Cambridge UML Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Unified Modeling Language (UML) skills within the Cambridge region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited UML over the 3 months to 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Unified Modeling Language (UML)
Location Aberdeen Ascot Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Coventry Cowes Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Fife Fleetwood Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Isle of Wight Kent Kirkcaldy Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Rickmansworth Rugby Salford Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Wiltshire Woking Wolverhampton Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	19	15
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	25	64
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.035 %	0.064 %
As % of the category below	12.95 %	18.29 %
Daily rates quoted	10	12
Average minimum daily rate	£296	£286
Average daily rate	£315	£329
% change on same period last year	-4.36 %
Average maximum daily rate	£334	£373
UK excluding London average daily rate	£388	£364
% change on same period last year	+6.54 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	14
Average minimum hourly rate	£45.00	£32.86
Average hourly rate	£45.00	£36.50
% change on same period last year	+23.28 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£45.00	£40.14
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£36.79	£35.87
% change on same period last year	+2.57 %
Processes & Methodologies Cambridge
Matching contract IT job ads	193	350
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.270 %	0.352 %
Daily rates quoted	48	74
Average minimum daily rate	£290	£356
Average daily rate	£318	£373
% change on same period last year	-14.65 %
Average maximum daily rate	£346	£389
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£372
% change on same period last year	+1.69 %
Hourly rates quoted	41	52
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.18	£35.83
Average hourly rate	£25.22	£38.69
% change on same period last year	-34.81 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.25	£41.54
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.30	£30.27
% change on same period last year	-3.20 %
UML Cambridgeshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

UML
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing UML across the Cambridge region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

UML
Daily Rate Trend

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

UML
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing UML across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

UML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

UML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 20 (55.56 %) C++ 2 16 (44.44 %) C 3 13 (36.11 %) OO 4 11 (30.56 %) Telecoms 4 11 (30.56 %) Java 5 10 (27.78 %) Linux 5 10 (27.78 %) OOD 5 10 (27.78 %) GSM 5 10 (27.78 %) 3G 5 10 (27.78 %) RNC 6 9 (25.00 %) Software Engineering 6 9 (25.00 %) SS7 6 9 (25.00 %) 2G 6 9 (25.00 %) UNIX 6 9 (25.00 %) J2EE

7 7 (19.44 %) Security Cleared 8 6 (16.67 %) JBoss 9 5 (13.89 %) Wireless 9 5 (13.89 %) Windows 9 5 (13.89 %) .NET 10 4 (11.11 %) C# 10 4 (11.11 %) JMS 10 4 (11.11 %) Business Analysis 10 4 (11.11 %) Government 11 3 (8.333 %) Business Development 11 3 (8.333 %) Use Case 11 3 (8.333 %) Oracle 12 2 (5.556 %) SQL Server 12 2 (5.556 %) VB 12 2 (5.556 %) MFC

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 (25.00 %) J2EE 2 5 (13.89 %) .NET 3 4 (11.11 %) JMS 4 2 (5.556 %) MFC 4 2 (5.556 %) CSS 5 1 (2.778 %) Servlets 5 1 (2.778 %) STL 5 1 (2.778 %) WebServices 5 1 (2.778 %) XML 5 1 (2.778 %) ActiveX 5 1 (2.778 %) Swing 5 1 (2.778 %) ASP 5 1 (2.778 %) ASP.NET 5 1 (2.778 %) Hibernate 5 1 (2.778 %) Spring 5 1 (2.778 %) AJAX 5 1 (2.778 %) ASP.NET 2.0 5 1 (2.778 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 6 (16.67 %) JBoss 2 1 (2.778 %) Apache 2 1 (2.778 %) MQSeries
Communications & Networking 1 10 (27.78 %) GSM 1 10 (27.78 %) 3G 1 10 (27.78 %) RNC 2 9 (25.00 %) SS7 2 9 (25.00 %) 2G 3 5 (13.89 %) Wireless 4 2 (5.556 %) UWB 4 2 (5.556 %) Bluetooth 4 2 (5.556 %) WLAN 4 2 (5.556 %) HTTP 5 1 (2.778 %) TCP/IP 5 1 (2.778 %) WCDMA 5 1 (2.778 %) FTP 5 1 (2.778 %) CDMA 5 1 (2.778 %) UMTS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (5.556 %) SQL Server 2 1 (2.778 %) Crystal Reports 2 1 (2.778 %) GIS
Development Applications 1 1 (2.778 %) JUnit 1 1 (2.778 %) VSS/SourceSafe 1 1 (2.778 %) Flash 1 1 (2.778 %) IntelliJ 1 1 (2.778 %) Rational Robot 1 1 (2.778 %) Subversion 1 1 (2.778 %) Rational Functional Tester	General 1 11 (30.56 %) Telecoms 2 4 (11.11 %) Government 3 1 (2.778 %) Retail 3 1 (2.778 %) Electric 3 1 (2.778 %) Pharmaceutical 3 1 (2.778 %) Electronics
Job Titles 1 12 (33.33 %) Software Engineer 2 11 (30.56 %) Developer 3 10 (27.78 %) Analyst 3 10 (27.78 %) Business Analyst 4 6 (16.67 %) Java Developer 5 2 (5.556 %) .NET Developer 5 2 (5.556 %) C# Developer 5 2 (5.556 %) Technical Analyst 5 2 (5.556 %) Technical Business Analyst 5 2 (5.556 %) Java/J2EE Developer 5 2 (5.556 %) Software Developer 6 1 (2.778 %) Tester 6 1 (2.778 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 6 1 (2.778 %) Software Team Leader 6 1 (2.778 %) C++ Software Engineer 6 1 (2.778 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 1 (2.778 %) Team Leader 6 1 (2.778 %) Test Engineer 6 1 (2.778 %) J2EE Developer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (5.556 %) Device Driver 2 1 (2.778 %) Cryptography 2 1 (2.778 %) PKI 2 1 (2.778 %) Multithreading
Operating Systems 1 10 (27.78 %) Linux 2 9 (25.00 %) UNIX 3 5 (13.89 %) Windows 4 2 (5.556 %) Windows XP 5 1 (2.778 %) Windows Vista	Processes & Methodologies 1 13 (36.11 %) OO 2 10 (27.78 %) OOD 3 9 (25.00 %) Software Engineering 4 7 (19.44 %) Security Cleared 5 4 (11.11 %) Business Analysis 6 3 (8.333 %) Business Development 6 3 (8.333 %) Use Case 7 1 (2.778 %) SC Cleared 7 1 (2.778 %) OOP 7 1 (2.778 %) Refactoring 7 1 (2.778 %) Change Management 7 1 (2.778 %) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages 1 20 (55.56 %) C++ 2 16 (44.44 %) C 3 11 (30.56 %) Java 4 4 (11.11 %) C# 5 2 (5.556 %) VB6 5 2 (5.556 %) JavaScript 5 2 (5.556 %) VB 6 1 (2.778 %) VC++ 6 1 (2.778 %) Python 6 1 (2.778 %) Embedded C 6 1 (2.778 %) Embedded C++ 6 1 (2.778 %) Perl 6 1 (2.778 %) SQL	Vendors 1 3 (8.333 %) Oracle 2 1 (2.778 %) Microsoft