Kent Unified Process Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Unified Process 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 Unified Process over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Unified Process
Location Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cardiff City of London Docklands, London East Midlands East of England England Essex Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hendon Kent Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire Portsmouth Salford South East South Wales South West Surrey Tyne and Wear UK Wales West Midlands Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	44	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.562 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£421	£431
% change on same period last year	-2.37 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£36.85	-
% change on same period last year	-
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 %
Unified Process 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.

Unified Process
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Unified Process across the Kent region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Unified Process
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent region citing Unified Process 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 Unified Process.

1 3 (100.00 %) RUP 2 2 (66.67 %) Use Case 3 1 (33.33 %) COM+ 3 1 (33.33 %) SOAP 3 1 (33.33 %) UML 3 1 (33.33 %) Finance 3 1 (33.33 %) Banking 3 1 (33.33 %) MSMQ 3 1 (33.33 %) CRM 3 1 (33.33 %) DNA 3 1 (33.33 %) Rational Rose 3 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft

Unified Process
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent region citing Unified Process 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 Unified Process. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (33.33 %) COM+ 1 1 (33.33 %) SOAP	Development Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) Rational Rose
General 1 1 (33.33 %) Finance 1 1 (33.33 %) Banking	Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Business Analyst 1 2 (66.67 %) Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) Software Designer 2 1 (33.33 %) Senior Software Designer
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (100.00 %) RUP 2 2 (66.67 %) Use Case 3 1 (33.33 %) UML 3 1 (33.33 %) CRM 3 1 (33.33 %) DNA	System Software 1 1 (33.33 %) MSMQ
Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft