The first table below looks at the demand for UML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Coventry region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited UML over the 3 months to 23 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 Coventry 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Unified Modeling Language (UML)
Rank 28 27 24
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -3
Contract jobs citing UML 2 3 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Coventry 1.000% 1.167% 1.648%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.299% 1.667% 2.256%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Average daily rate - £230 £301
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -23.46%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £375 £400
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £28.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year
- -1.40%
All Processes & Methodologies
Coventry
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
154 180 133
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Coventry 77.00% 70.04% 73.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 73 55
Average daily rate £375 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £167 £250 £281
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £450 £555
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 18 5
Average hourly rate £37.80 £30.00 £33.30
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+26.00% -9.90%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
UML
West Midlands

UML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Coventry UML Jobs Demand Trend

UML
Daily Rate Trend

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

Coventry UML Daily Rate Trend

UML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Coventry UML Hourly Rate Trend

UML
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Coventry 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 2 (66.67%) Automotive
2 1 (33.33%) Electronics
2 1 (33.33%) Aerospace
2 1 (33.33%) C++
2 1 (33.33%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) HND
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) OO
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) W3C
2 1 (33.33%) Publishing
2 1 (33.33%) Zachman Framework
2 1 (33.33%) SysML
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Project Planning
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Use Case
2 1 (33.33%) ERD
2 1 (33.33%) Semantic Web
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (33.33%) Software Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
2 1 (33.33%) Embedded Systems

UML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Coventry 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 1 (33.33%) XML
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Automotive
2 1 (33.33%) Electronics
2 1 (33.33%) Aerospace
2 1 (33.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Systems Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) W3C
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
1 1 (33.33%) Semantic Web
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (33.33%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) OO
1 1 (33.33%) Zachman Framework
1 1 (33.33%) SysML
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) Project Planning
1 1 (33.33%) Use Case
1 1 (33.33%) ERD
1 1 (33.33%) Software Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) HND