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

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Unit Testing
Rank 69 105 86
Rank change year-on-year
+36 -19
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 12 11 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 1.228% 0.790% 1.275%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.717% 1.169% 1.754%
Number of salaries quoted 7 10 16
Average salary £45,000 £50,000 £43,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.00% +14.28%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
All Processes & Methodologies
Essex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
699 941 912
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 71.55% 67.55% 72.67%
Number of salaries quoted 589 808 757
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £27,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £57,500 £62,700
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Unit Testing
East of England

Unit Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex Unit Testing Salary Trend

Unit Testing
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unit Testing within the Essex region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Basildon - 5 £45,000 -
Brentwood - 3 - -
Harlow - 1 - -
Unit Testing
East of England

Unit Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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 16 (72.73%) C#
1 16 (72.73%) .NET
1 16 (72.73%) Web Services
1 16 (72.73%) WCF
2 14 (63.64%) SQL
3 12 (54.55%) OOP
3 12 (54.55%) MVC
4 11 (50.00%) TDD
4 11 (50.00%) T-SQL
4 11 (50.00%) WPF
4 11 (50.00%) Silverlight
4 11 (50.00%) MSTest
5 10 (45.45%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 10 (45.45%) .NET Framework
5 10 (45.45%) Rhino Mocks
5 10 (45.45%) SQL Server
6 9 (40.91%) XAML
6 9 (40.91%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (40.91%) Dependency Injection
7 8 (36.36%) Unity DI Container
7 8 (36.36%) Finance
7 8 (36.36%) Java
8 7 (31.82%) ASP.NET
8 7 (31.82%) jQuery
9 6 (27.27%) ASP.NET MVC
10 5 (22.73%) GWT
10 5 (22.73%) Software Architecture
10 5 (22.73%) System Testing
10 5 (22.73%) RESTful
10 5 (22.73%) Spring MVC

Unit Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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 16 (72.73%) .NET
1 16 (72.73%) Web Services
1 16 (72.73%) WCF
2 11 (50.00%) WPF
2 11 (50.00%) Silverlight
3 10 (45.45%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 10 (45.45%) .NET Framework
4 8 (36.36%) Unity DI Container
5 7 (31.82%) ASP.NET
5 7 (31.82%) jQuery
6 6 (27.27%) ASP.NET MVC
7 5 (22.73%) GWT
7 5 (22.73%) RESTful
7 5 (22.73%) Spring MVC
7 5 (22.73%) Apache Flex
7 5 (22.73%) Spring
8 4 (18.18%) HTML
9 3 (13.64%) ASP.NET MVC 3
9 3 (13.64%) LINQ to SQL
9 3 (13.64%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 5 (22.73%) Apache
2 3 (13.64%) IIS
3 2 (9.091%) MSMQ
Applications
1 2 (9.091%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) Internet
2 2 (9.091%) FTP
2 2 (9.091%) Cisco ICM
2 2 (9.091%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (45.45%) SQL Server
2 3 (13.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (9.091%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (4.545%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
4 1 (4.545%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 11 (50.00%) MSTest
2 10 (45.45%) Rhino Mocks
3 5 (22.73%) ClearCase
3 5 (22.73%) Maven
4 4 (18.18%) Visual Studio
5 3 (13.64%) Subversion
5 3 (13.64%) NUnit
6 1 (4.545%) QUnit
6 1 (4.545%) Jasmine
6 1 (4.545%) Git (software)
General
1 8 (36.36%) Finance
2 2 (9.091%) Electronics
3 1 (4.545%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (68.18%) Developer
2 8 (36.36%) Analyst
3 5 (22.73%) Software Manager
3 5 (22.73%) C# Developer
3 5 (22.73%) Technical Analyst
3 5 (22.73%) Senior Developer
4 4 (18.18%) Developer Analyst
4 4 (18.18%) .NET Developer
4 4 (18.18%) C# .NET Developer
5 2 (9.091%) Web Developer
5 2 (9.091%) Senior .NET Developer
5 2 (9.091%) Senior Analyst Developer
5 2 (9.091%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (9.091%) Analyst Developer
6 1 (4.545%) E-Commerce Web Developer
6 1 (4.545%) Software Analyst
6 1 (4.545%) Silverlight Developer
6 1 (4.545%) WPF Developer
6 1 (4.545%) ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (4.545%) Senior Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (40.91%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (9.091%) N-Tier
2 2 (9.091%) RIA
3 1 (4.545%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2008
1 3 (13.64%) Windows
1 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) OOP
1 12 (54.55%) MVC
2 11 (50.00%) TDD
3 9 (40.91%) Dependency Injection
4 5 (22.73%) Software Architecture
4 5 (22.73%) System Testing
4 5 (22.73%) UML
4 5 (22.73%) Software Engineering
5 4 (18.18%) Validation
6 3 (13.64%) Change Control
6 3 (13.64%) Code Coverage
7 2 (9.091%) Six Sigma
7 2 (9.091%) OO
8 1 (4.545%) Multithreading
8 1 (4.545%) Refactoring
8 1 (4.545%) Data Protection
8 1 (4.545%) OOD
8 1 (4.545%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 16 (72.73%) C#
2 14 (63.64%) SQL
3 11 (50.00%) T-SQL
4 9 (40.91%) XAML
5 8 (36.36%) Java
6 4 (18.18%) JavaScript
7 3 (13.64%) VB
7 3 (13.64%) Tcl
8 2 (9.091%) VB6
8 2 (9.091%) VB.NET
8 2 (9.091%) C++
8 2 (9.091%) PowerShell
8 2 (9.091%) XPath
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) Degree
2 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared
2 3 (13.64%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (9.091%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (9.091%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) JBoss
1 5 (22.73%) Google
1 5 (22.73%) Adobe
2 3 (13.64%) Oracle
3 2 (9.091%) Cisco
Essex
The main technologies used are ASP.NET and MVC 3/4... - Participate in team meetingsYou You will need to have strong experience working on web applications in ASP...
Jam Recruitment
Salary: £0 - £50,000 per year
Posted: 10 May 2013
Essex
The main technologies used are ASP.NET and MVC 3/4... *Participate in team meetings You… You will need to have strong experience working on web applications in...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £45000.00 - £50000.00 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Essex, South East
The main technologies used are ASP.NET and MVC 3/4... *Participate in team meetingsYou You will need to have strong experience working on web applications in ASP...
JAM
Salary: £45000.00 - £50000.00 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Basildon, Essex
Tech Developer/Analyst - Insurance - C#,.NET 3.5/4,OOP,WCF,Silverlight or WPF,Prism,T-SQL Essential Excellent development experience in C#, .NET 3.5/4.0...
Personnel IT
Salary: £45000.00 - £55000.00 per annum + benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Essex
Expert-level C# .NET 3.5/4.0 development experience * Strong hands-on experience in designing and developing Enterprise-scale applications/products in .NET * Strong hands-on experience...
Lorien Resourcing
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013