The first table below looks at the demand for Use Case skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West 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 South West 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 105 110 113
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +3
Contract jobs citing Use Case 5 25 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.245% 0.811% 0.492%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.366% 1.194% 0.773%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 21 3
Average daily rate £400 £420 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.76% +5.00%
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
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1366 2093 1940
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 67.06% 67.89% 63.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 855 1292 998
Average daily rate £375 £378 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.66% +0.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £265 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
+2.06% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 110 143
Average hourly rate £29.00 £25.00 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.00% -20.63%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.66 £11.34 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £40.00 £37.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.50 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+22.00% -13.79%
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 West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

South West 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 West region.

South West Use Case Daily Rate Trend

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 West region.

South West 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 West region over the 3 months to 20 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Bristol +19 2 - -
Wiltshire +3 1 £400 +14.28%
Dorset - 1 - -
Gloucestershire - - - - 2
Somerset - - - -
Cornwall - - - -
Use Case
England

Use Case
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 13 (72.22%) UML
2 11 (61.11%) Data Modelling
3 10 (55.56%) Business Analysis
4 9 (50.00%) PRINCE2
4 9 (50.00%) Project Management
5 8 (44.44%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 6 (33.33%) ITIL
6 6 (33.33%) Systems Analysis
6 6 (33.33%) Test Scripting
6 6 (33.33%) ITIL V3
7 3 (16.67%) Test Strategy
7 3 (16.67%) Finance
7 3 (16.67%) Management Information System
8 2 (11.11%) VMware
8 2 (11.11%) Banking
8 2 (11.11%) TOGAF
8 2 (11.11%) Legal
8 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (11.11%) Games
8 2 (11.11%) Firewall
8 2 (11.11%) GIS
8 2 (11.11%) Time Management
8 2 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
8 2 (11.11%) Requirements Analysis
8 2 (11.11%) Wholesale Banking
8 2 (11.11%) MS PowerPoint
8 2 (11.11%) DoDAF
8 2 (11.11%) MODAF
8 2 (11.11%) MS Excel
8 2 (11.11%) MS Access

Use Case
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 1 (5.556%) .NET
1 1 (5.556%) J2EE
1 1 (5.556%) EJB
1 1 (5.556%) JSP
1 1 (5.556%) Servlets
1 1 (5.556%) Struts
1 1 (5.556%) Web Services
1 1 (5.556%) XML
1 1 (5.556%) JMS
1 1 (5.556%) Ajax
1 1 (5.556%) WebSphere
1 1 (5.556%) Hibernate
1 1 (5.556%) Spring
1 1 (5.556%) JTA
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.556%) WebSphere Application Server
1 1 (5.556%) WebLogic
1 1 (5.556%) Apache
1 1 (5.556%) GlassFish
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) MS PowerPoint
1 2 (11.11%) MS Excel
1 2 (11.11%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) Firewall
2 1 (5.556%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) GIS
1 2 (11.11%) MS Access
2 1 (5.556%) RDBMS
General
1 3 (16.67%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Banking
2 2 (11.11%) Legal
2 2 (11.11%) Games
2 2 (11.11%) Wholesale Banking
3 1 (5.556%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (77.78%) Analyst
2 13 (72.22%) Business Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Architect
4 1 (5.556%) Test Analyst
4 1 (5.556%) Technical Leader
4 1 (5.556%) Telecoms Business Analyst
4 1 (5.556%) QA Analyst
4 1 (5.556%) QA Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.556%) Telematics
2 1 (5.556%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) UML
2 11 (61.11%) Data Modelling
3 10 (55.56%) Business Analysis
4 9 (50.00%) PRINCE2
4 9 (50.00%) Project Management
5 6 (33.33%) ITIL
5 6 (33.33%) Systems Analysis
5 6 (33.33%) Test Scripting
5 6 (33.33%) ITIL V3
6 3 (16.67%) Test Strategy
7 2 (11.11%) TOGAF
7 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (11.11%) Time Management
7 2 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (11.11%) Requirements Analysis
7 2 (11.11%) DoDAF
7 2 (11.11%) MODAF
7 2 (11.11%) SOA
7 2 (11.11%) V-Model
8 1 (5.556%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) C
1 2 (11.11%) SQL
2 1 (5.556%) Delphi
2 1 (5.556%) Java
2 1 (5.556%) PHP
2 1 (5.556%) PL/SQL
2 1 (5.556%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 2 (11.11%) ISEB
2 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) DV Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.556%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.556%) Solvency II
1 1 (5.556%) QA
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) VMware
1 2 (11.11%) SAP
2 1 (5.556%) Oracle
2 1 (5.556%) JBoss
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