The first table below looks at the demand for Use Case skills in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Use Case over the 3 months to 24 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 Milton Keynes 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Use Cases
Rank 52 55 51
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -4
Contract jobs citing Use Case 3 7 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 0.565% 1.003% 0.831%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.781% 1.522% 1.479%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 3
Average daily rate - £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -11.11%
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £400 £400
% change year-on-year
-7.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.00 £31.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+4.76% +5.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
384 460 338
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 72.32% 65.90% 56.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 208 150
Average daily rate £350 £325 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £222 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 23 31
Average hourly rate £17.50 £14.75 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.64% -1.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.20 £10.58 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.50 £17.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Use Case
Buckinghamshire

Use Case
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes Use Case Daily Rate Trend

Use Case
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 7 (70.00%) Java
1 7 (70.00%) J2EE
1 7 (70.00%) OO
1 7 (70.00%) Finance
2 6 (60.00%) Ajax
2 6 (60.00%) Dojo
2 6 (60.00%) Software Architecture
2 6 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (60.00%) CSS
3 5 (50.00%) JDBC
3 5 (50.00%) JSP
3 5 (50.00%) Servlets
3 5 (50.00%) Struts
3 5 (50.00%) XML
3 5 (50.00%) JMS
3 5 (50.00%) HTTP
3 5 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 5 (50.00%) DHTML
3 5 (50.00%) JSON
3 5 (50.00%) OOA/OOD
3 5 (50.00%) Spring
4 4 (40.00%) Hibernate
4 4 (40.00%) Open Source
5 3 (30.00%) WebSphere
6 2 (20.00%) ATG
6 2 (20.00%) Retail
6 2 (20.00%) Zachman Framework
6 2 (20.00%) TOGAF
6 2 (20.00%) Sun
6 2 (20.00%) IBM

Use Case
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 7 (70.00%) J2EE
2 6 (60.00%) Ajax
2 6 (60.00%) Dojo
2 6 (60.00%) CSS
3 5 (50.00%) JDBC
3 5 (50.00%) JSP
3 5 (50.00%) Servlets
3 5 (50.00%) Struts
3 5 (50.00%) XML
3 5 (50.00%) JMS
3 5 (50.00%) DHTML
3 5 (50.00%) JSON
3 5 (50.00%) Spring
4 4 (40.00%) Hibernate
5 3 (30.00%) WebSphere
6 2 (20.00%) Web Services
7 1 (10.00%) DOM
7 1 (10.00%) EJB
7 1 (10.00%) Middleware
7 1 (10.00%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 1 (10.00%) WebLogic
1 1 (10.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) HTTP
1 5 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Ant
1 1 (10.00%) Rational Rose
1 1 (10.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (10.00%) Maven
General
1 7 (70.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Retail
3 1 (10.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Developer
2 5 (50.00%) JavaScript Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Business Process Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Process Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) UNIX
1 1 (10.00%) AIX
1 1 (10.00%) Solaris
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) OO
2 6 (60.00%) Software Architecture
3 5 (50.00%) OOA/OOD
4 2 (20.00%) Zachman Framework
4 2 (20.00%) TOGAF
5 1 (10.00%) UML
5 1 (10.00%) Project Management
5 1 (10.00%) Data Modelling
5 1 (10.00%) SOA
5 1 (10.00%) RAD
5 1 (10.00%) RUP
5 1 (10.00%) E-Commerce
5 1 (10.00%) ERP
5 1 (10.00%) Migration
5 1 (10.00%) E-business
5 1 (10.00%) E-Procurement
5 1 (10.00%) Business Analysis
5 1 (10.00%) Refactoring
5 1 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Product Marketing
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Java
2 6 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) ATG
1 2 (20.00%) Sun
1 2 (20.00%) IBM
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) JBoss