Thames Valley Use Case Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Use Cases skills within the Thames Valley region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Use Case over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Use Cases
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Crewe Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucestershire Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newport Norfolk North West Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Poole Reading Rickmansworth Rotherham Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	53
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.714 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£250
Average daily rate	-	£325
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£388	£369
% change on same period last year	+5.11 %
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	£34.74	£30.07
% change on same period last year	+15.52 %
Processes & Methodologies Thames Valley
Matching contract IT job ads	202	280
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.267 %	0.279 %
Daily rates quoted	28	43
Average minimum daily rate	£345	£352
Average daily rate	£375	£372
% change on same period last year	+0.79 %
Average maximum daily rate	£406	£393
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£377
% change on same period last year	+0.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	16
Average minimum hourly rate	£38.75	£32.76
Average hourly rate	£39.22	£34.67
% change on same period last year	+13.13 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£39.69	£36.57
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.34	£30.18
% change on same period last year	+0.55 %
Use Case 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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Use Case across the Thames Valley region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Use Case across the Thames Valley region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Use Case across the Thames Valley region.

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Top 4 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Thames Valley 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 (100.00 %) XML 1 1 (100.00 %) UML 1 1 (100.00 %) MS Excel 1 1 (100.00 %) MS Visio

Use Case
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Thames Valley 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.

Application Development 1 1 (100.00 %) XML	Applications 1 1 (100.00 %) MS Excel 1 1 (100.00 %) MS Visio
Job Titles 1 1 (100.00 %) Business Analyst 1 1 (100.00 %) Analyst	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (100.00 %) UML