Unit Testing Contracts in Edinburgh

Unit Testing
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 10 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 74 82
Rank change year-on-year +10 +8 -13
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 10 32 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.14% 2.71% 2.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 2.89% 2.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 26 39
10th Percentile £467 £431 £455
25th Percentile £479 £461 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £491 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% -6.52% +17.98%
75th Percentile £531 £543 £564
90th Percentile £636 £587 £575
Scotland median daily rate £483 £488 £502
% change year-on-year -0.92% -2.84% +12.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £53.25
Median hourly rate - - £54.50
75th Percentile - - £55.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate - £59.03 £56.00
% change year-on-year - +5.41% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 738 1,109 1,791
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 84.44% 93.82% 94.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 430 776 1,235
10th Percentile £219 £225 £280
25th Percentile £364 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £485
Median % change year-on-year - -2.06% +14.12%
75th Percentile £555 £538 £570
90th Percentile £650 £600 £638
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 7 12
10th Percentile £13.30 £12.10 £15.29
25th Percentile £16.25 £15.44 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.17 £21.26 £22.45
Median % change year-on-year -9.83% -5.30% -58.78%
75th Percentile £60.75 £32.71 £48.75
90th Percentile - £47.75 £53.75
Scotland median hourly rate £19.50 £15.99 £37.43
% change year-on-year +21.95% -57.28% -8.71%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in Edinburgh

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in Edinburgh

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in Edinburgh

Unit Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for Unit Testing in Edinburgh

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (20.00%) Apache
1 2 (20.00%) Confluence
1 2 (20.00%) JBoss
1 2 (20.00%) Tomcat
1 2 (20.00%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
1 4 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 4 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (40.00%) Serverless
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (20.00%) OCI
2 2 (20.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (10.00%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (40.00%) Oracle Database
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (20.00%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (10.00%) GIS
5 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
5 1 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) JIRA
2 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (20.00%) JUnit
2 2 (20.00%) Maven
2 2 (20.00%) Subversion
3 1 (10.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (10.00%) GitLab
General
1 8 (80.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Full Stack Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Full Stack Java Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (20.00%) UAT Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) AWS CDK
2 3 (30.00%) CSS
2 3 (30.00%) HTML
2 3 (30.00%) React
2 3 (30.00%) Spring
3 2 (20.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (20.00%) Hibernate
3 2 (20.00%) Java EE
3 2 (20.00%) JPA
3 2 (20.00%) JSP
3 2 (20.00%) JSTL
3 2 (20.00%) Node.js
3 2 (20.00%) PostGIS
3 2 (20.00%) REST
3 2 (20.00%) Servlets
3 2 (20.00%) STL
3 2 (20.00%) XML
3 2 (20.00%) XSLT
4 1 (10.00%) OAuth2
4 1 (10.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Unix
2 1 (10.00%) AIX
2 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (40.00%) DevOps
3 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (30.00%) Analytics
4 3 (30.00%) Code Quality
4 3 (30.00%) Defect Management
4 3 (30.00%) Full Stack Development
4 3 (30.00%) Human-Centred Design
4 3 (30.00%) Inclusive Design
4 3 (30.00%) Microservices
4 3 (30.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Code Coverage
5 2 (20.00%) ERP
5 2 (20.00%) Integration Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Pair Programming
5 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 2 (20.00%) TDD
5 2 (20.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (30.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (20.00%) Bash
3 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (30.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (10.00%) GDPR
3 1 (10.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) Blue Prism
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) VMware