Hampshire UML Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Unified Modeling Language (UML) skills within the Hampshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited UML over the 3 months to 7 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Unified Modeling Language (UML)
Location Abingdon Atherstone Basildon Basingstoke Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Coventry Crawley Crewe Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dover East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Romsey Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Whyteleafe Wigan Wiltshire Windsor Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	29	87
Rank change on same period last year	+58
Matching contract IT job ads	96	39
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.126 %	0.041 %
As % of the category below	7.459 %	2.445 %
Daily rates quoted	11	11
Average minimum daily rate	£313	£384
Average daily rate	£332	£415
% change on same period last year	-20.03 %
Average maximum daily rate	£351	£446
UK excluding London average daily rate	£388	£360
% change on same period last year	+7.63 %
Hourly rates quoted	42	17
Average minimum hourly rate	£36.69	£33.22
Average hourly rate	£38.48	£34.31
% change on same period last year	+12.16 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.27	£35.39
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£38.15	£34.73
% change on same period last year	+9.83 %
Processes & Methodologies Hampshire
Matching contract IT job ads	1287	1595
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.694 %	1.690 %
Daily rates quoted	342	498
Average minimum daily rate	£361	£357
Average daily rate	£385	£379
% change on same period last year	+1.71 %
Average maximum daily rate	£410	£401
UK excluding London average daily rate	£384	£374
% change on same period last year	+2.61 %
Hourly rates quoted	216	314
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.72	£30.60
Average hourly rate	£33.78	£32.32
% change on same period last year	+4.51 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.84	£34.04
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.47	£30.33
% change on same period last year	-2.84 %
UML South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily 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 Hampshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

UML
Daily Rate Trend

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

UML
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing UML across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 7 July 2008.

UML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

UML
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing UML across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 7 July 2008.

UML
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing UML within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 7 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Portsmouth	-3	20	£340	+9.67 %
Gosport	-7	10	-	-
Havant	-	8	-	-
Basingstoke	-	6	-	-
Waterlooville	-	3	-	-
Romsey	-	1	-	-
Farnborough	-	1	£450	-

UML South East

UML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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.

1 85 (42.29 %) OO 2 67 (33.33 %) C++ 3 64 (31.84 %) Security Cleared 4 63 (31.34 %) Java 5 61 (30.35 %) .NET 6 54 (26.87 %) C# 7 52 (25.87 %) XML 8 39 (19.40 %) OOD 9 32 (15.92 %) CORBA 9 32 (15.92 %) ASP.NET 10 30 (14.93 %) WebServices 10 30 (14.93 %) SQL 11 29 (14.43 %) Military 12 26 (12.94 %) SQL Server 12 26 (12.94 %) Government

13 25 (12.44 %) C 14 24 (11.94 %) WSDL 14 24 (11.94 %) SC Cleared 15 23 (11.44 %) Windows 16 21 (10.45 %) J2EE 17 20 (9.950 %) Unit Testing 18 19 (9.453 %) Visual Studio 18 19 (9.453 %) Ada 19 18 (8.955 %) VB 19 18 (8.955 %) IBM 20 17 (8.458 %) ARTiSAN 20 17 (8.458 %) VB.NET 20 17 (8.458 %) SQL Server 2005 21 16 (7.960 %) SOA 22 15 (7.463 %) XML Schema

UML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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.

Application Development 1 61 (30.35 %) .NET 2 52 (25.87 %) XML 3 32 (15.92 %) CORBA 3 32 (15.92 %) ASP.NET 4 30 (14.93 %) WebServices 5 24 (11.94 %) WSDL 6 21 (10.45 %) J2EE 7 15 (7.463 %) XML Schema 8 13 (6.468 %) WebSphere 9 12 (5.970 %) J2SE 10 10 (4.975 %) Struts 10 10 (4.975 %) EJB 11 9 (4.478 %) Middleware 12 4 (1.990 %) XSLT 12 4 (1.990 %) OpenGL 12 4 (1.990 %) AJAX 13 2 (0.995 %) Spring 13 2 (0.995 %) .NET Remoting 13 2 (0.995 %) .NET Framework 13 2 (0.995 %) Motif	Application Platforms 1 9 (4.478 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 4 (1.990 %) WebLogic 3 3 (1.493 %) JBoss 4 1 (0.498 %) Tomcat 4 1 (0.498 %) SharePoint 4 1 (0.498 %) SAS 4 1 (0.498 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 6 (2.985 %) MS Office 2 4 (1.990 %) MS Project 3 1 (0.498 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 13 (6.468 %) DVB 2 4 (1.990 %) Internet 3 2 (0.995 %) LDAP 4 1 (0.498 %) ATM 4 1 (0.498 %) VoIP 4 1 (0.498 %) SNMP 4 1 (0.498 %) TCP/IP 4 1 (0.498 %) Wi-Fi 4 1 (0.498 %) WiMAX
Database & Business Intelligence 1 26 (12.94 %) SQL Server 2 17 (8.458 %) SQL Server 2005 3 10 (4.975 %) Crystal Reports 4 5 (2.488 %) SQL Server 7 5 4 (1.990 %) Oracle 10g 6 3 (1.493 %) MySQL 6 3 (1.493 %) RDBMS 7 1 (0.498 %) Oracle 9i	Development Applications 1 19 (9.453 %) Visual Studio 2 17 (8.458 %) ARTiSAN 3 13 (6.468 %) Rational Rose 4 12 (5.970 %) ClearCase 5 6 (2.985 %) JUnit 6 4 (1.990 %) Eclipse 7 3 (1.493 %) JDeveloper 8 2 (0.995 %) CruiseControl 8 2 (0.995 %) JBuilder 8 2 (0.995 %) VSS/SourceSafe 8 2 (0.995 %) ClearQuest 8 2 (0.995 %) Rational Robot 9 1 (0.498 %) InstallShield 9 1 (0.498 %) LabVIEW 9 1 (0.498 %) NUnit
General 1 29 (14.43 %) Military 2 26 (12.94 %) Government 3 13 (6.468 %) Finance 4 12 (5.970 %) Telecoms 5 9 (4.478 %) Aerospace 6 6 (2.985 %) Insurance 7 5 (2.488 %) Pensions 8 4 (1.990 %) Education 9 3 (1.493 %) Marketing 10 2 (0.995 %) Retail 10 2 (0.995 %) Health 11 1 (0.498 %) Banking 11 1 (0.498 %) Construction 11 1 (0.498 %) Multimedia 11 1 (0.498 %) Auditing	Job Titles 1 62 (30.85 %) Developer 2 50 (24.88 %) Software Engineer 3 27 (13.43 %) Architect 4 24 (11.94 %) .NET Developer 5 21 (10.45 %) C# Developer 6 16 (7.960 %) Software Architect 7 15 (7.463 %) Software Developer 8 14 (6.965 %) Analyst 9 11 (5.473 %) Business Analyst 10 8 (3.980 %) Programmer 10 8 (3.980 %) Principal Software Engineer 10 8 (3.980 %) SQL Developer 11 7 (3.483 %) Interface Designer 11 7 (3.483 %) Solutions Architect 12 6 (2.985 %) Java Developer 12 6 (2.985 %) Java Software Engineer 12 6 (2.985 %) Systems Developer 12 6 (2.985 %) UI Designer 13 5 (2.488 %) Senior Software Architect 13 5 (2.488 %) Software Integration Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 7 (3.483 %) iDTV 1 7 (3.483 %) STB 2 6 (2.985 %) Computer Science 3 5 (2.488 %) MPEG 4 3 (1.493 %) Client/Server 5 2 (0.995 %) N-Tier 5 2 (0.995 %) DTV 6 1 (0.498 %) Asset Management 6 1 (0.498 %) EPoS 6 1 (0.498 %) Statistics 6 1 (0.498 %) Mathematics 6 1 (0.498 %) Physics	Operating Systems 1 23 (11.44 %) Windows 2 7 (3.483 %) Linux 3 5 (2.488 %) Unix 4 4 (1.990 %) Windows XP 5 1 (0.498 %) Windows 2000 5 1 (0.498 %) AIX 5 1 (0.498 %) HPUX 5 1 (0.498 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 85 (42.29 %) OO 2 64 (31.84 %) Security Cleared 3 39 (19.40 %) OOD 4 24 (11.94 %) SC Cleared 5 20 (9.950 %) Unit Testing 6 16 (7.960 %) SOA 7 15 (7.463 %) Validation 8 14 (6.965 %) Agile Software Development 8 14 (6.965 %) Configuration Management 9 13 (6.468 %) RUP 9 13 (6.468 %) Use Case 10 11 (5.473 %) BC Cleared 11 10 (4.975 %) Software Engineering 12 9 (4.478 %) QMS 13 8 (3.980 %) OOA/OOD 14 7 (3.483 %) Quality Management 14 7 (3.483 %) Business Analysis 15 6 (2.985 %) Project Management 16 5 (2.488 %) OOP 16 5 (2.488 %) Network Planning	Programming Languages 1 67 (33.33 %) C++ 2 63 (31.34 %) Java 3 54 (26.87 %) C# 4 30 (14.93 %) SQL 5 25 (12.44 %) C 6 19 (9.453 %) Ada 7 18 (8.955 %) VB 8 17 (8.458 %) VB.NET 9 15 (7.463 %) PL/SQL 10 13 (6.468 %) VB6 11 11 (5.473 %) Embedded C 11 11 (5.473 %) Embedded C++ 12 3 (1.493 %) VBScript 12 3 (1.493 %) VBA 12 3 (1.493 %) JavaScript 13 1 (0.498 %) Transact-SQL 13 1 (0.498 %) COBOL 13 1 (0.498 %) Shell Script
Qualifications 1 9 (4.478 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (1.990 %) ISO12207 2 1 (0.498 %) QA
System Software 1 1 (0.498 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 18 (8.955 %) IBM 2 13 (6.468 %) Oracle 3 5 (2.488 %) Microsoft 4 4 (1.990 %) Symbian 5 3 (1.493 %) ATG 5 3 (1.493 %) Sun 6 2 (0.995 %) Serena 7 1 (0.498 %) SeeBeyond