Unit Testing Contracts in Gloucestershire

Unit Testing
South West > Gloucestershire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 54 57
Rank change year-on-year +9 +3 -9
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 11 9 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 2.65% 1.88% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.09% 2.01% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 4
10th Percentile £540 £475 -
25th Percentile £573 £532 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £681 £629 £483
Median % change year-on-year +8.35% +30.31% +7.22%
75th Percentile £706 £721 £540
90th Percentile - £737 -
South West median daily rate £650 £563 £425
% change year-on-year +15.56% +32.35% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £78.00 -
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 356 447 462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 85.78% 93.13% 87.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 311 365
10th Percentile £363 £288 £206
25th Percentile £463 £415 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year - +7.32% +7.89%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £605
90th Percentile £750 £700 £680
South West median daily rate £525 £545 £500
% change year-on-year -3.67% +9.00% +6.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 39 13
10th Percentile £14.00 £35.00 £11.80
25th Percentile £18.85 £50.50 £12.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £70.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +154.55% -45.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £80.66 £33.75
90th Percentile £73.88 £83.40 £57.04
South West median hourly rate £47.83 £61.50 £48.38
% change year-on-year -22.23% +27.13% +7.50%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in Gloucestershire

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in Gloucestershire

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in Gloucestershire

Unit Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Unit Testing in Gloucestershire

Unit Testing
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 24 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
Gloucester +24 8 £688 +15.30%
Cheltenham +1 2 £540 -16.28% 2
Unit Testing
South West

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 2 (18.18%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) Azure
2 8 (72.73%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) npm
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) HP UFT
1 2 (18.18%) LoadRunner
2 1 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) git-flow
2 1 (9.09%) webpack
General
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) Developer
2 8 (72.73%) Full Stack Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Consultant
3 2 (18.18%) DV Cleared Technical Consultant
3 2 (18.18%) Service Management Consultant
3 2 (18.18%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) JavaScript Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (81.82%) React
2 8 (72.73%) AngularJS
2 8 (72.73%) Spring
3 1 (9.09%) CSS
3 1 (9.09%) HTML
3 1 (9.09%) Jest
3 1 (9.09%) Node.js
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Agile
2 9 (81.82%) OOP
3 8 (72.73%) Change Management
3 8 (72.73%) DevOps
3 8 (72.73%) Full Stack Development
3 8 (72.73%) OO
3 8 (72.73%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (72.73%) Programme Management
3 8 (72.73%) Project Management
3 8 (72.73%) SDLC
3 8 (72.73%) Secure Coding
3 8 (72.73%) Software Architecture
4 2 (18.18%) Asset Management
4 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
4 2 (18.18%) Customer Requirements
4 2 (18.18%) Service Management
4 2 (18.18%) Test Scripting
5 1 (9.09%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) Java
1 9 (81.82%) JavaScript
2 8 (72.73%) C
2 8 (72.73%) Python
3 3 (27.27%) C#
4 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (90.91%) Security Cleared
2 5 (45.45%) DV Cleared
2 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (72.73%) QA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) OpenText