Surrey UML Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Unified Modeling Language (UML) skills within the Surrey 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	38	25
Rank change on same period last year	-13
Matching contract IT job ads	61	138
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.085 %	0.139 %
As % of the category below	6.131 %	10.95 %
Daily rates quoted	10	45
Average minimum daily rate	£367	£314
Average daily rate	£389	£328
% change on same period last year	+18.58 %
Average maximum daily rate	£411	£342
UK excluding London average daily rate	£388	£364
% change on same period last year	+6.54 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£38.00	£34.94
Average hourly rate	£41.50	£37.19
% change on same period last year	+11.59 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£45.00	£39.44
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£36.79	£35.87
% change on same period last year	+2.57 %
Processes & Methodologies Surrey
Matching contract IT job ads	995	1260
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.390 %	1.266 %
Daily rates quoted	282	400
Average minimum daily rate	£338	£343
Average daily rate	£358	£361
% change on same period last year	-1.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£377	£380
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£372
% change on same period last year	+1.69 %
Hourly rates quoted	77	120
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.19	£23.03
Average hourly rate	£33.57	£24.67
% change on same period last year	+36.07 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.94	£26.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.30	£30.27
% change on same period last year	-3.20 %
UML South East

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 Surrey 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 Surrey region.

UML
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing UML across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

UML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

UML
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing UML across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

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 Surrey 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
Staines	-6	11	-	-
Leatherhead	-2	10	£470	+36.26 %
Epsom	+5	4	-	-
Redhill	+2	2	-	-
Woking	+2	2	-	-
Chertsey	+2	1	£425	-

UML South East

UML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 75 (43.86 %) OO 2 67 (39.18 %) Security Cleared 3 59 (34.50 %) SC Cleared 4 52 (30.41 %) C++ 5 42 (24.56 %) WebServices 6 39 (22.81 %) Oracle 7 37 (21.64 %) SOA 8 36 (21.05 %) SQL 8 36 (21.05 %) SOAP 9 35 (20.47 %) J2EE 10 32 (18.71 %) RUP 11 31 (18.13 %) .NET 11 31 (18.13 %) Java 11 31 (18.13 %) Ada 11 31 (18.13 %) ESB

12 29 (16.96 %) Finance 13 27 (15.79 %) XML 14 26 (15.20 %) ClearCase 14 26 (15.20 %) JDeveloper 15 25 (14.62 %) ClearQuest 16 21 (12.28 %) Insurance 16 21 (12.28 %) Business Analysis 16 21 (12.28 %) Siebel 17 20 (11.70 %) C# 17 20 (11.70 %) SQL Server 18 17 (9.942 %) BPEL 19 16 (9.357 %) Oracle Fusion 19 16 (9.357 %) OOD 19 16 (9.357 %) Microsoft 20 15 (8.772 %) Windows

