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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for RUP 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 RUP over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the London region.

 Rational Unified Process (RUP)
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank220127207
Rank change year-on-year
Down-93Up+80
Matching contract IT job ads158209269
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London0.610 %1.266 %0.734 %
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category0.993 %2.234 %1.397 %
Daily rates quoted6971157
Average daily rate£500£438£450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28 %-2.770 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£341£313£278
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£579£600£620
UK excluding London average daily rate£369£375£425
% change year-on-year
-1.660 %-11.76 %
Hourly rates quoted405
Average hourly rate£31.94-£47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£22.00-£35.25
London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryAll Processes & Methodologies
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
15919935419257
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London61.46 %56.67 %52.55 %
Daily rates quoted875038898026
Average daily rate£450£410£438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.750 %-6.280 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£288£250£275
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£575£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£350£360£375
% change year-on-year
-2.770 %-4.000 %
Hourly rates quoted287293718
Average hourly rate£30.00£26.00£27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.38 %-5.450 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£15.00£13.00£15.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£44.00£46.76£42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£24.50£27.50£30.00
% change year-on-year
-10.90 %-8.330 %
RUP EnglandRUP
England

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.

RUP
Demand Trend

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

London RUP Demand Trend

RUP
Daily Rate Trend

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

London RUP Daily Rate Trend

RUP
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing RUP across the London region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

London RUP Daily Rate Histogram

RUP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London RUP Hourly Rate Trend

RUP
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing RUP across the London region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

London RUP Hourly Rate Histogram

RUP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RUP within the London region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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 LondonDown-5363£473-3.07 %
Docklands, LondonDown-137£597+99.00 %
Canary WharfDown-337£574-
UxbridgeNew entry-1£350-
RUP EnglandRUP
England

RUP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing RUP 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 RUP.

1169 (56.90 %)UML
295 (31.99 %)Finance
383 (27.95 %)Banking
466 (22.22 %)SQL
565 (21.89 %)Business Analysis
654 (18.18 %)Java
749 (16.50 %)Oracle
848 (16.16 %)Derivative
848 (16.16 %)Investment Banking
945 (15.15 %)Use Case
1043 (14.48 %)Project Management
1140 (13.47 %)PRINCE2
1239 (13.13 %)SOA
1239 (13.13 %)Rational Rose
1338 (12.79 %)OO
1436 (12.12 %)J2EE
1436 (12.12 %)User Acceptance Testing
1534 (11.45 %)XML
1632 (10.77 %)Stakeholder Management
1632 (10.77 %)Fixed Income
1632 (10.77 %)QA
1731 (10.44 %)Unified Process
1829 (9.764 %)MS Visio
1928 (9.428 %)TOGAF
2027 (9.091 %)Web Services
2126 (8.754 %).NET
2225 (8.418 %)RequisitePro
2324 (8.081 %)Scrum
2423 (7.744 %)UNIX
2522 (7.407 %)Front Office

RUP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing RUP 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 RUP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

London IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
136 (12.12 %)J2EE
234 (11.45 %)XML
327 (9.091 %)Web Services
426 (8.754 %).NET
518 (6.061 %)HTML
614 (4.714 %)XSL
614 (4.714 %)JSP
713 (4.377 %)Spring
812 (4.040 %)Hibernate
911 (3.704 %)Struts
109 (3.030 %)JMS
109 (3.030 %)CSS
118 (2.694 %)Adobe Flex
118 (2.694 %)AJAX
118 (2.694 %)Struts2
118 (2.694 %)JDBC
118 (2.694 %)Servlets
126 (2.020 %)Middleware
126 (2.020 %)ASP.NET
134 (1.347 %).NET Framework
London IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
111 (3.704 %)WebLogic
27 (2.357 %)SAS
27 (2.357 %)SharePoint
36 (2.020 %)Oracle 10gAS
36 (2.020 %)Oracle Application Server
45 (1.684 %)AquaLogic
45 (1.684 %)LiveCycle
54 (1.347 %)Apache
63 (1.010 %)MQSeries
63 (1.010 %)ESB
72 (0.673 %)Tomcat
72 (0.673 %)IIS
81 (0.337 %)Lotus Domino
81 (0.337 %)WebSphere Application Server
81 (0.337 %)LiveLink
81 (0.337 %)CMS
81 (0.337 %)ActiveMQ
81 (0.337 %)SugarCRM
81 (0.337 %)Office Project Server
81 (0.337 %)Drupal
London IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
129 (9.764 %)MS Visio
216 (5.387 %)MS Project
39 (3.030 %)MS Excel
46 (2.020 %)MS Office
London IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
110 (3.367 %)RMDS
28 (2.694 %)Murex MxG2000
34 (1.347 %)Kondor+
34 (1.347 %)ZaiNet
41 (0.337 %)Summit
41 (0.337 %)Dynamics CRM
41 (0.337 %)TIBCO iProcess
London IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
17 (2.357 %)LDAP
26 (2.020 %)Internet
26 (2.020 %)HTTP
33 (1.010 %)Intranet
42 (0.673 %)Extranet
51 (0.337 %)SSL
51 (0.337 %)LAN
51 (0.337 %)WAN
51 (0.337 %)Kerberos
51 (0.337 %)TCP/IP
51 (0.337 %)Firewall
51 (0.337 %)DMZ
London IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
114 (4.714 %)SQL Server
210 (3.367 %)Oracle 10g
37 (2.357 %)Oracle Reports
46 (2.020 %)BusinessObjects
55 (1.684 %)Datawarehouse
64 (1.347 %)SQL Server 2000
64 (1.347 %)ETL
73 (1.010 %)RDBMS
82 (0.673 %)Reference Data
82 (0.673 %)Oracle 8/8i
82 (0.673 %)Crystal Reports
82 (0.673 %)MySQL
91 (0.337 %)DB2
91 (0.337 %)PostgreSQL
91 (0.337 %)SQL Server 2005
91 (0.337 %)Oracle BI EE
91 (0.337 %)SQL Server 2008
91 (0.337 %)Pentaho
London IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
139 (13.13 %)Rational Rose
225 (8.418 %)RequisitePro
317 (5.724 %)ClearQuest
415 (5.051 %)ClearCase
514 (4.714 %)JUnit
65 (1.684 %)TestDirector
74 (1.347 %)Team Foundation Server
74 (1.347 %)Build Forge
74 (1.347 %)Maven
74 (1.347 %)Subversion
74 (1.347 %)Rational Robot
74 (1.347 %)LoadRunner
74 (1.347 %)Oracle Forms
83 (1.010 %)VSS/SourceSafe
83 (1.010 %)Eclipse
83 (1.010 %)PowerBuilder
92 (0.673 %)JIRA
92 (0.673 %)WinRunner
92 (0.673 %)QuickTest Pro
92 (0.673 %)XDE
London IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
195 (31.99 %)Finance
283 (27.95 %)Banking
348 (16.16 %)Investment Banking
422 (7.407 %)Front Office
520 (6.734 %)Retail
615 (5.051 %)Back Office
615 (5.051 %)Government
710 (3.367 %)Pensions
87 (2.357 %)Corporate Banking
96 (2.020 %)Marketing
96 (2.020 %)Insurance
105 (1.684 %)Chemicals
105 (1.684 %)Law
105 (1.684 %)Financial Institution
114 (1.347 %)Wholesale Banking
114 (1.347 %)Construction
123 (1.010 %)Games
132 (0.673 %)Telecoms
132 (0.673 %)Criminal Justice
132 (0.673 %)Police
London IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1146 (49.16 %)Analyst
2115 (38.72 %)Business Analyst
351 (17.17 %)Project Manager
440 (13.47 %)Architect
529 (9.764 %)Developer
625 (8.418 %)Systems Analyst
714 (4.714 %)Java Developer
812 (4.040 %)Lead Architect
