Suffolk UML Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Unified Modeling Language (UML) skills within the Suffolk 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 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Unified Modeling Language (UML)
Location Aberdeen Ascot Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Coventry Cowes Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Fife Fleetwood Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Isle of Wight Kent Kirkcaldy Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Rickmansworth Rugby Salford Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Wiltshire Woking Wolverhampton Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	25	18
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching contract IT job ads	1	16
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.016 %
As % of the category below	1.724 %	14.68 %
Daily rates quoted	0	6
Average minimum daily rate	-	£414
Average daily rate	-	£429
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£443
UK excluding London average daily rate	£388	£364
% change on same period last year	+6.54 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.00	£45.00
Average hourly rate	£37.50	£45.00
% change on same period last year	-16.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£36.79	£35.87
% change on same period last year	+2.57 %
Processes & Methodologies Suffolk
Matching contract IT job ads	58	109
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.081 %	0.110 %
Daily rates quoted	13	39
Average minimum daily rate	£235	£321
Average daily rate	£249	£334
% change on same period last year	-25.36 %
Average maximum daily rate	£263	£347
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£372
% change on same period last year	+1.69 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	24
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.87	£32.90
Average hourly rate	£24.14	£33.46
% change on same period last year	-27.85 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.41	£34.02
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.30	£30.27
% change on same period last year	-3.20 %
UML East of England

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 Suffolk 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 Suffolk region.

UML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

UML
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UML within the Suffolk region over the 3 months to 6 October 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
Bury St Edmunds	-	1	-	-

UML East of England

UML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 7 (77.78 %) Java 1 7 (77.78 %) J2EE 1 7 (77.78 %) SOAP 1 7 (77.78 %) Struts 1 7 (77.78 %) WebServices 1 7 (77.78 %) XML 1 7 (77.78 %) SOA 1 7 (77.78 %) WSDL 1 7 (77.78 %) Use Case 2 5 (55.56 %) WebWork 2 5 (55.56 %) OO 3 4 (44.44 %) Telecoms 4 3 (33.33 %) Agile Software Development 4 3 (33.33 %) Hibernate 4 3 (33.33 %) Apache

4 3 (33.33 %) OOA/OOD 4 3 (33.33 %) WebLogic 4 3 (33.33 %) Apache Wicket 4 3 (33.33 %) Tapestry 4 3 (33.33 %) AquaLogic 4 3 (33.33 %) JSR 168 5 2 (22.22 %) Insurance 5 2 (22.22 %) C++ 5 2 (22.22 %) OOD 5 2 (22.22 %) Finance 5 2 (22.22 %) Banking 6 1 (11.11 %) Retail 6 1 (11.11 %) Software Engineering 6 1 (11.11 %) IVR 6 1 (11.11 %) Education

UML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 7 (77.78 %) J2EE 1 7 (77.78 %) SOAP 1 7 (77.78 %) Struts 1 7 (77.78 %) WebServices 1 7 (77.78 %) XML 1 7 (77.78 %) WSDL 2 5 (55.56 %) WebWork 3 3 (33.33 %) Tapestry 3 3 (33.33 %) JSR 168 3 3 (33.33 %) Apache Wicket 3 3 (33.33 %) Hibernate	Application Platforms 1 3 (33.33 %) WebLogic 1 3 (33.33 %) Apache
Communications & Networking 1 1 (11.11 %) Ethernet	Development Applications 1 1 (11.11 %) Visual Studio
General 1 4 (44.44 %) Telecoms 2 2 (22.22 %) Finance 2 2 (22.22 %) Banking 2 2 (22.22 %) Insurance 3 1 (11.11 %) Retail 3 1 (11.11 %) Education	Job Titles 1 7 (77.78 %) Developer 2 6 (66.67 %) Java Developer 3 5 (55.56 %) Senior Developer 4 4 (44.44 %) Senior Java Developer 5 2 (22.22 %) Software Engineer 6 1 (11.11 %) Applications Developer 6 1 (11.11 %) Java Applications Developer 6 1 (11.11 %) Java/J2EE Developer 6 1 (11.11 %) J2EE Applications Developer 6 1 (11.11 %) J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (11.11 %) IVR	Operating Systems 1 1 (11.11 %) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (77.78 %) SOA 1 7 (77.78 %) Use Case 2 5 (55.56 %) OO 3 3 (33.33 %) Agile Software Development 3 3 (33.33 %) OOA/OOD 4 2 (22.22 %) OOD 5 1 (11.11 %) Regression Testing 5 1 (11.11 %) Software Engineering 5 1 (11.11 %) System Testing 5 1 (11.11 %) Security Cleared	Programming Languages 1 7 (77.78 %) Java 2 2 (22.22 %) C++
Qualifications 1 1 (11.11 %) PhD	System Software 1 3 (33.33 %) AquaLogic
Vendors 1 1 (11.11 %) BEA