The first table below looks at the demand for UML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited UML over the 3 months to 24 May 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 Berkshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Unified Modeling Language (UML)
Rank 69 73 82
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +9
Contract jobs citing UML 52 65 47
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 2.171% 2.067% 1.579%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.304% 3.260% 2.515%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 48 29
Average daily rate £400 £450 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.05% +20.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £311 £346 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £375 £400
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.75 £35.50
% change year-on-year
+0.71% -2.11%
All Processes & Methodologies
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1574 1994 1869
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 65.72% 63.40% 62.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 642 769 746
Average daily rate £388 £370 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.72% +5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 62 77
Average hourly rate £17.33 £19.50 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.15% -38.09%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.50 £11.45 £13.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £50.00 £47.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
UML
South East

UML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire UML Jobs Demand Trend

UML
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire UML Daily Rate Trend

UML
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing UML across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Berkshire UML Daily Rate Histogram

UML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Berkshire UML Hourly Rate Trend

UML
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UML within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
Reading +17 13 £450 +12.50%
Bracknell -8 8 £413 +17.85%
Slough -16 1 £325 -27.77%
UML
South East

UML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing UML 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 UML.

1 44 (41.90%) Telecoms
1 44 (41.90%) Use Case
2 29 (27.62%) XML
2 29 (27.62%) SOA
3 28 (26.67%) .NET
4 27 (25.71%) Web Services
5 26 (24.76%) SQL
6 23 (21.90%) C#
6 23 (21.90%) Business Analysis
7 22 (20.95%) ASP.NET
8 19 (18.10%) Java
8 19 (18.10%) SQL Server
8 19 (18.10%) Scrum
8 19 (18.10%) Banking
8 19 (18.10%) MVC
9 16 (15.24%) Agile Software Development
9 16 (15.24%) ASP.NET MVC
9 16 (15.24%) Finance
10 15 (14.29%) J2EE
10 15 (14.29%) jQuery
11 14 (13.33%) BSS
12 13 (12.38%) TDD
12 13 (12.38%) Retail
12 13 (12.38%) WCF
13 12 (11.43%) Project Management
13 12 (11.43%) Stakeholder Management
13 12 (11.43%) SpecFlow
13 12 (11.43%) ESB
13 12 (11.43%) Web Development
14 11 (10.48%) Jenkins

