South Yorkshire RUP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Rational Unified Process (RUP) skills within the South Yorkshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited RUP over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Rational Unified Process (RUP)
Location Abingdon Berkshire Birmingham Brentwood Bridgend Bristol Buckingham Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Coventry Croydon Devon Docklands, London East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Epsom Essex Farnborough Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hendon Hertfordshire Home Counties Huddersfield Kent Lancashire Leeds London Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Surrey Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Windsor Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	37	32
Rank change on same period last year	-5
Matching contract IT job ads	6	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	3.030 %	3.226 %
Daily rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum daily rate	£383	-
Average daily rate	£392	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£400	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£429	£392
% change on same period last year	+9.42 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£38.47	£33.09
% change on same period last year	+16.28 %
Processes & Methodologies South Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	198	186
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.261 %	0.197 %
Daily rates quoted	57	31
Average minimum daily rate	£334	£271
Average daily rate	£352	£289
% change on same period last year	+22.06 %
Average maximum daily rate	£370	£306
UK excluding London average daily rate	£384	£374
% change on same period last year	+2.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	35	30
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.53	£23.32
Average hourly rate	£29.43	£24.45
% change on same period last year	+20.34 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.32	£25.58
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.40	£30.19
% change on same period last year	-2.62 %
RUP 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 South Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

RUP
Daily Rate Trend

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

RUP
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing RUP across the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

RUP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

RUP
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing RUP within the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 4 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
Sheffield	-1	3	£388	-

RUP Yorkshire

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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.

1 13 (76.47 %) UML 2 10 (58.82 %) Use Case 3 5 (29.41 %) Internet 4 4 (23.53 %) SQL 4 4 (23.53 %) Systems Analysis 4 4 (23.53 %) E-Learning 5 3 (17.65 %) SCORM 5 3 (17.65 %) J2EE 5 3 (17.65 %) Requirements Analysis 6 2 (11.76 %) Education 6 2 (11.76 %) Java 6 2 (11.76 %) JUnit 6 2 (11.76 %) Struts 6 2 (11.76 %) Hibernate 6 2 (11.76 %) Spring

7 1 (5.882 %) CheckStyle 7 1 (5.882 %) AJAX 7 1 (5.882 %) HTML 7 1 (5.882 %) Content Management 7 1 (5.882 %) XML 7 1 (5.882 %) XSLT 7 1 (5.882 %) JMX 7 1 (5.882 %) OO 7 1 (5.882 %) JBoss 7 1 (5.882 %) CRM 7 1 (5.882 %) Data Modelling 7 1 (5.882 %) Eclipse 7 1 (5.882 %) TestDirector 7 1 (5.882 %) CSS 7 1 (5.882 %) JavaScript

RUP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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.

Application Development 1 3 (17.65 %) J2EE 2 2 (11.76 %) Struts 2 2 (11.76 %) Hibernate 2 2 (11.76 %) Spring 3 1 (5.882 %) AJAX 3 1 (5.882 %) JSTL 3 1 (5.882 %) XML 3 1 (5.882 %) XSLT 3 1 (5.882 %) JMX 3 1 (5.882 %) CSS 3 1 (5.882 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 1 (5.882 %) JBoss
Communications & Networking 1 5 (29.41 %) Internet	Development Applications 1 2 (11.76 %) JUnit 2 1 (5.882 %) Eclipse 2 1 (5.882 %) TestDirector 2 1 (5.882 %) CheckStyle 2 1 (5.882 %) HttpUnit 2 1 (5.882 %) JIRA 2 1 (5.882 %) Ant
General 1 2 (11.76 %) Education 2 1 (5.882 %) Publishing	Job Titles 1 10 (58.82 %) Analyst 2 9 (52.94 %) Business Systems Analyst 2 9 (52.94 %) Systems Analyst 2 9 (52.94 %) Business Analyst 3 3 (17.65 %) Database Engineer 3 3 (17.65 %) Senior Database Engineer 4 1 (5.882 %) Software Designer 4 1 (5.882 %) Software Programmer 4 1 (5.882 %) Web Developer 4 1 (5.882 %) Analyst Programmer 4 1 (5.882 %) Programmer 4 1 (5.882 %) Developer
Miscellaneous 1 4 (23.53 %) E-Learning 2 3 (17.65 %) SCORM	Processes & Methodologies 1 13 (76.47 %) UML 2 10 (58.82 %) Use Case 3 4 (23.53 %) Systems Analysis 4 3 (17.65 %) Requirements Analysis 5 1 (5.882 %) OO 5 1 (5.882 %) CRM 5 1 (5.882 %) Data Modelling 5 1 (5.882 %) Content Management
Programming Languages 1 4 (23.53 %) SQL 2 2 (11.76 %) Java 3 1 (5.882 %) JavaScript 3 1 (5.882 %) PL/SQL	Qualifications 1 1 (5.882 %) Degree
Vendors 1 1 (5.882 %) Oracle