The first table below looks at the demand for UML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited UML 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 Hertfordshire 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
Unified Modeling Language (UML)
Rank 46 45 36
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -9
Contract jobs citing UML 17 25 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 2.669% 2.559% 3.311%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.720% 3.864% 5.302%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 5
Average daily rate £350 £388 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.67% -6.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £308 £304 £330
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £500 £470
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £375 £400
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 19
Average hourly rate £36.75 £37.50 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.75 £37.50 £36.56
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.75 £37.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.75 £35.50
% change year-on-year
+0.71% -2.11%
All Processes & Methodologies
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
457 647 547
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 71.74% 66.22% 62.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 289 238
Average daily rate £400 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £262 £250 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 55 78
Average hourly rate £21.50 £33.75 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-36.29% -3.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.05 £11.75 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.60 £49.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
UML
East of England

UML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire UML Jobs Demand Trend

UML
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire UML Daily Rate Trend

UML
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing UML across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Hertfordshire UML Daily Rate Histogram

UML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire UML Hourly Rate Trend

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 Hertfordshire 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
Watford +5 2 £450 -
Stevenage -4 2 - -
Hemel Hempstead - 2 - -
Bishop's Stortford - 1 £325 -
UML
East of England

UML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 23 (56.10%) Java
2 21 (51.22%) SQL
2 21 (51.22%) XML
3 20 (48.78%) J2EE
4 19 (46.34%) JavaScript
5 17 (41.46%) Spring
6 16 (39.02%) Struts
7 15 (36.59%) Web Services
7 15 (36.59%) JSP
8 14 (34.15%) Oracle
8 14 (34.15%) Hibernate
9 13 (31.71%) Finance
9 13 (31.71%) JUnit
9 13 (31.71%) OO
10 11 (26.83%) CSS
10 11 (26.83%) HTML
10 11 (26.83%) SC Cleared
10 11 (26.83%) Security Cleared
11 10 (24.39%) Apache
11 10 (24.39%) Linux
11 10 (24.39%) XHTML
11 10 (24.39%) Eclipse
12 9 (21.95%) Maven
12 9 (21.95%) Ajax
13 8 (19.51%) Business Analysis
13 8 (19.51%) WebSphere
13 8 (19.51%) Subversion
13 8 (19.51%) RDBMS
13 8 (19.51%) Ant
13 8 (19.51%) Perl