UML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing UML 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 UML. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 29 (27.62%) XML
2 28 (26.67%) .NET
3 27 (25.71%) Web Services
4 22 (20.95%) ASP.NET
5 16 (15.24%) ASP.NET MVC
6 15 (14.29%) J2EE
6 15 (14.29%) jQuery
7 13 (12.38%) WCF
8 7 (6.667%) HTML5
8 7 (6.667%) CSS
9 6 (5.714%) Middleware
9 6 (5.714%) .NET Framework
10 5 (4.762%) XSLT
11 4 (3.810%) HTML
11 4 (3.810%) Spring
12 3 (2.857%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
12 3 (2.857%) ASP.NET MVC 3
12 3 (2.857%) Spring MVC
12 3 (2.857%) XML Schema
12 3 (2.857%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 12 (11.43%) ESB
2 4 (3.810%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.905%) SharePoint Server
3 2 (1.905%) MS Project Server
3 2 (1.905%) SharePoint 2010
3 2 (1.905%) CM System
4 1 (0.952%) Drupal
4 1 (0.952%) MSMQ
4 1 (0.952%) Documentum
4 1 (0.952%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 5 (4.762%) MS Project
2 2 (1.905%) MS Office
2 2 (1.905%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.952%) Open Workbench
3 1 (0.952%) Fireworks
3 1 (0.952%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 14 (13.33%) BSS
2 6 (5.714%) Radio Access Network
3 5 (4.762%) 3G
4 2 (1.905%) LDAP
4 2 (1.905%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (18.10%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.667%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (4.762%) GIS
4 3 (2.857%) Oracle 10g
5 2 (1.905%) OLAP
5 2 (1.905%) DTS
5 2 (1.905%) IDOL
5 2 (1.905%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (0.952%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.952%) TOAD
6 1 (0.952%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.952%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 12 (11.43%) SpecFlow
2 11 (10.48%) Jenkins
3 10 (9.524%) Team Foundation Server
4 8 (7.619%) JIRA
5 5 (4.762%) Visual Studio
6 3 (2.857%) MSTest
6 3 (2.857%) Selenium
7 1 (0.952%) MSBuild
7 1 (0.952%) Subversion
7 1 (0.952%) CruiseControl
7 1 (0.952%) Rational Rose
7 1 (0.952%) PVCS
General
1 44 (41.90%) Telecoms
2 19 (18.10%) Banking
3 16 (15.24%) Finance
4 13 (12.38%) Retail
5 1 (0.952%) Music
5 1 (0.952%) Retail Banking
5 1 (0.952%) Billing
Job Titles
1 47 (44.76%) Analyst
2 46 (43.81%) Business Analyst
3 32 (30.48%) Developer
4 13 (12.38%) Architect
5 10 (9.524%) Programmer
6 9 (8.571%) .NET Developer
7 8 (7.619%) C# Developer
7 8 (7.619%) Business Systems Analyst
7 8 (7.619%) Systems Analyst
7 8 (7.619%) C# .NET Developer
8 7 (6.667%) Team Leader
9 6 (5.714%) Senior Developer
10 5 (4.762%) C# Programmer
10 5 (4.762%) .NET Programmer
10 5 (4.762%) UML Business Analyst
10 5 (4.762%) Enterprise Architect
10 5 (4.762%) Development Team Leader
11 4 (3.810%) Project Manager
11 4 (3.810%) Java Team Leader
11 4 (3.810%) J2EE Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.762%) Open Source
2 4 (3.810%) N-Tier
2 4 (3.810%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.857%) Flash Lite
3 3 (2.857%) Derivative
3 3 (2.857%) STB
4 2 (1.905%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.952%) Mobile Payment
5 1 (0.952%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.952%) Semantic Web
5 1 (0.952%) Streaming Music
5 1 (0.952%) PKI
5 1 (0.952%) IPTV
Operating Systems
1 11 (10.48%) Windows
2 2 (1.905%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (0.952%) Android
3 1 (0.952%) UNIX
3 1 (0.952%) AIX
3 1 (0.952%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (41.90%) Use Case
2 29 (27.62%) SOA
3 23 (21.90%) Business Analysis
4 19 (18.10%) Scrum
4 19 (18.10%) MVC
5 16 (15.24%) Agile Software Development
6 13 (12.38%) TDD
7 12 (11.43%) Project Management
7 12 (11.43%) Stakeholder Management
7 12 (11.43%) Web Development
8 11 (10.48%) BDD
8 11 (10.48%) E-Commerce
9 10 (9.524%) ITIL
10 8 (7.619%) Systems Analysis
10 8 (7.619%) Waterfall
11 7 (6.667%) User Acceptance Testing
11 7 (6.667%) Continuous Integration
11 7 (6.667%) TOGAF
11 7 (6.667%) eTOM
11 7 (6.667%) RUP
Programming Languages
1 26 (24.76%) SQL
2 23 (21.90%) C#
3 19 (18.10%) Java
4 8 (7.619%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.810%) PL/SQL
6 3 (2.857%) ActionScript
7 2 (1.905%) C
7 2 (1.905%) C++
7 2 (1.905%) PHP
7 2 (1.905%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.905%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (0.952%) ActionScript 3.0
8 1 (0.952%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.952%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (7.619%) ISEB
2 6 (5.714%) CBAP
3 4 (3.810%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.857%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.905%) MCSD
5 2 (1.905%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.952%) Degree
6 1 (0.952%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (0.952%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.571%) QA
2 4 (3.810%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (0.952%) SCOM
Vendors
1 7 (6.667%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.810%) Oracle
3 3 (2.857%) Adobe
3 3 (2.857%) JBoss
4 2 (1.905%) Meridio
5 1 (0.952%) Google
5 1 (0.952%) Salesforce.com
5 1 (0.952%) Sun
Berkshire, Thames Valley
SharePoint Developer required - Start in 2 weeks Rates dependant on experience SharePoint Developer needed for a client project to deliver a new Intranet based on Windows SharePoint 2010.
Computer Futures
Posted: 15 May 2013
Bracknell, Berkshire
You will also be responsible for preparing the requirements specification using the RUP techniques of Business Process Modelling, Use Case Modelling, Data Modelling, UI Specification as well as...
s-com
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Maidenhead
Rank Group currently requires a Development Team Lead (C#, WCF, MVC) in their HQ based in Maidenhead... We are looking for someone that is an expert with the...
The Rank Group
Rate: Competitive
Posted: 24 May 2013
Berkshire, Thames Valley
My large berkshire based blue chip Client is urgently recruiting for a TV Flash Application Designer / Developer to be responsible for the architecture and development of Flash applications...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £300.00 - £350.00 per day + Please quote
Posted: 10 May 2013
Reading, Thames Valley
The successful candidate will have experience developing flash applications using AS3 (actionscript 3). You will have experience of working with Adobe Creative Studio including Flash Pro, Photoshop and...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £300.00 - £350.00 per day
Posted: 11 May 2013