South Wales UML Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Unified Modeling Language (UML) skills within the South Wales region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited UML over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Unified Modeling Language (UML)
Location Ascot Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dover East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire Horsham Hull Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Macclesfield Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Rugby Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Whyteleafe Wigan Wiltshire Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	15	21
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching contract IT job ads	50	32
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.067 %	0.032 %
As % of the category below	11.36 %	8.625 %
Daily rates quoted	7	9
Average minimum daily rate	£319	£286
Average daily rate	£372	£311
% change on same period last year	+19.83 %
Average maximum daily rate	£426	£336
UK excluding London average daily rate	£385	£364
% change on same period last year	+5.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.29	-
Average hourly rate	£33.43	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.57	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£38.05	£34.62
% change on same period last year	+9.89 %
Processes & Methodologies South Wales
Matching contract IT job ads	440	371
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.586 %	0.375 %
Daily rates quoted	121	87
Average minimum daily rate	£348	£374
Average daily rate	£378	£404
% change on same period last year	-6.52 %
Average maximum daily rate	£408	£434
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	70	39
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.54	£22.51
Average hourly rate	£31.92	£23.50
% change on same period last year	+35.83 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.30	£24.49
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
UML Wales

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.

UML
Demand Trend

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

UML
Daily Rate Trend

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

UML
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing UML across the South Wales region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

UML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

UML
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing UML across the South Wales region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

UML
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UML within the South Wales region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Newport	+9	30	£488	-
Cardiff	-2	11	£297	+0.56 %
Bridgend	-	4	-	-

UML Wales

UML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 30 (27.27 %) OO 1 30 (27.27 %) Security Cleared 2 29 (26.36 %) Government 3 28 (25.45 %) RUP 4 27 (24.55 %) Use Case 4 27 (24.55 %) Business Analysis 5 23 (20.91 %) Data Modelling 5 23 (20.91 %) C++ 6 20 (18.18 %) DoDAF 6 20 (18.18 %) TOGAF 7 19 (17.27 %) SC Cleared 7 19 (17.27 %) Java 7 19 (17.27 %) XML 8 17 (15.45 %) Rational Rose 8 17 (15.45 %) C

8 17 (15.45 %) E-business 8 17 (15.45 %) BPMN 9 16 (14.55 %) C# 10 15 (13.64 %) Visual Studio 10 15 (13.64 %) BPR 11 14 (12.73 %) Oracle 11 14 (12.73 %) Enterprise Architecture 12 13 (11.82 %) Systems Analysis 12 13 (11.82 %) Agile Software Development 13 12 (10.91 %) .NET 13 12 (10.91 %) J2EE 13 12 (10.91 %) Windows 14 11 (10.00 %) UNIX 14 11 (10.00 %) SOA 14 11 (10.00 %) QNX

UML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 19 (17.27 %) XML 2 12 (10.91 %) .NET 2 12 (10.91 %) J2EE 3 8 (7.273 %) WebSphere 4 7 (6.364 %) WebServices 4 7 (6.364 %) SOAP 5 6 (5.455 %) WSDL 6 5 (4.545 %) HTML 7 4 (3.636 %) XSD 7 4 (3.636 %) SAML 7 4 (3.636 %) JMS 8 3 (2.727 %) NetBeans 8 3 (2.727 %) .NET Framework 8 3 (2.727 %) XSLT 8 3 (2.727 %) EJB 8 3 (2.727 %) CSS 9 2 (1.818 %) ASP.NET 9 2 (1.818 %) DCOM 9 2 (1.818 %) ODBC 9 2 (1.818 %) Swing	Application Platforms 1 8 (7.273 %) WebLogic 2 4 (3.636 %) IIS 3 3 (2.727 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 1 (0.909 %) WebSphere Message Broker 4 1 (0.909 %) WebSphere Application Server 4 1 (0.909 %) ColdFusion 4 1 (0.909 %) WebSphere MQ
Applications 1 7 (6.364 %) MS Visio 2 6 (5.455 %) MS Excel 3 1 (0.909 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 8 (7.273 %) TCP/IP 2 7 (6.364 %) SNMP 3 4 (3.636 %) ISDN 3 4 (3.636 %) Internet 4 2 (1.818 %) Q.931 4 2 (1.818 %) QSIG 4 2 (1.818 %) LDAP 4 2 (1.818 %) GPRS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (7.273 %) SQL Server 2 7 (6.364 %) Oracle 9i 3 3 (2.727 %) Oracle 10g 4 2 (1.818 %) SQL Server 2000 4 2 (1.818 %) Crystal Reports 5 1 (0.909 %) DB2	Development Applications 1 17 (15.45 %) Rational Rose 2 15 (13.64 %) Visual Studio 3 9 (8.182 %) RequisitePro 4 4 (3.636 %) CaliberRM 5 3 (2.727 %) Ant 5 3 (2.727 %) JUnit 6 2 (1.818 %) ClearCase 6 2 (1.818 %) JBuilder 6 2 (1.818 %) StarTeam 7 1 (0.909 %) Subversion 7 1 (0.909 %) Eclipse 7 1 (0.909 %) PVCS
General 1 29 (26.36 %) Government 2 7 (6.364 %) Health 2 7 (6.364 %) Construction 3 4 (3.636 %) Banking 3 4 (3.636 %) Insurance 4 3 (2.727 %) Retail 4 3 (2.727 %) Education 5 2 (1.818 %) Finance 6 1 (0.909 %) Military 6 1 (0.909 %) Retail Banking	Job Titles 1 56 (50.91 %) Analyst 2 47 (42.73 %) Business Analyst 3 23 (20.91 %) Developer 4 14 (12.73 %) Software Engineer 5 10 (9.091 %) Architect 6 9 (8.182 %) Systems Analyst 7 8 (7.273 %) Java Developer 8 7 (6.364 %) Technical Architect 8 7 (6.364 %) J2EE Developer 9 6 (5.455 %) Java/J2EE Developer 10 5 (4.545 %) C++ Developer 10 5 (4.545 %) C# Developer 10 5 (4.545 %) Business Systems Analyst 11 4 (3.636 %) .NET Developer 12 3 (2.727 %) Lead Designer 12 3 (2.727 %) Requirements Analyst 12 3 (2.727 %) UML Business Analyst 13 2 (1.818 %) Senior Java Technical Architect 13 2 (1.818 %) J2EE Technical Architect 13 2 (1.818 %) Senior J2EE Technical Architect
Miscellaneous 1 7 (6.364 %) NHS 2 4 (3.636 %) Mainframe 2 4 (3.636 %) Management Information System 3 2 (1.818 %) Pocket PC 3 2 (1.818 %) Data Extraction 4 1 (0.909 %) Wiki 4 1 (0.909 %) Client/Server 4 1 (0.909 %) N-Tier 4 1 (0.909 %) AS400	Operating Systems 1 12 (10.91 %) Windows 2 11 (10.00 %) UNIX 3 6 (5.455 %) Linux 4 5 (4.545 %) Solaris 5 2 (1.818 %) Windows 2000 5 2 (1.818 %) Windows Mobile 6 1 (0.909 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 30 (27.27 %) OO 1 30 (27.27 %) Security Cleared 2 28 (25.45 %) RUP 3 27 (24.55 %) Business Analysis 3 27 (24.55 %) Use Case 4 23 (20.91 %) Data Modelling 5 20 (18.18 %) TOGAF 5 20 (18.18 %) DoDAF 6 19 (17.27 %) SC Cleared 7 17 (15.45 %) BPMN 7 17 (15.45 %) E-business 8 15 (13.64 %) BPR 9 14 (12.73 %) Enterprise Architecture 10 13 (11.82 %) Systems Analysis 10 13 (11.82 %) Agile Software Development 11 11 (10.00 %) SOA 12 9 (8.182 %) Zachman Framework 13 8 (7.273 %) Unified Process 13 8 (7.273 %) Requirements Management 13 8 (7.273 %) Requirements Analysis	Programming Languages 1 23 (20.91 %) C++ 2 19 (17.27 %) Java 3 17 (15.45 %) C 4 16 (14.55 %) C# 5 9 (8.182 %) SQL 6 5 (4.545 %) VB.NET 7 4 (3.636 %) COBOL 8 2 (1.818 %) JavaScript 8 2 (1.818 %) XQuery 8 2 (1.818 %) VB6 8 2 (1.818 %) XPath 8 2 (1.818 %) VB 9 1 (0.909 %) VC++ 9 1 (0.909 %) Transact-SQL 9 1 (0.909 %) DHTML
Qualifications 1 4 (3.636 %) ISEB 2 3 (2.727 %) Degree 3 1 (0.909 %) PRINCE2 Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (1.818 %) SNOMED CT 1 2 (1.818 %) HL7
Systems Management 1 1 (0.909 %) OpenView 1 1 (0.909 %) Netcool	Vendors 1 14 (12.73 %) Oracle 2 11 (10.00 %) QNX 3 5 (4.545 %) Borland 4 1 (0.909 %) Micromuse 4 1 (0.909 %) Sybase 4 1 (0.909 %) HP