The first table below looks at the demand for Use Case skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East 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 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 South East 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 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Use Cases
Rank 131 104 132
Rank change year-on-year
-27 +28
Contract jobs citing Use Case 97 158 115
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 1.240% 1.562% 1.118%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.826% 2.419% 1.722%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 94 69
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £319 £325 £274
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £450 £484
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £400 £414
% change year-on-year
-12.50% -3.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
Average hourly rate - £50.50 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +26.25%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.00 £31.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+4.76% +5.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
5312 6532 6680
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 67.92% 64.58% 64.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2748 3133 3027
Average daily rate £375 £360 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.16% -4.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £514
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 210 327 358
Average hourly rate £27.00 £27.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -22.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £13.50 £13.73
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
Use Case
England

Use Case
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East Use Case Daily Rate Trend

Use Case
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Use Case across the South East region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

South East Use Case Daily Rate Histogram

Use Case
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Use Case across the South East region.

South East Use Case Hourly Rate Trend

Use Case
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Use Case within the South East region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Berkshire -7 41 £400 -11.11%
Hampshire +12 21 £400 +10.34%
Surrey -1 16 £431 +15.00%
Oxfordshire -1 6 £300 -25.00%
West Sussex +7 5 £375 +21.95%
Buckinghamshire -6 4 - -
East Sussex +7 1 £350 +7.69%
Middlesex +2 1 £360 -15.29%
Home Counties - 1 - -
Kent - 1 - -
Use Case
England

Use Case
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 83 (44.39%) UML
2 57 (30.48%) Business Analysis
3 44 (23.53%) Telecoms
4 35 (18.72%) Java
5 34 (18.18%) E-Commerce
5 34 (18.18%) Project Management
6 28 (14.97%) Finance
7 26 (13.90%) Scrum
7 26 (13.90%) Agile Software Development
8 25 (13.37%) JavaScript
9 24 (12.83%) XML
10 23 (12.30%) Data Modelling
10 23 (12.30%) RUP
10 23 (12.30%) BSS
11 21 (11.23%) Dojo
12 19 (10.16%) IBM
13 18 (9.626%) HTML
13 18 (9.626%) .NET
13 18 (9.626%) Stakeholder Management
13 18 (9.626%) User Stories
14 17 (9.091%) REST
14 17 (9.091%) Retail
14 17 (9.091%) Requirements Management
14 17 (9.091%) C#
14 17 (9.091%) Microsoft
15 16 (8.556%) ISEB
15 16 (8.556%) PRINCE2
16 15 (8.021%) OOA/OOD
16 15 (8.021%) EJB
16 15 (8.021%) FileNet

Use Case
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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.

Application Development
1 24 (12.83%) XML
2 21 (11.23%) Dojo
3 18 (9.626%) HTML
3 18 (9.626%) .NET
4 17 (9.091%) REST
5 15 (8.021%) EJB
6 11 (5.882%) CSS
7 10 (5.348%) J2EE
8 8 (4.278%) Web Services
8 8 (4.278%) WCF
8 8 (4.278%) Ajax
9 7 (3.743%) Spring
10 6 (3.209%) Hibernate
10 6 (3.209%) JMS
10 6 (3.209%) WebSphere
10 6 (3.209%) DHTML
10 6 (3.209%) JDBC
10 6 (3.209%) JSP
10 6 (3.209%) Servlets
10 6 (3.209%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 15 (8.021%) FileNet
2 5 (2.674%) Oracle Coherence
3 4 (2.139%) Windows Azure
3 4 (2.139%) BizTalk Server
4 3 (1.604%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.070%) SharePoint 2010
5 2 (1.070%) CMS
6 1 (0.535%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.535%) ESB
6 1 (0.535%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.535%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.535%) IIS
6 1 (0.535%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.535%) TeamSite
Applications
1 10 (5.348%) MS Visio
2 7 (3.743%) MS Excel
3 5 (2.674%) MS Project
3 5 (2.674%) MS Office
4 2 (1.070%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.604%) Cognos Business Intelligence
2 1 (0.535%) BASE24
2 1 (0.535%) VisionPLUS
2 1 (0.535%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 23 (12.30%) BSS
2 8 (4.278%) HTTP
2 8 (4.278%) 3G
3 7 (3.743%) Radio Access Network
3 7 (3.743%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.674%) Internet
5 4 (2.139%) SNMP
5 4 (2.139%) LAN
5 4 (2.139%) 3GPP
5 4 (2.139%) WAN
6 3 (1.604%) ATM
6 3 (1.604%) Intranet
7 2 (1.070%) SDH
8 1 (0.535%) LDAP
8 1 (0.535%) SMTP
8 1 (0.535%) FTP
8 1 (0.535%) DNS
8 1 (0.535%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.535%) LTE
8 1 (0.535%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.813%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (3.209%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.674%) RDBMS
4 4 (2.139%) Ingres
5 3 (1.604%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.604%) GIS
6 2 (1.070%) Oracle 10g
6 2 (1.070%) Oracle 11g
6 2 (1.070%) BusinessObjects XI
7 1 (0.535%) IBM InfoSphere
7 1 (0.535%) MySQL
7 1 (0.535%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 10 (5.348%) NUnit
2 9 (4.813%) Rational Rose
3 8 (4.278%) Selenium
4 7 (3.743%) Ant
5 6 (3.209%) Subversion
6 4 (2.139%) ClearCase
6 4 (2.139%) JIRA
6 4 (2.139%) CppUnit
6 4 (2.139%) TeamCity
6 4 (2.139%) CruiseControl
6 4 (2.139%) ClearQuest
6 4 (2.139%) Telelogic TAU
6 4 (2.139%) SpecFlow
6 4 (2.139%) GoogleTest
7 2 (1.070%) Moq
7 2 (1.070%) Eclipse
7 2 (1.070%) Maven
8 1 (0.535%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.535%) StyleCop
8 1 (0.535%) MSTest
General
1 44 (23.53%) Telecoms
2 28 (14.97%) Finance
3 17 (9.091%) Retail
4 8 (4.278%) Billing
5 4 (2.139%) Banking
6 3 (1.604%) Law
7 2 (1.070%) Publishing
7 2 (1.070%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (1.070%) Marketing
8 1 (0.535%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.535%) Back Office
8 1 (0.535%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 118 (63.10%) Analyst
2 111 (59.36%) Business Analyst
3 32 (17.11%) Developer
4 15 (8.021%) Architect
5 14 (7.487%) Solutions Architect
6 13 (6.952%) Systems Analyst
6 13 (6.952%) Agile Business Analyst
7 12 (6.417%) Business Systems Analyst
8 10 (5.348%) Java Developer
9 9 (4.813%) Project Manager
10 8 (4.278%) Senior Business Analyst
10 8 (4.278%) Senior Analyst
11 5 (2.674%) Senior Developer
11 5 (2.674%) JavaScript Developer
11 5 (2.674%) Telecoms Business Analyst
12 4 (2.139%) Lead Business Analyst
12 4 (2.139%) Senior Architect
12 4 (2.139%) Network Architect
12 4 (2.139%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 4 (2.139%) Business Manager
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.487%) Management Information System
2 6 (3.209%) Computer Science
2 6 (3.209%) Open Source
3 5 (2.674%) Derivative
3 5 (2.674%) Mathematics
3 5 (2.674%) Physics
4 3 (1.604%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.535%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.535%) Inversion of Control
5 1 (0.535%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.535%) FMCG
5 1 (0.535%) Fixed Income
5 1 (0.535%) Equities
5 1 (0.535%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.348%) Windows
2 9 (4.813%) Linux
3 5 (2.674%) UNIX
4 4 (2.139%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.070%) Solaris
6 1 (0.535%) AIX
6 1 (0.535%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (44.39%) UML
2 57 (30.48%) Business Analysis
3 34 (18.18%) E-Commerce
3 34 (18.18%) Project Management
4 26 (13.90%) Agile Software Development
4 26 (13.90%) Scrum
5 23 (12.30%) Data Modelling
5 23 (12.30%) RUP
6 18 (9.626%) Stakeholder Management
6 18 (9.626%) User Stories
7 17 (9.091%) Requirements Management
8 16 (8.556%) PRINCE2
9 15 (8.021%) OOA/OOD
9 15 (8.021%) Unit Testing
10 14 (7.487%) OO
10 14 (7.487%) User Acceptance Testing
11 13 (6.952%) ITIL
11 13 (6.952%) Unified Process
12 12 (6.417%) RAD
13 11 (5.882%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 35 (18.72%) Java
2 25 (13.37%) JavaScript
3 17 (9.091%) C#
4 14 (7.487%) SQL
5 6 (3.209%) Python
5 6 (3.209%) C
6 5 (2.674%) C++
7 3 (1.604%) Perl
7 3 (1.604%) XPath
8 2 (1.070%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.535%) AWK
9 1 (0.535%) sed
9 1 (0.535%) PHP
9 1 (0.535%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.535%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (8.556%) ISEB
2 14 (7.487%) Degree
3 11 (5.882%) Security Cleared
4 10 (5.348%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.743%) CBAP
6 1 (0.535%) HND
6 1 (0.535%) HP AIS
6 1 (0.535%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.743%) QA
2 1 (0.535%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (1.604%) Snort
Systems Management
1 3 (1.604%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.535%) SCOM
Vendors
1 19 (10.16%) IBM
2 17 (9.091%) Microsoft
3 14 (7.487%) Oracle
4 11 (5.882%) ATG
5 8 (4.278%) Cognos
6 4 (2.139%) Telelogic
6 4 (2.139%) Nokia Siemens Networks
6 4 (2.139%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.604%) HP
7 3 (1.604%) Sourcefire
8 2 (1.070%) Greenplum
8 2 (1.070%) WSO2
8 2 (1.070%) Teradata
8 2 (1.070%) Business Objects
8 2 (1.070%) Sun
9 1 (0.535%) JBoss
9 1 (0.535%) Software AG
9 1 (0.535%) JDA
9 1 (0.535%) webMethods
9 1 (0.535%) BT
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