Unit Testing Contracts in Berkshire

Unit Testing
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 79 77 116
Rank change year-on-year -2 +39 -36
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 41 35 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.13% 1.97% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.42% 2.20% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 22 10
10th Percentile £335 £514 £363
25th Percentile £613 £528 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £651 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.42% +26.32% -13.64%
75th Percentile £688 £706 £579
90th Percentile - £750 £606
South East median daily rate £625 £550 £543
% change year-on-year +13.64% +1.38% +9.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,694 1,594 2,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 87.91% 89.75% 89.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 856 998 1,333
10th Percentile £235 £348 £264
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £588
90th Percentile £675 £701 £650
South East median daily rate £510 £501 £500
% change year-on-year +1.90% +0.10% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 53 38
10th Percentile £17.15 £18.50 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.25 £26.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £60.80 £63.00 £21.03
Median % change year-on-year -3.49% +199.64% -0.12%
75th Percentile £71.89 £74.79 £34.97
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.19 £67.72
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.72
% change year-on-year -9.52% +141.77% -21.04%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in Berkshire

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in Berkshire

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in Berkshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in Berkshire

Unit Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Unit Testing in Berkshire

Unit Testing
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Reading -3 40 £663 +10.46% 2
Slough +11 1 £450 -
Unit Testing
South East

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 7 (17.07%) Apache
1 7 (17.07%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (4.88%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (4.88%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (4.88%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (4.88%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 16 (39.02%) Azure
2 14 (34.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 14 (34.15%) Azure Monitor
3 13 (31.71%) AWS
3 13 (31.71%) Azure Data Factory
3 13 (31.71%) Azure Functions
3 13 (31.71%) Serverless
4 10 (24.39%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.44%) Azure Cognitive Search
5 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.44%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (2.44%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (17.07%) BGP
1 7 (17.07%) Ethernet VPN
1 7 (17.07%) MPLS
1 7 (17.07%) Radio Access Network
1 7 (17.07%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (48.78%) NoSQL
2 19 (46.34%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (34.15%) Oracle Database
4 12 (29.27%) Oracle Database 11g
5 7 (17.07%) MongoDB
6 2 (4.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (39.02%) Git
2 8 (19.51%) JIRA
3 7 (17.07%) GitLab
3 7 (17.07%) Robot Framework
3 7 (17.07%) TestRail
4 6 (14.63%) Selenium
5 1 (2.44%) Appium
5 1 (2.44%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.44%) MSTest
5 1 (2.44%) NUnit
5 1 (2.44%) SpecFlow
5 1 (2.44%) TeamCity
General
1 17 (41.46%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (7.32%) Finance
3 1 (2.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (70.73%) Developer
2 13 (31.71%) Azure Developer
2 13 (31.71%) Full Stack Developer
3 12 (29.27%) PostgreSQL Developer
4 7 (17.07%) Full Stack Python Developer
4 7 (17.07%) Python Developer
5 6 (14.63%) Network Engineer
5 6 (14.63%) Test Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Consultant
6 2 (4.88%) Designer
6 2 (4.88%) Functional Consultant
6 2 (4.88%) Lead
6 2 (4.88%) Lead Designer
6 2 (4.88%) Oracle Consultant
6 2 (4.88%) Oracle Functional Consultant
6 2 (4.88%) Software Developer
7 1 (2.44%) Angular Developer
7 1 (2.44%) React Developer
7 1 (2.44%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 1 (2.44%) Telecoms Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (31.71%) React
2 7 (17.07%) NETCONF
2 7 (17.07%) REST
2 7 (17.07%) RESTCONF
2 7 (17.07%) SOAP
2 7 (17.07%) YANG
3 4 (9.76%) CSS
3 4 (9.76%) HTML
4 3 (7.32%) .NET
5 2 (4.88%) AngularJS
5 2 (4.88%) ASP.NET
5 2 (4.88%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (4.88%) Node.js
6 1 (2.44%) .NET Core
6 1 (2.44%) Angular 2
6 1 (2.44%) Jest
6 1 (2.44%) NgRx
6 1 (2.44%) OAuth
6 1 (2.44%) OpenID
6 1 (2.44%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 11 (26.83%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (68.29%) DevOps
2 25 (60.98%) Agile
3 23 (56.10%) CI/CD
4 15 (36.59%) Test Automation
5 14 (34.15%) Software Testing
6 13 (31.71%) Change Management
6 13 (31.71%) Continuous Improvement
6 13 (31.71%) Full Stack Development
6 13 (31.71%) Microservices
6 13 (31.71%) SDLC
6 13 (31.71%) Software Engineering
7 12 (29.27%) Architectural Design
7 12 (29.27%) Clean Code
7 12 (29.27%) Data Migration
7 12 (29.27%) Migration
7 12 (29.27%) Performance Tuning
7 12 (29.27%) Product Backlog
7 12 (29.27%) Secure Coding
8 11 (26.83%) Integration Testing
9 9 (21.95%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 22 (53.66%) SQL
2 20 (48.78%) Python
3 15 (36.59%) PL/SQL
4 5 (12.20%) Java
5 4 (9.76%) C
5 4 (9.76%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.88%) PHP
7 1 (2.44%) Bash
7 1 (2.44%) C#
7 1 (2.44%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (31.71%) SC Cleared
1 13 (31.71%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.88%) QA
System Software
1 13 (31.71%) Active Directory
2 8 (19.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.44%) Ansible
1 1 (2.44%) Progress Chef
1 1 (2.44%) Puppet
1 1 (2.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (34.15%) Oracle
2 1 (2.44%) Avaloq
2 1 (2.44%) Google