Unit Testing Contracts in Glasgow

Unit Testing
Scotland > Glasgow

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 46 73 70
Rank change year-on-year +27 -3 +5
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 28 17 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 3.31% 1.92% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.58% 2.04% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 13 10
10th Percentile £418 £429 £300
25th Percentile £425 £456 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.76% +16.67% +27.66%
75th Percentile £511 £594 -
90th Percentile £564 - £454
Scotland median daily rate £483 £488 £491
% change year-on-year -0.92% -0.71% +15.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 783 835 891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 92.55% 94.24% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 499 602 681
10th Percentile £275 £351 £260
25th Percentile £385 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £538
90th Percentile £640 £700 £600
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 31 16
10th Percentile £12.03 - £21.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £10.63 £23.90
Median hourly rate £31.50 £14.25 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +121.05% -64.37% +40.33%
75th Percentile £53.75 £29.38 £50.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £58.75 £57.38
Scotland median hourly rate £19.50 £16.50 £39.99
% change year-on-year +18.18% -58.74% -2.46%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in Glasgow

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in Glasgow

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in Glasgow over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in Glasgow

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 1 (3.57%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.57%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 8 (28.57%) AWS
2 6 (21.43%) Azure
3 4 (14.29%) GCP
4 3 (10.71%) Amazon S3
4 3 (10.71%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (10.71%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (10.71%) Serverless
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (7.14%) SaaS
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (3.57%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
1 4 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (7.14%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.57%) GIS
3 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (57.14%) JIRA
2 6 (21.43%) Mockito
3 5 (17.86%) Cucumber
3 5 (17.86%) JUnit
4 2 (7.14%) Git
4 2 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (14.29%) Finance
2 3 (10.71%) Banking
2 3 (10.71%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (71.43%) Developer
2 7 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 3 (10.71%) Full Stack Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Java Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Lead
3 3 (10.71%) Lead Java Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Project Manager
5 1 (3.57%) .NET Applications Developer
5 1 (3.57%) .NET Developer
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Backend Developer
5 1 (3.57%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (3.57%) C# Application Developer
5 1 (3.57%) C# Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Full Stack Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Full Stack Java Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Mobile Applications Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Mobile Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Software Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Xamarin Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (21.43%) Spring Boot
2 5 (17.86%) Spring
3 4 (14.29%) AWS CDK
3 4 (14.29%) CSS
3 4 (14.29%) Kafka
3 4 (14.29%) React
4 3 (10.71%) HTML
4 3 (10.71%) Node.js
4 3 (10.71%) RESTful
4 3 (10.71%) Web Services
5 2 (7.14%) .NET
5 2 (7.14%) .NET Core
6 1 (3.57%) .NET Framework
6 1 (3.57%) OAuth
6 1 (3.57%) OpenTracing
6 1 (3.57%) PostGIS
6 1 (3.57%) REST
6 1 (3.57%) Spring MVC
6 1 (3.57%) Spring Security
6 1 (3.57%) Spring Web Flow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Data Structures
2 3 (10.71%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (7.14%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.57%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (82.14%) Agile
2 13 (46.43%) CRM
3 10 (35.71%) Test Automation
4 9 (32.14%) CI/CD
5 7 (25.00%) Community of Practice
5 7 (25.00%) Microservices
6 6 (21.43%) Code Quality
6 6 (21.43%) Full Stack Development
6 6 (21.43%) Software Engineering
7 5 (17.86%) Project Management
8 4 (14.29%) Analytics
8 4 (14.29%) DevOps
8 4 (14.29%) Human-Centred Design
8 4 (14.29%) Inclusive Design
8 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (14.29%) Pair Programming
8 4 (14.29%) Project Delivery
8 4 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
8 4 (14.29%) User Experience
9 3 (10.71%) Post-Production
Programming Languages
1 14 (50.00%) SQL
2 12 (42.86%) Java
3 10 (35.71%) PL/SQL
4 5 (17.86%) JavaScript
5 3 (10.71%) TypeScript
6 2 (7.14%) Bash
6 2 (7.14%) C#
7 1 (3.57%) Kotlin
7 1 (3.57%) Python
7 1 (3.57%) Scala
7 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (3.57%) Degree
1 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.57%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.57%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (17.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (21.43%) Grafana
2 4 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.57%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 13 (46.43%) Avaloq
2 3 (10.71%) Splunk
3 2 (7.14%) Adobe
3 2 (7.14%) Oracle
3 2 (7.14%) Xamarin