The first table below looks at the demand for Use Case skills in IT contracts advertised for the Salford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Use Case over the 3 months to 20 June 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 Salford 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Use Cases
Rank - 7 3
Contract jobs citing Use Case 0 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Salford - 4.167% 12.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 6.250% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Average daily rate - £375 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -11.76%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £395 £420
% change year-on-year
-5.06% -5.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.16 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+2.47% +13.85%
All Processes & Methodologies
Salford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
20 16 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Salford 80.00% 66.67% 75.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 14 4
Average daily rate £323 £275 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.27% -35.29%
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
+2.06% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £20.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.50 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+22.00% -13.79%
Use Case
Manchester

Use Case
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Salford 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 Salford region.

Salford Use Case Daily Rate Trend

Use Case
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Salford 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 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) BDD
1 3 (100.00%) User Stories
2 2 (66.67%) New Media
2 2 (66.67%) Competitor Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Web 2.0
2 2 (66.67%) Social Network
2 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
2 2 (66.67%) Content Management
2 2 (66.67%) Interactive TV
2 2 (66.67%) UML
2 2 (66.67%) Internet
2 2 (66.67%) Publishing
2 2 (66.67%) Streaming Video
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development

Use Case
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Salford 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.

Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Internet
General
1 2 (66.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Business Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) New Media
1 2 (66.67%) Web 2.0
1 2 (66.67%) Social Network
1 2 (66.67%) Interactive TV
1 2 (66.67%) Streaming Video
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) BDD
1 3 (100.00%) User Stories
2 2 (66.67%) Competitor Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
2 2 (66.67%) Content Management
2 2 (66.67%) UML
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development