Oxfordshire UML Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Unified Modeling Language (UML) skills within the Oxfordshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited UML over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Unified Modeling Language (UML)
Location Abingdon Atherstone Basildon Basingstoke Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Coventry Crawley Crewe Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dover East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Romsey Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley 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 Whyteleafe Wigan Wiltshire Windsor Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	41	34
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching contract IT job ads	14	15
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.018 %	0.016 %
As % of the category below	4.403 %	7.317 %
Daily rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum daily rate	£375	£333
Average daily rate	£388	£367
% change on same period last year	+5.68 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	£362
% change on same period last year	+6.79 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£30.00
Average hourly rate	-	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£38.07	£34.40
% change on same period last year	+10.68 %
Processes & Methodologies Oxfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	318	205
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.419 %	0.217 %
Daily rates quoted	79	34
Average minimum daily rate	£315	£318
Average daily rate	£346	£339
% change on same period last year	+2.06 %
Average maximum daily rate	£377	£360
UK excluding London average daily rate	£384	£374
% change on same period last year	+2.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	61	34
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.96	£21.76
Average hourly rate	£26.02	£23.72
% change on same period last year	+9.69 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.09	£25.68
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.40	£30.19
% change on same period last year	-2.62 %
UML South East

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 Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

UML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

UML
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing UML within the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 4 July 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
Oxford	-1	6	-	-
Abingdon	-	1	-	-

UML South East

UML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 23 (62.16 %) .NET 2 21 (56.76 %) Microsoft 3 20 (54.05 %) OO 4 17 (45.95 %) ASP.NET 4 17 (45.95 %) C# 5 10 (27.03 %) SQL 5 10 (27.03 %) Web Development 6 9 (24.32 %) XML 7 8 (21.62 %) SQL Server 7 8 (21.62 %) Visual Studio 7 8 (21.62 %) Use Case 8 7 (18.92 %) WebServices 8 7 (18.92 %) WinForms 9 6 (16.22 %) NUnit 9 6 (16.22 %) HTML

9 6 (16.22 %) MS Excel 9 6 (16.22 %) ASP.NET 2.0 10 5 (13.51 %) SQL Server 2005 10 5 (13.51 %) MS Visio 10 5 (13.51 %) VB.NET 11 4 (10.81 %) RUP 12 3 (8.108 %) XSLT 12 3 (8.108 %) E-Commerce 12 3 (8.108 %) COM 12 3 (8.108 %) Workflow 12 3 (8.108 %) SQL Server 2000 12 3 (8.108 %) Intranet 12 3 (8.108 %) Internet 12 3 (8.108 %) Systems Analysis 13 2 (5.405 %) Business Analysis

UML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 23 (62.16 %) .NET 2 17 (45.95 %) ASP.NET 3 9 (24.32 %) XML 4 7 (18.92 %) WebServices 4 7 (18.92 %) WinForms 5 6 (16.22 %) ASP.NET 2.0 5 6 (16.22 %) HTML 6 3 (8.108 %) XSLT 6 3 (8.108 %) COM 7 2 (5.405 %) DCOM 7 2 (5.405 %) ASP 7 2 (5.405 %) Middleware 8 1 (2.703 %) AJAX 8 1 (2.703 %) WebSphere 8 1 (2.703 %) .NET Framework 8 1 (2.703 %) WCF 8 1 (2.703 %) JMS	Application Platforms 1 2 (5.405 %) MTS 2 1 (2.703 %) SharePoint 2 1 (2.703 %) ESB 2 1 (2.703 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 1 (2.703 %) WebSphere Message Broker 2 1 (2.703 %) IIS
Applications 1 6 (16.22 %) MS Excel 2 5 (13.51 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 3 (8.108 %) Intranet 1 3 (8.108 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (21.62 %) SQL Server 2 5 (13.51 %) SQL Server 2005 3 3 (8.108 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (2.703 %) SQL Server 7	Development Applications 1 8 (21.62 %) Visual Studio 2 6 (16.22 %) NUnit 3 2 (5.405 %) RequisitePro 4 1 (2.703 %) MSI
General 1 1 (2.703 %) Automotive 1 1 (2.703 %) Insurance	Job Titles 1 20 (54.05 %) Developer 2 16 (43.24 %) .NET Developer 3 10 (27.03 %) Analyst 4 9 (24.32 %) Business Analyst 5 5 (13.51 %) Web Developer 5 5 (13.51 %) .NET Web Developer 6 4 (10.81 %) .NET Architect 6 4 (10.81 %) Architect 7 3 (8.108 %) SQL DBA 7 3 (8.108 %) SQL Server DBA 7 3 (8.108 %) DBA 7 3 (8.108 %) Software Engineer 8 2 (5.405 %) C# Developer 8 2 (5.405 %) Administrator 8 2 (5.405 %) Senior Software Engineer 8 2 (5.405 %) Server Administrator 9 1 (2.703 %) Senior SQL DBA 9 1 (2.703 %) Embedded C Developer 9 1 (2.703 %) C Developer 9 1 (2.703 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous 1 2 (5.405 %) Replication	Operating Systems 1 2 (5.405 %) Windows 1 2 (5.405 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 20 (54.05 %) OO 2 10 (27.03 %) Web Development 3 8 (21.62 %) Use Case 4 4 (10.81 %) RUP 5 3 (8.108 %) E-Commerce 5 3 (8.108 %) Workflow 5 3 (8.108 %) Systems Analysis 6 2 (5.405 %) Business Analysis 6 2 (5.405 %) OOD 7 1 (2.703 %) Quality Management 7 1 (2.703 %) Change Management 7 1 (2.703 %) OOA/OOD 7 1 (2.703 %) Agile Software Development 7 1 (2.703 %) TDD 7 1 (2.703 %) BPEL 7 1 (2.703 %) Data Modelling	Programming Languages 1 17 (45.95 %) C# 2 10 (27.03 %) SQL 3 5 (13.51 %) VB.NET 4 2 (5.405 %) Embedded C 4 2 (5.405 %) VB6 4 2 (5.405 %) C 4 2 (5.405 %) VB 5 1 (2.703 %) Transact-SQL 5 1 (2.703 %) C++ 5 1 (2.703 %) Java 5 1 (2.703 %) JavaScript
Vendors 1 21 (56.76 %) Microsoft 2 2 (5.405 %) Intel 3 1 (2.703 %) IBM