Leicestershire UML Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Unified Modeling Language (UML) skills within the Leicestershire 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Unified Modeling Language (UML)
Location Ascot Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon 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 Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire Horsham Hull Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Macclesfield Manchester Marlow 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 Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Rugby Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley 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 Whyteleafe Wigan Wiltshire Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	19	30
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching contract IT job ads	11	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.015 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	6.548 %	4.372 %
Daily rates quoted	7	1
Average minimum daily rate	£396	£500
Average daily rate	£423	£500
% change on same period last year	-15.35 %
Average maximum daily rate	£450	£500
UK excluding London average daily rate	£385	£364
% change on same period last year	+5.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£25.00
Average hourly rate	-	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£38.05	£34.62
% change on same period last year	+9.89 %
Processes & Methodologies Leicestershire
Matching contract IT job ads	168	183
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.224 %	0.185 %
Daily rates quoted	48	46
Average minimum daily rate	£319	£355
Average daily rate	£338	£382
% change on same period last year	-11.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£358	£410
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	16
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.38	£17.15
Average hourly rate	£22.21	£18.54
% change on same period last year	+19.78 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.04	£19.93
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
UML East Midlands

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 Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region.

UML
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing UML across the Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 25 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 Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Leicester	+4	6	£413	-17.50 %

UML East Midlands

UML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 9 (50.00 %) Java 1 9 (50.00 %) Oracle 1 9 (50.00 %) Finance 2 8 (44.44 %) Banking 3 7 (38.89 %) SSADM 4 5 (27.78 %) DSDM 4 5 (27.78 %) Business Analysis 4 5 (27.78 %) Requirements Analysis 4 5 (27.78 %) GAP Analysis 4 5 (27.78 %) CA Clarity 5 4 (22.22 %) Use Case 5 4 (22.22 %) HTML 5 4 (22.22 %) WebServices 5 4 (22.22 %) Windows 5 4 (22.22 %) .NET

6 3 (16.67 %) IBM 6 3 (16.67 %) Apache Axis 6 3 (16.67 %) Change Management 6 3 (16.67 %) Hibernate 6 3 (16.67 %) Retail Banking 6 3 (16.67 %) Retail 7 2 (11.11 %) Data Analysis 7 2 (11.11 %) Spring 7 2 (11.11 %) Software Engineering 7 2 (11.11 %) Log4j 7 2 (11.11 %) AJAX 7 2 (11.11 %) WebSphere 7 2 (11.11 %) APACS 7 2 (11.11 %) Firewall 7 2 (11.11 %) Migration

UML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 4 (22.22 %) HTML 1 4 (22.22 %) .NET 1 4 (22.22 %) WebServices 2 3 (16.67 %) Hibernate 2 3 (16.67 %) Apache Axis 3 2 (11.11 %) Spring MVC 3 2 (11.11 %) JSTL 3 2 (11.11 %) MVC 3 2 (11.11 %) Spring 3 2 (11.11 %) AJAX 3 2 (11.11 %) WebSphere 3 2 (11.11 %) J2EE 3 2 (11.11 %) ASP.NET 3 2 (11.11 %) JDBC 3 2 (11.11 %) JSP 4 1 (5.556 %) Struts 4 1 (5.556 %) XML 4 1 (5.556 %) WSDL 4 1 (5.556 %) JAX-RPC 4 1 (5.556 %) JAXB	Application Platforms 1 2 (11.11 %) IIS 1 2 (11.11 %) Apache 1 2 (11.11 %) MQSeries 2 1 (5.556 %) Tomcat 2 1 (5.556 %) JBoss 2 1 (5.556 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 1 (5.556 %) WebLogic
Applications 1 5 (27.78 %) CA Clarity 2 1 (5.556 %) Photoshop 2 1 (5.556 %) Adobe Illustrator	Communications & Networking 1 2 (11.11 %) LAN 1 2 (11.11 %) WAN 1 2 (11.11 %) SAN 1 2 (11.11 %) MPLS 1 2 (11.11 %) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (11.11 %) Crystal Reports 1 2 (11.11 %) Oracle Reports 1 2 (11.11 %) Oracle 10g 2 1 (5.556 %) JasperReports 2 1 (5.556 %) MySQL	Development Applications 1 2 (11.11 %) Visual Studio 1 2 (11.11 %) Log4j 2 1 (5.556 %) Rational Rose 2 1 (5.556 %) Eclipse 2 1 (5.556 %) Ant 2 1 (5.556 %) JUnit
General 1 9 (50.00 %) Finance 2 8 (44.44 %) Banking 3 3 (16.67 %) Retail 3 3 (16.67 %) Retail Banking 4 2 (11.11 %) Back Office	Job Titles 1 9 (50.00 %) Analyst 2 6 (33.33 %) Business Analyst 3 4 (22.22 %) Architect 3 4 (22.22 %) Systems Analyst 4 3 (16.67 %) Developer 4 3 (16.67 %) Solutions Architect 4 3 (16.67 %) Financial Business Analyst 4 3 (16.67 %) Banking Business Analyst 5 2 (11.11 %) Financial Services Business Analyst 5 2 (11.11 %) Java Developer 5 2 (11.11 %) Software Engineer 5 2 (11.11 %) Technical Architect 6 1 (5.556 %) Web Developer 6 1 (5.556 %) Lead Designer 6 1 (5.556 %) PHP Developer 6 1 (5.556 %) Web Applications Developer 6 1 (5.556 %) J2EE Architect 6 1 (5.556 %) Applications Developer 6 1 (5.556 %) Business Systems Analyst 6 1 (5.556 %) Lead Architect
Miscellaneous 1 2 (11.11 %) APACS 2 1 (5.556 %) W3C	Operating Systems 1 4 (22.22 %) Windows 2 2 (11.11 %) AIX 2 2 (11.11 %) HPUX 2 2 (11.11 %) UNIX 3 1 (5.556 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (38.89 %) SSADM 2 5 (27.78 %) DSDM 2 5 (27.78 %) GAP Analysis 2 5 (27.78 %) Business Analysis 2 5 (27.78 %) Requirements Analysis 3 4 (22.22 %) Use Case 4 3 (16.67 %) Change Management 5 2 (11.11 %) Data Migration 5 2 (11.11 %) Yourdon 5 2 (11.11 %) Migration 5 2 (11.11 %) Data Analysis 5 2 (11.11 %) Software Engineering 5 2 (11.11 %) Data Modelling 5 2 (11.11 %) OOD 5 2 (11.11 %) OO 5 2 (11.11 %) RAD 6 1 (5.556 %) RUP 6 1 (5.556 %) SOA	Programming Languages 1 9 (50.00 %) Java 2 2 (11.11 %) JavaScript 2 2 (11.11 %) C 2 2 (11.11 %) C# 2 2 (11.11 %) C++ 2 2 (11.11 %) PL/SQL 2 2 (11.11 %) SQL 2 2 (11.11 %) VB 3 1 (5.556 %) PHP5 3 1 (5.556 %) PHP
Qualifications 1 2 (11.11 %) HNC 1 2 (11.11 %) Citrix Certification 1 2 (11.11 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (11.11 %) ISO9001 1 2 (11.11 %) QA
System Software 1 2 (11.11 %) Oracle RAC	Vendors 1 9 (50.00 %) Oracle 2 3 (16.67 %) IBM 3 2 (11.11 %) Sun