The first table below looks at the demand for Use Case skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Use Case over the 3 months to 20 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Bedfordshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Use Cases
Rank 26 25 37
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +12
Contract jobs citing Use Case 3 11 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 1.493% 4.297% 1.619%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.013% 5.473% 2.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 1
Average daily rate £350 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £395 £420
% change year-on-year
-5.06% -5.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £22.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.16 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+2.47% +13.85%
All Processes & Methodologies
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
149 201 195
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 74.13% 78.52% 78.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 110 93
Average daily rate £361 £375 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.66% +22.95%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £200 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
+2.06% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 9
Average hourly rate £35.50 £40.00 £47.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.25% -15.78%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.50 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+22.00% -13.79%
Use Case
East of England

Use Case
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Use Case across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Bedfordshire Use Case Jobs Demand Trend

Use Case
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Use Case across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire Use Case Daily Rate Trend

Use Case
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Use Case across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire Use Case Hourly Rate Trend

Use Case
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Use Case within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Luton -10 3 £350 -5.08%
Bedford - - - -
Use Case
East of England

Use Case
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Use Case also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Use Case.

1 4 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 3 (50.00%) Change Management
2 3 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (33.33%) Document Management
3 2 (33.33%) Project Management
3 2 (33.33%) Business Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Supplier Management
3 2 (33.33%) PRINCE2
3 2 (33.33%) Workflow
4 1 (16.67%) Windows
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (16.67%) ISEB
4 1 (16.67%) C#
4 1 (16.67%) SQL
4 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
4 1 (16.67%) VB
4 1 (16.67%) VBA
4 1 (16.67%) .NET
4 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
4 1 (16.67%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (16.67%) IIS
4 1 (16.67%) Web Services
4 1 (16.67%) XML
4 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (16.67%) NHibernate
4 1 (16.67%) Web Development
4 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
4 1 (16.67%) Degree
4 1 (16.67%) WCF
4 1 (16.67%) WF

Use Case
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Use Case also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Use Case. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) Web Services
1 1 (16.67%) XML
1 1 (16.67%) NHibernate
1 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
1 1 (16.67%) WCF
1 1 (16.67%) WF
1 1 (16.67%) jQuery
1 1 (16.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 1 (16.67%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2012
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (16.67%) NUnit
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Business Analyst
1 5 (83.33%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Change Management
2 2 (33.33%) Document Management
2 2 (33.33%) Project Management
2 2 (33.33%) Business Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Supplier Management
2 2 (33.33%) PRINCE2
2 2 (33.33%) Workflow
3 1 (16.67%) Web Development
3 1 (16.67%) Web Application Development
3 1 (16.67%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C#
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
1 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
1 1 (16.67%) VB
1 1 (16.67%) VBA
1 1 (16.67%) VB6
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) ISEB
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft