The first table below looks at the demand for OpenUP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cardiff region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OpenUP over the 3 months to 17 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 Cardiff 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Unified Process
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenUP 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff - - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £463 £350 -
% change year-on-year
+32.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
Cardiff
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
104 147 135
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 63.41% 66.82% 58.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 91 78
Average daily rate £375 £351 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.83% +8.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £275 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £435 £500 £405
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 4
Average hourly rate £17.00 £14.50 £100.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+17.24% -85.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.69 £12.10 £20.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.80 £16.90 £104.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
OpenUP
South Wales

OpenUP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cardiff OpenUP Jobs Demand Trend

OpenUP
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff region citing OpenUP 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 OpenUP.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) OLTP
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008

OpenUP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff region citing OpenUP 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 OpenUP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) OLTP
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DBA
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server DBA
1 1 (100.00%) SQL DBA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft