The first table below looks at the demand for Use Case skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Use Case 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 City of London 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
Use Cases
Rank 120 123 172
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +49
Contract jobs citing Use Case 84 95 73
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 1.317% 1.208% 0.745%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.791% 1.684% 1.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 81 51
Average daily rate £425 £488 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.82% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £315 £375 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £560 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £400 £400
% change year-on-year
-7.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.00 £31.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+4.76% +5.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
4690 5642 7035
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 73.52% 71.74% 71.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 3529 4083 5194
Average daily rate £450 £463 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.70% -7.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 98 100
Average hourly rate £41.50 £24.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+72.91% -4.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.20 £15.00 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £47.50 £50.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Use Case
London

Use Case
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Use Case Jobs Demand Trend

Use Case
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Use Case across the City of London region.

City of London Use Case Daily Rate Trend

Use Case
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Use Case across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London Use Case Daily Rate Histogram

Use Case
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Use Case across the City of London region.

City of London Use Case Hourly Rate Trend

Use Case
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Use Case 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 Use Case.

1 82 (52.56%) Business Analysis
2 72 (46.15%) UML
3 66 (42.31%) Banking
4 62 (39.74%) Finance
5 57 (36.54%) SQL
6 44 (28.21%) User Stories
7 37 (23.72%) Investment Banking
8 30 (19.23%) Agile Software Development
8 30 (19.23%) XML
8 30 (19.23%) Front Office
9 28 (17.95%) Management Information System
9 28 (17.95%) Data Modelling
10 27 (17.31%) Degree
11 25 (16.03%) Scrum
12 23 (14.74%) Data Warehouse
13 20 (12.82%) User Acceptance Testing
14 18 (11.54%) Waterfall
15 17 (10.90%) Workflow
16 16 (10.26%) Stakeholder Management
17 15 (9.615%) Test Scripting
17 15 (9.615%) HP Quality Center
17 15 (9.615%) Derivative
18 13 (8.333%) Back Office
18 13 (8.333%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 13 (8.333%) ITIL
19 12 (7.692%) .NET
20 11 (7.051%) Windows
20 11 (7.051%) MS Visio
20 11 (7.051%) ISEB
20 11 (7.051%) Project Management