UML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 21 (51.22%) XML
2 20 (48.78%) J2EE
3 17 (41.46%) Spring
4 16 (39.02%) Struts
5 15 (36.59%) Web Services
5 15 (36.59%) JSP
6 14 (34.15%) Hibernate
7 11 (26.83%) CSS
7 11 (26.83%) HTML
8 10 (24.39%) XHTML
9 9 (21.95%) Ajax
10 8 (19.51%) WebSphere
10 8 (19.51%) XSLT
11 7 (17.07%) Servlets
11 7 (17.07%) EJB
11 7 (17.07%) JSF
12 6 (14.63%) Struts2
12 6 (14.63%) JSTL
12 6 (14.63%) XMLBeans
12 6 (14.63%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 10 (24.39%) Apache
2 6 (14.63%) ActiveMQ
2 6 (14.63%) MQSeries
2 6 (14.63%) WebSphere Application Server
3 4 (9.756%) Liferay
3 4 (9.756%) Oracle Workflow
3 4 (9.756%) Tomcat
4 3 (7.317%) ESB
5 1 (2.439%) Oracle Spatial
5 1 (2.439%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (2.439%) OpenStack
5 1 (2.439%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 3 (7.317%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.439%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 6 (14.63%) Tridion
2 2 (4.878%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (2.439%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 6 (14.63%) Internet
2 1 (2.439%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (19.51%) RDBMS
2 7 (17.07%) SQL Server
2 7 (17.07%) JasperReports
3 6 (14.63%) DB2
4 5 (12.20%) GIS
5 4 (9.756%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (4.878%) MySQL
7 1 (2.439%) Data Mining
7 1 (2.439%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 13 (31.71%) JUnit
2 10 (24.39%) Eclipse
3 9 (21.95%) Maven
4 8 (19.51%) Subversion
4 8 (19.51%) Ant
5 7 (17.07%) Rational DOORS
6 6 (14.63%) Log4j
6 6 (14.63%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
7 4 (9.756%) Rational Rhapsody
8 2 (4.878%) Axure RP
9 1 (2.439%) Rational Rose
9 1 (2.439%) ClearCase
General
1 13 (31.71%) Finance
2 7 (17.07%) Retail
3 5 (12.20%) Games
4 2 (4.878%) Marketing
4 2 (4.878%) Billing
4 2 (4.878%) Banking
4 2 (4.878%) Publishing
5 1 (2.439%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.439%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.439%) Electronics
5 1 (2.439%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (43.90%) Developer
1 18 (43.90%) Java Developer
2 13 (31.71%) Analyst
3 10 (24.39%) Business Analyst
4 9 (21.95%) J2EE Developer
4 9 (21.95%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 5 (12.20%) Senior Developer
5 5 (12.20%) Senior Java Developer
6 3 (7.317%) Systems Analyst
6 3 (7.317%) Consultant
6 3 (7.317%) UML Business Analyst
7 2 (4.878%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (4.878%) Analyst Developer
7 2 (4.878%) Java Consultant
7 2 (4.878%) Systems Engineer
7 2 (4.878%) Software Engineer
7 2 (4.878%) Business Systems Analyst
7 2 (4.878%) Architect
8 1 (2.439%) Analyst Programmer
8 1 (2.439%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.07%) Open Source
2 6 (14.63%) Web 2.0
3 1 (2.439%) N-Tier
3 1 (2.439%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.439%) Physics
Operating Systems
1 10 (24.39%) Linux
2 6 (14.63%) UNIX
2 6 (14.63%) HPUX
2 6 (14.63%) Solaris
3 5 (12.20%) Windows
4 1 (2.439%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (31.71%) OO
2 8 (19.51%) Business Analysis
3 6 (14.63%) Root Cause Analysis
3 6 (14.63%) Unit Testing
3 6 (14.63%) Systems Analysis
3 6 (14.63%) Content Management
3 6 (14.63%) E-Commerce
3 6 (14.63%) RUP
3 6 (14.63%) SOA
3 6 (14.63%) RAD
4 5 (12.20%) Migration
4 5 (12.20%) Scrum
4 5 (12.20%) Multithreading
4 5 (12.20%) Data Migration
5 4 (9.756%) BPMN
5 4 (9.756%) Requirements Analysis
5 4 (9.756%) Workflow
6 3 (7.317%) MVC
6 3 (7.317%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (7.317%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (56.10%) Java
2 21 (51.22%) SQL
3 19 (46.34%) JavaScript
4 8 (19.51%) Perl
5 6 (14.63%) Bash shell
5 6 (14.63%) XPath
6 3 (7.317%) C++
7 2 (4.878%) Ada
7 2 (4.878%) Shell Script
7 2 (4.878%) PHP
8 1 (2.439%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.439%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 11 (26.83%) SC Cleared
1 11 (26.83%) Security Cleared
2 6 (14.63%) Degree
3 4 (9.756%) CTC Cleared
4 3 (7.317%) DV Cleared
Vendors
1 14 (34.15%) Oracle
2 6 (14.63%) Elastic Path
2 6 (14.63%) Blue Martini
2 6 (14.63%) ATG
2 6 (14.63%) IBM
2 6 (14.63%) Interwoven
2 6 (14.63%) JBoss
3 3 (7.317%) Serena
4 1 (2.439%) BMC
4 1 (2.439%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.439%) VMware
4 1 (2.439%) Google
Hertfordshire
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