North East UML Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Unified Modeling Language (UML) skills within the North East 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 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Unified Modeling Language (UML)
Location Aberdeen Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Coventry Cowes Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Fife Filton Fleetwood Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Isle of Wight Kent Kirkcaldy Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidstone Malvern Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Preston Pudsey Reading Rickmansworth Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	37	23
Rank change on same period last year	-14
Matching contract IT job ads	11	42
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.018 %	0.045 %
As % of the category below	5.069 %	9.589 %
Daily rates quoted	4	22
Average minimum daily rate	£388	£282
Average daily rate	£423	£290
% change on same period last year	+45.84 %
Average maximum daily rate	£458	£297
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£369
% change on same period last year	+3.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£40.00
Average hourly rate	-	£40.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.20	£36.13
% change on same period last year	-2.56 %
Processes & Methodologies North East
Matching contract IT job ads	217	438
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.349 %	0.470 %
Daily rates quoted	54	141
Average minimum daily rate	£321	£321
Average daily rate	£355	£333
% change on same period last year	+6.43 %
Average maximum daily rate	£389	£346
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£372
% change on same period last year	+2.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	20	37
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.99	£39.68
Average hourly rate	£23.12	£42.61
% change on same period last year	-45.73 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.26	£45.53
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.24	£29.63
% change on same period last year	-4.68 %
UML England

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 North East 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 North East region.

UML
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing UML across the North East region over the 3 months to 2 December 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 North East region.

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 North East region over the 3 months to 2 December 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
Tyne and Wear	+1	11	£423	+49.25 %

UML England

UML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 14 (58.33 %) SQL Server 2 13 (54.17 %) .NET 2 13 (54.17 %) ASP.NET 2 13 (54.17 %) XML 3 12 (50.00 %) C# 4 9 (37.50 %) SQL 4 9 (37.50 %) OO 4 9 (37.50 %) SQL Server 2005 5 8 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2000 5 8 (33.33 %) Finance 6 7 (29.17 %) Management Information System 6 7 (29.17 %) BusinessObjects 6 7 (29.17 %) Transact-SQL 6 7 (29.17 %) Business Objects 6 7 (29.17 %) AJAX

7 6 (25.00 %) Degree 7 6 (25.00 %) SAP 7 6 (25.00 %) DB2 7 6 (25.00 %) SSADM 7 6 (25.00 %) Business Intelligence 7 6 (25.00 %) Government 8 5 (20.83 %) Microsoft 8 5 (20.83 %) CSS 8 5 (20.83 %) Oracle 8 5 (20.83 %) HTML 8 5 (20.83 %) .NET Framework 8 5 (20.83 %) SAP XI 9 4 (16.67 %) Performance Management 9 4 (16.67 %) Business Analysis 9 4 (16.67 %) WebServices

UML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 13 (54.17 %) .NET 1 13 (54.17 %) ASP.NET 1 13 (54.17 %) XML 2 7 (29.17 %) AJAX 3 5 (20.83 %) .NET Framework 3 5 (20.83 %) SAP XI 3 5 (20.83 %) HTML 3 5 (20.83 %) CSS 4 4 (16.67 %) Middleware 4 4 (16.67 %) WebServices 5 3 (12.50 %) XSL 6 2 (8.333 %) XSLT 6 2 (8.333 %) Struts 6 2 (8.333 %) JSP 7 1 (4.167 %) Servlets 7 1 (4.167 %) JDBC 7 1 (4.167 %) EJB 7 1 (4.167 %) J2EE 7 1 (4.167 %) ASP 7 1 (4.167 %) Hibernate	Application Platforms 1 1 (4.167 %) WebLogic 1 1 (4.167 %) Apache 1 1 (4.167 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 2 (8.333 %) CA Clarity	Business Applications 1 2 (8.333 %) Oracle 11i 1 2 (8.333 %) Oracle Applications
Database & Business Intelligence 1 14 (58.33 %) SQL Server 2 9 (37.50 %) SQL Server 2005 3 8 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2000 4 7 (29.17 %) BusinessObjects 5 6 (25.00 %) DB2 6 1 (4.167 %) Oracle 9i	Development Applications 1 2 (8.333 %) JUnit 2 1 (4.167 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (4.167 %) ClearCase 2 1 (4.167 %) Rational Rose 2 1 (4.167 %) NUnit 2 1 (4.167 %) Visual Studio Team System 2 1 (4.167 %) Ant
General 1 8 (33.33 %) Finance 2 6 (25.00 %) Government 3 2 (8.333 %) Banking 4 1 (4.167 %) Local Government 4 1 (4.167 %) Auditing	Job Titles 1 9 (37.50 %) Developer 2 6 (25.00 %) Analyst 2 6 (25.00 %) Business Analyst 3 2 (8.333 %) Programme Manager 3 2 (8.333 %) Technical Support 3 2 (8.333 %) Technical Architect 3 2 (8.333 %) Java Developer 3 2 (8.333 %) .NET Developer 3 2 (8.333 %) Architect 4 1 (4.167 %) C# Developer 4 1 (4.167 %) J2EE Developer 4 1 (4.167 %) Senior J2EE Developer 4 1 (4.167 %) Senior Java Developer 4 1 (4.167 %) Business Manager 4 1 (4.167 %) Performance Manager 4 1 (4.167 %) Report Developer 4 1 (4.167 %) Senior Java/J2EE Developer 4 1 (4.167 %) Java/J2EE Developer 4 1 (4.167 %) BI Manager 4 1 (4.167 %) Development Manager
Miscellaneous 1 7 (29.17 %) Management Information System 2 1 (4.167 %) N-Tier	Operating Systems 1 3 (12.50 %) UNIX 2 2 (8.333 %) MVS 2 2 (8.333 %) VME
Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (37.50 %) OO 2 6 (25.00 %) SSADM 2 6 (25.00 %) Business Intelligence 3 4 (16.67 %) PRINCE2 3 4 (16.67 %) E-Commerce 3 4 (16.67 %) Business Analysis 3 4 (16.67 %) Performance Management 4 3 (12.50 %) Systems Analysis 4 3 (12.50 %) Project Management 4 3 (12.50 %) Workflow 5 2 (8.333 %) Information Management 5 2 (8.333 %) Data Modelling 5 2 (8.333 %) DSDM 5 2 (8.333 %) CRM 5 2 (8.333 %) OOA/OOD 5 2 (8.333 %) Enterprise Architecture 6 1 (4.167 %) RUP 6 1 (4.167 %) ITIL 6 1 (4.167 %) Change Management 6 1 (4.167 %) Migration	Programming Languages 1 12 (50.00 %) C# 2 9 (37.50 %) SQL 3 7 (29.17 %) Transact-SQL 4 2 (8.333 %) Java 5 1 (4.167 %) PL/SQL 5 1 (4.167 %) VB 5 1 (4.167 %) VB6
Qualifications 1 6 (25.00 %) Degree 2 2 (8.333 %) Sun Certification 3 1 (4.167 %) ISEB	Vendors 1 7 (29.17 %) Business Objects 2 6 (25.00 %) SAP 3 5 (20.83 %) Microsoft 3 5 (20.83 %) Oracle 4 2 (8.333 %) Sun 5 1 (4.167 %) BEA 5 1 (4.167 %) webMethods