The first table below looks at the demand for Use Case skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hampshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Use Case over the 3 months to 24 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 Hampshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Use Cases
Rank 82 87 87
Rank change year-on-year
+5 0
Contract jobs citing Use Case 21 7 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 1.376% 0.440% 0.973%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.035% 0.690% 1.514%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 8
Average daily rate £400 £335 £345
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+19.40% -2.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £344 £235 £249
10% offered a daily rate of more than £418 £460 £458
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £400 £400
% change year-on-year
-7.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.00 £31.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+4.76% +5.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
Hampshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1032 1014 1189
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 67.63% 63.73% 64.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 583 476 533
Average daily rate £370 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.33% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £265 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 99 130
Average hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.90% -11.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.20 £14.43 £13.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Use Case
South East

Use Case
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire Use Case Daily Rate Trend

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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire Use Case Hourly Rate Trend

Use Case
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Use Case within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Southampton - 4 - -
Use Case
South East

Use Case
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 22 (68.75%) UML
2 21 (65.63%) Business Analysis
3 16 (50.00%) RUP
4 13 (40.63%) Project Management
4 13 (40.63%) Scrum
4 13 (40.63%) Unified Process
4 13 (40.63%) Requirements Management
5 11 (34.38%) Agile Software Development
5 11 (34.38%) Microsoft
5 11 (34.38%) E-Commerce
6 10 (31.25%) SQL
7 9 (28.13%) Windows
7 9 (28.13%) Java
7 9 (28.13%) OOA/OOD
7 9 (28.13%) RAD
7 9 (28.13%) ATG
7 9 (28.13%) Retail
8 7 (21.88%) Security Cleared
9 6 (18.75%) SC Cleared
10 5 (15.63%) MS Excel
10 5 (15.63%) ISEB
10 5 (15.63%) Internet
10 5 (15.63%) Linux
11 4 (12.50%) OO
11 4 (12.50%) Python
11 4 (12.50%) MS Visio
11 4 (12.50%) OOD
11 4 (12.50%) Ingres
11 4 (12.50%) Rational Rose
11 4 (12.50%) C++

Use Case
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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.

Application Development
1 4 (12.50%) .NET
1 4 (12.50%) XML
1 4 (12.50%) Motif
1 4 (12.50%) wxWidgets
1 4 (12.50%) AppFabric
1 4 (12.50%) WCF
1 4 (12.50%) WF
2 1 (3.125%) COM
Application Platforms
1 4 (12.50%) BizTalk Server
1 4 (12.50%) Windows Azure
2 3 (9.375%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 5 (15.63%) MS Excel
2 4 (12.50%) MS Visio
2 4 (12.50%) MS Project
2 4 (12.50%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.63%) Internet
2 1 (3.125%) Wireshark
2 1 (3.125%) BSS
2 1 (3.125%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (3.125%) tcpdump
2 1 (3.125%) LDAP
2 1 (3.125%) LAN
2 1 (3.125%) WAN
2 1 (3.125%) SMTP
2 1 (3.125%) FTP
2 1 (3.125%) HTTP
2 1 (3.125%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.125%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) Ingres
1 4 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (9.375%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Rational Rose
1 4 (12.50%) Ant
1 4 (12.50%) ClearQuest
1 4 (12.50%) ClearCase
1 4 (12.50%) GoogleTest
1 4 (12.50%) CppUnit
1 4 (12.50%) NUnit
1 4 (12.50%) CruiseControl
1 4 (12.50%) Subversion
General
1 9 (28.13%) Retail
2 3 (9.375%) Law
3 2 (6.250%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (87.50%) Analyst
2 22 (68.75%) Business Analyst
3 12 (37.50%) Agile Business Analyst
4 5 (15.63%) Systems Analyst
5 4 (12.50%) Business Systems Analyst
6 3 (9.375%) Lead Business Analyst
6 3 (9.375%) Requirements Analyst
6 3 (9.375%) Security Analyst
7 2 (6.250%) Software Engineer
7 2 (6.250%) Technical Analyst
7 2 (6.250%) C++ Software Engineer
8 1 (3.125%) Telecoms Business Analyst
8 1 (3.125%) Web Analyst
8 1 (3.125%) Technical Business Analyst
8 1 (3.125%) Web Business Analyst
8 1 (3.125%) Senior Analyst
8 1 (3.125%) Senior Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Derivative
2 3 (9.375%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (28.13%) Windows
2 5 (15.63%) Linux
3 4 (12.50%) UNIX
3 4 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.125%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (68.75%) UML
2 21 (65.63%) Business Analysis
3 16 (50.00%) RUP
4 13 (40.63%) Project Management
4 13 (40.63%) Scrum
4 13 (40.63%) Unified Process
4 13 (40.63%) Requirements Management
5 11 (34.38%) Agile Software Development
5 11 (34.38%) E-Commerce
6 9 (28.13%) OOA/OOD
6 9 (28.13%) RAD
7 4 (12.50%) OO
7 4 (12.50%) OOD
7 4 (12.50%) ITIL
7 4 (12.50%) PRINCE2
7 4 (12.50%) Configuration Management
7 4 (12.50%) Waterfall
7 4 (12.50%) Memory Management
7 4 (12.50%) Software Engineering
7 4 (12.50%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 10 (31.25%) SQL
2 9 (28.13%) Java
3 4 (12.50%) Python
3 4 (12.50%) C++
3 4 (12.50%) C
4 3 (9.375%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (21.88%) Security Cleared
2 6 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 5 (15.63%) ISEB
4 1 (3.125%) CBAP
4 1 (3.125%) HP AIS
System Software
1 3 (9.375%) Snort
Systems Management
1 3 (9.375%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 11 (34.38%) Microsoft
2 9 (28.13%) ATG
3 4 (12.50%) Red Hat
4 3 (9.375%) Sourcefire
4 3 (9.375%) HP
4 3 (9.375%) Oracle