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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Unit Testing
Rank 38 45 49
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +4
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 19 18 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sheffield 3.626% 2.932% 2.261%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.535% 4.306% 3.385%
Number of salaries quoted 13 18 11
Average salary £30,000 £35,000 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-14.28% -9.09%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.31% +1.33%
All Processes & Methodologies
Sheffield
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
419 418 384
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sheffield 79.96% 68.08% 66.78%
Number of salaries quoted 363 356 330
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £22,500 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £50,000 £53,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Unit Testing
South Yorkshire

Unit Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sheffield 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 Sheffield region.

Sheffield Unit Testing Salary Trend

Unit Testing
Salary Histogram

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

Sheffield Unit Testing Salary Histogram

Unit Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sheffield 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 21 (63.64%) Agile Software Development
2 19 (57.58%) Java
3 13 (39.39%) SQL
3 13 (39.39%) Oracle
3 13 (39.39%) OO
3 13 (39.39%) Test Scripting
4 12 (36.36%) PHP
5 11 (33.33%) SQL Server
5 11 (33.33%) TDD
5 11 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
6 10 (30.30%) ASP.NET
6 10 (30.30%) .NET
6 10 (30.30%) C#
7 9 (27.27%) Web Services
7 9 (27.27%) XML
7 9 (27.27%) WCF
7 9 (27.27%) WPF
8 8 (24.24%) Scrum
9 7 (21.21%) JUnit
9 7 (21.21%) jQuery
10 6 (18.18%) Spring
11 5 (15.15%) J2EE
11 5 (15.15%) Apache
12 4 (12.12%) SOA
12 4 (12.12%) Eclipse
12 4 (12.12%) GCP
12 4 (12.12%) MySQL
12 4 (12.12%) JavaScript
12 4 (12.12%) CSS
12 4 (12.12%) PL/SQL

Unit Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sheffield 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 10 (30.30%) ASP.NET
1 10 (30.30%) .NET
2 9 (27.27%) Web Services
2 9 (27.27%) XML
2 9 (27.27%) WCF
2 9 (27.27%) WPF
3 7 (21.21%) jQuery
4 6 (18.18%) Spring
5 5 (15.15%) J2EE
6 4 (12.12%) CSS
6 4 (12.12%) LAMP
6 4 (12.12%) HTML
6 4 (12.12%) Hibernate
6 4 (12.12%) WebSphere
6 4 (12.12%) Zend Framework
7 3 (9.091%) Grails
7 3 (9.091%) Ajax
7 3 (9.091%) WSDL
7 3 (9.091%) XML Schema
7 3 (9.091%) JAXB
Application Platforms
1 5 (15.15%) Apache
2 4 (12.12%) ESB
3 3 (9.091%) GlassFish
3 3 (9.091%) CICS
4 1 (3.030%) Apache Solr
4 1 (3.030%) Magento
4 1 (3.030%) Joomla!
4 1 (3.030%) Tomcat
4 1 (3.030%) WebLogic
4 1 (3.030%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (12.12%) MySQL
3 1 (3.030%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.030%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (3.030%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.030%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.030%) DB2
Development Applications
1 7 (21.21%) JUnit
2 4 (12.12%) Eclipse
3 2 (6.061%) Git (software)
4 1 (3.030%) Selenium
4 1 (3.030%) Maven
4 1 (3.030%) JMeter
General
1 4 (12.12%) Pharmaceutical
2 3 (9.091%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (63.64%) Developer
2 9 (27.27%) C# Developer
2 9 (27.27%) Software Developer
2 9 (27.27%) C# Software Developer
3 7 (21.21%) Java Developer
3 7 (21.21%) Software Engineer
4 6 (18.18%) PHP Developer
5 4 (12.12%) Senior Analyst
5 4 (12.12%) Analyst
5 4 (12.12%) Development Analyst
5 4 (12.12%) Senior Development Analyst
6 3 (9.091%) Senior Developer
6 3 (9.091%) Senior Java Developer
6 3 (9.091%) Java Software Engineer
7 2 (6.061%) Senior PHP Developer
7 2 (6.061%) WPF Developer
8 1 (3.030%) Junior Developer
8 1 (3.030%) Junior .NET Developer
8 1 (3.030%) .NET Developer
8 1 (3.030%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Biotechnology
2 3 (9.091%) Mainframe
2 3 (9.091%) W3C
3 1 (3.030%) Machine Learning
3 1 (3.030%) Open Source
3 1 (3.030%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (63.64%) Agile Software Development
2 13 (39.39%) OO
2 13 (39.39%) Test Scripting
3 11 (33.33%) TDD
3 11 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 8 (24.24%) Scrum
5 4 (12.12%) SOA
5 4 (12.12%) Validation
5 4 (12.12%) Process Management
5 4 (12.12%) Data Protection
5 4 (12.12%) BDD
6 3 (9.091%) User Stories
6 3 (9.091%) Feature Driven Development
6 3 (9.091%) Kanban
6 3 (9.091%) Project Management
6 3 (9.091%) ETL
6 3 (9.091%) PRINCE2
7 2 (6.061%) Data Management
8 1 (3.030%) MVC
8 1 (3.030%) UML
Programming Languages
1 19 (57.58%) Java
2 13 (39.39%) SQL
3 12 (36.36%) PHP
4 10 (30.30%) C#
5 4 (12.12%) JavaScript
5 4 (12.12%) PL/SQL
5 4 (12.12%) Shell Script
5 4 (12.12%) Bash shell
6 3 (9.091%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 2 (6.061%) Degree
2 1 (3.030%) MCP
2 1 (3.030%) MCSD
2 1 (3.030%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.12%) GCP
1 4 (12.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 4 (12.12%) QA
Vendors
1 13 (39.39%) Oracle
2 4 (12.12%) TIBCO
2 4 (12.12%) Zend
3 1 (3.030%) ATG
3 1 (3.030%) JBoss
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