The first table below looks at the demand for Use Case skills in IT contracts advertised for the Guildford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Use Case over the 3 months to 21 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 Guildford 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Use Cases
Rank 23 7 17
Rank change year-on-year
-16 +10
Contract jobs citing Use Case 9 12 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 4.091% 10.62% 0.806%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.921% 17.65% 1.449%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 1
Average daily rate £525 £344 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+52.72% -34.52%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £400 £413
% change year-on-year
-12.50% -3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.25 £31.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+2.38% +5.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
Guildford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
152 68 69
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 69.09% 60.18% 55.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 32 33
Average daily rate £425 £363 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.24% +11.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £283 £325 £163
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £425 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 4 1
Average hourly rate £37.50 £27.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+36.36% -15.38%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Use Case
Surrey

Use Case
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford Use Case Daily Rate Trend

Use Case
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Use Case across the Guildford region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Guildford Use Case Daily Rate Histogram

Use Case
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Guildford Use Case Hourly Rate Trend

Use Case
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 6 (60.00%) Finance
1 6 (60.00%) Web Development
2 5 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (40.00%) User Stories
4 3 (30.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (30.00%) UML
5 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
5 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
6 1 (10.00%) Requirements Engineering
6 1 (10.00%) Change Control
6 1 (10.00%) IBM InfoSphere
6 1 (10.00%) Degree
6 1 (10.00%) QA
6 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis
6 1 (10.00%) Systems Analysis
6 1 (10.00%) Business Analysis
6 1 (10.00%) MS PowerPoint
6 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
6 1 (10.00%) Requirements Management
6 1 (10.00%) Migration
6 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
6 1 (10.00%) BT
6 1 (10.00%) MS Excel
6 1 (10.00%) CRM
6 1 (10.00%) E-Commerce
6 1 (10.00%) Data Modelling
6 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (10.00%) IBM
6 1 (10.00%) Microsoft

Use Case
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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.

Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MS PowerPoint
1 1 (10.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (10.00%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) IBM InfoSphere
General
1 6 (60.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Business Analyst
1 10 (100.00%) Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Agile Business Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Lead Business Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Business Intelligence Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Web Development
2 5 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (40.00%) User Stories
4 3 (30.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (30.00%) UML
5 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (10.00%) Requirements Engineering
6 1 (10.00%) Change Control
6 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis
6 1 (10.00%) Systems Analysis
6 1 (10.00%) Business Analysis
6 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
6 1 (10.00%) Requirements Management
6 1 (10.00%) Migration
6 1 (10.00%) CRM
6 1 (10.00%) E-Commerce
6 1 (10.00%) Data Modelling
6 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (10.00%) Project Management
6 1 (10.00%) System Testing
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) BT
1 1 (10.00%) IBM
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft