The first table below looks at the demand for Use Case skills in IT contracts advertised for the Northampton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Use Case over the 3 months to 21 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 Northampton 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Use Cases
Rank 16 29 20
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -9
Contract jobs citing Use Case 7 2 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Northampton 5.072% 0.847% 2.273%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.000% 1.242% 3.200%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 2
Average daily rate £425 £369 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.25% -10.60%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £400 £413
% change year-on-year
-12.50% -3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.25 £31.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+2.38% +5.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
Northampton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
100 161 125
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Northampton 72.46% 68.22% 71.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 114 75
Average daily rate £425 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.25% -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £308 £300 £183
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £485 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 7
Average hourly rate £12.00 £15.25 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.31% -23.75%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Use Case
Northamptonshire

Use Case
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Northampton 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 Northampton region.

Northampton Use Case Daily Rate Trend

Use Case
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Northampton 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 6 (85.71%) Finance
2 5 (71.43%) UML
3 4 (57.14%) SOA
3 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (57.14%) BPR
4 1 (14.29%) COBOL
4 1 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (14.29%) Fortran
4 1 (14.29%) CRM
4 1 (14.29%) ERP

Use Case
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Northampton 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.

General
1 6 (85.71%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Business Analyst
1 7 (100.00%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) CRM Systems Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Business Systems Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Systems Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) UML
2 4 (57.14%) SOA
2 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (57.14%) BPR
3 1 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (14.29%) CRM
3 1 (14.29%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) COBOL
1 1 (14.29%) Fortran