The first table below looks at the demand for UML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Preston region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited UML over the 3 months to 22 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 Preston 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Unified Modeling Language (UML)
Rank - 26 -
Contract jobs citing UML 0 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Preston - 1.163% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 2.105% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £388 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £375 £400
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year
- -1.40%
All Processes & Methodologies
Preston
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
28 95 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Preston 57.14% 55.23% 37.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 76 1
Average daily rate £300 £397 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-24.33% +13.28%
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 0
Average hourly rate £25.75 £16.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+60.93% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
UML
Lancashire

UML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Preston UML Jobs Demand Trend

UML
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing UML across the Preston region.

Preston UML Daily Rate Trend

UML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Preston UML Hourly Rate Trend

UML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Preston 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 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) XSD
1 4 (100.00%) OO
1 4 (100.00%) WSDL
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) Requirements Analysis
1 4 (100.00%) WCF
1 4 (100.00%) Mobile App
1 4 (100.00%) Mobile Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (75.00%) XML
2 3 (75.00%) Document Management
2 3 (75.00%) WPF
2 3 (75.00%) .NET Framework
2 3 (75.00%) MVC
2 3 (75.00%) Workflow
2 3 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (75.00%) TDD
2 3 (75.00%) VB6
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) SOAP
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (75.00%) IIS
2 3 (75.00%) VB
2 3 (75.00%) VB.NET
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 7
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005

UML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Preston 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 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) XSD
1 4 (100.00%) WSDL
1 4 (100.00%) WCF
2 3 (75.00%) XML
2 3 (75.00%) WPF
2 3 (75.00%) .NET Framework
2 3 (75.00%) SOAP
3 2 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 2 (50.00%) Ninject
4 1 (25.00%) RESTful
4 1 (25.00%) Java EE
4 1 (25.00%) Web Services
4 1 (25.00%) ADO.NET
Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) IIS
2 1 (25.00%) ESB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 7
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Subversion
1 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) WPF Developer
3 1 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Mobile App
1 4 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) OO
1 4 (100.00%) Requirements Analysis
1 4 (100.00%) Mobile Application Development
2 3 (75.00%) Document Management
2 3 (75.00%) MVC
2 3 (75.00%) Workflow
2 3 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (75.00%) TDD
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Dependency Injection
4 1 (25.00%) Web Application Development
4 1 (25.00%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (75.00%) VB6
2 3 (75.00%) VB
2 3 (75.00%) VB.NET
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft