The first table below looks at the demand for Unit Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Staffordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Unit Testing over the 3 months to 17 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 Staffordshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Unit Testing
Rank 59 44 43
Rank change year-on-year
-15 -1
Permanent jobs citing Unit Testing 12 21 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staffordshire 2.007% 3.684% 2.807%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.649% 5.263% 4.188%
Number of salaries quoted 11 20 15
Average salary £40,000 £42,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.88% +21.42%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
All Processes & Methodologies
Staffordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
453 399 382
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staffordshire 75.75% 70.00% 67.02%
Number of salaries quoted 392 340 310
Average salary £38,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.75% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £61,750 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Unit Testing
West Midlands

Unit Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire Unit Testing Salary Trend

Unit Testing
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Unit Testing across the Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Staffordshire Unit Testing Salary Histogram

Unit Testing
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unit Testing within the Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Stoke-on-Trent -8 9 £40,000 -5.88%
Unit Testing
West Midlands

Unit Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire 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 50 (96.15%) VB.NET
1 50 (96.15%) .NET
2 49 (94.23%) SQL Server
3 42 (80.77%) JavaScript
4 41 (78.85%) C#
5 38 (73.08%) SQL
6 37 (71.15%) XML
6 37 (71.15%) ASP.NET
6 37 (71.15%) N-Tier
7 34 (65.38%) CSS
8 33 (63.46%) E-Commerce
8 33 (63.46%) HTML5
9 32 (61.54%) SOA
9 32 (61.54%) SEO
10 30 (57.69%) TDD
10 30 (57.69%) XHTML
10 30 (57.69%) XSLT
10 30 (57.69%) Ajax
10 30 (57.69%) Degree
10 30 (57.69%) jQuery
11 28 (53.85%) CSS3
12 26 (50.00%) Web Application Development
12 26 (50.00%) MS Excel
13 18 (34.62%) Microsoft
14 17 (32.69%) Windows
15 16 (30.77%) OO
16 14 (26.92%) MVC
16 14 (26.92%) JIRA
17 12 (23.08%) Document Management
17 12 (23.08%) VB6

Unit Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire 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 50 (96.15%) .NET
2 37 (71.15%) ASP.NET
2 37 (71.15%) XML
3 34 (65.38%) CSS
4 33 (63.46%) HTML5
5 30 (57.69%) XSLT
5 30 (57.69%) XHTML
5 30 (57.69%) Ajax
5 30 (57.69%) jQuery
6 28 (53.85%) CSS3
7 9 (17.31%) WCF
8 7 (13.46%) .NET Remoting
8 7 (13.46%) Web Services
9 6 (11.54%) WinForms
10 5 (9.615%) HTML
10 5 (9.615%) .NET Framework
11 2 (3.846%) WPF
11 2 (3.846%) RESTful
11 2 (3.846%) Semantic HTML
11 2 (3.846%) Memcached
Application Platforms
1 12 (23.08%) CMS
2 4 (7.692%) IIS
3 2 (3.846%) Apache
3 2 (3.846%) nginx
Applications
1 26 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 4 (7.692%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 7 (13.46%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (94.23%) SQL Server
2 7 (13.46%) OLTP
3 4 (7.692%) SQL Server 2000
4 2 (3.846%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.846%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 14 (26.92%) JIRA
2 4 (7.692%) Selenium
2 4 (7.692%) Subversion
2 4 (7.692%) SilkTest
3 2 (3.846%) Git (software)
3 2 (3.846%) PHPUnit
3 2 (3.846%) Phing
General
1 1 (1.923%) Finance
Job Titles
1 36 (69.23%) Developer
2 21 (40.38%) Web Developer
3 19 (36.54%) Senior Developer
4 17 (32.69%) .NET Developer
5 14 (26.92%) VB.NET Developer
5 14 (26.92%) Senior Web Developer
6 13 (25.00%) Team Leader
6 13 (25.00%) .NET Team Leader
7 12 (23.08%) Web Team Leader
7 12 (23.08%) Development Team Leader
8 10 (19.23%) C# Developer
8 10 (19.23%) C# .NET Developer
9 8 (15.38%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 8 (15.38%) C# Web Developer
9 8 (15.38%) ASP.NET Developer
9 8 (15.38%) .NET Web Developer
10 7 (13.46%) Senior C# Developer
10 7 (13.46%) Senior .NET Developer
10 7 (13.46%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
10 7 (13.46%) Senior .NET Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 37 (71.15%) N-Tier
2 6 (11.54%) Computer Science
3 2 (3.846%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.846%) W3C
4 1 (1.923%) Streaming Video
Operating Systems
1 17 (32.69%) Windows
2 4 (7.692%) Windows 7
3 2 (3.846%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (63.46%) E-Commerce
2 32 (61.54%) SOA
2 32 (61.54%) SEO
3 30 (57.69%) TDD
4 26 (50.00%) Web Application Development
5 16 (30.77%) OO
6 14 (26.92%) MVC
7 12 (23.08%) Document Management
8 9 (17.31%) Web Development
9 8 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
10 6 (11.54%) Agile Software Development
11 4 (7.692%) Automation Testing
11 4 (7.692%) Software Architecture
11 4 (7.692%) Scrum
11 4 (7.692%) Software Engineering
11 4 (7.692%) Software Testing
12 2 (3.846%) OOP
12 2 (3.846%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 50 (96.15%) VB.NET
2 42 (80.77%) JavaScript
3 41 (78.85%) C#
4 38 (73.08%) SQL
5 12 (23.08%) VB
5 12 (23.08%) VB6
6 8 (15.38%) T-SQL
7 2 (3.846%) PHP
7 2 (3.846%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 30 (57.69%) Degree
2 4 (7.692%) ISEB
2 4 (7.692%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.54%) QA
Vendors
1 18 (34.62%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.846%) Google
Staffordshire
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Computer People
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + superb benefits + bonus
Posted: 13 May 2013
Stoke on Trent, West Midlands
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Applause IT Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Based on Exp+ Bonus +Bens
Posted: 2 May 2013
Stoke on Trent, West Midlands
Our client is seeking a Web Application Developer you will have a background in software development working in Microsoft environments.
Hudson
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 2 May 2013
Stoke on Trent, West Midlands
Our client is seeking a Wed/ Application Developer you will have a background in software development working in Microsoft environments.
Hudson
Salary: Excellent Benefits
Posted: 23 April 2013
Stoke-On-Trent, Staffordshire
Computer science background (OO design, design patterns, algorithms) Development experience in C#... Development experience of VB.NET and WPF. Good working knowledge of VB6... Exposure to WCF, SOA,...
Ticketmaster UK
Salary: Competative
Posted: 15 May 2013
Stoke-On-Trent, Staffordshire
C#, ASP.Net, VB.NET, SQL, Visual Basic, Developer, Systems, Stoke, Staffordshire, ecommerce... The main skills required for the role include: -solid MS SQL server experience (2005 onwards) -...
Spring Technology
Salary: £30000.00 - £40000.00 per annum + Plus benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013