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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Unit Testing
Rank 32 32 48
Rank change year-on-year
0 +16
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 30 20 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 6.198% 4.435% 0.484%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.451% 6.349% 0.709%
Number of salaries quoted 25 19 2
Average salary £35,000 £31,000 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.90% -19.48%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.31% +1.33%
All Processes & Methodologies
Newcastle upon Tyne
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
355 315 282
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 73.35% 69.84% 68.28%
Number of salaries quoted 317 261 226
Average salary £39,500 £35,000 £36,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.85% -4.10%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £25,000 £21,100
10% offered a salary of more than £54,000 £72,250 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Unit Testing
Tyne and Wear

Unit Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Newcastle upon Tyne Unit Testing Salary Trend

Unit Testing
Salary Histogram

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

Newcastle upon Tyne Unit Testing Salary Histogram

Unit Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 28 (54.90%) C#
2 26 (50.98%) .NET
2 26 (50.98%) ASP.NET
3 24 (47.06%) OO
3 24 (47.06%) Agile Software Development
4 22 (43.14%) TDD
4 22 (43.14%) OOD
4 22 (43.14%) XML
5 21 (41.18%) Scrum
6 20 (39.22%) MVC
7 19 (37.25%) PhD
7 19 (37.25%) SQL Server
7 19 (37.25%) Java
7 19 (37.25%) 3D Graphics
7 19 (37.25%) Degree
7 19 (37.25%) Multithreading
8 17 (33.33%) C++
9 14 (27.45%) Mathematics
9 14 (27.45%) Physics
9 14 (27.45%) Computer Science
10 12 (23.53%) Microsoft
11 11 (21.57%) Finance
11 11 (21.57%) .NET Framework
12 8 (15.69%) HTML
12 8 (15.69%) ASP.NET MVC
12 8 (15.69%) CUDA
13 7 (13.73%) SQL Server 2005
14 6 (11.76%) BDD
14 6 (11.76%) Visualisation
14 6 (11.76%) Parallel Programming

Unit Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 26 (50.98%) .NET
1 26 (50.98%) ASP.NET
2 22 (43.14%) XML
3 11 (21.57%) .NET Framework
4 8 (15.69%) HTML
4 8 (15.69%) ASP.NET MVC
5 5 (9.804%) CSS
5 5 (9.804%) Web Services
6 3 (5.882%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 3 (5.882%) XHTML
6 3 (5.882%) jQuery
7 2 (3.922%) WCF
8 1 (1.961%) COM
8 1 (1.961%) WPF
8 1 (1.961%) Silverlight
Applications
1 5 (9.804%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.961%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (37.25%) SQL Server
2 7 (13.73%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (3.922%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 5 (9.804%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (3.922%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.961%) MSTest
General
1 11 (21.57%) Finance
2 5 (9.804%) Games
3 1 (1.961%) Banking
Job Titles
1 48 (94.12%) Developer
2 24 (47.06%) Software Developer
3 13 (25.49%) Java Software Developer
3 13 (25.49%) Java Developer
4 9 (17.65%) .NET Developer
5 8 (15.69%) C++ Developer
5 8 (15.69%) C++ Software Developer
5 8 (15.69%) C++/Java Developer
6 6 (11.76%) Senior Developer
7 5 (9.804%) Applications Developer
7 5 (9.804%) Lead Developer
8 1 (1.961%) .NET Software Developer
8 1 (1.961%) C# .NET Developer
8 1 (1.961%) Agile .NET Developer
8 1 (1.961%) Programmer
8 1 (1.961%) Software Engineer
8 1 (1.961%) C# ASP.NET Developer
8 1 (1.961%) Software Programmer
8 1 (1.961%) .NET Software Engineer
8 1 (1.961%) .NET Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 19 (37.25%) 3D Graphics
2 14 (27.45%) Mathematics
2 14 (27.45%) Physics
2 14 (27.45%) Computer Science
3 8 (15.69%) CUDA
4 6 (11.76%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.804%) Windows
1 5 (9.804%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (47.06%) OO
1 24 (47.06%) Agile Software Development
2 22 (43.14%) TDD
2 22 (43.14%) OOD
3 21 (41.18%) Scrum
4 20 (39.22%) MVC
5 19 (37.25%) Multithreading
6 6 (11.76%) BDD
6 6 (11.76%) Parallel Programming
6 6 (11.76%) UML
7 5 (9.804%) Game Development
8 3 (5.882%) Software Testing
8 3 (5.882%) Manual Testing
8 3 (5.882%) System Testing
8 3 (5.882%) Functional Testing
8 3 (5.882%) RDF
8 3 (5.882%) Regression Testing
8 3 (5.882%) Validation
8 3 (5.882%) Penetration Testing
8 3 (5.882%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 28 (54.90%) C#
2 19 (37.25%) Java
3 17 (33.33%) C++
4 5 (9.804%) SQL
5 3 (5.882%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 19 (37.25%) PhD
1 19 (37.25%) Degree
2 3 (5.882%) ISEB
2 3 (5.882%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.76%) ISO 8583
2 3 (5.882%) QA
Vendors
1 12 (23.53%) Microsoft
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Technically you should have experience of c#, ASP.Net Web Forms, ASP.Net MVC 4, SQL Server, XML, TFS and a knowledge of object orientated concepts and design...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
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Posted: 30 April 2013