The first table below looks at the demand for OpenUP skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OpenUP 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 England 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
Open Unified Process
Rank 510 560 555
Rank change year-on-year
+50 -5
Contract jobs citing OpenUP 4 10 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.009% 0.018% 0.016%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.013% 0.027% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 8
Average daily rate £463 £350 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+32.14% -26.31%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £373 £206 £274
10% offered a daily rate of more than £473 £525 £560
UK excluding London average daily rate £463 £350 -
% change year-on-year
+32.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £10.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
30120 37095 37693
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 71.35% 68.38% 68.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 18414 21766 21830
Average daily rate £425 £413 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.03% -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £588 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 930 1218 1380
Average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £28.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.00% -12.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.55 £13.30 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.00 £47.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
OpenUP
UK

OpenUP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England OpenUP Jobs Demand Trend

OpenUP
Daily Rate Trend

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

England OpenUP Daily Rate Trend

OpenUP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England OpenUP Hourly Rate Trend

OpenUP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenUP within the England 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
London +27 2 £351 +0.14%
West Midlands - 2 £469 -
OpenUP
UK

OpenUP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 3 (37.50%) Internet
1 3 (37.50%) .NET
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (25.00%) MS Office
2 2 (25.00%) HTML
2 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (25.00%) LAN
2 2 (25.00%) WLAN
2 2 (25.00%) WAN
2 2 (25.00%) VPN
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) IPv6
2 2 (25.00%) Extranet
2 2 (25.00%) GAP Analysis
2 2 (25.00%) Wireless
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) CMS
3 1 (12.50%) Objective-C
3 1 (12.50%) MCDST
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (12.50%) Incident Management
3 1 (12.50%) Business Development
3 1 (12.50%) Life Science
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (12.50%) iPad
3 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS

OpenUP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

Application Development
1 3 (37.50%) .NET
2 2 (25.00%) HTML
2 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (12.50%) CSS
3 1 (12.50%) DHTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) CMS
1 1 (12.50%) Lotus Notes
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) MS Office
2 1 (12.50%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Internet
2 2 (25.00%) LAN
2 2 (25.00%) WLAN
2 2 (25.00%) WAN
2 2 (25.00%) VPN
2 2 (25.00%) IPv6
2 2 (25.00%) Extranet
2 2 (25.00%) Wireless
3 1 (12.50%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2000
2 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
General
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Consultant
2 3 (37.50%) Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Business Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) iPad Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Web Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Life Science
1 1 (12.50%) iPad
1 1 (12.50%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
1 1 (12.50%) Windows XP
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) GAP Analysis
2 1 (12.50%) Incident Management
2 1 (12.50%) Business Development
2 1 (12.50%) Portfolio Management
2 1 (12.50%) Project Management
2 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
2 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (12.50%) E-Commerce
2 1 (12.50%) ITIL
2 1 (12.50%) OO
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Objective-C
2 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
2 1 (12.50%) VB.NET
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 1 (12.50%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) MCDST
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (12.50%) MCP
1 1 (12.50%) MCSE
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Primavera
2 1 (12.50%) HP
2 1 (12.50%) Lotus
2 1 (12.50%) SAP