Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for UML skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited UML over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category.

LinkUnified Modeling Language (UML)
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank665152
Rank change year-on-year
Down-15Up+1
Matching contract IT job ads117710332322
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK2.436 %2.619 %2.825 %
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category4.139 %4.939 %5.676 %
Daily rates quoted570298748
Average daily rate£400£375£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.660 %-6.250 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£268£285£290
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£550£500£550
UK excluding London average daily rate£365£350£375
% change year-on-year
+4.280 %-6.660 %
Hourly rates quoted8296203
Average hourly rate£35.00£35.00£37.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
--5.400 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£25.00£31.88£30.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£41.45£43.00£44.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£35.00£35.00£37.00
% change year-on-year
--5.400 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryAll Processes & Methodologies
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
284392091640911
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK58.87 %53.02 %49.77 %
Daily rates quoted13684739614067
Average daily rate£410£400£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.500 %-
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£250£235£263
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£575£550£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£350£360£375
% change year-on-year
-2.770 %-4.000 %
Hourly rates quoted114812112463
Average hourly rate£25.00£27.50£30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.090 %-8.330 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£12.21£13.00£13.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£42.50£42.50£44.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£24.50£27.50£30.00
% change year-on-year
-10.90 %-8.330 %

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.

UML
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing UML within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

UML Demand Trend

UML
Daily Rate Trend

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

UML Daily Rate Trend

UML
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing UML within the UK over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

UML Daily Rate Histogram

UML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

UML Hourly Rate Trend

UML
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing UML within the UK over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

UML Hourly Rate Histogram

UML
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandDown-151112£400+4.98 %
LondonDown-14634£425-
South EastDown-4185£345-8.00 %
City of LondonDown-15170£425-
South WestDown-1487£338+3.84 %
East of EnglandUp+3869£389-9.59 %
HampshireDown-850£294-12.96 %
BerkshireUp+2243£411+9.66 %
ScotlandUp+442£425+21.42 %
SurreyDown-537£388+6.89 %
YorkshireDown-1636£411+20.73 %
DevonDown-133£250+11.11 %
West MidlandsUp+832£406+16.07 %
Canary WharfDown-1128£550+10.00 %
North WestDown-2128£325-7.14 %
EssexUp+2326£350-12.22 %
West YorkshireDown-1824£411+1.04 %
LeedsDown-621£411+1.04 %
BristolDown-2521£338-
East MidlandsDown-420£425+78.94 %
Docklands, LondonDown-1520£575+21.05 %
EdinburghDown-918£400+60.00 %
ReadingUp+1317£400-
MiddlesexDown-317£310-22.74 %
CambridgeshireUp+1714£395+43.63 %
HertfordshireUp+1114£355+9.23 %
GlasgowUp+214£260-28.27 %
ManchesterDown-914£275-37.14 %
WalesUp+113£375+15.38 %
ExeterNew entry-13£375-

UML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1518 (23.48 %)Java
2458 (20.76 %)XML
3408 (18.50 %)SQL
4405 (18.36 %)OO
5397 (18.00 %)Finance
6392 (17.77 %)Oracle
7372 (16.86 %)Banking
8345 (15.64 %).NET
9327 (14.82 %)C#
10319 (14.46 %)Business Analysis
11292 (13.24 %)SQL Server
12291 (13.19 %)RUP
13283 (12.83 %)Use Case
14269 (12.19 %)J2EE
15259 (11.74 %)SOA
16239 (10.83 %)Investment Banking
17238 (10.79 %)Security Cleared
18232 (10.52 %)Data Modelling
19218 (9.882 %)Agile Software Development
20215 (9.746 %)Web Services
21211 (9.565 %)C++
22192 (8.704 %)UNIX
23166 (7.525 %)Linux
24164 (7.434 %)ASP.NET
25163 (7.389 %)Windows
26161 (7.298 %)Government
27158 (7.162 %)Microsoft
28155 (7.026 %)PRINCE2
29152 (6.890 %)C
30150 (6.800 %)HTML

UML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1458 (20.76 %)XML
2345 (15.64 %).NET
3269 (12.19 %)J2EE
4215 (9.746 %)Web Services
5164 (7.434 %)ASP.NET
6150 (6.800 %)HTML
7140 (6.346 %)Spring
8103 (4.669 %)WebSphere
990 (4.080 %)Hibernate
1086 (3.898 %)Middleware
1185 (3.853 %)JSP
1282 (3.717 %)AJAX
1379 (3.581 %)CSS
1473 (3.309 %)JMS
1571 (3.218 %).NET Framework
1670 (3.173 %)WinForms
1768 (3.083 %)XSLT
1857 (2.584 %)WCF
1951 (2.312 %)XML Schema
2050 (2.267 %)EJB
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
190 (4.080 %)WebLogic
269 (3.128 %)SharePoint
341 (1.859 %)ESB
430 (1.360 %)Tomcat
528 (1.269 %)WebSphere MQ
625 (1.133 %)CMS
723 (1.043 %)BizTalk Server
822 (0.997 %)Apache
921 (0.952 %)AquaLogic
1019 (0.861 %)WebSphere Message Broker
1118 (0.816 %)MQSeries
1216 (0.725 %)WebSphere Application Server
1312 (0.544 %)SAS
1411 (0.499 %)Oracle Service Bus
1510 (0.453 %)Drupal
1510 (0.453 %)IIS
169 (0.408 %)WebSphere Process Server
169 (0.408 %)TIBCO EMS
169 (0.408 %)SharePoint Server 2007
178 (0.363 %)Oracle 10gAS
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1127 (5.757 %)MS Visio
278 (3.536 %)MS Excel
340 (1.813 %)MS Office
422 (0.997 %)CA Clarity
422 (0.997 %)MATLAB
518 (0.816 %)Simulink
617 (0.771 %)MS Project
714 (0.635 %)MS PowerPoint
85 (0.227 %)InfoPath
94 (0.181 %)Fireworks
94 (0.181 %)Photoshop
101 (0.045 %)Spreadsheet
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
110 (0.453 %)SAP R/3
27 (0.317 %)Murex MxG2000
27 (0.317 %)Dynamics CRM
35 (0.227 %)ION MarketView
44 (0.181 %)Oracle BPM
44 (0.181 %)ZaiNet
44 (0.181 %)Microsoft CRM
53 (0.136 %)Summit
53 (0.136 %)Dynamics AX
62 (0.091 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
62 (0.091 %)Kondor+
62 (0.091 %)Sophis RISQUE
62 (0.091 %)BusinessWorks
62 (0.091 %)Oracle Financials
71 (0.045 %)SAP HR
71 (0.045 %)Oracle EBS
71 (0.045 %)SAP CRM
71 (0.045 %)Dynamics NAV
71 (0.045 %)Dynamics GP
71 (0.045 %)InvestOne
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
156 (2.539 %)Internet
252 (2.357 %)TCP/IP
327 (1.224 %)HTTP
425 (1.133 %)LAN
523 (1.043 %)Firewall
622 (0.997 %)Network Security
622 (0.997 %)WAN
715 (0.680 %)Intranet
715 (0.680 %)LDAP
811 (0.499 %)Wireless
99 (0.408 %)Ethernet
108 (0.363 %)GPRS
115 (0.227 %)X.500
124 (0.181 %)SSL
124 (0.181 %)3G
124 (0.181 %)SAN
133 (0.136 %)Extranet
133 (0.136 %)HTTPS
133 (0.136 %)SDH
133 (0.136 %)ATM
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1292 (13.24 %)SQL Server
286 (3.898 %)SQL Server 2005
372 (3.264 %)SQL Server 2000
459 (2.675 %)Datawarehouse
548 (2.176 %)SQL Server 2008
645 (2.040 %)Oracle 10g
743 (1.949 %)DB2
840 (1.813 %)MySQL
933 (1.496 %)RDBMS
1030 (1.360 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1129 (1.315 %)GIS
1227 (1.224 %)BusinessObjects
1324 (1.088 %)ETL
1419 (0.861 %)Reference Data
1516 (0.725 %)Oracle 8/8i
1615 (0.680 %)Oracle 11g
1714 (0.635 %)Oracle Reports
1813 (0.589 %)Crystal Reports
1910 (0.453 %)SQL Server Integration Services
209 (0.408 %)Ingres
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1125 (5.666 %)ClearCase
294 (4.261 %)Rational Rose
388 (3.989 %)Visual Studio
486 (3.898 %)NUnit
582 (3.717 %)Subversion
668 (3.083 %)JUnit
761 (2.765 %)RequisitePro
845 (2.040 %)ClearQuest
943 (1.949 %)VSS/SourceSafe
1040 (1.813 %)NCover
1137 (1.677 %)Ant
1137 (1.677 %)Eclipse
1236 (1.632 %)csUnit
1334 (1.541 %)ReSharper
1334 (1.541 %)Selenium
1433 (1.496 %)TeamCity
1532 (1.451 %)FitNesse
1630 (1.360 %)Maven
1726 (1.179 %)Team Foundation Server
1822 (0.997 %)NDepend
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1397 (18.00 %)Finance
2372 (16.86 %)Banking
3239 (10.83 %)Investment Banking
4161 (7.298 %)Government
5118 (5.349 %)Retail
693 (4.216 %)Front Office
772 (3.264 %)Telecoms
865 (2.947 %)Insurance
963 (2.856 %)Back Office
1045 (2.040 %)Health
1139 (1.768 %)Retail Banking
1235 (1.587 %)Games
1329 (1.315 %)Military
1428 (1.269 %)Pensions
1527 (1.224 %)Marketing
1622 (0.997 %)Financial Institution
1720 (0.907 %)Education
1814 (0.635 %)Electric
1913 (0.589 %)Legal
2012 (0.544 %)Criminal Justice
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1921 (41.75 %)Analyst
2755 (34.22 %)Business Analyst
3638 (28.92 %)Developer
4258 (11.70 %)Architect
5191 (8.658 %)Java Developer
6145 (6.573 %)Systems Analyst
7133 (6.029 %)Senior Developer
8113 (5.122 %)Software Engineer
9109 (4.941 %).NET Developer
10104 (4.714 %)Designer
1195 (4.306 %)C# Developer
1290 (4.080 %)Solutions Architect
1377 (3.490 %)Senior Analyst
1469 (3.128 %)Banking Business Analyst
1566 (2.992 %)Business Systems Analyst
1661 (2.765 %)Senior Business Analyst
1753 (2.403 %)C++ Developer
1753 (2.403 %)UML Business Analyst
1846 (2.085 %)Investment Banking Business Analyst
1944 (1.995 %)J2EE Developer
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
198 (4.442 %)Derivative
271 (3.218 %)Fixed Income
360 (2.720 %)Equities
446 (2.085 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
545 (2.040 %)Open Source
644 (1.995 %)N-Tier
644 (1.995 %)Market Risk
741 (1.859 %)Multithreading
837 (1.677 %)NHS
931 (1.405 %)Credit Risk
1026 (1.179 %)Credit Derivative
1125 (1.133 %)PMI
1221 (0.952 %)Computer Science
1318 (0.816 %)Interest Rate Derivative
1416 (0.725 %)Mathematics
1416 (0.725 %)Management Information System
1515 (0.680 %)Equity Derivative
1614 (0.635 %)Mainframe
1712 (0.544 %)Visualisation
1712 (0.544 %)Fat Client
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1192 (8.704 %)UNIX
2166 (7.525 %)Linux
3163 (7.389 %)Windows
463 (2.856 %)Solaris
519 (0.861 %)Windows Server 2003
612 (0.544 %)Red Hat Linux
612 (0.544 %)AIX
77 (0.317 %)Windows XP
86 (0.272 %)Windows Server 2008
86 (0.272 %)VxWorks
86 (0.272 %)MVS
86 (0.272 %)Windows 2000
95 (0.227 %)Windows NT
103 (0.136 %)Windows CE
103 (0.136 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
112 (0.091 %)Ubuntu
112 (0.091 %)SUSE
112 (0.091 %)Debian
