The first table below looks at the demand for UML 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 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 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
Unified Modeling Language (UML)
Rank 34 48 48
Rank change year-on-year
+14 0
Contract jobs citing UML 9 8 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 2.050% 1.288% 0.195%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.041% 2.015% 0.337%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 1
Average daily rate £319 £413 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.72% +10.00%
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
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%
UML
West Midlands

UML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham UML Hourly Rate Trend

UML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 9 (39.13%) .NET
1 9 (39.13%) SQL Server
2 8 (34.78%) Microsoft
2 8 (34.78%) C#
3 7 (30.43%) Web Services
3 7 (30.43%) Business Analysis
4 6 (26.09%) WCF
4 6 (26.09%) Visual Studio
4 6 (26.09%) OO
4 6 (26.09%) Finance
5 5 (21.74%) Windows
5 5 (21.74%) OOA/OOD
5 5 (21.74%) IIS
5 5 (21.74%) Silverlight
5 5 (21.74%) DV Cleared
5 5 (21.74%) Security Cleared
5 5 (21.74%) SQL Server 2008
5 5 (21.74%) Systems Analysis
6 4 (17.39%) Workflow
6 4 (17.39%) RIA
6 4 (17.39%) Unit Testing
6 4 (17.39%) Windows 7
6 4 (17.39%) MSTest
6 4 (17.39%) Moq
6 4 (17.39%) J2EE
6 4 (17.39%) ASP.NET
6 4 (17.39%) Client/Server
6 4 (17.39%) DSDM
6 4 (17.39%) RAD
6 4 (17.39%) SSADM

UML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 9 (39.13%) .NET
2 7 (30.43%) Web Services
3 6 (26.09%) WCF
4 5 (21.74%) Silverlight
5 4 (17.39%) J2EE
5 4 (17.39%) ASP.NET
5 4 (17.39%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 4 (17.39%) Managed Extensibility Framework
6 3 (13.04%) .NET Framework
7 2 (8.696%) ASP.NET MVC
8 1 (4.348%) JMX
8 1 (4.348%) EJB
8 1 (4.348%) CSS
8 1 (4.348%) Servlets
8 1 (4.348%) HTML
8 1 (4.348%) ADO.NET
8 1 (4.348%) ASP.NET MVC 2
8 1 (4.348%) WPF
8 1 (4.348%) WF
8 1 (4.348%) Java EE 5
Application Platforms
1 5 (21.74%) IIS
2 4 (17.39%) ArcGIS
3 3 (13.04%) SAP EP
3 3 (13.04%) SAP Portal
4 1 (4.348%) NetWeaver
4 1 (4.348%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (4.348%) SharePoint
4 1 (4.348%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (4.348%) SharePoint Foundation
4 1 (4.348%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (8.696%) MS Office
2 1 (4.348%) MS Excel
2 1 (4.348%) MS Visio
2 1 (4.348%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (4.348%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 1 (4.348%) Maximo
1 1 (4.348%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.348%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (39.13%) SQL Server
2 5 (21.74%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (4.348%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (26.09%) Visual Studio
2 4 (17.39%) MSTest
2 4 (17.39%) Moq
3 3 (13.04%) NWDI
3 3 (13.04%) NWDS
4 2 (8.696%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (4.348%) MSBuild
5 1 (4.348%) Visual Studio Team System
5 1 (4.348%) NUnit
5 1 (4.348%) CruiseControl
General
1 6 (26.09%) Finance
2 1 (4.348%) Electronics
2 1 (4.348%) Telecoms
2 1 (4.348%) Manufacturing
2 1 (4.348%) Games
2 1 (4.348%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Business Analyst
1 9 (39.13%) Analyst
2 8 (34.78%) Developer
3 4 (17.39%) Software Programmer
3 4 (17.39%) C# Programmer
3 4 (17.39%) Programmer
3 4 (17.39%) C# Developer
3 4 (17.39%) Software Developer
3 4 (17.39%) Software Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Business Systems Analyst
3 4 (17.39%) Systems Analyst
4 3 (13.04%) Consultant
4 3 (13.04%) NHS Business Analyst
4 3 (13.04%) .NET Developer
5 2 (8.696%) .NET Software Engineer
5 2 (8.696%) .NET Programmer
5 2 (8.696%) J2EE Consultant
5 2 (8.696%) SAP Portals Consultant
5 2 (8.696%) C# Software Developer
5 2 (8.696%) Silverlight Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) RIA
1 4 (17.39%) Client/Server
2 3 (13.04%) NHS
3 1 (4.348%) DTV
3 1 (4.348%) N-Tier
3 1 (4.348%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 5 (21.74%) Windows
2 4 (17.39%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (30.43%) Business Analysis
2 6 (26.09%) OO
3 5 (21.74%) OOA/OOD
3 5 (21.74%) Systems Analysis
4 4 (17.39%) Workflow
4 4 (17.39%) Unit Testing
4 4 (17.39%) DSDM
4 4 (17.39%) RAD
4 4 (17.39%) SSADM
5 2 (8.696%) SOA
6 1 (4.348%) User Stories
6 1 (4.348%) Demand Management
6 1 (4.348%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (4.348%) Programme Management
6 1 (4.348%) GAP Analysis
6 1 (4.348%) MVC
6 1 (4.348%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (4.348%) Unified Process
6 1 (4.348%) PRINCE2
6 1 (4.348%) RUP
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) C#
2 3 (13.04%) Java
2 3 (13.04%) SQL
3 2 (8.696%) VB.NET
4 1 (4.348%) C
4 1 (4.348%) T-SQL
4 1 (4.348%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.348%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) DV Cleared
1 5 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.696%) Degree
4 1 (4.348%) ISEB
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) Microsoft
2 4 (17.39%) SAP
2 4 (17.39%) ESRI