The first table below looks at the demand for RUP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited RUP over the 3 months to 17 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 Manchester 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Rational Unified Process (RUP)
Rank - 78 63
Contract jobs citing RUP 0 6 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester - 0.461% 0.771%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 0.719% 1.192%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 3
Average daily rate - £375 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -31.81%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £400 £363
% change year-on-year
-18.75% +10.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £33.50 £27.25
% change year-on-year
-17.91% +22.93%
All Processes & Methodologies
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
643 835 671
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 70.35% 64.18% 64.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 413 300
Average daily rate £325 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £230 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £456 £454
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 41 38
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -2.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £12.01 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £80.50 £37.00 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
RUP
North West

RUP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester RUP Jobs Demand Trend

RUP
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester RUP Daily Rate Trend

RUP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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.

1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Visual Studio
2 2 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (66.67%) Subversion
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Kanban
3 1 (33.33%) Ext JS
3 1 (33.33%) REST
3 1 (33.33%) Office 365
3 1 (33.33%) SharePoint 2013
3 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (33.33%) MSF
3 1 (33.33%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (33.33%) Web Development
3 1 (33.33%) WCF
3 1 (33.33%) jQuery
3 1 (33.33%) Ajax
3 1 (33.33%) InfoPath
3 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 1 (33.33%) CSS
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) UML
3 1 (33.33%) OO
3 1 (33.33%) SharePoint

RUP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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.

Application Development
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) Ajax
1 1 (33.33%) WCF
1 1 (33.33%) jQuery
1 1 (33.33%) Ext JS
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (33.33%) REST
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) InfoPath
1 1 (33.33%) Office 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Visual Studio
1 2 (66.67%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Developer
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Developer
3 1 (33.33%) SharePoint Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
1 2 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (66.67%) Kanban
2 1 (33.33%) MSF
2 1 (33.33%) Web Development
2 1 (33.33%) UML
2 1 (33.33%) OO
2 1 (33.33%) CMMI
2 1 (33.33%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript