... SQLServer 2005/2008. SOAP. Maven... They have a mix of standalone Java applications and J2EE web applications and make use of technologies/tools like...
Blues Point Ltd
Salary: From £40,000 to £48,000 per annum Benefits including Pension, BUPA, 25
Posted: 15 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Also required is unit testing, automated testing and continuous integration, with an emphasis on refactoring is a key to this role. Tech skills; PHP, node.js, ruby, MangoDB,...
ISL
Salary: £45000.00 - £55000.00 per annum + Bens
Posted: 17 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands
Responsibilities: - Plan and prioritise work for all incoming testing - Design detailed test cases - Perform test execution on various applications - Document and publish all test results to a defined...
Sand Resources
Salary: £24000 - £28000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 1 May 2013