Unit Testing Contracts in Yorkshire

Unit Testing
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 83 101 120
Rank change year-on-year +18 +19 -26
Contract jobs citing Unit Testing 24 20 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.39% 0.93% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 1.03% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 16 19
10th Percentile - £403 £313
25th Percentile £450 £473 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £438
Median % change year-on-year - +25.71% -2.78%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £639
90th Percentile - £644 £688
England median daily rate £550 £578 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £36.50
Median hourly rate - - £39.00
75th Percentile - - £41.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +34.72%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,456 1,942 2,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 84.06% 90.54% 90.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 867 1,278 1,738
10th Percentile £275 £267 £254
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £582 £619 £575
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 62 81
10th Percentile £11.53 £9.80 £10.70
25th Percentile £12.15 £10.01 £12.44
Median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.00% -42.54% -6.06%
75th Percentile £21.63 £20.99 £22.50
90th Percentile £53.75 £48.53 £27.25
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Unit Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Unit Testing in Yorkshire

Unit Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Unit Testing in Yorkshire

Unit Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unit Testing in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unit Testing in Yorkshire

Unit Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Unit Testing in Yorkshire

Unit Testing
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
West Yorkshire +24 17 £550 - 10
South Yorkshire -2 6 £550 +62.96% 1
Unit Testing
England

Unit Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) SAP Retail
1 1 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.83%) Azure
1 5 (20.83%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (4.17%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 5 (20.83%) SQL Server
2 5 (20.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 17 (70.83%) JUnit
2 11 (45.83%) Git
3 5 (20.83%) JIRA
3 5 (20.83%) Team Foundation Server
4 3 (12.50%) Cucumber
5 2 (8.33%) REST Assured
6 1 (4.17%) Cypress.io
General
1 7 (29.17%) Finance
2 6 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (50.00%) Developer
2 6 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 6 (25.00%) Test Engineer
3 5 (20.83%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 5 (20.83%) SQL BI Developer
3 5 (20.83%) SQL Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Junior
4 2 (8.33%) Junior Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Junior Java Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Lead
4 2 (8.33%) Lead Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Lead Java Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Test Automation Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Tester
5 1 (4.17%) Java Automation Tester
5 1 (4.17%) Master Data Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) SAP Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) SAP Master Data Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Scala Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Test Scripter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (45.83%) Gherkin
2 6 (25.00%) Hibernate
2 6 (25.00%) JPA
2 6 (25.00%) React
2 6 (25.00%) REST
2 6 (25.00%) Spring
2 6 (25.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.17%) Akka
3 1 (4.17%) Kafka
3 1 (4.17%) RESTful
3 1 (4.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (75.00%) Agile
2 16 (66.67%) Software Testing
3 14 (58.33%) Scrum
4 11 (45.83%) DevOps
4 11 (45.83%) System Testing
4 11 (45.83%) Test Automation
4 11 (45.83%) Test Scripting
5 9 (37.50%) Software Delivery
6 8 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
6 8 (33.33%) Kanban
6 8 (33.33%) TDD
7 7 (29.17%) High Availability
8 6 (25.00%) Analytics
8 6 (25.00%) API Testing
8 6 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
8 6 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 6 (25.00%) Front End Development
8 6 (25.00%) Mentoring
8 6 (25.00%) Test Strategy
8 6 (25.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 17 (70.83%) Java
2 7 (29.17%) TypeScript
3 5 (20.83%) SQL
4 1 (4.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (45.83%) SC Cleared
1 11 (45.83%) Security Cleared
2 6 (25.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (29.17%) QA
System Software
1 7 (29.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (29.17%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.17%) Grafana
2 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.17%) JDA
2 1 (4.17%) SAP