Manchester UML Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Unified Modeling Language (UML) skills within the Manchester 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 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Unified Modeling Language (UML)
Location Aberdeen Ascot Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Coventry Cowes Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Fife Fleetwood Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Isle of Wight Kent Kirkcaldy Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Rickmansworth Rugby Salford Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Wiltshire Woking Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	43	39
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	29	32
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.041 %	0.032 %
As % of the category below	5.566 %	7.159 %
Daily rates quoted	11	2
Average minimum daily rate	£314	£450
Average daily rate	£319	£450
% change on same period last year	-29.05 %
Average maximum daily rate	£324	£450
UK excluding London average daily rate	£384	£368
% change on same period last year	+4.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.00	£32.50
Average hourly rate	£37.50	£34.88
% change on same period last year	+7.52 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	£37.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£36.72	£35.94
% change on same period last year	+2.16 %
Processes & Methodologies Manchester
Matching contract IT job ads	521	447
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.737 %	0.452 %
Daily rates quoted	143	111
Average minimum daily rate	£354	£335
Average daily rate	£378	£356
% change on same period last year	+6.12 %
Average maximum daily rate	£403	£378
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£371
% change on same period last year	+1.83 %
Hourly rates quoted	48	51
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.73	£23.92
Average hourly rate	£31.45	£26.02
% change on same period last year	+20.88 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.18	£28.12
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.42	£29.97
% change on same period last year	-1.81 %
UML North West

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 Manchester 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 Manchester region.

UML
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing UML across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 13 October 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 Manchester region.

UML
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing UML across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

UML
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UML within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 13 October 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
Cheadle	0	1	-	-
Stockport	-2	1	-	-
Salford	-	1	-	-

UML North West

UML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 19 (36.54 %) SQL 2 18 (34.62 %) Oracle 3 15 (28.85 %) Finance 3 15 (28.85 %) XML 3 15 (28.85 %) PRINCE2 4 14 (26.92 %) Business Analysis 5 13 (25.00 %) PL/SQL 6 12 (23.08 %) .NET 6 12 (23.08 %) Oracle 9i 6 12 (23.08 %) Oracle 10g 7 11 (21.15 %) Insurance 7 11 (21.15 %) Shell Script 8 10 (19.23 %) SQL Server 9 9 (17.31 %) C# 9 9 (17.31 %) QA

10 8 (15.38 %) SQL Server 2005 10 8 (15.38 %) Requirements Analysis 11 7 (13.46 %) ASP.NET 12 6 (11.54 %) WebServices 12 6 (11.54 %) Java 12 6 (11.54 %) Microsoft 12 6 (11.54 %) Stakeholder Management 12 6 (11.54 %) Oracle RMAN 12 6 (11.54 %) Project Planning 12 6 (11.54 %) Oracle RAC 13 5 (9.615 %) Health 13 5 (9.615 %) OO 13 5 (9.615 %) C++ 14 4 (7.692 %) SQL Server 2000 14 4 (7.692 %) Pensions

UML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 15 (28.85 %) XML 2 12 (23.08 %) .NET 3 7 (13.46 %) ASP.NET 4 6 (11.54 %) WebServices 5 4 (7.692 %) .NET Framework 6 3 (5.769 %) Hibernate 6 3 (5.769 %) ASP.NET 2.0 6 3 (5.769 %) XSLT 6 3 (5.769 %) CORBA 6 3 (5.769 %) COM 6 3 (5.769 %) J2EE 6 3 (5.769 %) ASP 6 3 (5.769 %) CSS 7 2 (3.846 %) SOAP 7 2 (3.846 %) HTML 7 2 (3.846 %) Spring 7 2 (3.846 %) WebSphere 8 1 (1.923 %) .NET Remoting 8 1 (1.923 %) Flex 2 8 1 (1.923 %) Adobe Flex	Application Platforms 1 3 (5.769 %) SharePoint 2 1 (1.923 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 1 (1.923 %) Apache
Applications 1 3 (5.769 %) MS Visio 2 2 (3.846 %) MS Excel 3 1 (1.923 %) Photoshop 3 1 (1.923 %) Adobe Illustrator 3 1 (1.923 %) Doxygen	Communications & Networking 1 2 (3.846 %) SSL 2 1 (1.923 %) Internet 2 1 (1.923 %) BSS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (23.08 %) Oracle 9i 1 12 (23.08 %) Oracle 10g 2 10 (19.23 %) SQL Server 3 8 (15.38 %) SQL Server 2005 4 4 (7.692 %) SQL Server 2000 5 1 (1.923 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 1 (1.923 %) MySQL 5 1 (1.923 %) SQL Server 7 5 1 (1.923 %) Datawarehouse 5 1 (1.923 %) ETL 5 1 (1.923 %) Oracle Discoverer	Development Applications 1 3 (5.769 %) Visual Studio 2 2 (3.846 %) Eclipse 2 2 (3.846 %) NUnit 3 1 (1.923 %) Selenium 3 1 (1.923 %) ClearQuest 3 1 (1.923 %) Flash 3 1 (1.923 %) ClearCase
General 1 15 (28.85 %) Finance 2 11 (21.15 %) Insurance 3 5 (9.615 %) Health 4 4 (7.692 %) Pensions 5 1 (1.923 %) Manufacturing 5 1 (1.923 %) Banking 5 1 (1.923 %) Education	Job Titles 1 18 (34.62 %) Business Analyst 1 18 (34.62 %) Analyst 2 13 (25.00 %) Developer 3 11 (21.15 %) Database Designer 4 8 (15.38 %) Administrator 5 4 (7.692 %) Software Engineer 6 3 (5.769 %) Web Developer 6 3 (5.769 %) .NET Developer 6 3 (5.769 %) Insurance Business Analyst 7 2 (3.846 %) C# Developer 7 2 (3.846 %) Java Developer 7 2 (3.846 %) Software Developer 8 1 (1.923 %) Architect 8 1 (1.923 %) Consultant 8 1 (1.923 %) Data Architect 8 1 (1.923 %) Business Systems Analyst 8 1 (1.923 %) Systems Analyst 8 1 (1.923 %) Oracle DBA 8 1 (1.923 %) C++ Developer 8 1 (1.923 %) DBA
Miscellaneous 1 2 (3.846 %) Multithreading 2 1 (1.923 %) W3C 2 1 (1.923 %) Replication	Operating Systems 1 3 (5.769 %) Linux 2 2 (3.846 %) Windows 3 1 (1.923 %) UNIX 3 1 (1.923 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (1.923 %) Windows Server 2008 3 1 (1.923 %) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (28.85 %) PRINCE2 2 14 (26.92 %) Business Analysis 3 8 (15.38 %) Requirements Analysis 4 6 (11.54 %) Project Planning 4 6 (11.54 %) Stakeholder Management 5 5 (9.615 %) OO 6 4 (7.692 %) Security Cleared 7 3 (5.769 %) Systems Analysis 7 3 (5.769 %) Data Modelling 8 2 (3.846 %) CRM 8 2 (3.846 %) Project Management 8 2 (3.846 %) Workflow 8 2 (3.846 %) Validation 8 2 (3.846 %) Release Management 8 2 (3.846 %) User Acceptance Testing 9 1 (1.923 %) BPMN 9 1 (1.923 %) Migration 9 1 (1.923 %) Web Development 9 1 (1.923 %) Use Case 9 1 (1.923 %) Data Architecture	Programming Languages 1 19 (36.54 %) SQL 2 13 (25.00 %) PL/SQL 3 11 (21.15 %) Shell Script 4 9 (17.31 %) C# 5 6 (11.54 %) Java 6 5 (9.615 %) C++ 7 3 (5.769 %) JavaScript 7 3 (5.769 %) C 7 3 (5.769 %) VB.NET 8 2 (3.846 %) XPath 8 2 (3.846 %) PHP 8 2 (3.846 %) Transact-SQL 9 1 (1.923 %) VBScript 9 1 (1.923 %) VB 9 1 (1.923 %) DHTML 9 1 (1.923 %) ActionScript 9 1 (1.923 %) VBA
Qualifications 1 3 (5.769 %) Degree 2 2 (3.846 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 1 (1.923 %) ISEB	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 9 (17.31 %) QA
System Software 1 6 (11.54 %) Oracle RMAN 1 6 (11.54 %) Oracle RAC	Vendors 1 18 (34.62 %) Oracle 2 6 (11.54 %) Microsoft 3 1 (1.923 %) Adobe 3 1 (1.923 %) ILOG 3 1 (1.923 %) Telelogic 3 1 (1.923 %) IBM