The first table below looks at the demand for RUP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited RUP 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 Buckinghamshire 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
Rational Unified Process (RUP)
Rank 75 73 77
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +4
Contract jobs citing RUP 1 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 0.108% 0.107% 0.183%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.151% 0.159% 0.319%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Average daily rate £350 - £250
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-10.95% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £35.11 £27.57
% change year-on-year
-21.67% +27.37%
All Processes & Methodologies
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
663 628 626
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 71.44% 67.17% 57.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 293 268
Average daily rate £350 £325 £348
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -6.47%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £214 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £488
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
+2.06% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 53
Average hourly rate £18.00 £15.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -14.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.05 £10.58 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £31.00 £32.50 £55.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.50 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+22.00% -13.79%
RUP
South East

RUP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire RUP Daily Rate Trend

RUP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Buckinghamshire RUP Hourly Rate Trend

RUP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RUP within the Buckinghamshire 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
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Job
Vacancies
Milton Keynes - 1 £350 -
RUP
South East

RUP
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) EPoS
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) NHibernate
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) KnockoutJS

RUP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 (100.00%) NHibernate
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) KnockoutJS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Programmer
1 1 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Agile C# Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C# Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) EPoS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript