The first table below looks at the demand for V-Model skills in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited V-Model over the 3 months to 20 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 Gloucestershire 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
V-Model
Rank - 45 37
Contract jobs citing V-Model 0 24 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire - 3.514% 3.052%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 4.669% 4.981%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 12
Average daily rate - - £225
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £290 £318
% change year-on-year
+20.68% -8.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £42.50 - £35.75
All Processes & Methodologies
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
178 514 261
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 65.68% 75.26% 61.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 307 104
Average daily rate £380 £425 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.58% +17.24%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 24 36
Average hourly rate £29.00 £25.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.00% -23.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.90 £25.00 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £37.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
V-Model
South West

V-Model
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire V-Model Jobs Demand Trend

V-Model
Daily Rate Trend

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

Gloucestershire V-Model Daily Rate Trend

V-Model
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Gloucestershire V-Model Hourly Rate Trend

V-Model
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire region citing V-Model 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 V-Model.

1 2 (66.67%) C
1 2 (66.67%) UML
1 2 (66.67%) SOA
1 2 (66.67%) DoDAF
1 2 (66.67%) MODAF
1 2 (66.67%) Use Case
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
1 2 (66.67%) Legal
1 2 (66.67%) Games
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
1 2 (66.67%) Time Management
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (66.67%) TOGAF
2 1 (33.33%) Automated Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Manual Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
2 1 (33.33%) XML

V-Model
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire region citing V-Model 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 V-Model. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (33.33%) XML
1 1 (33.33%) XSD
1 1 (33.33%) XSLT
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
1 1 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (66.67%) Legal
1 2 (66.67%) Games
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) DoDAF
1 2 (66.67%) MODAF
1 2 (66.67%) Use Case
1 2 (66.67%) UML
1 2 (66.67%) SOA
1 2 (66.67%) TOGAF
1 2 (66.67%) Time Management
2 1 (33.33%) Automated Testing
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft