The first table below looks at the demand for UML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited UML over the 3 months to 17 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 Kent 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Unified Modeling Language (UML)
Rank 23 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing UML 15 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 4.902% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.538% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £463 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £375 £400
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.75 £35.50
% change year-on-year
+0.71% -2.11%
All Processes & Methodologies
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
199 181 184
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 65.03% 68.30% 57.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 96 108
Average daily rate £303 £325 £293
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.92% +11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £253 £138 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 9 15
Average hourly rate £19.39 £17.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.80% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.15 £8.75 £15.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £53.25 £67.50 £49.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
UML
South East

UML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent UML Daily Rate Trend

UML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region over the 3 months to 17 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
Faversham - 2 £463 -
UML
South East

UML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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 23 (88.46%) OO
2 21 (80.77%) Requirements Analysis
2 21 (80.77%) Multithreading
2 21 (80.77%) Security Cleared
3 14 (53.85%) Embedded Linux
3 14 (53.85%) Linux
4 9 (34.62%) SC Cleared
5 7 (26.92%) Aerospace
5 7 (26.92%) C#
5 7 (26.92%) .NET
6 5 (19.23%) C++
7 4 (15.38%) Java
7 4 (15.38%) JUnit
7 4 (15.38%) JSP
7 4 (15.38%) Spring
8 2 (7.692%) Sun
8 2 (7.692%) Sun Certification
8 2 (7.692%) Middleware
8 2 (7.692%) Scrum
8 2 (7.692%) Servlets
8 2 (7.692%) Web Services
8 2 (7.692%) XML
8 2 (7.692%) JDBC
8 2 (7.692%) Tomcat
8 2 (7.692%) SQL
8 2 (7.692%) J2EE
8 2 (7.692%) Oracle
8 2 (7.692%) Ant
8 2 (7.692%) Web Development
8 2 (7.692%) SCJA

UML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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 7 (26.92%) .NET
2 4 (15.38%) Spring
2 4 (15.38%) JSP
3 2 (7.692%) Servlets
3 2 (7.692%) Web Services
3 2 (7.692%) XML
3 2 (7.692%) Middleware
3 2 (7.692%) JPA
3 2 (7.692%) J2EE
3 2 (7.692%) JDBC
Application Platforms
1 2 (7.692%) Tomcat
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) JUnit
2 2 (7.692%) CruiseControl
2 2 (7.692%) Subversion
2 2 (7.692%) JIRA
2 2 (7.692%) Ant
General
1 7 (26.92%) Aerospace
2 1 (3.846%) Billing
2 1 (3.846%) Finance
Job Titles
1 21 (80.77%) Software Engineer
2 16 (61.54%) Senior Software Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Developer
3 3 (11.54%) Java Developer
4 1 (3.846%) Business Analyst
4 1 (3.846%) Analyst
4 1 (3.846%) Consultant
4 1 (3.846%) Data Analyst
4 1 (3.846%) Java Consultant
4 1 (3.846%) Market Data Analyst
4 1 (3.846%) Market Analyst
4 1 (3.846%) Market Data Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.692%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.846%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.846%) Fixed Income
2 1 (3.846%) Equities
2 1 (3.846%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 14 (53.85%) Linux
1 14 (53.85%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (88.46%) OO
2 21 (80.77%) Requirements Analysis
2 21 (80.77%) Multithreading
3 2 (7.692%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (7.692%) Web Development
3 2 (7.692%) Scrum
3 2 (7.692%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (3.846%) Asset Management
4 1 (3.846%) Data Management
4 1 (3.846%) Business Analysis
4 1 (3.846%) Use Case
4 1 (3.846%) Data Modelling
4 1 (3.846%) Migration
4 1 (3.846%) Fund Accounting
4 1 (3.846%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 7 (26.92%) C#
2 5 (19.23%) C++
3 4 (15.38%) Java
4 2 (7.692%) SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (80.77%) Security Cleared
2 9 (34.62%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.692%) Sun Certification
3 2 (7.692%) SCJP
3 2 (7.692%) SCJA
Vendors
1 2 (7.692%) Oracle
1 2 (7.692%) Sun