The first table below looks at the demand for Use Case skills in IT contracts advertised for the Staffordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Use Case over the 3 months to 17 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 Staffordshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Use Cases
Rank 18 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Use Case 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 1.149% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.587% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £320 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £400 £414
% change year-on-year
-12.50% -3.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.75 £32.91 £30.00
% change year-on-year
-0.47% +9.68%
All Processes & Methodologies
Staffordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
63 144 137
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 72.41% 65.75% 61.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 62 49
Average daily rate £320 £290 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.34% -3.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £238 £234
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £370 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 6
Average hourly rate £21.29 £20.26 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.10% +68.79%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Use Case
West Midlands

Use Case
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire Use Case Daily Rate Trend

Use Case
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 1 (50.00%) SAP
1 1 (50.00%) UML
1 1 (50.00%) ERP
1 1 (50.00%) Sage
1 1 (50.00%) NHS
1 1 (50.00%) BPR
1 1 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Logistics
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) BPMN

Use Case
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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.

General
1 1 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Designer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) UML
1 1 (50.00%) ERP
1 1 (50.00%) BPR
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Logistics
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) BPMN
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) SAP
1 1 (50.00%) Sage