The first table below looks at the demand for Uniface skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Uniface 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 of the Programming Languages 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Compuware Uniface
Rank 524 580 576
Rank change year-on-year
+56 -4
Contract jobs citing Uniface 16 1 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.034% 0.002% 0.007%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.091% 0.005% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 0 2
Average daily rate £375 - £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 - £450
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Programming Languages
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
17606 20181 22529
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 37.29% 34.52% 37.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 10838 11956 13041
Average daily rate £385 £375 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.66% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £258
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £570 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 631 717 922
Average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.62 £17.20 £19.52
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.50 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%

Uniface
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Uniface Jobs Demand Trend

Uniface
Daily Rate Trend

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

Uniface Daily Rate Trend

Uniface
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Uniface within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Uniface Daily Rate Histogram

Uniface
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Uniface Hourly Rate Trend

Uniface
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Uniface 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 +58 14 £375 -
East Midlands - 7 £375 -
Nottinghamshire - 7 £375 -
Nottingham - 6 £375 -
Merseyside - 4 £325 -
Liverpool - 4 £325 -
North West - 4 £325 -
London +16 1 £375 -
Midlands - 1 - -
City of London - 1 £375 -

Uniface
Top 20 Related IT Skills

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

1 11 (64.71%) SQL
1 11 (64.71%) Oracle
2 10 (58.82%) HTML
2 10 (58.82%) XML
2 10 (58.82%) Oracle 10g
3 8 (47.06%) QA
3 8 (47.06%) Waterfall
4 7 (41.18%) Unit Testing
4 7 (41.18%) JavaScript
4 7 (41.18%) CSS
5 6 (35.29%) Quality Management
5 6 (35.29%) QMS
6 5 (29.41%) Scrum
6 5 (29.41%) C
6 5 (29.41%) Informix
7 4 (23.53%) UNIX
7 4 (23.53%) Perl
8 3 (17.65%) Subversion
8 3 (17.65%) Configuration Management
9 1 (5.882%) Oracle 8/8i

Uniface
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 10 (58.82%) HTML
1 10 (58.82%) XML
2 7 (41.18%) CSS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (58.82%) Oracle 10g
2 5 (29.41%) Informix
3 1 (5.882%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 17 (100.00%) Developer
2 16 (94.12%) Uniface Developer
3 3 (17.65%) C Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.882%) SQL Developer
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Waterfall
2 7 (41.18%) Unit Testing
3 6 (35.29%) Quality Management
3 6 (35.29%) QMS
4 5 (29.41%) Scrum
5 3 (17.65%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (64.71%) SQL
2 7 (41.18%) JavaScript
3 5 (29.41%) C
4 4 (23.53%) Perl
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (47.06%) QA
Vendors
1 11 (64.71%) Oracle