UML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 42 (24.56 %) WebServices 2 36 (21.05 %) SOAP 3 35 (20.47 %) J2EE 4 31 (18.13 %) .NET 5 27 (15.79 %) XML 6 16 (9.357 %) Oracle Fusion 7 12 (7.018 %) ASP.NET 7 12 (7.018 %) CSS 8 10 (5.848 %) JRules 9 7 (4.094 %) JSF 9 7 (4.094 %) Hibernate 9 7 (4.094 %) HTML 9 7 (4.094 %) MFC 10 6 (3.509 %) JSP 10 6 (3.509 %) AJAX 10 6 (3.509 %) WebSphere 11 5 (2.924 %) JSON 11 5 (2.924 %) Spring 11 5 (2.924 %) COM 11 5 (2.924 %) XSL	Application Platforms 1 31 (18.13 %) ESB 2 1 (0.585 %) WebLogic 2 1 (0.585 %) IIS 2 1 (0.585 %) JBoss 2 1 (0.585 %) Apache 2 1 (0.585 %) Tomcat 2 1 (0.585 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 2 (1.170 %) MS Project 1 2 (1.170 %) MS Office 1 2 (1.170 %) MS Excel 2 1 (0.585 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 2 (1.170 %) SAP Oil and Gas 1 2 (1.170 %) Siebel Analytics 2 1 (0.585 %) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking 1 8 (4.678 %) HTTP 1 8 (4.678 %) TCP/IP 2 6 (3.509 %) FTP 3 4 (2.339 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 20 (11.70 %) SQL Server 2 7 (4.094 %) DTS 3 4 (2.339 %) BusinessObjects 3 4 (2.339 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 3 (1.754 %) RDBMS 5 2 (1.170 %) SQL Server 2000 5 2 (1.170 %) Oracle 9i 5 2 (1.170 %) Datawarehouse 5 2 (1.170 %) SQL Server 2005 6 1 (0.585 %) MySQL 6 1 (0.585 %) DB2 6 1 (0.585 %) Oracle 8/8i 6 1 (0.585 %) Oracle 10g
Development Applications 1 26 (15.20 %) ClearCase 1 26 (15.20 %) JDeveloper 2 25 (14.62 %) ClearQuest 3 13 (7.602 %) Visual Studio 4 11 (6.433 %) RequisitePro 5 10 (5.848 %) Eclipse 6 6 (3.509 %) TestDirector 7 3 (1.754 %) Synon 7 3 (1.754 %) ARTiSAN 8 2 (1.170 %) Rational Rose 8 2 (1.170 %) JUnit 9 1 (0.585 %) Ant 9 1 (0.585 %) VSS/SourceSafe 9 1 (0.585 %) NUnit	General 1 29 (16.96 %) Finance 2 21 (12.28 %) Insurance 3 13 (7.602 %) Government 4 10 (5.848 %) Pensions 5 6 (3.509 %) Health 6 4 (2.339 %) Marketing 7 2 (1.170 %) Investment Banking 7 2 (1.170 %) Military 7 2 (1.170 %) Banking 7 2 (1.170 %) Retail 7 2 (1.170 %) Electric 7 2 (1.170 %) Pharmaceutical 7 2 (1.170 %) Telecoms 8 1 (0.585 %) Multimedia
Job Titles 1 93 (54.39 %) Developer 2 40 (23.39 %) Analyst 3 26 (15.20 %) Business Analyst 4 24 (14.04 %) J2EE Developer 5 17 (9.942 %) Java Developer 6 16 (9.357 %) Systems Analyst 7 9 (5.263 %) .NET Developer 7 9 (5.263 %) Java/J2EE Developer 8 8 (4.678 %) Software Engineer 8 8 (4.678 %) Architect 9 7 (4.094 %) Business Systems Analyst 9 7 (4.094 %) DBA 9 7 (4.094 %) C# Developer 9 7 (4.094 %) SQL DBA 10 5 (2.924 %) SQL Server DBA 10 5 (2.924 %) Analyst Programmer 10 5 (2.924 %) Programmer 10 5 (2.924 %) UML Business Analyst 10 5 (2.924 %) Software Developer 11 4 (2.339 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer	Miscellaneous 1 6 (3.509 %) Multithreading 2 5 (2.924 %) Replication 3 2 (1.170 %) Derivative 4 1 (0.585 %) Smartphone 4 1 (0.585 %) Pocket PC 4 1 (0.585 %) Client/Server 4 1 (0.585 %) Management Information System 4 1 (0.585 %) Handset
Operating Systems 1 15 (8.772 %) Windows 2 6 (3.509 %) UNIX 3 2 (1.170 %) Solaris 4 1 (0.585 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (0.585 %) Windows XP 4 1 (0.585 %) Windows Server 2003 4 1 (0.585 %) Windows Mobile 4 1 (0.585 %) Windows Vista	Processes & Methodologies 1 75 (43.86 %) OO 2 67 (39.18 %) Security Cleared 3 59 (34.50 %) SC Cleared 4 37 (21.64 %) SOA 5 32 (18.71 %) RUP 6 21 (12.28 %) Business Analysis 7 17 (9.942 %) BPEL 8 16 (9.357 %) OOD 9 14 (8.187 %) Unit Testing 10 12 (7.018 %) PRINCE2 11 11 (6.433 %) Requirements Management 12 10 (5.848 %) Unified Process 12 10 (5.848 %) Project Management 13 9 (5.263 %) OOA/OOD 13 9 (5.263 %) EAI 14 7 (4.094 %) ITIL 15 6 (3.509 %) System Testing 16 5 (2.924 %) Web Development 16 5 (2.924 %) Load Balancing 16 5 (2.924 %) Data Modelling
Programming Languages 1 52 (30.41 %) C++ 2 36 (21.05 %) SQL 3 31 (18.13 %) Ada 3 31 (18.13 %) Java 4 20 (11.70 %) C# 5 11 (6.433 %) JavaScript 6 9 (5.263 %) Transact-SQL 7 7 (4.094 %) C 8 5 (2.924 %) PHP 8 5 (2.924 %) PHP5 9 4 (2.339 %) RPG 10 3 (1.754 %) VB.NET 11 2 (1.170 %) VBScript 11 2 (1.170 %) PL/SQL 12 1 (0.585 %) Delphi 12 1 (0.585 %) VB 12 1 (0.585 %) VC++ 12 1 (0.585 %) Shell Script 12 1 (0.585 %) VB6	Qualifications 1 6 (3.509 %) ISEB 2 3 (1.754 %) Degree 3 2 (1.170 %) Microsoft Certification 4 1 (0.585 %) PRINCE2 Certification 4 1 (0.585 %) MCPD 4 1 (0.585 %) MCAD 4 1 (0.585 %) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 9 (5.263 %) TickIT 2 8 (4.678 %) ISO9001	System Software 1 1 (0.585 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 39 (22.81 %) Oracle 2 21 (12.28 %) Siebel 3 16 (9.357 %) Microsoft 4 10 (5.848 %) ILOG 5 5 (2.924 %) Zend 6 4 (2.339 %) SAP 6 4 (2.339 %) Business Objects 7 2 (1.170 %) PeopleSoft 7 2 (1.170 %) Sybase 7 2 (1.170 %) Sun 7 2 (1.170 %) Actuate 7 2 (1.170 %) Cognos 7 2 (1.170 %) Yahoo! 7 2 (1.170 %) Google 8 1 (0.585 %) ION Trading 8 1 (0.585 %) Altiris