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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Unit Testing
Rank 37 34 36
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +2
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 2 4 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Portsmouth 0.930% 1.980% 1.914%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.250% 2.614% 2.878%
Number of salaries quoted 2 4 4
Average salary £45,000 £32,500 £33,046
Average salary % change year-on-year
+38.46% -1.65%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.31% +1.33%
All Processes & Methodologies
Portsmouth
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
160 153 139
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Portsmouth 74.42% 75.74% 66.51%
Number of salaries quoted 146 138 132
Average salary £42,500 £37,500 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.33% +19.04%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £27,000 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £47,500 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Unit Testing
Hampshire

Unit Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth region.

Portsmouth Unit Testing Salary Trend

Unit Testing
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Portsmouth 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 8 (100.00%) C#
1 8 (100.00%) .NET
1 8 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (75.00%) Web Services
2 6 (75.00%) SQL
2 6 (75.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (62.50%) Visual Studio
4 3 (37.50%) ASP.NET
4 3 (37.50%) HTML
4 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
5 2 (25.00%) C++
5 2 (25.00%) MySQL
5 2 (25.00%) Oracle
5 2 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (25.00%) WCF
5 2 (25.00%) WPF
5 2 (25.00%) LINQ
5 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (25.00%) Waterfall
6 1 (12.50%) C
6 1 (12.50%) Finance
6 1 (12.50%) XML
6 1 (12.50%) Windows
6 1 (12.50%) CSS
6 1 (12.50%) ASP
6 1 (12.50%) VB
6 1 (12.50%) VB.NET

Unit Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Portsmouth 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 8 (100.00%) .NET
2 6 (75.00%) Web Services
3 3 (37.50%) ASP.NET
3 3 (37.50%) HTML
4 2 (25.00%) WCF
4 2 (25.00%) WPF
4 2 (25.00%) LINQ
5 1 (12.50%) XML
5 1 (12.50%) CSS
5 1 (12.50%) ASP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (75.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (25.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Developer
2 7 (87.50%) Software Developer
3 5 (62.50%) C# Software Developer
3 5 (62.50%) C# Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
4 2 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (25.00%) Senior Software Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Senior Developer
5 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (25.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) C#
2 6 (75.00%) SQL
3 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
4 2 (25.00%) C++
5 1 (12.50%) C
5 1 (12.50%) VB
5 1 (12.50%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle