Unit Testing Contracts in the Thames Valley

Unit Testing
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 86 93 127
Rank change year-on-year +7 +34 -30
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 44 52 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.67% 1.82% 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.94% 2.00% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 31 32
10th Percentile £328 £425 £400
25th Percentile £550 £506 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 £606
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -9.28% +21.25%
75th Percentile £688 £656 £650
90th Percentile - £750 -
South East median daily rate £625 £550 £543
% change year-on-year +13.64% +1.38% +9.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 - £63.25
% change year-on-year - - +18.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,268 2,598 3,198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 86.01% 90.78% 89.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,245 1,766 2,158
10th Percentile £213 £319 £235
25th Percentile £375 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £485
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +4.12% +7.78%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £579
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £510 £501 £500
% change year-on-year +1.90% +0.10% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 69 89
10th Percentile £14.09 £16.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £24.50 £12.25
Median hourly rate £46.25 £52.50 £17.42
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% +201.38% -17.24%
75th Percentile £64.42 £73.59 £24.42
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £63.27
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 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 May 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 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
Berkshire -2 41 £651 +8.42% 3
Buckinghamshire +26 2 £394 -10.00% 3
Oxfordshire -3 1 - - 9
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 7 (15.91%) Apache
1 7 (15.91%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.27%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (4.55%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (4.55%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (4.55%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (4.55%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 16 (36.36%) Azure
2 14 (31.82%) AWS
2 14 (31.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 14 (31.82%) Azure Monitor
3 13 (29.55%) Azure Data Factory
3 13 (29.55%) Azure Functions
3 13 (29.55%) Serverless
4 10 (22.73%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.27%) Azure Cognitive Search
5 1 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.27%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (2.27%) GCP
5 1 (2.27%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.91%) BGP
1 7 (15.91%) Ethernet VPN
1 7 (15.91%) MPLS
1 7 (15.91%) Radio Access Network
1 7 (15.91%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (45.45%) NoSQL
2 19 (43.18%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (34.09%) Oracle Database
4 12 (27.27%) Oracle Database 11g
5 7 (15.91%) MongoDB
6 3 (6.82%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.27%) Big Data
7 1 (2.27%) Hadoop
7 1 (2.27%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (2.27%) RDBMS
7 1 (2.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (40.91%) Git
2 10 (22.73%) JIRA
3 7 (15.91%) GitLab
3 7 (15.91%) Robot Framework
3 7 (15.91%) TestRail
4 6 (13.64%) Selenium
5 1 (2.27%) Appium
5 1 (2.27%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.27%) LabVIEW
5 1 (2.27%) Maven
5 1 (2.27%) MSTest
5 1 (2.27%) NUnit
5 1 (2.27%) SpecFlow
5 1 (2.27%) Subversion
5 1 (2.27%) TeamCity
General
1 17 (38.64%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (6.82%) Finance
3 2 (4.55%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.27%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.27%) Marketing
4 1 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (2.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (72.73%) Developer
2 13 (29.55%) Azure Developer
2 13 (29.55%) Full Stack Developer
3 12 (27.27%) PostgreSQL Developer
4 7 (15.91%) Full Stack Python Developer
4 7 (15.91%) Python Developer
5 6 (13.64%) Network Engineer
5 6 (13.64%) Test Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Software Developer
7 2 (4.55%) Consultant
7 2 (4.55%) Designer
7 2 (4.55%) Functional Consultant
7 2 (4.55%) Lead
7 2 (4.55%) Lead Designer
7 2 (4.55%) Oracle Consultant
7 2 (4.55%) Oracle Functional Consultant
8 1 (2.27%) Automation Engineer
8 1 (2.27%) React Developer
8 1 (2.27%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 1 (2.27%) Telecoms Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (29.55%) React
2 7 (15.91%) NETCONF
2 7 (15.91%) REST
2 7 (15.91%) RESTCONF
2 7 (15.91%) SOAP
2 7 (15.91%) YANG
3 5 (11.36%) HTML
4 4 (9.09%) CSS
5 3 (6.82%) .NET
6 2 (4.55%) AngularJS
6 2 (4.55%) ASP.NET
6 2 (4.55%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (4.55%) Node.js
7 1 (2.27%) .NET Framework
7 1 (2.27%) Ajax
7 1 (2.27%) jQuery
7 1 (2.27%) OAuth
7 1 (2.27%) OpenID
7 1 (2.27%) RxJS
7 1 (2.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.27%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (63.64%) DevOps
2 27 (61.36%) Agile
3 24 (54.55%) CI/CD
4 15 (34.09%) Test Automation
5 14 (31.82%) Continuous Improvement
5 14 (31.82%) Software Engineering
5 14 (31.82%) Software Testing
6 13 (29.55%) Change Management
6 13 (29.55%) Full Stack Development
6 13 (29.55%) Microservices
6 13 (29.55%) SDLC
7 12 (27.27%) Architectural Design
7 12 (27.27%) Clean Code
7 12 (27.27%) Data Migration
7 12 (27.27%) Migration
7 12 (27.27%) Performance Tuning
7 12 (27.27%) Product Backlog
7 12 (27.27%) Secure Coding
8 11 (25.00%) Integration Testing
9 9 (20.45%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 23 (52.27%) SQL
2 20 (45.45%) Python
3 16 (36.36%) PL/SQL
4 5 (11.36%) Java
4 5 (11.36%) JavaScript
5 4 (9.09%) C
6 2 (4.55%) PHP
7 1 (2.27%) Bash
7 1 (2.27%) C#
7 1 (2.27%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (29.55%) SC Cleared
1 13 (29.55%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.27%) Degree
2 1 (2.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.55%) QA
2 1 (2.27%) HIPAA
System Software
1 13 (29.55%) Active Directory
2 8 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.27%) Ansible
1 1 (2.27%) Progress Chef
1 1 (2.27%) Puppet
1 1 (2.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (34.09%) Oracle
2 1 (2.27%) Avaloq
2 1 (2.27%) Google