The first table below looks at the demand for RUP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited RUP over the 3 months to 22 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 Cheshire 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Rational Unified Process (RUP)
Rank 58 63 -
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -
Contract jobs citing RUP 5 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.680% 0.247% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.909% 0.402% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £338 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £400 £350
% change year-on-year
-18.75% +14.28%
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
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
550 498 663
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 74.83% 61.48% 69.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 254 367
Average daily rate £375 £351 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.99% +7.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £270 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £465 £500 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 12 26
Average hourly rate £40.00 £22.41 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+78.49% +12.05%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.95 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.83 £31.10 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
RUP
North West

RUP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire RUP Daily 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 Cheshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 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
Warrington - 2 £338 -
RUP
North West

RUP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 5 (62.50%) DB2
1 5 (62.50%) WebLogic
1 5 (62.50%) EJB
1 5 (62.50%) JSP
1 5 (62.50%) Servlets
1 5 (62.50%) Struts
1 5 (62.50%) Web Services
1 5 (62.50%) XML
1 5 (62.50%) XSD
1 5 (62.50%) PRINCE2
1 5 (62.50%) JBoss
1 5 (62.50%) ClearCase
1 5 (62.50%) JMS
1 5 (62.50%) Chordiant
1 5 (62.50%) WSDL
1 5 (62.50%) PMI
1 5 (62.50%) PMI Certification
1 5 (62.50%) PRINCE
1 5 (62.50%) Project Management
1 5 (62.50%) Java
1 5 (62.50%) JavaScript
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
1 5 (62.50%) CMMI
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
1 5 (62.50%) Hibernate
1 5 (62.50%) Agile Software Development
1 5 (62.50%) Banking
1 5 (62.50%) Subversion
1 5 (62.50%) WebSphere
1 5 (62.50%) jQuery

RUP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 5 (62.50%) EJB
1 5 (62.50%) JSP
1 5 (62.50%) Servlets
1 5 (62.50%) Struts
1 5 (62.50%) Web Services
1 5 (62.50%) XML
1 5 (62.50%) XSD
1 5 (62.50%) JMS
1 5 (62.50%) WSDL
1 5 (62.50%) Hibernate
1 5 (62.50%) WebSphere
1 5 (62.50%) jQuery
1 5 (62.50%) J2EE
1 5 (62.50%) Ajax
1 5 (62.50%) Struts2
2 3 (37.50%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 5 (62.50%) WebLogic
2 3 (37.50%) SharePoint 2010
2 3 (37.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (37.50%) InfoPath
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) DB2
2 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 3 (37.50%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) ClearCase
1 5 (62.50%) Subversion
2 3 (37.50%) Gradle
2 3 (37.50%) Git (software)
2 3 (37.50%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
1 5 (62.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
1 5 (62.50%) Senior Developer
1 5 (62.50%) Java Developer
1 5 (62.50%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) PRINCE2
1 5 (62.50%) PRINCE
1 5 (62.50%) Project Management
1 5 (62.50%) CMMI
1 5 (62.50%) Agile Software Development
1 5 (62.50%) Waterfall
1 5 (62.50%) BDD
2 3 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (37.50%) Workflow
3 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Business Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Java
1 5 (62.50%) JavaScript
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 3 (37.50%) Groovy
2 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 3 (37.50%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) PMI Certification
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) JBoss
1 5 (62.50%) Chordiant
1 5 (62.50%) Oracle