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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Unit Testing
Rank 48 49 45
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -4
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 15 15 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancashire 3.086% 2.732% 2.078%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.261% 3.968% 3.150%
Number of salaries quoted 9 15 8
Average salary £27,500 £27,500 £26,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,963 £27,500 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £37,900 £36,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.31% +1.33%
All Processes & Methodologies
Lancashire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
352 378 254
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancashire 72.43% 68.85% 65.97%
Number of salaries quoted 312 350 214
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £22,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £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
North West

Unit Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

Lancashire Unit Testing Salary Trend

Unit Testing
Salary Histogram

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

Lancashire Unit Testing Salary Histogram

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 Lancashire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Preston +5 5 £27,204 -22.27%
Lancaster -7 2 £42,500 +54.54%
Unit Testing
North West

Unit Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lancashire 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 27 (87.10%) C#
2 24 (77.42%) SQL
3 19 (61.29%) Python
4 17 (54.84%) .NET
5 14 (45.16%) SQL Server
5 14 (45.16%) ASP.NET
6 13 (41.94%) MVC
6 13 (41.94%) XML
6 13 (41.94%) C
6 13 (41.94%) C++
6 13 (41.94%) ASP.NET MVC
7 12 (38.71%) Selenium
7 12 (38.71%) QA
7 12 (38.71%) Mobile App
7 12 (38.71%) Java
7 12 (38.71%) PHP
7 12 (38.71%) TDD
8 11 (35.48%) Web Services
9 10 (32.26%) SOAP
9 10 (32.26%) MS Excel
9 10 (32.26%) RAD
9 10 (32.26%) HTTP
9 10 (32.26%) VB
9 10 (32.26%) VB6
9 10 (32.26%) Ruby
9 10 (32.26%) Microsoft
9 10 (32.26%) Waterfall
9 10 (32.26%) soapUI
9 10 (32.26%) REST
9 10 (32.26%) WATIR

Unit Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lancashire 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 17 (54.84%) .NET
2 14 (45.16%) ASP.NET
3 13 (41.94%) XML
3 13 (41.94%) ASP.NET MVC
4 11 (35.48%) Web Services
5 10 (32.26%) SOAP
5 10 (32.26%) soapUI
5 10 (32.26%) REST
6 9 (29.03%) CSS
7 8 (25.81%) jQuery
8 6 (19.35%) HTML
9 5 (16.13%) Ajax
10 3 (9.677%) COM
10 3 (9.677%) WCF
10 3 (9.677%) ASP.NET MVC 3
11 2 (6.452%) Underscore.js
11 2 (6.452%) Django
Applications
1 10 (32.26%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.226%) Visualfiles
Communications & Networking
1 10 (32.26%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (45.16%) SQL Server
2 3 (9.677%) MySQL
2 3 (9.677%) RDBMS
3 2 (6.452%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (38.71%) Selenium
2 10 (32.26%) WATIR
2 10 (32.26%) FitNesse
3 6 (19.35%) Visual Studio
4 3 (9.677%) ClearCase
4 3 (9.677%) NUnit
4 3 (9.677%) MSTest
4 3 (9.677%) Rational DOORS
5 2 (6.452%) Jasmine
5 2 (6.452%) WebDriver
General
1 7 (22.58%) Retail
2 3 (9.677%) Aerospace
2 3 (9.677%) Military
3 2 (6.452%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 14 (45.16%) Developer
2 10 (32.26%) Test Consultant
2 10 (32.26%) Consultant
3 7 (22.58%) Software Developer
4 3 (9.677%) Software Development Engineer
4 3 (9.677%) Architect
4 3 (9.677%) Software Engineer
4 3 (9.677%) Software Architect
4 3 (9.677%) Development Engineer
5 2 (6.452%) Senior JavaScript Developer
5 2 (6.452%) Senior Developer
5 2 (6.452%) Web Developer
5 2 (6.452%) JavaScript Developer
6 1 (3.226%) Graduate
6 1 (3.226%) Graduate Developer
6 1 (3.226%) Oracle Developer
6 1 (3.226%) .NET Developer
6 1 (3.226%) ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (3.226%) Team Leader
6 1 (3.226%) Development Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 12 (38.71%) Mobile App
2 3 (9.677%) SaaS
3 1 (3.226%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.452%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (41.94%) MVC
2 12 (38.71%) TDD
3 10 (32.26%) RAD
3 10 (32.26%) Waterfall
3 10 (32.26%) User Acceptance Testing
3 10 (32.26%) System Testing
4 7 (22.58%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (22.58%) Logistics
4 7 (22.58%) Agile Software Development
5 5 (16.13%) OO
6 3 (9.677%) E-Commerce
6 3 (9.677%) Web Development
6 3 (9.677%) Web Testing
7 2 (6.452%) Kanban
7 2 (6.452%) Scrum
8 1 (3.226%) ETL
8 1 (3.226%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (87.10%) C#
2 24 (77.42%) SQL
3 19 (61.29%) Python
4 13 (41.94%) C
4 13 (41.94%) C++
5 12 (38.71%) Java
5 12 (38.71%) PHP
6 10 (32.26%) VB
6 10 (32.26%) VB6
6 10 (32.26%) Ruby
7 9 (29.03%) JavaScript
8 7 (22.58%) T-SQL
8 7 (22.58%) VB.NET
9 3 (9.677%) VC++
10 1 (3.226%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.226%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (38.71%) QA
Vendors
1 10 (32.26%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.90%) Oracle
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