112 (0.091 %)HPUX
121 (0.045 %)pSOS
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1405 (18.36 %)OO
2319 (14.46 %)Business Analysis
3291 (13.19 %)RUP
4283 (12.83 %)Use Case
5259 (11.74 %)SOA
6232 (10.52 %)Data Modelling
7218 (9.882 %)Agile Software Development
8155 (7.026 %)PRINCE2
9137 (6.210 %)OOD
10130 (5.893 %)Systems Analysis
11127 (5.757 %)Project Management
12125 (5.666 %)Stakeholder Management
13112 (5.077 %)OOA/OOD
1497 (4.397 %)Unit Testing
1590 (4.080 %)E-Commerce
1689 (4.034 %)SSADM
1786 (3.898 %)TDD
1786 (3.898 %)User Acceptance Testing
1885 (3.853 %)Requirements Analysis
1978 (3.536 %)Scrum
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1518 (23.48 %)Java
2408 (18.50 %)SQL
3327 (14.82 %)C#
4211 (9.565 %)C++
5152 (6.890 %)C
6125 (5.666 %)JavaScript
792 (4.170 %)PL/SQL
864 (2.901 %)Python
959 (2.675 %)Perl
1044 (1.995 %)VB
1139 (1.768 %)T-SQL
1238 (1.723 %)VB.NET
1322 (0.997 %)AWK
1322 (0.997 %)ActionScript
1322 (0.997 %)PHP
1419 (0.861 %)Ada
1419 (0.861 %)XPath
1516 (0.725 %)VBA
1516 (0.725 %)Embedded C
1615 (0.680 %)ActionScript 2.0
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1238 (10.79 %)Security Cleared
2147 (6.664 %)SC Cleared
387 (3.944 %)Degree
447 (2.131 %)ISEB
527 (1.224 %)PMI Certification
624 (1.088 %)Microsoft Certification
722 (0.997 %)DV Cleared
89 (0.408 %)CBAP
98 (0.363 %)BC Cleared
98 (0.363 %)MCAD
98 (0.363 %)MCSD
107 (0.317 %)Sun Certification
116 (0.272 %)PRINCE2 Certification
123 (0.136 %)MCP
123 (0.136 %)SCJP
123 (0.136 %)MCTS
123 (0.136 %)CTC Cleared
132 (0.091 %)SCJA
132 (0.091 %)SCJD
132 (0.091 %)SCDJWS
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1110 (4.986 %)QA
212 (0.544 %)ISO9001
37 (0.317 %)SLA
45 (0.227 %)Basel II
54 (0.181 %)MiFID
54 (0.181 %)ISO12207
54 (0.181 %)TickIT
62 (0.091 %)JTAG
62 (0.091 %)ISO27001
62 (0.091 %)PAS 78
62 (0.091 %)WAI
62 (0.091 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
71 (0.045 %)ISO17799
71 (0.045 %)ISO9000
71 (0.045 %)ISO15504
71 (0.045 %)COBIT
71 (0.045 %)PCI DSS
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
110 (0.453 %)MSMQ
29 (0.408 %)Active Directory
35 (0.227 %)Oracle RAC
44 (0.181 %)VMware Infrastructure
53 (0.136 %)VMware ESX
61 (0.045 %)ISA Server
61 (0.045 %)Squid
61 (0.045 %)Postfix
61 (0.045 %)OpenLDAP
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
110 (0.453 %)HP Quality Center
25 (0.227 %)CONTROL-M
33 (0.136 %)MIIS
42 (0.091 %)Data Guard
42 (0.091 %)Netcool
51 (0.045 %)Netcool/Proviso
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1392 (17.77 %)Oracle
2158 (7.162 %)Microsoft
359 (2.675 %)SAP
455 (2.493 %)IBM
455 (2.493 %)Sybase
549 (2.221 %)BEA
636 (1.632 %)Siebel
729 (1.315 %)Sun
827 (1.224 %)Business Objects
925 (1.133 %)Serena
925 (1.133 %)JBoss
925 (1.133 %)Cognos
1014 (0.635 %)DevExpress
1014 (0.635 %)ATG
1014 (0.635 %)webMethods
1113 (0.589 %)Bloomberg
1211 (0.499 %)Red Hat
1211 (0.499 %)TIBCO
1310 (0.453 %)Perforce
149 (0.408 %)Chordiant