Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for UML 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 UML over the 3 months to 22 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the England region.

 Unified Modeling Language (UML)
Location
3 months to
22 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank665250
Rank change year-on-year
Down-14Down-2
Matching contract IT job ads11219812193
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England2.484 %2.668 %2.864 %
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category4.190 %5.006 %5.698 %
Daily rates quoted541294727
Average daily rate£400£375£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.660 %-6.250 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£271£275£290
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£550£500£550
UK excluding London average daily rate£363£350£375
% change year-on-year
+3.570 %-6.660 %
Hourly rates quoted8395177
Average hourly rate£35.00£35.00£37.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
--6.040 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£25.00£31.85£28.78
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£41.40£43.00£42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£35.00£35.00£37.00
% change year-on-year
--5.400 %
England IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryAll Processes & Methodologies
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
267541959638484
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England59.28 %53.29 %50.26 %
Daily rates quoted13201712913500
Average daily rate£413£400£410
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.120 %-2.430 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£250£235£265
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£594£550£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£350£357£375
% change year-on-year
-1.960 %-4.800 %
Hourly rates quoted111011642314
Average hourly rate£25.13£27.50£29.82
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.630 %-7.780 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£12.50£13.00£13.59
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£42.50£42.50£43.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£24.50£27.73£30.00
% change year-on-year
-11.63 %-7.580 %
UML UKUML
UK

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.

UML
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing UML across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

England UML Demand Trend

UML
Daily Rate Trend

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

England UML Daily Rate Trend

UML
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing UML across the England region over the 3 months to 22 March 2010.

England UML Daily Rate Histogram

UML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England UML Hourly Rate Trend

UML
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing UML across the England region over the 3 months to 22 March 2010.

England UML Hourly Rate Histogram

UML
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UML within the England region over the 3 months to 22 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
LondonDown-11640£425-
South EastNo change0186£340-6.20 %
South WestDown-1190£333+2.30 %
East of EnglandUp+3669£389-2.81 %
YorkshireDown-2036£411+23.45 %
West MidlandsUp+231£406+16.07 %
North WestDown-2128£325-7.14 %
East MidlandsDown-520£425+78.94 %
MidlandsUp+710£400-
North EastUp+85--
South CoastUp+31--
UML UKUML
UK

UML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

1490 (23.17 %)Java
2439 (20.76 %)XML
3398 (18.82 %)SQL
4391 (18.49 %)OO
5377 (17.83 %)Oracle
6376 (17.78 %)Finance
7372 (17.59 %)Banking
8345 (16.31 %).NET
9324 (15.32 %)C#
10312 (14.75 %)Business Analysis
11290 (13.71 %)SQL Server
12273 (12.91 %)RUP
13260 (12.29 %)Use Case
14250 (11.82 %)J2EE
15243 (11.49 %)Investment Banking
16235 (11.11 %)Security Cleared
17232 (10.97 %)SOA
18225 (10.64 %)Data Modelling
19204 (9.645 %)Agile Software Development
20202 (9.551 %)C++
21201 (9.504 %)Web Services
22191 (9.031 %)UNIX
23166 (7.849 %)Linux
24165 (7.801 %)ASP.NET
25159 (7.518 %)Microsoft
26158 (7.470 %)Windows
27157 (7.423 %)Government
28155 (7.329 %)PRINCE2
29150 (7.092 %)HTML
30146 (6.903 %)C

