Unit Testing Contracts in Cardiff

Unit Testing
South Wales > Cardiff

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff with a requirement for Unit Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Unit Testing over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 45 49
Rank change year-on-year +17 +4 -16
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 5 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 2.30% 0.59% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.01% 0.67% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £508 £465 £306
25th Percentile £510 £488 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £525 £338
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% +55.56% -15.63%
75th Percentile £545 £563 £366
90th Percentile £548 £585 £379
South Wales median daily rate £526 £525 £375
% change year-on-year +0.10% +40.00% -6.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

Unit Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 166 298 436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 76.50% 87.39% 80.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 234 332
10th Percentile £188 £208 £255
25th Percentile £369 £363 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £563 £571 £538
90th Percentile £641 £629 £638
South Wales median daily rate £500 £475 £485
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.06% +10.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 5
10th Percentile £13.00 £12.64 £13.45
25th Percentile £14.88 £13.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £18.00 £14.72 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -21.48% +14.42%
75th Percentile £35.88 £21.98 £23.75
90th Percentile £46.60 £24.38 £24.95
South Wales median hourly rate £22.68 £18.14 £23.75
% change year-on-year +25.03% -23.62% +18.75%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Job postings citing Unit Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in Cardiff

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in Cardiff.

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in Cardiff

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) GitHub
1 4 (80.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Cypress.io
1 4 (80.00%) Storybook
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (20.00%) tSQLt
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (80.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Software Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior SQL Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Playwright
1 4 (80.00%) Vue
2 1 (20.00%) FHIR
2 1 (20.00%) Laravel
2 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Clustering
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) NHS
2 1 (20.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (80.00%) Front End Development
2 4 (80.00%) Objectives and Key Results
2 4 (80.00%) Project Management
2 4 (80.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Data Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (20.00%) High Availability
4 1 (20.00%) Requirements Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) HL7
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) RedGate