Portsmouth UML Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Unified Modeling Language (UML) skills within the Portsmouth 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 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Unified Modeling Language (UML)
Location Ascot Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Fife Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Henley-on-Thames Herefordshire Hertfordshire Horsham Hull Kent Kirkcaldy Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Livingston London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Portsmouth Reading Redhill Rickmansworth Rugby Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Wigan Wiltshire Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	9	17
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching contract IT job ads	25	12
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.034 %	0.012 %
As % of the category below	20.66 %	9.375 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£320	-
Average daily rate	£320	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£320	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£383	£360
% change on same period last year	+6.24 %
Hourly rates quoted	20	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£36.70	£35.73
Average hourly rate	£37.70	£36.91
% change on same period last year	+2.14 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.70	£38.09
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£37.52	£34.99
% change on same period last year	+7.20 %
Processes & Methodologies Portsmouth
Matching contract IT job ads	121	128
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.164 %	0.126 %
Daily rates quoted	15	18
Average minimum daily rate	£289	£281
Average daily rate	£302	£304
% change on same period last year	-0.51 %
Average maximum daily rate	£316	£326
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£375
% change on same period last year	+0.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	68	68
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.13	£29.72
Average hourly rate	£34.39	£31.33
% change on same period last year	+9.77 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.66	£32.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.41	£30.41
% change on same period last year	+0.01 %
UML Hampshire

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 Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth region.

UML
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing UML across the Portsmouth region over the 3 months to 5 September 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 Portsmouth region.

UML
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing UML across the Portsmouth region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

UML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Portsmouth 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 36 (80.00 %) C++ 2 27 (60.00 %) OO 3 19 (42.22 %) Java 4 13 (28.89 %) CORBA 4 13 (28.89 %) Security Cleared 5 12 (26.67 %) Unit Testing 5 12 (26.67 %) XML 6 11 (24.44 %) Agile Software Development 7 9 (20.00 %) J2SE 8 8 (17.78 %) SC Cleared 9 7 (15.56 %) C 9 7 (15.56 %) RDBMS 9 7 (15.56 %) ARTiSAN 9 7 (15.56 %) Configuration Management 10 6 (13.33 %) Aerospace

10 6 (13.33 %) Ada 10 6 (13.33 %) BC Cleared 11 5 (11.11 %) Network Planning 11 5 (11.11 %) SSADM 11 5 (11.11 %) OOA/OOD 11 5 (11.11 %) VB 11 5 (11.11 %) SQL Server 11 5 (11.11 %) Government 11 5 (11.11 %) DVB 11 5 (11.11 %) Microsoft 12 4 (8.889 %) Symbian 12 4 (8.889 %) OpenGL 12 4 (8.889 %) Validation 12 4 (8.889 %) Unified Process 12 4 (8.889 %) Military

UML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Portsmouth 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 (28.89 %) CORBA 2 12 (26.67 %) XML 3 9 (20.00 %) J2SE 4 4 (8.889 %) OpenGL 5 3 (6.667 %) XML Schema 6 2 (4.444 %) .NET 7 1 (2.222 %) MFC 7 1 (2.222 %) .NET Framework	Applications 1 1 (2.222 %) MS Project 1 1 (2.222 %) MS Office 1 1 (2.222 %) MS Visio
Communications & Networking 1 5 (11.11 %) DVB 2 1 (2.222 %) ATM 2 1 (2.222 %) TCP/IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (15.56 %) RDBMS 2 5 (11.11 %) SQL Server 3 1 (2.222 %) Oracle 9i 3 1 (2.222 %) Oracle 10g
Development Applications 1 7 (15.56 %) ARTiSAN 2 4 (8.889 %) JUnit 2 4 (8.889 %) Visual Studio 3 1 (2.222 %) ClearCase 3 1 (2.222 %) Rational Rose 3 1 (2.222 %) Eclipse 3 1 (2.222 %) Rational Robot 3 1 (2.222 %) LabVIEW	General 1 6 (13.33 %) Aerospace 2 5 (11.11 %) Government 3 4 (8.889 %) Military 3 4 (8.889 %) Avionics 4 1 (2.222 %) Telecoms 4 1 (2.222 %) Finance 4 1 (2.222 %) Auditing
Job Titles 1 31 (68.89 %) Software Engineer 2 10 (22.22 %) Principal Software Engineer 2 10 (22.22 %) Principal Engineer 3 7 (15.56 %) Architect 4 6 (13.33 %) Software Architect 4 6 (13.33 %) Java Software Engineer 4 6 (13.33 %) Software Designer 5 4 (8.889 %) Software Test Engineer 5 4 (8.889 %) Test Engineer 6 3 (6.667 %) Developer 7 2 (4.444 %) Software Developer 8 1 (2.222 %) Systems Engineer 8 1 (2.222 %) Systems Designer 8 1 (2.222 %) Network Designer 8 1 (2.222 %) Senior Systems Engineer 8 1 (2.222 %) Administrator 8 1 (2.222 %) Java Developer 8 1 (2.222 %) C++ Software Engineer 8 1 (2.222 %) Integration Engineer 8 1 (2.222 %) Software Integration Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (2.222 %) Client/Server 1 1 (2.222 %) Mathematics 1 1 (2.222 %) Physics 1 1 (2.222 %) Computer Science
Operating Systems 1 4 (8.889 %) Linux 2 2 (4.444 %) Windows 2 2 (4.444 %) Windows XP 2 2 (4.444 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (2.222 %) Windows Vista 3 1 (2.222 %) Windows Server 2008 3 1 (2.222 %) Windows 2000 Server 3 1 (2.222 %) UNIX 3 1 (2.222 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 27 (60.00 %) OO 2 13 (28.89 %) Security Cleared 3 12 (26.67 %) Unit Testing 4 11 (24.44 %) Agile Software Development 5 8 (17.78 %) SC Cleared 6 7 (15.56 %) Configuration Management 7 6 (13.33 %) BC Cleared 8 5 (11.11 %) OOA/OOD 8 5 (11.11 %) SSADM 8 5 (11.11 %) Network Planning 9 4 (8.889 %) Validation 9 4 (8.889 %) Unified Process 9 4 (8.889 %) RUP 9 4 (8.889 %) OOD 9 4 (8.889 %) OOP 10 2 (4.444 %) Requirements Analysis 11 1 (2.222 %) HOOD 11 1 (2.222 %) Risk Management 11 1 (2.222 %) Test Management 11 1 (2.222 %) Software Engineering
Programming Languages 1 36 (80.00 %) C++ 2 19 (42.22 %) Java 3 7 (15.56 %) C 4 6 (13.33 %) Ada 5 5 (11.11 %) VB 6 1 (2.222 %) VB.NET 6 1 (2.222 %) VBA 6 1 (2.222 %) VB6 6 1 (2.222 %) C# 6 1 (2.222 %) VBScript	Qualifications 1 1 (2.222 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (8.889 %) ISO12207	Vendors 1 5 (11.11 %) Microsoft 2 4 (8.889 %) Symbian 3 1 (2.222 %) Cisco 3 1 (2.222 %) Oracle