The first table below looks at the demand for UML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited UML over the 3 months to 22 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 Merseyside 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Unified Modeling Language (UML)
Rank 33 30 23
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -7
Contract jobs citing UML 1 6 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 0.465% 2.247% 3.614%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.690% 3.727% 5.806%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
Average daily rate £375 £300 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -25.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £375 £400
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year
- -1.40%
All Processes & Methodologies
Merseyside
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
145 161 155
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 67.44% 60.30% 62.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 83 75
Average daily rate £350 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £243 £255 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £494 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 14 15
Average hourly rate - £17.51 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -22.17%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
UML
North West

UML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside UML Jobs Demand Trend

UML
Daily Rate Trend

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

Merseyside UML Daily Rate Trend

UML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Merseyside UML Hourly Rate Trend

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 Merseyside region over the 3 months to 22 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
Southport - 1 £375 -
UML
North West

UML
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) XML
1 1 (50.00%) XSLT
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Mobile
1 1 (50.00%) WCF
1 1 (50.00%) LINQ
1 1 (50.00%) jQuery
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 2

UML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) XML
1 1 (50.00%) XSLT
1 1 (50.00%) WCF
1 1 (50.00%) LINQ
1 1 (50.00%) jQuery
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Software Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#