The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of UC4 products and/or services in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited UC4 over the 3 months to 21 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 Vendors currently tracked.

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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within UC4 Software GmbH.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UC4
Rank 531 578 565
Rank change year-on-year
+47 -13
Contract jobs citing UC4 9 3 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.019% 0.005% 0.025%
As % of the Vendors category 0.041% 0.011% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 5
Average daily rate £488 £770 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-36.68% +81.17%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £418 £474 £395
10% offered a daily rate of more than £498 £784 £455
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
22181 27194 27998
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 46.98% 46.52% 46.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11810 13898 14021
Average daily rate £400 £400 £408
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -1.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £235 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1218 1319 1577
Average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.50% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.23 £11.50 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £41.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
- -7.31%

UC4
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing UC4 within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

UC4 Jobs Demand Trend

UC4
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing UC4 within the UK.

UC4 Daily Rate Trend

UC4
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing UC4 within the UK.

UC4 Hourly Rate Trend

UC4
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UC4 within the UK over the 3 months to 21 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 +51 9 £488 -36.68%
London +22 9 £488 -36.68%
City of London +16 3 £488 -36.68%

UC4
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing UC4 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 UC4.

1 8 (80.00%) Finance
2 7 (70.00%) Investment Management
3 6 (60.00%) InterSystems
3 6 (60.00%) Business Analysis
3 6 (60.00%) Java EE
3 6 (60.00%) ESB
3 6 (60.00%) Data Management
3 6 (60.00%) Release Management
3 6 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
3 6 (60.00%) Middleware
3 6 (60.00%) Informatica
3 6 (60.00%) Java
3 6 (60.00%) Business Objects
3 6 (60.00%) OO
4 5 (50.00%) EAI
5 3 (30.00%) SQL
6 2 (20.00%) Sybase
6 2 (20.00%) Front Office
7 1 (10.00%) Nagios
7 1 (10.00%) Reuters
7 1 (10.00%) Bloomberg
7 1 (10.00%) Fixed Income
7 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
7 1 (10.00%) VBA
7 1 (10.00%) .NET
7 1 (10.00%) Oracle
7 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
7 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
7 1 (10.00%) C#
7 1 (10.00%) C++

UC4
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing UC4 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 UC4. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (60.00%) Java EE
1 6 (60.00%) Middleware
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) ADO
2 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (10.00%) Web Services
2 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET 2.0
2 1 (10.00%) DAO
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Flex
2 1 (10.00%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 6 (60.00%) ESB
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (10.00%) MS Access
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (10.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 8 (80.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Development Manager
2 3 (30.00%) Lead Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Team Leader
2 3 (30.00%) Java Team Leader
3 2 (20.00%) Support Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Applications Support
4 1 (10.00%) Security Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Applications Support Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Access Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Fixed Income
1 1 (10.00%) Derivative
1 1 (10.00%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) UNIX
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Investment Management
2 6 (60.00%) Business Analysis
2 6 (60.00%) Data Management
2 6 (60.00%) Release Management
2 6 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
2 6 (60.00%) OO
3 5 (50.00%) EAI
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Java
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (10.00%) VBA
3 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (10.00%) C#
3 1 (10.00%) C++
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) InterSystems
1 6 (60.00%) Informatica
1 6 (60.00%) Business Objects
2 2 (20.00%) Sybase
3 1 (10.00%) Reuters
3 1 (10.00%) Bloomberg
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) IBM
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
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