The first table below looks at the demand for OpenUP skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OpenUP 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.

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
Open Unified Process
Rank 525 566 581
Rank change year-on-year
+41 +15
Contract jobs citing OpenUP 5 12 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.011% 0.021% 0.011%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.015% 0.030% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 6
Average daily rate £407 £350 £513
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.14% -31.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £333 £206 £475
10% offered a daily rate of more than £471 £525 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £463 £350 -
% change year-on-year
+32.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £10.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
32885 39492 41512
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 70.87% 67.77% 67.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 19655 22706 23594
Average daily rate £413 £400 £440
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.12% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £579 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 974 1268 1474
Average hourly rate £31.25 £25.00 £29.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -15.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £13.00 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%

OpenUP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

OpenUP Jobs Demand Trend

OpenUP
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing OpenUP within the UK.

OpenUP Daily Rate Trend

OpenUP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing OpenUP within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

OpenUP Daily Rate Histogram

OpenUP
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing OpenUP within the UK.

OpenUP Hourly Rate Trend

OpenUP
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenUP within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +41 4 £463 +32.14%
London +17 2 £351 +0.14%
Birmingham - 2 £469 -
West Midlands - 2 £469 -
City of London +12 1 £351 +0.14%
Scotland -15 1 £325 -
Glasgow - 1 £325 -

OpenUP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing OpenUP 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 OpenUP.

1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Internet
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (30.00%) .NET
2 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (30.00%) MS Office
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) T-SQL
3 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (20.00%) ITIL
3 2 (20.00%) MCP
3 2 (20.00%) Windows
3 2 (20.00%) HTML
3 2 (20.00%) Windows XP
3 2 (20.00%) Lotus Notes
3 2 (20.00%) MCSE
3 2 (20.00%) MS Excel
3 2 (20.00%) IPv6
3 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (20.00%) LAN
3 2 (20.00%) WLAN
3 2 (20.00%) WAN
3 2 (20.00%) VPN
3 2 (20.00%) MCDST
3 2 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (20.00%) Extranet
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification

OpenUP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing OpenUP 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 OpenUP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (30.00%) .NET
2 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (20.00%) HTML
3 1 (10.00%) DHTML
3 1 (10.00%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) Lotus Notes
2 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (10.00%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (30.00%) MS Office
2 2 (20.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Internet
2 2 (20.00%) Extranet
2 2 (20.00%) Wireless
2 2 (20.00%) LAN
2 2 (20.00%) WLAN
2 2 (20.00%) WAN
2 2 (20.00%) VPN
2 2 (20.00%) IPv6
3 1 (10.00%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (10.00%) OLTP
3 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2000
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Consultant
2 3 (30.00%) Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) iPad Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Web Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) DBA
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Server DBA
4 1 (10.00%) Business Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) SQL DBA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) NHS
1 1 (10.00%) Clustering
1 1 (10.00%) Life Science
1 1 (10.00%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
1 2 (20.00%) Windows XP
2 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) ITIL
1 2 (20.00%) GAP Analysis
1 2 (20.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (10.00%) Business Development
2 1 (10.00%) Portfolio Management
2 1 (10.00%) OO
2 1 (10.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (10.00%) ETL
2 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (10.00%) Project Management
2 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (10.00%) VB.NET
3 1 (10.00%) Objective-C
3 1 (10.00%) C#
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) MCP
1 2 (20.00%) MCSE
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (20.00%) MCDST
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco
2 2 (20.00%) Lotus
3 1 (10.00%) Primavera
3 1 (10.00%) SAP
3 1 (10.00%) HP