Use Case
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Use Case 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 Use Case. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 30 (19.23%) XML
2 12 (7.692%) .NET
3 7 (4.487%) ASP.NET
4 4 (2.564%) .NET Framework
4 4 (2.564%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 3 (1.923%) HTML
5 3 (1.923%) WinForms
6 2 (1.282%) Ajax
6 2 (1.282%) WebSphere
6 2 (1.282%) WPF
6 2 (1.282%) CSS
6 2 (1.282%) Web Services
6 2 (1.282%) XSLT
6 2 (1.282%) Middleware
7 1 (0.641%) HTML5
7 1 (0.641%) ASP.NET MVC 2
7 1 (0.641%) XML Schema
7 1 (0.641%) Flash
7 1 (0.641%) XSL
7 1 (0.641%) ADO.NET
Application Platforms
1 3 (1.923%) Documentum
2 2 (1.282%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.282%) CMS
3 1 (0.641%) MS Exchange
3 1 (0.641%) MSMQ
3 1 (0.641%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.641%) ESB
3 1 (0.641%) ExpressionEngine
Applications
1 11 (7.051%) MS Visio
2 9 (5.769%) MS Excel
3 2 (1.282%) MS Office
4 1 (0.641%) OmniGraffle
4 1 (0.641%) MS Project
4 1 (0.641%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.641%) Summit
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.923%) CTI
2 2 (1.282%) HTTP
2 2 (1.282%) Intranet
2 2 (1.282%) Internet
3 1 (0.641%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (14.74%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (5.769%) Oracle BI EE
3 4 (2.564%) TOAD
4 3 (1.923%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.923%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (1.923%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (0.641%) SQL Server 2000
5 1 (0.641%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.641%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (4.487%) JIRA
2 5 (3.205%) ClearCase
3 2 (1.282%) Rational Rose
3 2 (1.282%) Rhino Mocks
3 2 (1.282%) Balsamiq Mockups
4 1 (0.641%) Axure RP
4 1 (0.641%) MSBuild
4 1 (0.641%) ERwin
4 1 (0.641%) TestDirector
4 1 (0.641%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.641%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.641%) Git (software)
4 1 (0.641%) NUnit
General
1 66 (42.31%) Banking
2 62 (39.74%) Finance
3 37 (23.72%) Investment Banking
4 30 (19.23%) Front Office
5 13 (8.333%) Back Office
6 10 (6.410%) Retail
7 8 (5.128%) Legal
8 7 (4.487%) Telecoms
8 7 (4.487%) Financial Institution
9 6 (3.846%) Advertising
10 4 (2.564%) Marketing
10 4 (2.564%) Law
11 3 (1.923%) Retail Banking
12 2 (1.282%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.641%) Publishing
13 1 (0.641%) Music
13 1 (0.641%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 129 (82.69%) Analyst
2 99 (63.46%) Business Analyst
3 25 (16.03%) Data Analyst
4 23 (14.74%) Data Modeller
5 14 (8.974%) Banking Business Analyst
6 13 (8.333%) Agile Business Analyst
7 9 (5.769%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
8 8 (5.128%) Senior Analyst
8 8 (5.128%) Developer
8 8 (5.128%) Business Systems Analyst
8 8 (5.128%) Systems Analyst
8 8 (5.128%) Payments Business Analyst
9 7 (4.487%) Senior Business Analyst
9 7 (4.487%) Credit Risk Analyst
9 7 (4.487%) Technical Business Analyst
9 7 (4.487%) Credit Risk Business Analyst
9 7 (4.487%) Technical Analyst
10 5 (3.205%) Market Risk Analyst
10 5 (3.205%) Market Risk Business Analyst
10 5 (3.205%) Risk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 28 (17.95%) Management Information System
2 15 (9.615%) Derivative
3 13 (8.333%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 11 (7.051%) Reference Data
5 8 (5.128%) Credit Risk
5 8 (5.128%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.282%) Equities
6 2 (1.282%) IVR
6 2 (1.282%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.282%) Visualisation
6 2 (1.282%) Computer Science
6 2 (1.282%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.641%) Open Source
7 1 (0.641%) Mobile Banking
7 1 (0.641%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.641%) W3C
7 1 (0.641%) Streaming Video
7 1 (0.641%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.641%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.641%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.051%) Windows
2 3 (1.923%) Windows 7
3 2 (1.282%) Windows XP
4 1 (0.641%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (0.641%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (52.56%) Business Analysis
2 72 (46.15%) UML
3 44 (28.21%) User Stories
4 30 (19.23%) Agile Software Development
5 28 (17.95%) Data Modelling
6 25 (16.03%) Scrum
7 20 (12.82%) User Acceptance Testing
8 18 (11.54%) Waterfall
9 17 (10.90%) Workflow
10 16 (10.26%) Stakeholder Management
11 15 (9.615%) Test Scripting
12 13 (8.333%) ITIL
13 11 (7.051%) Project Management
13 11 (7.051%) GAP Analysis
13 11 (7.051%) Systems Analysis
14 10 (6.410%) E-Commerce
14 10 (6.410%) RUP
15 9 (5.769%) Migration
16 7 (4.487%) Analytics
16 7 (4.487%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 57 (36.54%) SQL
2 9 (5.769%) C#
3 5 (3.205%) Java
4 3 (1.923%) C++
4 3 (1.923%) VB
4 3 (1.923%) VB6
5 2 (1.282%) C
5 2 (1.282%) VBA
5 2 (1.282%) VB.NET
5 2 (1.282%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.641%) ActionScript 3.0
6 1 (0.641%) ActionScript 2.0
6 1 (0.641%) PowerHouse
6 1 (0.641%) XAML
6 1 (0.641%) Python
6 1 (0.641%) PHP
6 1 (0.641%) ActionScript
6 1 (0.641%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.641%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 27 (17.31%) Degree
2 11 (7.051%) ISEB
3 3 (1.923%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.641%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.641%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.282%) QA
1 2 (1.282%) MiFID
2 1 (0.641%) FATCA
2 1 (0.641%) Basel II
2 1 (0.641%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (1.923%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.641%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (9.615%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (1.282%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (5.769%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.128%) HP
3 5 (3.205%) Siebel
4 4 (2.564%) Calypso
4 4 (2.564%) Bloomberg
5 3 (1.923%) Hyperion
5 3 (1.923%) Open Text
5 3 (1.923%) Pega
6 2 (1.282%) Business Objects
7 1 (0.641%) iRise
7 1 (0.641%) Twitter
7 1 (0.641%) Borland
7 1 (0.641%) VMware
7 1 (0.641%) IBM
7 1 (0.641%) Adobe
7 1 (0.641%) Citrix
7 1 (0.641%) Oracle
7 1 (0.641%) thinkFolio
7 1 (0.641%) Google
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