UML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

England IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1439 (20.76 %)XML
2345 (16.31 %).NET
3250 (11.82 %)J2EE
4201 (9.504 %)Web Services
5165 (7.801 %)ASP.NET
6150 (7.092 %)HTML
7138 (6.525 %)Spring
887 (4.113 %)Hibernate
986 (4.066 %)JSP
1083 (3.924 %)WebSphere
1182 (3.877 %)AJAX
1279 (3.735 %)CSS
1375 (3.546 %)Middleware
1471 (3.357 %).NET Framework
1569 (3.262 %)JMS
1668 (3.215 %)WinForms
1767 (3.168 %)XSLT
1857 (2.695 %)WCF
1951 (2.411 %)NHibernate
2050 (2.364 %)EJB
England IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
187 (4.113 %)WebLogic
270 (3.310 %)SharePoint
330 (1.418 %)Tomcat
428 (1.324 %)ESB
524 (1.135 %)CMS
524 (1.135 %)WebSphere MQ
623 (1.087 %)BizTalk Server
722 (1.040 %)Apache
820 (0.946 %)AquaLogic
918 (0.851 %)MQSeries
1016 (0.757 %)WebSphere Message Broker
1115 (0.709 %)WebSphere Application Server
1212 (0.567 %)SAS
1310 (0.473 %)IIS
1310 (0.473 %)Oracle Service Bus
1310 (0.473 %)Drupal
149 (0.426 %)SharePoint Server 2007
149 (0.426 %)TIBCO EMS
158 (0.378 %)Oracle 10gAS
158 (0.378 %)ActiveMQ
England IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1125 (5.910 %)MS Visio
279 (3.735 %)MS Excel
340 (1.891 %)MS Office
423 (1.087 %)MATLAB
522 (1.040 %)CA Clarity
619 (0.898 %)Simulink
717 (0.804 %)MS Project
813 (0.615 %)MS PowerPoint
95 (0.236 %)InfoPath
104 (0.189 %)Fireworks
104 (0.189 %)Photoshop
111 (0.047 %)Spreadsheet
England IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
110 (0.473 %)SAP R/3
27 (0.331 %)Dynamics CRM
27 (0.331 %)Murex MxG2000
35 (0.236 %)ION MarketView
44 (0.189 %)Microsoft CRM
44 (0.189 %)ZaiNet
44 (0.189 %)Oracle BPM
53 (0.142 %)Dynamics AX
53 (0.142 %)Summit
62 (0.095 %)Sophis RISQUE
62 (0.095 %)BusinessWorks
62 (0.095 %)Oracle Financials
62 (0.095 %)Kondor+
62 (0.095 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
71 (0.047 %)InvestOne
71 (0.047 %)Oracle EBS R12
71 (0.047 %)Dynamics GP
71 (0.047 %)Dynamics NAV
71 (0.047 %)SAP HR
71 (0.047 %)SAP CRM
England IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
155 (2.600 %)Internet
248 (2.270 %)TCP/IP
326 (1.229 %)LAN
326 (1.229 %)HTTP
423 (1.087 %)WAN
423 (1.087 %)Firewall
521 (0.993 %)Network Security
615 (0.709 %)Intranet
615 (0.709 %)LDAP
79 (0.426 %)Ethernet
79 (0.426 %)Wireless
88 (0.378 %)GPRS
95 (0.236 %)X.500
104 (0.189 %)3G
104 (0.189 %)SAN
104 (0.189 %)SSL
104 (0.189 %)Broadband
104 (0.189 %)BSS
113 (0.142 %)Intrusion Detection
113 (0.142 %)VLAN
England IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1290 (13.71 %)SQL Server
287 (4.113 %)SQL Server 2005
372 (3.404 %)SQL Server 2000
459 (2.790 %)Datawarehouse
549 (2.317 %)SQL Server 2008
645 (2.128 %)Oracle 10g
741 (1.939 %)DB2
840 (1.891 %)MySQL
933 (1.560 %)RDBMS
1030 (1.418 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1129 (1.371 %)BusinessObjects
1228 (1.324 %)GIS
1324 (1.135 %)ETL
1419 (0.898 %)Reference Data
1516 (0.757 %)Oracle 8/8i
1615 (0.709 %)Oracle 11g
1714 (0.662 %)Oracle Reports
