The first table below looks at the demand for Unit Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Unit Testing over the 3 months to 21 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 Chester region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Unit Testing
Rank 44 34 43
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +9
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 8 3 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 2.260% 1.875% 1.277%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.685% 2.586% 1.775%
Number of salaries quoted 7 2 3
Average salary £37,500 £34,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.29% -32.00%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
All Processes & Methodologies
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
298 116 169
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 84.18% 72.50% 71.91%
Number of salaries quoted 162 96 164
Average salary £37,750 £37,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.02% -7.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £25,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Unit Testing
Cheshire

Unit Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester Unit Testing Salary Trend

Unit Testing
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Unit Testing across the Chester region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Chester Unit Testing Salary Histogram

Unit Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 20 (68.97%) SQL Server
2 19 (65.52%) C#
3 18 (62.07%) ASP.NET
3 18 (62.07%) .NET
4 17 (58.62%) .NET Framework
5 15 (51.72%) SQL
5 15 (51.72%) MVC
6 14 (48.28%) jQuery
6 14 (48.28%) ASP.NET MVC
7 13 (44.83%) Agile Software Development
8 12 (41.38%) Web Services
9 11 (37.93%) XML
9 11 (37.93%) Visual Studio
9 11 (37.93%) SQL Server 2008
10 10 (34.48%) SOAP
10 10 (34.48%) Microsoft
11 9 (31.03%) CSS
11 9 (31.03%) HTML
11 9 (31.03%) WCF
12 8 (27.59%) WPF
12 8 (27.59%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
12 8 (27.59%) Ajax
12 8 (27.59%) Java
12 8 (27.59%) JavaScript
12 8 (27.59%) C++
13 7 (24.14%) T-SQL
13 7 (24.14%) Finance
13 7 (24.14%) SQL Server 2005
13 7 (24.14%) Performance Testing
13 7 (24.14%) Team Foundation Server

Unit Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 18 (62.07%) ASP.NET
1 18 (62.07%) .NET
2 17 (58.62%) .NET Framework
3 14 (48.28%) jQuery
3 14 (48.28%) ASP.NET MVC
4 12 (41.38%) Web Services
5 11 (37.93%) XML
6 10 (34.48%) SOAP
7 9 (31.03%) CSS
7 9 (31.03%) HTML
7 9 (31.03%) WCF
8 8 (27.59%) WPF
8 8 (27.59%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 8 (27.59%) Ajax
9 5 (17.24%) ASP.NET MVC 4
10 4 (13.79%) Hibernate
10 4 (13.79%) Spring
11 2 (6.897%) JSP
11 2 (6.897%) Servlets
11 2 (6.897%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 2 (6.897%) Apache
2 1 (3.448%) ESB
2 1 (3.448%) CMS
2 1 (3.448%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (13.79%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.448%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (3.448%) Oracle EBS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (68.97%) SQL Server
2 11 (37.93%) SQL Server 2008
3 7 (24.14%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (6.897%) MySQL
4 2 (6.897%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (3.448%) IDMS
5 1 (3.448%) SQL Server 2012
5 1 (3.448%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.448%) SQL Server 2000
5 1 (3.448%) VLDB
5 1 (3.448%) OLTP
5 1 (3.448%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.448%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 11 (37.93%) Visual Studio
2 7 (24.14%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (3.448%) Eclipse
3 1 (3.448%) JUnit
General
1 7 (24.14%) Finance
2 6 (20.69%) Retail
3 2 (6.897%) Legal
Job Titles
1 23 (79.31%) Developer
2 8 (27.59%) .NET Developer
3 4 (13.79%) Consultant
3 4 (13.79%) Lead Developer
3 4 (13.79%) Software Developer
3 4 (13.79%) Teradata Consultant
3 4 (13.79%) Java Developer
4 3 (10.34%) C# Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Graduate Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Lead C# Developer
4 3 (10.34%) C# .NET Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Lead .NET Developer
4 3 (10.34%) DBA
4 3 (10.34%) Graduate
5 2 (6.897%) Senior Developer
5 2 (6.897%) Administrator
5 2 (6.897%) Web Developer
5 2 (6.897%) Senior Software Developer
5 2 (6.897%) Teradata DBA
5 2 (6.897%) SQL DBA
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) SaaS
2 2 (6.897%) Device Driver
2 2 (6.897%) Computer Science
3 1 (3.448%) iPad
3 1 (3.448%) Data Integration
3 1 (3.448%) Open Source
3 1 (3.448%) N-Tier
3 1 (3.448%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.897%) UNIX
1 2 (6.897%) Windows
1 2 (6.897%) Linux
1 2 (6.897%) Windows CE
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (51.72%) MVC
2 13 (44.83%) Agile Software Development
3 7 (24.14%) Performance Testing
4 5 (17.24%) MVVM
4 5 (17.24%) Web Application Development
4 5 (17.24%) OO
5 4 (13.79%) OOP
6 3 (10.34%) Change Management
6 3 (10.34%) Scrum
7 2 (6.897%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (6.897%) System Testing
7 2 (6.897%) Inmon Methodology
7 2 (6.897%) Web Development
8 1 (3.448%) Compatibility Testing
8 1 (3.448%) Load Testing
8 1 (3.448%) AOP
8 1 (3.448%) Data Transformation
8 1 (3.448%) Database Security
8 1 (3.448%) Performance Management
8 1 (3.448%) Cash Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (65.52%) C#
2 15 (51.72%) SQL
3 8 (27.59%) Java
3 8 (27.59%) JavaScript
3 8 (27.59%) C++
4 7 (24.14%) T-SQL
5 5 (17.24%) C
6 2 (6.897%) PHP
6 2 (6.897%) PL/SQL
6 2 (6.897%) XPath
7 1 (3.448%) Ruby
7 1 (3.448%) Groovy
7 1 (3.448%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) Degree
Vendors
1 10 (34.48%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.79%) Oracle
2 4 (13.79%) Teradata
3 1 (3.448%) JBoss
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