Kent UML Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Unified Modeling Language (UML) skills within the Kent region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited UML over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Unified Modeling Language (UML)
Location Ascot Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dover Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Henley-on-Thames Herefordshire Hertfordshire Horsham Hull Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Portsmouth Reading Redhill Rickmansworth Rugby Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Wigan Wiltshire Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	39	42
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	6	13
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.013 %
As % of the category below	3.371 %	4.710 %
Daily rates quoted	5	0
Average minimum daily rate	£270	-
Average daily rate	£298	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£325	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£382	£363
% change on same period last year	+5.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£46.25
Average hourly rate	£35.00	£55.63
% change on same period last year	-37.07 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	£65.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£37.63	£35.07
% change on same period last year	+7.28 %
Processes & Methodologies Kent
Matching contract IT job ads	178	276
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.237 %	0.275 %
Daily rates quoted	58	57
Average minimum daily rate	£315	£307
Average daily rate	£334	£325
% change on same period last year	+2.75 %
Average maximum daily rate	£352	£342
UK excluding London average daily rate	£379	£376
% change on same period last year	+0.60 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	50
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.56	£34.78
Average hourly rate	£25.33	£40.06
% change on same period last year	-36.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.11	£45.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.35	£30.32
% change on same period last year	+0.10 %
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 Kent 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 Kent region.

UML
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing UML across the Kent region over the 3 months to 29 August 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 Kent region.

UML
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UML within the Kent region over the 3 months to 29 August 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
Dover	-	1	£450	-
Sevenoaks	-	1	£200	-

UML South East

UML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 8 (38.10 %) Migration 1 8 (38.10 %) Java 1 8 (38.10 %) Logistics 2 5 (23.81 %) Finance 2 5 (23.81 %) OO 3 4 (19.05 %) RUP 3 4 (19.05 %) Military 4 3 (14.29 %) Use Case 4 3 (14.29 %) Unit Testing 5 2 (9.524 %) RDBMS 5 2 (9.524 %) Data Modelling 5 2 (9.524 %) J2EE 5 2 (9.524 %) ERD 6 1 (4.762 %) Dojo 6 1 (4.762 %) GWT

6 1 (4.762 %) YUI 6 1 (4.762 %) jQuery 6 1 (4.762 %) Banking 6 1 (4.762 %) AJAX 6 1 (4.762 %) Project Planning 6 1 (4.762 %) Web Development 6 1 (4.762 %) SC Cleared 6 1 (4.762 %) Security Cleared 6 1 (4.762 %) Photoshop 6 1 (4.762 %) WebLogic 6 1 (4.762 %) ASP 6 1 (4.762 %) COM+ 6 1 (4.762 %) CSS 6 1 (4.762 %) JSP 6 1 (4.762 %) SOAP

UML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 2 (9.524 %) J2EE 2 1 (4.762 %) Dojo 2 1 (4.762 %) GWT 2 1 (4.762 %) YUI 2 1 (4.762 %) jQuery 2 1 (4.762 %) AJAX 2 1 (4.762 %) ASP 2 1 (4.762 %) COM+ 2 1 (4.762 %) CSS 2 1 (4.762 %) JSP 2 1 (4.762 %) SOAP 2 1 (4.762 %) STL 2 1 (4.762 %) XML 2 1 (4.762 %) XSL 2 1 (4.762 %) XSLT 2 1 (4.762 %) XHTML 2 1 (4.762 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 1 (4.762 %) WebLogic
Applications 1 1 (4.762 %) Photoshop	Communications & Networking 1 1 (4.762 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (9.524 %) RDBMS	Development Applications 1 1 (4.762 %) Rational Rose 1 1 (4.762 %) ARTiSAN
General 1 5 (23.81 %) Finance 2 4 (19.05 %) Military 3 1 (4.762 %) Banking	Job Titles 1 12 (57.14 %) Business Analyst 1 12 (57.14 %) Analyst 2 5 (23.81 %) Architect 2 5 (23.81 %) Developer 3 4 (19.05 %) Lead Business Analyst 4 3 (14.29 %) Lead Architect 4 3 (14.29 %) Business Architect 4 3 (14.29 %) Tester 5 2 (9.524 %) Data Architect 6 1 (4.762 %) C++ Software Engineer 6 1 (4.762 %) Software Designer 6 1 (4.762 %) Senior Software Designer 6 1 (4.762 %) Software Engineer 6 1 (4.762 %) Web Developer
Operating Systems 1 1 (4.762 %) Windows 1 1 (4.762 %) Linux 1 1 (4.762 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (38.10 %) Migration 1 8 (38.10 %) Logistics 2 5 (23.81 %) OO 3 4 (19.05 %) RUP 4 3 (14.29 %) Use Case 4 3 (14.29 %) Unit Testing 5 2 (9.524 %) Data Modelling 5 2 (9.524 %) ERD 6 1 (4.762 %) Project Planning 6 1 (4.762 %) Web Development 6 1 (4.762 %) SC Cleared 6 1 (4.762 %) Security Cleared 6 1 (4.762 %) CRM 6 1 (4.762 %) DNA 6 1 (4.762 %) RAD 6 1 (4.762 %) Validation 6 1 (4.762 %) Unified Process
Programming Languages 1 8 (38.10 %) Java 2 1 (4.762 %) JavaScript 2 1 (4.762 %) VB 2 1 (4.762 %) C++ 2 1 (4.762 %) DHTML	System Software 1 1 (4.762 %) MSMQ
Vendors 1 1 (4.762 %) Microsoft