The first table below looks at the demand for Use Case skills in IT contracts advertised for the Luton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Use Case 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 Luton 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
Use Cases
Rank 15 10 -
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -
Contract jobs citing Use Case 2 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Luton 2.500% 4.762% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.279% 6.000% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
Average daily rate £350 £363 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.44% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £400 £406
% change year-on-year
-7.50% -1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.25 £31.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+2.38% +5.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
Luton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
61 50 37
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Luton 76.25% 79.37% 69.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 33 23
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £187 £273
10% offered a daily rate of more than £490 £425 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £35.50 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +222.72%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Use Case
Bedfordshire

Use Case
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Luton Use Case Jobs Demand Trend

Use Case
Daily Rate Trend

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

Luton Use Case Daily Rate Trend

Use Case
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Luton region citing Use Case 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 Use Case.

1 4 (80.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (60.00%) Change Management
2 3 (60.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) NUnit
3 1 (20.00%) VB6
3 1 (20.00%) Document Management
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Supplier Management
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (20.00%) NHibernate
3 1 (20.00%) Web Development
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (20.00%) WCF
3 1 (20.00%) WF
3 1 (20.00%) jQuery
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (20.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (20.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 1 (20.00%) Web Application Development
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2012
3 1 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (20.00%) VB
3 1 (20.00%) VBA
3 1 (20.00%) .NET
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (20.00%) Crystal Reports

Use Case
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (20.00%) NHibernate
1 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (20.00%) WCF
1 1 (20.00%) WF
1 1 (20.00%) jQuery
1 1 (20.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) Web Services
1 1 (20.00%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2012
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (20.00%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) NUnit
1 1 (20.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Business Analyst
1 4 (80.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Change Management
2 1 (20.00%) Document Management
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Supplier Management
2 1 (20.00%) Web Development
2 1 (20.00%) Web Application Development
2 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) MVC
2 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) VB6
1 1 (20.00%) C#
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
1 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
1 1 (20.00%) VB
1 1 (20.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) ISEB
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft