Unit Testing Contracts in Cheshire

Unit Testing
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 52 46 48
Rank change year-on-year -6 +2 -5
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 5 16 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.96% 2.97% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 3.25% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 14 8
10th Percentile £303 £412 £313
25th Percentile £308 £423 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £311 £445 £400
Median % change year-on-year -30.11% +11.25% -25.93%
75th Percentile - £524 £427
90th Percentile - £641 £464
North West median daily rate £495 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -5.71% -4.55% +33.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 440 493 441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 84.78% 91.64% 85.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 332 253
10th Percentile £285 £264 £214
25th Percentile £400 £385 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £482 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.65% +7.19% +2.97%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £538
90th Percentile £630 £656 £631
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 24 25
10th Percentile £13.70 £15.97 £11.29
25th Percentile £16.61 £22.97 £16.25
Median hourly rate £26.66 £30.54 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% +24.65% -19.50%
75th Percentile £42.31 £35.00 £33.90
90th Percentile £44.13 £38.80 £61.30
North West median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +66.67% +15.21%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in Cheshire

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in Cheshire

Unit Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in Cheshire.

Hourly rate trend for Unit Testing in Cheshire

Unit Testing
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unit Testing within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford +1 4 £311 -30.11%
Macclesfield - 1 - -
Unit Testing
North West

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (80.00%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) dbt
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (20.00%) Metadata
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (20.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Liquibase
1 4 (80.00%) Log4j
2 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (40.00%) JIRA
3 2 (40.00%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) AWS Developer
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
1 4 (80.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Hibernate
1 4 (80.00%) Kafka
1 4 (80.00%) REST
1 4 (80.00%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Open Source
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Kanban
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) SDLC
4 1 (20.00%) Conceptual Models
4 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
4 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (20.00%) Data Sharing
4 1 (20.00%) Data Validation
4 1 (20.00%) ETL
4 1 (20.00%) Microservices
4 1 (20.00%) Migration
4 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle