The first table below looks at the demand for Unit Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Unit Testing over the 3 months to 23 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 Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Unit Testing
Rank 42 40 83
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +43
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 46 56 22
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 4.323% 4.097% 1.387%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.757% 5.594% 1.757%
Number of salaries quoted 28 34 16
Average salary £36,250 £34,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.07% -1.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,350 £25,600 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £49,500 £47,450 £40,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
All Processes & Methodologies
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
799 1001 1252
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 75.09% 73.23% 78.94%
Number of salaries quoted 468 697 879
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £42,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £27,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Unit Testing
Scotland

Unit Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Unit Testing Salary Trend

Unit Testing
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Unit Testing across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Edinburgh Unit Testing Salary Histogram

Unit Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 58 (71.60%) .NET
2 45 (55.56%) C#
3 34 (41.98%) Degree
4 33 (40.74%) JavaScript
5 30 (37.04%) SQL Server
5 30 (37.04%) jQuery
6 29 (35.80%) Microsoft
7 26 (32.10%) ASP.NET
7 26 (32.10%) Computer Science
7 26 (32.10%) .NET Framework
8 25 (30.86%) Visual Studio
8 25 (30.86%) MVC
8 25 (30.86%) Subversion
9 24 (29.63%) WCF
10 23 (28.40%) Finance
10 23 (28.40%) CSS
11 21 (25.93%) Team Foundation Server
12 20 (24.69%) SQL Server 2008
12 20 (24.69%) XML
12 20 (24.69%) Java
12 20 (24.69%) Agile Software Development
13 19 (23.46%) Scrum
13 19 (23.46%) ASP.NET MVC
14 18 (22.22%) Ajax
15 17 (20.99%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
15 17 (20.99%) TDD
16 16 (19.75%) HTML
16 16 (19.75%) SQL
17 15 (18.52%) Git (software)
18 14 (17.28%) Selenium

Unit Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 58 (71.60%) .NET
2 30 (37.04%) jQuery
3 26 (32.10%) ASP.NET
3 26 (32.10%) .NET Framework
4 24 (29.63%) WCF
5 23 (28.40%) CSS
6 20 (24.69%) XML
7 19 (23.46%) ASP.NET MVC
8 18 (22.22%) Ajax
9 17 (20.99%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
10 16 (19.75%) HTML
11 12 (14.81%) HTML5
12 11 (13.58%) WPF
13 10 (12.35%) J2EE
13 10 (12.35%) ASP.NET MVC 3
14 9 (11.11%) Hibernate
15 8 (9.877%) ASP
16 7 (8.642%) CSS3
16 7 (8.642%) XSLT
16 7 (8.642%) Struts
Application Platforms
1 8 (9.877%) BizTalk Server
2 6 (7.407%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (6.173%) Windows Azure
4 3 (3.704%) NServiceBus
4 3 (3.704%) MSMQ
5 2 (2.469%) IIS
6 1 (1.235%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (1.235%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (8.642%) MS Excel
1 7 (8.642%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.235%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.235%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (11.11%) Internet
2 5 (6.173%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (37.04%) SQL Server
2 20 (24.69%) SQL Server 2008
3 9 (11.11%) SQL Server 2012
4 5 (6.173%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (4.938%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 4 (4.938%) NoSQL
5 4 (4.938%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (4.938%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (2.469%) TOAD
6 2 (2.469%) Oracle 10g
6 2 (2.469%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (2.469%) MySQL
6 2 (2.469%) Oracle 11g
7 1 (1.235%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.235%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 25 (30.86%) Visual Studio
1 25 (30.86%) Subversion
2 21 (25.93%) Team Foundation Server
3 15 (18.52%) Git (software)
4 14 (17.28%) Selenium
5 13 (16.05%) JUnit
6 9 (11.11%) MSTest
7 8 (9.877%) Eclipse
8 6 (7.407%) PhoneGap
8 6 (7.407%) Appcelerator Titanium
9 3 (3.704%) NUnit
10 2 (2.469%) JMeter
10 2 (2.469%) Maven
10 2 (2.469%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (2.469%) Mercurial
10 2 (2.469%) Rhino Mocks
10 2 (2.469%) Moq
11 1 (1.235%) MSBuild
11 1 (1.235%) VSS/SourceSafe
11 1 (1.235%) JDeveloper
General
1 23 (28.40%) Finance
2 8 (9.877%) Legal
3 6 (7.407%) Games
4 5 (6.173%) Electronics
5 3 (3.704%) Banking
6 2 (2.469%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 55 (67.90%) Developer
2 28 (34.57%) .NET Developer
3 14 (17.28%) C# .NET Developer
3 14 (17.28%) C# Developer
4 12 (14.81%) Senior Developer
5 11 (13.58%) Analyst
6 9 (11.11%) Software Engineer
7 8 (9.877%) Consultant
7 8 (9.877%) Applications Support
8 7 (8.642%) Front-End Developer
8 7 (8.642%) Software Developer
8 7 (8.642%) Support Analyst
8 7 (8.642%) Applications Support Analyst
9 6 (7.407%) Junior
9 6 (7.407%) Junior .NET Developer
9 6 (7.407%) ASP.NET Developer
9 6 (7.407%) Junior Developer
9 6 (7.407%) C# ASP.NET Developer
10 5 (6.173%) Database Developer
11 4 (4.938%) Analyst Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 26 (32.10%) Computer Science
2 9 (11.11%) Mathematics
3 7 (8.642%) Open Source
4 5 (6.173%) Web 2.0
4 5 (6.173%) Visualisation
4 5 (6.173%) CUDA
5 3 (3.704%) N-Tier
6 2 (2.469%) SaaS
7 1 (1.235%) iPhone
7 1 (1.235%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.235%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 13 (16.05%) UNIX
2 10 (12.35%) Android
3 9 (11.11%) Apple iOS
3 9 (11.11%) Windows
4 2 (2.469%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (2.469%) Linux
4 2 (2.469%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (30.86%) MVC
2 20 (24.69%) Agile Software Development
3 19 (23.46%) Scrum
4 17 (20.99%) TDD
5 14 (17.28%) Continuous Integration
6 12 (14.81%) Performance Testing
7 9 (11.11%) Analytics
7 9 (11.11%) Integration Testing
7 9 (11.11%) Software Engineering
8 8 (9.877%) CRM
9 7 (8.642%) Waterfall
9 7 (8.642%) Data Modelling
9 7 (8.642%) Extreme Programming
10 6 (7.407%) UML
11 4 (4.938%) OO
11 4 (4.938%) MVVM
12 3 (3.704%) Data Mapping
12 3 (3.704%) Refactoring
12 3 (3.704%) Inmon Methodology
12 3 (3.704%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 45 (55.56%) C#
2 33 (40.74%) JavaScript
3 20 (24.69%) Java
4 16 (19.75%) SQL
5 11 (13.58%) Python
6 7 (8.642%) C++
6 7 (8.642%) PHP
7 6 (7.407%) C
8 5 (6.173%) VC++
9 2 (2.469%) Ruby
9 2 (2.469%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.469%) Perl
9 2 (2.469%) XPath
10 1 (1.235%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.235%) VB.NET
10 1 (1.235%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 34 (41.98%) Degree
2 8 (9.877%) MCPD
3 6 (7.407%) Sun Certification
4 4 (4.938%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (4.938%) MCDBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.642%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.235%) Oracle RAC
Vendors
1 29 (35.80%) Microsoft
2 12 (14.81%) Oracle
3 8 (9.877%) Cognos
4 6 (7.407%) JBoss
5 4 (4.938%) Teradata
6 3 (3.704%) Pega
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