Leeds UML Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Unified Modeling Language (UML) skills within the Leeds region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited UML over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Unified Modeling Language (UML)
Location Abingdon Atherstone Basildon Basingstoke Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Coventry Crawley Crewe Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dover East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Romsey Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Whyteleafe Wigan Wiltshire Windsor Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	41	30
Rank change on same period last year	-11
Matching contract IT job ads	38	45
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.050 %	0.048 %
As % of the category below	5.278 %	8.242 %
Daily rates quoted	15	17
Average minimum daily rate	£380	£327
Average daily rate	£395	£346
% change on same period last year	+14.16 %
Average maximum daily rate	£410	£365
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	£362
% change on same period last year	+6.79 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.00	-
Average hourly rate	£32.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£38.07	£34.40
% change on same period last year	+10.68 %
Processes & Methodologies Leeds
Matching contract IT job ads	720	546
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.949 %	0.579 %
Daily rates quoted	205	107
Average minimum daily rate	£341	£337
Average daily rate	£363	£353
% change on same period last year	+2.89 %
Average maximum daily rate	£385	£369
UK excluding London average daily rate	£384	£374
% change on same period last year	+2.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	22
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.87	£22.54
Average hourly rate	£22.92	£23.49
% change on same period last year	-2.42 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.98	£24.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.40	£30.19
% change on same period last year	-2.62 %
UML West Yorkshire

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 Leeds 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 Leeds region.

UML
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing UML across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 4 July 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 Leeds region.

UML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 21 (30.00 %) Java 2 18 (25.71 %) Finance 3 16 (22.86 %) .NET 4 15 (21.43 %) Oracle 5 14 (20.00 %) J2EE 5 14 (20.00 %) XML 6 13 (18.57 %) PRINCE2 6 13 (18.57 %) Business Analysis 7 12 (17.14 %) SQL Server 7 12 (17.14 %) NHS 8 10 (14.29 %) Agile Software Development 8 10 (14.29 %) Billing 8 10 (14.29 %) Legal 8 10 (14.29 %) Project Management 8 10 (14.29 %) Use Case

9 9 (12.86 %) Health 9 9 (12.86 %) GAP Analysis 9 9 (12.86 %) C# 10 8 (11.43 %) JSP 10 8 (11.43 %) RAD 10 8 (11.43 %) Hibernate 11 7 (10.00 %) Law 11 7 (10.00 %) RUP 11 7 (10.00 %) MS Visio 12 6 (8.571 %) Degree 12 6 (8.571 %) Unit Testing 12 6 (8.571 %) Oracle 8/8i 12 6 (8.571 %) ASP.NET 12 6 (8.571 %) WebLogic 12 6 (8.571 %) NPfIT

