The first table below looks at the demand for Unit Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bradford 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 Bradford region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Unit Testing
Rank 43 50 39
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -11
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 4 1 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bradford 1.205% 0.246% 0.888%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.493% 0.342% 1.382%
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 1
Average salary £34,250 £36,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.16% -14.11%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.31% +1.33%
All Processes & Methodologies
Bradford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
268 292 217
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bradford 80.72% 71.92% 64.20%
Number of salaries quoted 170 175 119
Average salary £37,500 £36,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.16% +10.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £30,000 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £47,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Unit Testing
West Yorkshire

Unit Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bradford 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 Bradford region.

Bradford Unit Testing Salary Trend

Unit Testing
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Unit Testing across the Bradford region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Bradford Unit Testing Salary Histogram

Unit Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bradford 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 15 (68.18%) Java
2 11 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
3 10 (45.45%) SQL
4 9 (40.91%) Oracle
4 9 (40.91%) XML
5 8 (36.36%) PRINCE2
5 8 (36.36%) Apache
5 8 (36.36%) ETL
5 8 (36.36%) WSDL
5 8 (36.36%) XML Schema
5 8 (36.36%) JAXB
5 8 (36.36%) CICS
5 8 (36.36%) W3C
5 8 (36.36%) Project Management
5 8 (36.36%) Mainframe
5 8 (36.36%) JUnit
5 8 (36.36%) COBOL
5 8 (36.36%) TDD
5 8 (36.36%) Web Services
5 8 (36.36%) Spring
5 8 (36.36%) Hibernate
5 8 (36.36%) Scrum
5 8 (36.36%) WebSphere
5 8 (36.36%) Grails
5 8 (36.36%) GlassFish
5 8 (36.36%) Continuous Integration
5 8 (36.36%) Kanban
5 8 (36.36%) Feature Driven Development
5 8 (36.36%) User Stories
6 7 (31.82%) Degree

Unit Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bradford 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 (40.91%) XML
2 8 (36.36%) WSDL
2 8 (36.36%) XML Schema
2 8 (36.36%) JAXB
2 8 (36.36%) Web Services
2 8 (36.36%) Spring
2 8 (36.36%) Hibernate
2 8 (36.36%) WebSphere
2 8 (36.36%) Grails
3 6 (27.27%) .NET
4 5 (22.73%) ASP.NET
5 4 (18.18%) CSS
5 4 (18.18%) HTML
6 3 (13.64%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 8 (36.36%) Apache
1 8 (36.36%) CICS
1 8 (36.36%) GlassFish
Business Applications
1 1 (4.545%) Oracle EBS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) SQL Server
2 4 (18.18%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (13.64%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (4.545%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (4.545%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (4.545%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (36.36%) JUnit
2 1 (4.545%) Visual Studio
2 1 (4.545%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3 (13.64%) Finance
2 1 (4.545%) Back Office
2 1 (4.545%) Legal
Job Titles
1 15 (68.18%) Software Engineer
2 8 (36.36%) Java Software Engineer
3 7 (31.82%) Graduate Software Engineer
3 7 (31.82%) Graduate
4 6 (27.27%) Developer
5 5 (22.73%) .NET Developer
6 4 (18.18%) .NET Web Developer
6 4 (18.18%) Web Developer
7 3 (13.64%) C# .NET Developer
7 3 (13.64%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 3 (13.64%) C# Developer
7 3 (13.64%) C# Web Developer
7 3 (13.64%) ASP.NET Developer
8 2 (9.091%) Analyst
9 1 (4.545%) Analyst Programmer
9 1 (4.545%) Programmer
9 1 (4.545%) Software Developer
9 1 (4.545%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
9 1 (4.545%) Oracle Analyst
9 1 (4.545%) Analyst Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (36.36%) W3C
1 8 (36.36%) Mainframe
2 5 (22.73%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 8 (36.36%) PRINCE2
2 8 (36.36%) ETL
2 8 (36.36%) Project Management
2 8 (36.36%) TDD
2 8 (36.36%) Scrum
2 8 (36.36%) Continuous Integration
2 8 (36.36%) Kanban
2 8 (36.36%) Feature Driven Development
2 8 (36.36%) User Stories
3 7 (31.82%) Software Engineering
4 4 (18.18%) Test Scripting
5 3 (13.64%) Web Application Development
6 2 (9.091%) User Acceptance Testing
7 1 (4.545%) Problem Management
7 1 (4.545%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 15 (68.18%) Java
2 10 (45.45%) SQL
3 8 (36.36%) COBOL
4 6 (27.27%) C#
5 3 (13.64%) JavaScript
5 3 (13.64%) VB.NET
6 2 (9.091%) VBA
7 1 (4.545%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) Degree
Vendors
1 9 (40.91%) Oracle