The first table below looks at the demand for Unit Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Leicester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Unit Testing over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Leicester region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Unit Testing
Rank 57 57 43
Rank change year-on-year
0 -14
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 3 2 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicester 0.822% 0.488% 1.399%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.053% 0.649% 2.062%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 4
Average salary £21,500 £37,500 £34,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-42.66% +8.69%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £39,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-3.84% +4.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
Leicester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
285 308 194
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicester 78.08% 75.12% 67.83%
Number of salaries quoted 243 264 167
Average salary £38,000 £35,000 £39,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.57% -10.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £60,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Unit Testing
Leicestershire

Unit Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicester 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 Leicester region.

Leicester Unit Testing Salary Trend

Unit Testing
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Unit Testing across the Leicester region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Leicester Unit Testing Salary Histogram

Unit Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Leicester 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 2 (50.00%) Web Services
1 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) JSP
2 1 (25.00%) SOAP
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) J2EE
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Java EE
2 1 (25.00%) JSON
2 1 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) Apache Flex
2 1 (25.00%) WPF
2 1 (25.00%) WF
2 1 (25.00%) LINQ
2 1 (25.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (25.00%) Android
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (25.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) UML

Unit Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Leicester 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 2 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (25.00%) JSP
2 1 (25.00%) SOAP
2 1 (25.00%) J2EE
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) Java EE
2 1 (25.00%) JSON
2 1 (25.00%) Apache Flex
2 1 (25.00%) WPF
2 1 (25.00%) WF
2 1 (25.00%) LINQ
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JBuilder
1 1 (25.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (25.00%) NetBeans
General
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) QA Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile Developer
2 1 (25.00%) WPF Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (25.00%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Android
1 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (25.00%) UML
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Workflow
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
Leicester, Leicestershire
You will have experience in a wide range of Testing, including Unit Testing, UI Testing, Automated Testing and exploratory Testing. Programming experience is desirable, ideally in C#, .NET...
Executive Resource Group
Salary: Unspecified
Posted: 18 June 2013