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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Unit Testing
Rank 46 51 52
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +1
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 8 5 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northampton 2.030% 1.092% 2.321%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.730% 1.433% 3.343%
Number of salaries quoted 7 5 11
Average salary £32,500 £40,000 £26,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-18.75% +53.84%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.31% +1.33%
All Processes & Methodologies
Northampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
293 349 329
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northampton 74.37% 76.20% 69.41%
Number of salaries quoted 252 338 309
Average salary £38,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.66% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £24,000 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £48,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Unit Testing
Northamptonshire

Unit Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Northampton 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 Northampton region.

Northampton Unit Testing Salary Trend

Unit Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northampton 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 15 (68.18%) C#
2 11 (50.00%) .NET
2 11 (50.00%) CSS
2 11 (50.00%) XML
3 10 (45.45%) ASP.NET
3 10 (45.45%) .NET Framework
4 8 (36.36%) JavaScript
5 7 (31.82%) SQL
5 7 (31.82%) SQL Server
5 7 (31.82%) Microsoft
5 7 (31.82%) MS Excel
5 7 (31.82%) TDD
5 7 (31.82%) Selenium
6 6 (27.27%) QA
6 6 (27.27%) SQL Server 2005
6 6 (27.27%) Validation
6 6 (27.27%) XHTML
6 6 (27.27%) SQL Server 2000
6 6 (27.27%) E-Commerce
6 6 (27.27%) N-Tier
6 6 (27.27%) SQL Server 2008
6 6 (27.27%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (22.73%) JSON
7 5 (22.73%) Flash
7 5 (22.73%) XSLT
7 5 (22.73%) ActionScript
7 5 (22.73%) HTML
7 5 (22.73%) Ajax
7 5 (22.73%) jQuery
8 4 (18.18%) Spring

Unit Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northampton 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 11 (50.00%) .NET
1 11 (50.00%) CSS
1 11 (50.00%) XML
2 10 (45.45%) ASP.NET
2 10 (45.45%) .NET Framework
3 6 (27.27%) XHTML
4 5 (22.73%) JSON
4 5 (22.73%) Flash
4 5 (22.73%) XSLT
4 5 (22.73%) HTML
4 5 (22.73%) Ajax
4 5 (22.73%) jQuery
5 4 (18.18%) Spring
6 3 (13.64%) ASP
7 2 (9.091%) J2EE
8 1 (4.545%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 1 (4.545%) Castle Windsor
8 1 (4.545%) WPF
8 1 (4.545%) LINQ
Application Platforms
1 4 (18.18%) Apache
1 4 (18.18%) Tomcat
2 3 (13.64%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (31.82%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (18.18%) Internet
2 3 (13.64%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (31.82%) SQL Server
2 6 (27.27%) SQL Server 2005
2 6 (27.27%) SQL Server 2000
2 6 (27.27%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 7 (31.82%) Selenium
2 1 (4.545%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (4.545%) Visual Studio
2 1 (4.545%) NUnit
General
1 1 (4.545%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (59.09%) Analyst
2 8 (36.36%) Developer
3 7 (31.82%) Test Analyst
4 4 (18.18%) Automation Test Analyst
4 4 (18.18%) Support Analyst
4 4 (18.18%) Automation Analyst
5 3 (13.64%) C# .NET Developer
5 3 (13.64%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 3 (13.64%) UI Developer
5 3 (13.64%) UI Programmer
5 3 (13.64%) Applications Support
5 3 (13.64%) .NET Developer
5 3 (13.64%) C# Developer
5 3 (13.64%) Applications Support Analyst
5 3 (13.64%) ASP.NET Developer
6 2 (9.091%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (9.091%) Analyst Programmer
6 2 (9.091%) Programmer
6 2 (9.091%) Development Analyst
6 2 (9.091%) Development Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) N-Tier
1 6 (27.27%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (9.091%) Smartcard
3 1 (4.545%) Inversion of Control
3 1 (4.545%) Blog
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (31.82%) TDD
2 6 (27.27%) Validation
2 6 (27.27%) E-Commerce
3 2 (9.091%) MVC
4 1 (4.545%) Process Improvement
4 1 (4.545%) Dependency Injection
4 1 (4.545%) Automation Testing
4 1 (4.545%) Automated Testing
4 1 (4.545%) Integration Testing
4 1 (4.545%) Test Scripting
4 1 (4.545%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 15 (68.18%) C#
2 8 (36.36%) JavaScript
3 7 (31.82%) SQL
4 5 (22.73%) ActionScript
5 4 (18.18%) Java
5 4 (18.18%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 1 (4.545%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (27.27%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (31.82%) Microsoft
2 4 (18.18%) Oracle
3 2 (9.091%) Remedy
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