The first table below looks at the demand for OpenUP skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OpenUP over the 3 months to 23 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 London 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Unified Process
Rank 374 404 426
Rank change year-on-year
+30 +22
Contract jobs citing OpenUP 3 6 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.014% 0.022% 0.028%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.019% 0.031% 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 8
Average daily rate £351 £350 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.14% -26.31%
UK excluding London average daily rate £463 £350 -
% change year-on-year
+32.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £10.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
16159 19342 22494
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 74.68% 71.82% 71.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 11074 12704 14813
Average daily rate £450 £450 £480
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £310
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 336 351
Average hourly rate £30.50 £26.36 £27.45
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.69% -3.96%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £15.00 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £110.00 £45.00 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
OpenUP
England

OpenUP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London OpenUP Jobs Demand Trend

OpenUP
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing OpenUP across the London region.

London OpenUP Daily Rate Trend

OpenUP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London OpenUP Hourly Rate Trend

OpenUP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenUP within the London region over the 3 months to 23 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
City of London +20 1 £351 +0.14%
OpenUP
England

OpenUP
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing OpenUP 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 OpenUP.

1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) MS Excel
2 1 (33.33%) Windows XP
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Lotus
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) MS Office
2 1 (33.33%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) MCP
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Lotus Notes
2 1 (33.33%) MCSE
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Objective-C
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (33.33%) MCDST
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Drupal
2 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Pentaho
2 1 (33.33%) iPad
2 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS

OpenUP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing OpenUP 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 OpenUP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (33.33%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Lotus Notes
1 1 (33.33%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) MS Excel
2 1 (33.33%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (33.33%) Pentaho
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) DBA
2 1 (33.33%) Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Database Developer
2 1 (33.33%) iPad Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
1 1 (33.33%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows XP
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Project Management
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (33.33%) MCP
1 1 (33.33%) MCSE
1 1 (33.33%) MCDST
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Lotus