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This section looks at the demand for Rational Unified Process (RUP) skills within the Sheffield region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited RUP over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkRational Unified Process (RUP)
Location
3 months to
29 Aug 2008
Same period last year
Rank3332
Rank change on same period last yearDown-1
Matching contract IT job ads26
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.003 %0.006 %
As % of the category below1.667 %4.225 %
Daily rates quoted12
Average minimum daily rate£300£400
Average daily rate£400£410
% change on same period last year-2.43 %
Average maximum daily rate£500£420
UK excluding London average daily rate£436£395
% change on same period last year+10.27 %
Hourly rates quoted00
Average minimum hourly rate--
Average hourly rate--
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum hourly rate--
UK excluding London average hourly rate£38.75£32.75
% change on same period last year+18.33 %
Sheffield IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
Sheffield
Matching contract IT job ads120142
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.160 %0.142 %
Daily rates quoted2336
Average minimum daily rate£333£317
Average daily rate£365£338
% change on same period last year+7.82 %
Average maximum daily rate£397£360
UK excluding London average daily rate£379£376
% change on same period last year+0.60 %
Hourly rates quoted3826
Average minimum hourly rate£28.37£25.99
Average hourly rate£29.20£26.63
% change on same period last year+9.64 %
Average maximum hourly rate£30.03£27.28
UK excluding London average hourly rate£30.35£30.32
% change on same period last year+0.10 %
RUP South YorkshireRUP
South Yorkshire

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.

RUP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing RUP across the Sheffield region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Sheffield RUP Demand Trend

RUP
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing RUP across the Sheffield region.

Sheffield RUP Daily Rate Trend

RUP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Sheffield region citing RUP 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 RUP.

16 (85.71 %)UML
24 (57.14 %)Use Case
32 (28.57 %)Java
41 (14.29 %)JavaScript
41 (14.29 %)PL/SQL
41 (14.29 %)SQL
41 (14.29 %).NET
41 (14.29 %)J2EE
41 (14.29 %)Oracle
41 (14.29 %)Ant
41 (14.29 %)JUnit
41 (14.29 %)Visual Studio
41 (14.29 %)CSS
41 (14.29 %)Struts
41 (14.29 %)XML
41 (14.29 %)XSLT
41 (14.29 %)HTML
41 (14.29 %)JBoss
41 (14.29 %)Eclipse
41 (14.29 %)Microsoft
41 (14.29 %)TestDirector
41 (14.29 %)Internet
41 (14.29 %)JMX
41 (14.29 %)Publishing
41 (14.29 %)Hibernate
41 (14.29 %)Scrum
41 (14.29 %)NUnit
41 (14.29 %)CruiseControl
41 (14.29 %)Content Management
41 (14.29 %)Spring

RUP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Sheffield region citing RUP 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 RUP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Sheffield IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
11 (14.29 %)HTML
11 (14.29 %).NET
11 (14.29 %)J2EE
11 (14.29 %)CSS
11 (14.29 %)Struts
11 (14.29 %)XML
11 (14.29 %)XSLT
11 (14.29 %)JMX
11 (14.29 %)Hibernate
11 (14.29 %)Spring
11 (14.29 %)AJAX
11 (14.29 %).NET Framework
11 (14.29 %)Microsoft Enterprise Library
11 (14.29 %)JSTL
Sheffield IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
11 (14.29 %)JBoss
Sheffield IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
11 (14.29 %)Internet
Sheffield IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
11 (14.29 %)Ant
11 (14.29 %)JUnit
11 (14.29 %)Visual Studio
11 (14.29 %)Eclipse
11 (14.29 %)TestDirector
11 (14.29 %)NUnit
11 (14.29 %)CruiseControl
11 (14.29 %)CheckStyle
11 (14.29 %)HttpUnit
11 (14.29 %)JIRA
Sheffield IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
11 (14.29 %)Publishing
Sheffield IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
14 (57.14 %)Analyst
14 (57.14 %)Business Systems Analyst
14 (57.14 %)Systems Analyst
14 (57.14 %)Business Analyst
22 (28.57 %)Developer
31 (14.29 %)Web Developer
31 (14.29 %)Senior Developer
31 (14.29 %).NET Developer
31 (14.29 %)Senior .NET Developer
Sheffield IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
16 (85.71 %)UML
24 (57.14 %)Use Case
31 (14.29 %)Scrum
31 (14.29 %)Content Management
31 (14.29 %)Systems Analysis
31 (14.29 %)Requirements Analysis
Sheffield IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
12 (28.57 %)Java
21 (14.29 %)JavaScript
21 (14.29 %)PL/SQL
21 (14.29 %)SQL
Sheffield IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
11 (14.29 %)Oracle
11 (14.29 %)Microsoft