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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Unit Testing
Rank - 38 32
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 0 6 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Canary Wharf - 1.807% 0.503%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 2.174% 0.649%
Number of salaries quoted 0 6 1
Average salary - £57,500 £80,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -28.12%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
All Processes & Methodologies
Canary Wharf
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
265 276 154
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 88.04% 83.13% 77.39%
Number of salaries quoted 200 236 114
Average salary £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
10% offered a salary of more than £100,000 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Unit Testing
London

Unit Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf Unit Testing Salary Trend

Unit Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 19 (95.00%) Finance
2 17 (85.00%) SQL Server
2 17 (85.00%) Banking
3 16 (80.00%) C#
4 15 (75.00%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (75.00%) FTP
4 15 (75.00%) Risk Management
4 15 (75.00%) System Testing
5 13 (65.00%) Investment Banking
6 12 (60.00%) SQL Server 2008
6 12 (60.00%) XML
7 11 (55.00%) Data Modelling
7 11 (55.00%) OO
7 11 (55.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 11 (55.00%) Back Office
7 11 (55.00%) Validation
7 11 (55.00%) Data Validation
8 8 (40.00%) SQL
9 4 (20.00%) Informatica
9 4 (20.00%) GIS
9 4 (20.00%) Teradata
9 4 (20.00%) Oracle
9 4 (20.00%) ETL
9 4 (20.00%) Hadoop
9 4 (20.00%) Performance Management
9 4 (20.00%) KDB
9 4 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (15.00%) JSTL
10 3 (15.00%) TDD
10 3 (15.00%) Spring

Unit Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 12 (60.00%) XML
2 3 (15.00%) Hibernate
2 3 (15.00%) Spring
2 3 (15.00%) JSTL
2 3 (15.00%) Spring MVC
2 3 (15.00%) HTML
2 3 (15.00%) J2EE
2 3 (15.00%) CSS
2 3 (15.00%) JSP
Communications & Networking
1 15 (75.00%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (85.00%) SQL Server
2 15 (75.00%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (60.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 4 (20.00%) Hadoop
4 4 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (20.00%) KDB
4 4 (20.00%) GIS
5 2 (10.00%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Ant
1 3 (15.00%) Maven
2 1 (5.000%) JIRA
General
1 19 (95.00%) Finance
2 17 (85.00%) Banking
3 13 (65.00%) Investment Banking
4 11 (55.00%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 15 (75.00%) Architect
2 11 (55.00%) SQL Server Architect
2 11 (55.00%) C# Architect
3 5 (25.00%) Developer
4 4 (20.00%) Data Warehouse Architect
4 4 (20.00%) SQL Server Data Warehouse Architect
4 4 (20.00%) Lead Architect
5 3 (15.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 3 (15.00%) J2EE Developer
5 3 (15.00%) Java Developer
6 1 (5.000%) C++ Developer
6 1 (5.000%) C# Developer
6 1 (5.000%) Lead Developer
6 1 (5.000%) SQL Developer
6 1 (5.000%) SQL Server Developer
6 1 (5.000%) C++/C# Developer
6 1 (5.000%) Lead SQL Server Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.000%) Computer Science
1 1 (5.000%) Credit Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (75.00%) Risk Management
1 15 (75.00%) System Testing
2 11 (55.00%) Validation
2 11 (55.00%) Data Validation
2 11 (55.00%) OO
2 11 (55.00%) Data Modelling
3 4 (20.00%) ETL
3 4 (20.00%) Performance Management
4 3 (15.00%) MVC
4 3 (15.00%) TDD
5 1 (5.000%) Software Engineering
5 1 (5.000%) Release Management
5 1 (5.000%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (5.000%) Performance Testing
5 1 (5.000%) Scrum
5 1 (5.000%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 16 (80.00%) C#
2 8 (40.00%) SQL
3 3 (15.00%) Java
3 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.000%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (5.000%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (55.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Oracle
1 4 (20.00%) Informatica
1 4 (20.00%) Teradata
2 1 (5.000%) Perforce