The first table below looks at the demand for UML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited UML 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 Reading 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
Unified Modeling Language (UML)
Rank 57 71 67
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -4
Contract jobs citing UML 16 10 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 1.869% 0.905% 1.165%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.787% 1.443% 1.762%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 9
Average daily rate £450 £400 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% +14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £397 £278 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £460 £500 £353
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 £36.00 £35.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year
+2.85% -1.40%
All Processes & Methodologies
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
574 693 681
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 67.06% 62.71% 66.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 267 304
Average daily rate £390 £370 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.40% +5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £253 £235 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 24 16
Average hourly rate £16.00 £14.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.34% -47.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.20 £11.00 £13.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £23.80 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
UML
Berkshire

UML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading UML Hourly Rate Trend

UML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 17 (56.67%) XML
2 10 (33.33%) Web Services
2 10 (33.33%) C#
2 10 (33.33%) SQL
2 10 (33.33%) .NET
3 9 (30.00%) J2EE
3 9 (30.00%) Java
3 9 (30.00%) Windows
3 9 (30.00%) SOA
4 7 (23.33%) ASP.NET
4 7 (23.33%) Web Development
4 7 (23.33%) jQuery
5 6 (20.00%) Use Case
5 6 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
5 6 (20.00%) Banking
5 6 (20.00%) CSS
5 6 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 6 (20.00%) HTML5
6 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
6 5 (16.67%) Visual Studio
6 5 (16.67%) Telecoms
6 5 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
6 5 (16.67%) .NET Framework
7 4 (13.33%) Enterprise Architecture
7 4 (13.33%) MVC
7 4 (13.33%) Security Cleared
7 4 (13.33%) GIS
7 4 (13.33%) SQL Server
7 4 (13.33%) XSLT
7 4 (13.33%) SharePoint

UML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 17 (56.67%) XML
2 10 (33.33%) Web Services
2 10 (33.33%) .NET
3 9 (30.00%) J2EE
4 7 (23.33%) ASP.NET
4 7 (23.33%) jQuery
5 6 (20.00%) CSS
5 6 (20.00%) HTML5
6 5 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
6 5 (16.67%) .NET Framework
7 4 (13.33%) XSLT
8 3 (10.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 3 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
8 3 (10.00%) HTML
8 3 (10.00%) ADO.NET
9 2 (6.667%) Windows SharePoint Services
9 2 (6.667%) Spring MVC
9 2 (6.667%) Hibernate
9 2 (6.667%) Spring
9 2 (6.667%) XSL
Application Platforms
1 4 (13.33%) SharePoint
2 3 (10.00%) ESB
3 2 (6.667%) SharePoint Server
3 2 (6.667%) MS Project Server
3 2 (6.667%) CM System
3 2 (6.667%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (3.333%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (3.333%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (6.667%) MS Project
1 2 (6.667%) MS Office
2 1 (3.333%) Fireworks
2 1 (3.333%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.667%) Intranet
1 2 (6.667%) LDAP
2 1 (3.333%) BSS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.33%) GIS
1 4 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (10.00%) Oracle 10g
3 2 (6.667%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (6.667%) IDOL
3 2 (6.667%) OLAP
3 2 (6.667%) DTS
4 1 (3.333%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.333%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Visual Studio
2 3 (10.00%) MSTest
2 3 (10.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (3.333%) Rational Rose
3 1 (3.333%) PVCS
General
1 6 (20.00%) Banking
2 5 (16.67%) Telecoms
3 3 (10.00%) Finance
4 1 (3.333%) Retail
4 1 (3.333%) Billing
4 1 (3.333%) Music
4 1 (3.333%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (43.33%) Developer
2 6 (20.00%) Architect
3 5 (16.67%) Business Analyst
3 5 (16.67%) Analyst
3 5 (16.67%) Team Leader
4 4 (13.33%) .NET Developer
4 4 (13.33%) C# Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Enterprise Architect
4 4 (13.33%) C# .NET Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Java Team Leader
5 3 (10.00%) Senior Business Analyst
5 3 (10.00%) Development Team Leader
5 3 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (10.00%) SharePoint Developer
6 2 (6.667%) J2EE Team Leader
6 2 (6.667%) Java Architect
6 2 (6.667%) Java Developer
6 2 (6.667%) Systems Architect
6 2 (6.667%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (6.667%) Development Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Open Source
2 2 (6.667%) Derivative
3 1 (3.333%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.333%) STB
3 1 (3.333%) Flash Lite
3 1 (3.333%) Streaming Music
3 1 (3.333%) PKI
3 1 (3.333%) IPTV
Operating Systems
1 9 (30.00%) Windows
2 2 (6.667%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (3.333%) UNIX
3 1 (3.333%) AIX
3 1 (3.333%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (30.00%) SOA
2 7 (23.33%) Web Development
3 6 (20.00%) Use Case
3 6 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (13.33%) Enterprise Architecture
4 4 (13.33%) MVC
5 3 (10.00%) ArchiMate
5 3 (10.00%) TOGAF
5 3 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (10.00%) Dependency Injection
5 3 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (10.00%) Multithreading
5 3 (10.00%) MODAF
5 3 (10.00%) Business Analysis
6 2 (6.667%) Release Management
6 2 (6.667%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (6.667%) Scrum
6 2 (6.667%) Unified Process
6 2 (6.667%) Project Management
7 1 (3.333%) Demand Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (33.33%) C#
1 10 (33.33%) SQL
2 9 (30.00%) Java
3 6 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (10.00%) PL/SQL
5 2 (6.667%) PHP
5 2 (6.667%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.333%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.333%) ActionScript
6 1 (3.333%) Perl
6 1 (3.333%) ActionScript 3.0
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.667%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (6.667%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.333%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.00%) Oracle
3 2 (6.667%) Meridio
3 2 (6.667%) JBoss
4 1 (3.333%) Adobe
4 1 (3.333%) Sun
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