The first table below looks at the demand for UML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Suffolk region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited UML over the 3 months to 23 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 Suffolk 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Unified Modeling Language (UML)
Rank 25 18 12
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -6
Contract jobs citing UML 5 20 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk 3.333% 8.097% 11.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.263% 12.90% 18.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 7
Average daily rate £460 £373 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.48% +6.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £452 £355 £268
10% offered a daily rate of more than £468 £475 £360
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £375 £400
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
Average hourly rate - £30.00 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -29.41%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year
- -1.40%
All Processes & Methodologies
Suffolk
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
95 155 118
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk 63.33% 62.75% 62.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 90 53
Average daily rate £350 £325 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -38.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £285 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £470 £425 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 14 8
Average hourly rate £15.16 £29.50 £17.63
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-48.61% +67.37%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.60 £12.50 £13.53
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £35.00 £48.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
UML
East of England

UML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Suffolk UML Jobs Demand Trend

UML
Daily Rate Trend

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

Suffolk UML Daily Rate Trend

UML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Suffolk UML Hourly Rate Trend

UML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, 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 12 (54.55%) Use Case
1 12 (54.55%) System Testing
2 11 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (31.82%) SQL
3 7 (31.82%) Finance
4 5 (22.73%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (13.64%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (13.64%) Migration
5 3 (13.64%) Data Migration
5 3 (13.64%) Degree
6 2 (9.091%) Waterfall
6 2 (9.091%) MySQL
6 2 (9.091%) Oracle
6 2 (9.091%) SQL Server
6 2 (9.091%) ITIL
6 2 (9.091%) OO
6 2 (9.091%) OOD
6 2 (9.091%) ISO 9001
6 2 (9.091%) Sun
6 2 (9.091%) Requirements Analysis
6 2 (9.091%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (9.091%) GAP Analysis
6 2 (9.091%) Project Management
6 2 (9.091%) Data Analysis
6 2 (9.091%) General Ledger
6 2 (9.091%) Software Engineering
7 1 (4.545%) Systems Analysis
7 1 (4.545%) Data Management
7 1 (4.545%) Business Analysis
7 1 (4.545%) Integration Testing

UML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, 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.

Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (9.091%) MySQL
2 2 (9.091%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (31.82%) Finance
2 2 (9.091%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 20 (90.91%) Business Analyst
1 20 (90.91%) Analyst
2 7 (31.82%) UML Business Analyst
3 2 (9.091%) Insurance Business Analyst
4 1 (4.545%) Architect
4 1 (4.545%) Applications Architect
4 1 (4.545%) Business Systems Analyst
4 1 (4.545%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (4.545%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.545%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) Use Case
1 12 (54.55%) System Testing
2 5 (22.73%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (13.64%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (13.64%) Migration
3 3 (13.64%) Data Migration
4 2 (9.091%) Waterfall
4 2 (9.091%) ITIL
4 2 (9.091%) OO
4 2 (9.091%) OOD
4 2 (9.091%) Requirements Analysis
4 2 (9.091%) GAP Analysis
4 2 (9.091%) Project Management
4 2 (9.091%) Data Analysis
4 2 (9.091%) Software Engineering
5 1 (4.545%) Systems Analysis
5 1 (4.545%) Data Management
5 1 (4.545%) Business Analysis
5 1 (4.545%) Integration Testing
5 1 (4.545%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (31.82%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) Degree
2 1 (4.545%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.091%) ISO 9001
1 2 (9.091%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 2 (9.091%) Oracle
1 2 (9.091%) Sun