1813 (0.615 %)Crystal Reports
1910 (0.473 %)SQL Server Integration Services
207 (0.331 %)Ingres
England IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1125 (5.910 %)ClearCase
293 (4.397 %)Rational Rose
387 (4.113 %)Visual Studio
387 (4.113 %)NUnit
480 (3.783 %)Subversion
569 (3.262 %)JUnit
650 (2.364 %)RequisitePro
740 (1.891 %)NCover
839 (1.844 %)VSS/SourceSafe
938 (1.797 %)MbUnit
1037 (1.749 %)Ant
1136 (1.702 %)csUnit
1136 (1.702 %)ClearQuest
1136 (1.702 %)Eclipse
1235 (1.655 %)ReSharper
1334 (1.608 %)Selenium
1433 (1.560 %)TeamCity
1532 (1.513 %)FitNesse
1630 (1.418 %)Maven
1726 (1.229 %)Team Foundation Server
England IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1376 (17.78 %)Finance
2372 (17.59 %)Banking
3243 (11.49 %)Investment Banking
4157 (7.423 %)Government
5120 (5.674 %)Retail
691 (4.303 %)Front Office
773 (3.452 %)Telecoms
865 (3.073 %)Insurance
964 (3.026 %)Back Office
1045 (2.128 %)Health
1140 (1.891 %)Retail Banking
1234 (1.608 %)Games
1328 (1.324 %)Marketing
1427 (1.277 %)Military
1524 (1.135 %)Pensions
1621 (0.993 %)Financial Institution
1719 (0.898 %)Education
1813 (0.615 %)Legal
1912 (0.567 %)Electric
1912 (0.567 %)Billing
England IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1880 (41.61 %)Analyst
2721 (34.09 %)Business Analyst
3622 (29.41 %)Developer
4241 (11.39 %)Architect
5188 (8.889 %)Java Developer
6141 (6.667 %)Systems Analyst
7131 (6.194 %)Senior Developer
8111 (5.248 %).NET Developer
9106 (5.012 %)Software Engineer
1095 (4.492 %)C# Developer
1184 (3.972 %)Designer
1278 (3.688 %)Solutions Architect
1377 (3.641 %)Senior Analyst
1470 (3.310 %)Banking Business Analyst
1563 (2.979 %)Business Systems Analyst
1661 (2.884 %)Senior Business Analyst
1751 (2.411 %)UML Business Analyst
1850 (2.364 %)C++ Developer
1947 (2.222 %)Investment Banking Business Analyst
2045 (2.128 %)J2EE Developer
England IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
197 (4.586 %)Derivative
272 (3.404 %)Fixed Income
361 (2.884 %)Equities
446 (2.175 %)Market Risk
446 (2.175 %)Open Source
446 (2.175 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
542 (1.986 %)N-Tier
641 (1.939 %)Multithreading
737 (1.749 %)NHS
832 (1.513 %)Credit Risk
926 (1.229 %)PMI
926 (1.229 %)Credit Derivative
1020 (0.946 %)Computer Science
1117 (0.804 %)Interest Rate Derivative
1216 (0.757 %)Mathematics
1315 (0.709 %)Equity Derivative
1315 (0.709 %)Management Information System
1414 (0.662 %)Mainframe
1512 (0.567 %)Thin Client
1512 (0.567 %)Visualisation
England IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1191 (9.031 %)UNIX
2166 (7.849 %)Linux
3158 (7.470 %)Windows
464 (3.026 %)Solaris
519 (0.898 %)Windows Server 2003
612 (0.567 %)Red Hat Linux
711 (0.520 %)AIX
88 (0.378 %)Windows XP
96 (0.284 %)VxWorks
96 (0.284 %)MVS
96 (0.284 %)Windows 2000
96 (0.284 %)Windows Server 2008
105 (0.236 %)Windows NT
113 (0.142 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
122 (0.095 %)SUSE
122 (0.095 %)Debian
122 (0.095 %)HPUX
122 (0.095 %)Ubuntu