911 (3.704 %)E-Commerce Manager
911 (3.704 %)E-Commerce Project Manager
1010 (3.367 %)Solutions Architect
119 (3.030 %)Test Analyst
119 (3.030 %)Investment Banking Business Analyst
119 (3.030 %)Banking Business Analyst
128 (2.694 %)Murex Business Analyst
128 (2.694 %)Senior Analyst
128 (2.694 %)Enterprise Architect
137 (2.357 %)Configuration Manager
137 (2.357 %)Murex Analyst
146 (2.020 %)Java/J2EE Developer
London IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
148 (16.16 %)Derivative
232 (10.77 %)Fixed Income
321 (7.071 %)Equities
417 (5.724 %)Credit Derivative
516 (5.387 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
610 (3.367 %)Equity Derivative
78 (2.694 %)Credit Risk
85 (1.684 %)N-Tier
94 (1.347 %)PMI
102 (0.673 %)Open Source
102 (0.673 %)Market Risk
102 (0.673 %)Web 2.0
102 (0.673 %)Client/Server
111 (0.337 %)Management Information System
111 (0.337 %)Mainframe
111 (0.337 %)Energy Derivatives
111 (0.337 %)PKI
111 (0.337 %)Pharmacovigilance
111 (0.337 %)French Language
111 (0.337 %)Visualisation
London IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
123 (7.744 %)UNIX
216 (5.387 %)Solaris
36 (2.020 %)Windows
43 (1.010 %)Linux
51 (0.337 %)AIX
51 (0.337 %)MVS
51 (0.337 %)Debian
51 (0.337 %)Windows Server 2003
51 (0.337 %)Red Hat Linux
51 (0.337 %)Windows Server 2008
London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1169 (56.90 %)UML
265 (21.89 %)Business Analysis
345 (15.15 %)Use Case
443 (14.48 %)Project Management
540 (13.47 %)PRINCE2
639 (13.13 %)SOA
738 (12.79 %)OO
836 (12.12 %)User Acceptance Testing
932 (10.77 %)Stakeholder Management
1031 (10.44 %)Unified Process
1128 (9.428 %)TOGAF
1224 (8.081 %)Scrum
1322 (7.407 %)Agile Software Development
1418 (6.061 %)E-Commerce
1517 (5.724 %)RAD
1517 (5.724 %)Risk Management
1615 (5.051 %)GAP Analysis
1714 (4.714 %)Enterprise Architecture
1813 (4.377 %)Migration
1912 (4.040 %)SSADM
London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
166 (22.22 %)SQL
254 (18.18 %)Java
320 (6.734 %)PL/SQL
415 (5.051 %)C#
59 (3.030 %)JavaScript
67 (2.357 %)VBA
73 (1.010 %)C
73 (1.010 %)Perl
82 (0.673 %)Groovy
82 (0.673 %)Shell Script
82 (0.673 %)PHP
82 (0.673 %)T-SQL
91 (0.337 %)VBScript
91 (0.337 %)VB
91 (0.337 %)VB.NET
91 (0.337 %)C++
91 (0.337 %)COBOL
91 (0.337 %)Python
91 (0.337 %)Korn
91 (0.337 %)Ruby
London IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
115 (5.051 %)Security Cleared
212 (4.040 %)Degree
310 (3.367 %)SC Cleared
46 (2.020 %)CFA
55 (1.684 %)PMI Certification
55 (1.684 %)MBA
64 (1.347 %)DV Cleared
64 (1.347 %)PRINCE2 Certification
73 (1.010 %)ISEB
81 (0.337 %)PMP
London IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
132 (10.77 %)QA
24 (1.347 %)MiFID
32 (0.673 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
41 (0.337 %)COBIT
London IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
13 (1.010 %)Active Directory
21 (0.337 %)Oracle RAC
London IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
12 (0.673 %)OpenView Configuration Management
London IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
149 (16.50 %)Oracle
215 (5.051 %)Microsoft
314 (4.714 %)Sun
314 (4.714 %)BEA
413 (4.377 %)Reuters
512 (4.040 %)Wall Street Systems
69 (3.030 %)IBM
78 (2.694 %)Murex
86 (2.020 %)Business Objects
86 (2.020 %)Adobe
95 (1.684 %)Cognos
104 (1.347 %)Pega
104 (1.347 %)Trayport
104 (1.347 %)OpenLink
113 (1.010 %)JBoss
113 (1.010 %)SAP
113 (1.010 %)TIBCO
122 (0.673 %)Cognotec
122 (0.673 %)Sybase
131 (0.337 %)Red Hat