The first table below looks at the demand for RUP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited RUP 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 Birmingham 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
Rational Unified Process (RUP)
Rank 40 51 43
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -8
Contract jobs citing RUP 3 5 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.683% 0.805% 1.170%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.014% 1.259% 2.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
Average daily rate £400 £650 £463
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-38.46% +40.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £380 £650 £393
10% offered a daily rate of more than £420 £650 £533
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £393 £363
% change year-on-year
-17.19% +8.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £27.25
% change year-on-year
-21.42% +28.44%
All Processes & Methodologies
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
296 397 297
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 67.43% 63.93% 57.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 214 183
Average daily rate £358 £340 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.14% -2.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £525 £493
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 20 10
Average hourly rate £34.75 £15.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+131.66% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.28 £12.00 £10.99
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £133.60 £39.00 £127.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
RUP
West Midlands

RUP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham RUP Jobs Demand Trend

RUP
Daily Rate Trend

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

Birmingham RUP Daily Rate Trend

RUP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 3 (42.86%) CRM
1 3 (42.86%) SharePoint
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
1 3 (42.86%) QA
2 2 (28.57%) Migration
2 2 (28.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (28.57%) Scrum
2 2 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
3 1 (14.29%) IIS
3 1 (14.29%) MS Office
3 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
3 1 (14.29%) ADO.NET
3 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
3 1 (14.29%) CSS
3 1 (14.29%) Windows
3 1 (14.29%) UML
3 1 (14.29%) OOA/OOD
3 1 (14.29%) OO
3 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
3 1 (14.29%) HTTP
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) PMP
3 1 (14.29%) PMI Certification
3 1 (14.29%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (14.29%) Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) NUnit
3 1 (14.29%) CruiseControl

RUP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (14.29%) ADO.NET
1 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
1 1 (14.29%) CSS
1 1 (14.29%) Ajax
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) Windows SharePoint Services
1 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
1 1 (14.29%) HTML
1 1 (14.29%) WCF
1 1 (14.29%) WPF
1 1 (14.29%) WF
1 1 (14.29%) Silverlight
Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) SharePoint
2 1 (14.29%) IIS
2 1 (14.29%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (14.29%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (14.29%) SharePoint Foundation
2 1 (14.29%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Office
1 1 (14.29%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
1 1 (14.29%) NUnit
1 1 (14.29%) CruiseControl
1 1 (14.29%) MSBuild
1 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio Team System
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Test Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) SharePoint Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Development Manager
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) CRM
2 2 (28.57%) Migration
2 2 (28.57%) Scrum
2 2 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (14.29%) UML
3 1 (14.29%) OOA/OOD
3 1 (14.29%) OO
3 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
3 1 (14.29%) Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) Automated Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Unified Process
3 1 (14.29%) MSF
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) T-SQL
2 1 (14.29%) VB.NET
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) PMP
1 1 (14.29%) PMI Certification
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
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