122 (0.095 %)Windows Vista
131 (0.047 %)Android
England IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1391 (18.49 %)OO
2312 (14.75 %)Business Analysis
3273 (12.91 %)RUP
4260 (12.29 %)Use Case
5232 (10.97 %)SOA
6225 (10.64 %)Data Modelling
7204 (9.645 %)Agile Software Development
8155 (7.329 %)PRINCE2
9137 (6.478 %)OOD
10133 (6.288 %)Systems Analysis
11127 (6.005 %)Project Management
12121 (5.721 %)Stakeholder Management
13110 (5.201 %)OOA/OOD
1490 (4.255 %)E-Commerce
1589 (4.208 %)Unit Testing
1688 (4.161 %)SSADM
1787 (4.113 %)TDD
1885 (4.019 %)Requirements Analysis
1885 (4.019 %)User Acceptance Testing
1977 (3.641 %)Scrum
England IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1490 (23.17 %)Java
2398 (18.82 %)SQL
3324 (15.32 %)C#
4202 (9.551 %)C++
5146 (6.903 %)C
6127 (6.005 %)JavaScript
781 (3.830 %)PL/SQL
864 (3.026 %)Python
960 (2.837 %)Perl
1045 (2.128 %)VB
1139 (1.844 %)T-SQL
1238 (1.797 %)VB.NET
1323 (1.087 %)PHP
1323 (1.087 %)AWK
1422 (1.040 %)ActionScript
1519 (0.898 %)XPath
1618 (0.851 %)Ada
1716 (0.757 %)VBA
1815 (0.709 %)ActionScript 2.0
1914 (0.662 %)Embedded C
England IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1235 (11.11 %)Security Cleared
2146 (6.903 %)SC Cleared
384 (3.972 %)Degree
448 (2.270 %)ISEB
528 (1.324 %)PMI Certification
624 (1.135 %)Microsoft Certification
723 (1.087 %)DV Cleared
89 (0.426 %)CBAP
98 (0.378 %)MCAD
98 (0.378 %)MCSD
98 (0.378 %)BC Cleared
107 (0.331 %)PRINCE2 Certification
107 (0.331 %)Sun Certification
113 (0.142 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
113 (0.142 %)CTC Cleared
113 (0.142 %)SCJP
113 (0.142 %)MCTS
113 (0.142 %)MCP
122 (0.095 %)PMP
122 (0.095 %)CCIE
England IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1110 (5.201 %)QA
210 (0.473 %)ISO9001
37 (0.331 %)SLA
44 (0.189 %)Basel II
44 (0.189 %)ISO12207
44 (0.189 %)MiFID
53 (0.142 %)TickIT
62 (0.095 %)ISO27001
62 (0.095 %)PAS 78
62 (0.095 %)WAI
62 (0.095 %)JTAG
71 (0.047 %)PCI DSS
71 (0.047 %)COBIT
71 (0.047 %)ISO9000
71 (0.047 %)ISO15504
England IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
110 (0.473 %)MSMQ
29 (0.426 %)Active Directory
35 (0.236 %)Oracle RAC
44 (0.189 %)VMware Infrastructure
53 (0.142 %)VMware ESX
61 (0.047 %)Postfix
61 (0.047 %)OpenLDAP
61 (0.047 %)Squid
61 (0.047 %)ISA Server
England IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
110 (0.473 %)HP Quality Center
25 (0.236 %)CONTROL-M
33 (0.142 %)MIIS
42 (0.095 %)Netcool
42 (0.095 %)Data Guard
51 (0.047 %)Netcool/Proviso
51 (0.047 %)Tivoli
England IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1377 (17.83 %)Oracle
2159 (7.518 %)Microsoft
359 (2.790 %)SAP
455 (2.600 %)Sybase
548 (2.270 %)BEA
548 (2.270 %)IBM
636 (1.702 %)Siebel
730 (1.418 %)Sun
829 (1.371 %)Business Objects
925 (1.182 %)JBoss
925 (1.182 %)Cognos
925 (1.182 %)Serena
1021 (0.993 %)Typemock
1115 (0.709 %)ATG
1214 (0.662 %)DevExpress
1313 (0.615 %)Bloomberg
1411 (0.520 %)Red Hat
1411 (0.520 %)TIBCO
1411 (0.520 %)webMethods
1510 (0.473 %)Perforce