The first table below looks at the demand for Use Case skills in IT contracts advertised for the East Sussex 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 East Sussex 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 30 40 17
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -23
Contract jobs citing Use Case 1 1 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in East Sussex 0.427% 0.313% 6.091%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.575% 0.455% 9.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 8
Average daily rate £350 £325 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -18.75%
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
East Sussex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
174 220 132
As % of all contract IT jobs located in East Sussex 74.36% 68.75% 67.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 116 80
Average daily rate £375 £400 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £225 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £510 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 12 3
Average hourly rate £20.75 £21.75 £45.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.59% -51.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Use Case
South East

Use Case
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Sussex 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 East Sussex region.

East Sussex Use Case Daily Rate Trend

Use Case
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Use Case within the East Sussex region over the 3 months to 24 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
Brighton - 1 £350 -
Use Case
South East

Use Case
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Sussex 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 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) NUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Billing
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) FitNesse
1 1 (100.00%) Fiddler
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) TeamCity
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) WebDriver
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Inversion of Control
1 1 (100.00%) StyleCop
1 1 (100.00%) MSTest
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) soapUI
1 1 (100.00%) SpecFlow

Use Case
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Sussex 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 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) soapUI
1 1 (100.00%) Gherkin
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) NUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) FitNesse
1 1 (100.00%) Fiddler
1 1 (100.00%) TeamCity
1 1 (100.00%) WebDriver
1 1 (100.00%) StyleCop
1 1 (100.00%) MSTest
1 1 (100.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Inversion of Control
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) ATDD
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL