Unit Testing Contracts in the Thames Valley

Unit Testing
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Unit Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Unit Testing over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 76 95 145
Rank change year-on-year +19 +50 -9
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 54 47 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.52% 1.77% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.90% 1.95% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 31 37
10th Percentile £515 £525 £460
25th Percentile £576 £575 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £625 £615
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% +1.63% +42.61%
75th Percentile £661 £693 £650
90th Percentile £663 £725 -
South East median daily rate £625 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +4.17% - +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £88.50 -
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £88.50 £72.50
% change year-on-year -43.50% +22.07% +63.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Unit Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,861 2,411 3,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.00% 90.74% 90.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,069 1,584 2,502
10th Percentile £300 £245 £305
25th Percentile £411 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £612
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
South East median daily rate £511 £520 £513
% change year-on-year -1.70% +1.46% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 100 72
10th Percentile £18.00 £16.39 £11.42
25th Percentile £27.75 £24.00 £14.06
Median hourly rate £57.50 £50.00 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +159.74% -
75th Percentile £62.69 £66.11 £50.31
90th Percentile £70.72 £75.67 £75.75
South East median hourly rate £58.30 £52.30 £37.13
% change year-on-year +11.47% +40.86% +35.02%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Unit Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in the Thames Valley

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in the Thames Valley

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in the Thames Valley

Unit Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unit Testing in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Unit Testing in the Thames Valley

Unit Testing
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Berkshire +23 54 £638 +0.79% 3
Unit Testing
South East

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (5.56%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 7 (12.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (5.56%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (5.56%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (5.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 22 (40.74%) AWS
1 22 (40.74%) Azure
2 19 (35.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 19 (35.19%) Azure Monitor
3 14 (25.93%) Azure Data Factory
4 13 (24.07%) Azure Functions
4 13 (24.07%) Serverless
5 10 (18.52%) Entra ID
6 8 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (14.81%) OCI
7 5 (9.26%) Azure Key Vault
7 5 (9.26%) Azure Service Bus
7 5 (9.26%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.85%) BGP
1 1 (1.85%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (1.85%) MPLS
1 1 (1.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (40.74%) Oracle Database
1 22 (40.74%) Oracle Database 11g
1 22 (40.74%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (27.78%) NoSQL
3 7 (12.96%) SAP Data Services
4 5 (9.26%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (5.56%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 3 (5.56%) Oracle Discoverer
5 3 (5.56%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (5.56%) SQLPlus
6 1 (1.85%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 18 (33.33%) Git
2 12 (22.22%) Selenium
3 7 (12.96%) LSMW
4 3 (5.56%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (3.70%) JIRA
6 1 (1.85%) GitLab
General
1 14 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (12.96%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (5.56%) Social Skills
4 2 (3.70%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.85%) Finance
Job Titles
1 22 (40.74%) Developer
2 15 (27.78%) Azure Developer
3 13 (24.07%) Full-Stack Developer
4 7 (12.96%) Consultant
4 7 (12.96%) Data Consultant
4 7 (12.96%) SAP Consultant
4 7 (12.96%) SAP Data Consultant
5 6 (11.11%) Python Developer
6 5 (9.26%) Full-Stack Python Developer
7 4 (7.41%) .NET Developer
7 4 (7.41%) Software Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Oracle Developer
8 3 (5.56%) Senior
8 3 (5.56%) Senior .NET Developer
8 3 (5.56%) Senior Developer
9 2 (3.70%) Data Engineer
9 2 (3.70%) Database Engineer
9 2 (3.70%) DBA
9 2 (3.70%) PostgreSQL DBA
9 2 (3.70%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (25.93%) React
2 7 (12.96%) BAPI
3 5 (9.26%) .NET
3 5 (9.26%) .NET Framework
3 5 (9.26%) Entity Framework
3 5 (9.26%) GraphQL
4 4 (7.41%) REST
4 4 (7.41%) XML
5 2 (3.70%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.85%) Angular 2
6 1 (1.85%) Jest
6 1 (1.85%) JSON
6 1 (1.85%) NETCONF
6 1 (1.85%) NgRx
6 1 (1.85%) OAuth
6 1 (1.85%) RESTCONF
6 1 (1.85%) RxJS
6 1 (1.85%) SOAP
6 1 (1.85%) YAML
6 1 (1.85%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 12 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 7 (12.96%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (12.96%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.85%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.85%) CentOS
1 1 (1.85%) Linux
1 1 (1.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (75.93%) DevOps
2 29 (53.70%) Migration
3 24 (44.44%) Agile
4 22 (40.74%) Data Migration
4 22 (40.74%) Performance Tuning
4 22 (40.74%) Secure Coding
5 20 (37.04%) Clean Code
5 20 (37.04%) CRUD
6 18 (33.33%) Test Automation
7 16 (29.63%) Microservices
8 14 (25.93%) Change Management
8 14 (25.93%) CI/CD
8 14 (25.93%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (25.93%) Full-Stack Development
9 13 (24.07%) SDLC
10 12 (22.22%) Product Backlog
11 10 (18.52%) Prototyping
12 8 (14.81%) Software Testing
13 6 (11.11%) Scrum
13 6 (11.11%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 38 (70.37%) SQL
2 25 (46.30%) PL/SQL
3 15 (27.78%) Python
4 11 (20.37%) Java
5 7 (12.96%) ABAP
6 5 (9.26%) C#
6 5 (9.26%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (3.70%) Bicep
7 2 (3.70%) C
Qualifications
1 34 (62.96%) Security Cleared
2 33 (61.11%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.26%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 14 (25.93%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.85%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 30 (55.56%) Oracle
2 7 (12.96%) SAP
3 1 (1.85%) Cisco
3 1 (1.85%) HP
3 1 (1.85%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.85%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.85%) Snow