UML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 16 (22.86 %) .NET 2 14 (20.00 %) J2EE 2 14 (20.00 %) XML 3 8 (11.43 %) JSP 3 8 (11.43 %) Hibernate 4 6 (8.571 %) ASP.NET 5 5 (7.143 %) Spring 5 5 (7.143 %) WebSphere 6 4 (5.714 %) .NET Framework 6 4 (5.714 %) ADO.NET 7 3 (4.286 %) Servlets 7 3 (4.286 %) Struts 7 3 (4.286 %) JSF 7 3 (4.286 %) HTML 8 2 (2.857 %) SAX 8 2 (2.857 %) DOM 8 2 (2.857 %) XSLT 8 2 (2.857 %) ADO 9 1 (1.429 %) ASP 9 1 (1.429 %) COM+	Application Platforms 1 6 (8.571 %) WebLogic 2 2 (2.857 %) Apache 2 2 (2.857 %) WebSphere MQ 2 2 (2.857 %) CMS 2 2 (2.857 %) ATG Dynamo 2 2 (2.857 %) WebSphere Application Server 3 1 (1.429 %) BizTalk Server 3 1 (1.429 %) IIS
Applications 1 7 (10.00 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 3 (4.286 %) LDAP 2 2 (2.857 %) X.500
Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (17.14 %) SQL Server 2 6 (8.571 %) Oracle 8/8i 3 2 (2.857 %) Oracle 9i 3 2 (2.857 %) SQL Server 2000 3 2 (2.857 %) SQL Server 2005 4 1 (1.429 %) Datawarehouse 4 1 (1.429 %) Oracle 10g 4 1 (1.429 %) SQL Server 7	Development Applications 1 5 (7.143 %) JUnit 2 2 (2.857 %) Ant 2 2 (2.857 %) Eclipse 3 1 (1.429 %) Visual Studio 3 1 (1.429 %) Flash 3 1 (1.429 %) Rational Rose
General 1 18 (25.71 %) Finance 2 10 (14.29 %) Legal 2 10 (14.29 %) Billing 3 9 (12.86 %) Health 4 7 (10.00 %) Law 5 6 (8.571 %) Back Office 6 5 (7.143 %) Banking 7 3 (4.286 %) Government 7 3 (4.286 %) Construction 8 2 (2.857 %) Retail 9 1 (1.429 %) Electric 9 1 (1.429 %) Insurance	Job Titles 1 33 (47.14 %) Business Analyst 1 33 (47.14 %) Analyst 2 23 (32.86 %) Developer 3 13 (18.57 %) Java Developer 4 7 (10.00 %) .NET Developer 4 7 (10.00 %) J2EE Developer 4 7 (10.00 %) Java/J2EE Developer 5 6 (8.571 %) Solutions Designer 6 5 (7.143 %) C# Developer 7 3 (4.286 %) Senior Business Analyst 7 3 (4.286 %) Senior Analyst 7 3 (4.286 %) Business Systems Analyst 7 3 (4.286 %) Systems Analyst 7 3 (4.286 %) Architect 7 3 (4.286 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 7 3 (4.286 %) ASP.NET Developer 8 2 (2.857 %) Security Architect 8 2 (2.857 %) Project Manager 8 2 (2.857 %) Systems Designer 9 1 (1.429 %) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous 1 12 (17.14 %) NHS 2 6 (8.571 %) NPfIT 3 5 (7.143 %) Computer Science 4 2 (2.857 %) PKI 4 2 (2.857 %) Smartcard	Operating Systems 1 2 (2.857 %) Unix 2 1 (1.429 %) Windows 2 1 (1.429 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 13 (18.57 %) PRINCE2 1 13 (18.57 %) Business Analysis 2 10 (14.29 %) Use Case 2 10 (14.29 %) Project Management 2 10 (14.29 %) Agile Software Development 3 9 (12.86 %) GAP Analysis 4 8 (11.43 %) RAD 5 7 (10.00 %) RUP 6 6 (8.571 %) Unit Testing 6 6 (8.571 %) Systems Analysis 7 5 (7.143 %) Security Cleared 7 5 (7.143 %) OO 8 4 (5.714 %) e-GIF 8 4 (5.714 %) PRINCE 8 4 (5.714 %) Technical Architecture 8 4 (5.714 %) ERD 8 4 (5.714 %) SC Cleared 9 3 (4.286 %) Stakeholder Management 10 2 (2.857 %) Scrum 10 2 (2.857 %) Security Management	Programming Languages 1 21 (30.00 %) Java 2 9 (12.86 %) C# 3 5 (7.143 %) SQL 4 2 (2.857 %) VB 4 2 (2.857 %) XPath 5 1 (1.429 %) C 5 1 (1.429 %) VB6 5 1 (1.429 %) C++ 5 1 (1.429 %) JavaScript
Qualifications 1 6 (8.571 %) Degree 2 2 (2.857 %) Sun Certification 3 1 (1.429 %) PRINCE2 Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (5.714 %) QA 2 2 (2.857 %) ISO27001
System Software 1 2 (2.857 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 15 (21.43 %) Oracle 2 4 (5.714 %) Microsoft 3 2 (2.857 %) Sun 3 2 (2.857 %) BEA 3 2 (2.857 %) webMethods 3 2 (2.857 %) ATG