The first table below looks at the demand for V-Model skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited V-Model over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
V-Model
Rank 491 492 490
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -2
Contract jobs citing V-Model 38 92 94
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.082% 0.158% 0.154%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.115% 0.232% 0.228%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 38 53
Average daily rate £350 £313 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.00% -3.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £213 £221
10% offered a daily rate of more than £461 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £283 £325
% change year-on-year
+23.89% -13.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £35.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £35.75
All Processes & Methodologies
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
32941 39581 41270
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 71.01% 67.87% 67.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 19678 22705 23413
Average daily rate £413 £403 £438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.48% -8.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £580 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 976 1282 1475
Average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -13.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £12.50 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%

V-Model
Jobs Demand Trend

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

V-Model Jobs Demand Trend

V-Model
Daily Rate Trend

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

V-Model Daily Rate Trend

V-Model
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing V-Model within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

V-Model Daily Rate Histogram

V-Model
Hourly Rate Trend

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

V-Model Hourly Rate Trend

V-Model
Top 19 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing V-Model within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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 +2 36 £350 +6.06%
London +33 14 £350 -12.55%
South East +20 13 £383 +9.28%
City of London +16 9 £350 +3.70%
Yorkshire +4 6 £250 -
Buckinghamshire +9 5 £365 +4.28%
West Yorkshire +4 5 £250 -
Leeds -6 5 £250 -
Berkshire +17 4 - -
Reading +17 4 - -
Milton Keynes - 3 £365 -
Hampshire - 3 £383 -
South West +1 2 £350 +20.68%
Dorset - 2 £350 -
Scotland -15 1 £163 -35.00%
East Midlands - 1 - -
Leicestershire - 1 - -
Winchester - 1 £383 -
Leicester - 1 - -

V-Model
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing V-Model 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 V-Model.

1 40 (45.45%) Waterfall
2 35 (39.77%) Finance
3 27 (30.68%) Test Scripting
4 24 (27.27%) Oracle
5 23 (26.14%) SQL
6 22 (25.00%) Test Strategy
6 22 (25.00%) HP Quality Center
7 21 (23.86%) ISEB
8 20 (22.73%) User Acceptance Testing
8 20 (22.73%) Banking
9 17 (19.32%) .NET
10 16 (18.18%) ISTQB
11 15 (17.05%) Java
12 14 (15.91%) Agile Software Development
13 13 (14.77%) Business Analysis
13 13 (14.77%) Test Management
13 13 (14.77%) ITIL
14 11 (12.50%) Windows
14 11 (12.50%) QA
15 10 (11.36%) JIRA
15 10 (11.36%) Test Automation
15 10 (11.36%) Security Cleared
15 10 (11.36%) TestDirector
15 10 (11.36%) Stakeholder Management
16 9 (10.23%) Project Management
16 9 (10.23%) SQL Server
17 8 (9.091%) Visual Studio
17 8 (9.091%) Linux
17 8 (9.091%) HP
17 8 (9.091%) QuickTest Pro

V-Model
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing V-Model 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 V-Model. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 17 (19.32%) .NET
2 6 (6.818%) ASP.NET
3 5 (5.682%) SOAP
4 3 (3.409%) ASP.NET MVC
4 3 (3.409%) CSS
4 3 (3.409%) XML
4 3 (3.409%) HTML
4 3 (3.409%) J2EE
5 2 (2.273%) WSDL
5 2 (2.273%) Web Services
5 2 (2.273%) soapUI
6 1 (1.136%) ASP.NET MVC 3
6 1 (1.136%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.136%) BPEL4WS
6 1 (1.136%) XSD
6 1 (1.136%) XSLT
6 1 (1.136%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 4 (4.545%) SharePoint
1 4 (4.545%) Apache
1 4 (4.545%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.136%) LiveCycle
2 1 (1.136%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (1.136%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (2.273%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.409%) Dynamics AX
1 3 (3.409%) Oracle CRM
2 2 (2.273%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (2.273%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.273%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (1.136%) SAP HR
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.409%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.23%) SQL Server
2 7 (7.955%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (3.409%) Oracle BI EE
4 2 (2.273%) Oracle 10g
4 2 (2.273%) MS Access
4 2 (2.273%) MySQL
4 2 (2.273%) Oracle 8/8i
4 2 (2.273%) SQL Server 2012
5 1 (1.136%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (1.136%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
5 1 (1.136%) Oracle OLAP
5 1 (1.136%) BODI
5 1 (1.136%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (1.136%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.136%) DB2
5 1 (1.136%) OLAP
5 1 (1.136%) OLTP
5 1 (1.136%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.136%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.136%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 10 (11.36%) JIRA
1 10 (11.36%) TestDirector
2 8 (9.091%) Visual Studio
2 8 (9.091%) QuickTest Pro
2 8 (9.091%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (3.409%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 3 (3.409%) Selenium
3 3 (3.409%) WinRunner
4 1 (1.136%) WebDriver
4 1 (1.136%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (1.136%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.136%) Bugzilla
General
1 35 (39.77%) Finance
2 20 (22.73%) Banking
3 6 (6.818%) Investment Banking
4 5 (5.682%) International Banking
5 4 (4.545%) Back Office
5 4 (4.545%) Retail
6 3 (3.409%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.409%) Games
7 2 (2.273%) Legal
7 2 (2.273%) Advertising
7 2 (2.273%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.136%) Dutch Language
8 1 (1.136%) French Language
8 1 (1.136%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.136%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 48 (54.55%) Analyst
2 30 (34.09%) Test Analyst
3 14 (15.91%) Business Analyst
4 12 (13.64%) Test Manager
5 10 (11.36%) Test Leader
6 7 (7.955%) Banking Business Analyst
7 6 (6.818%) Tester
8 5 (5.682%) Banking Analyst
8 5 (5.682%) Developer
8 5 (5.682%) Systems Analyst
9 4 (4.545%) Project Manager
9 4 (4.545%) Performance Test Analyst
9 4 (4.545%) Performance Analyst
9 4 (4.545%) Front-End Developer
10 3 (3.409%) Programme Test Manager
10 3 (3.409%) Programme Manager
10 3 (3.409%) Architect
10 3 (3.409%) Senior Analyst
11 2 (2.273%) Test Team Leader
11 2 (2.273%) Software Tester
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.682%) Open Source
2 4 (4.545%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.273%) EPoS
3 2 (2.273%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (2.273%) Derivative
3 2 (2.273%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.136%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.136%) SaaS
4 1 (1.136%) Online Games
4 1 (1.136%) Mashup
4 1 (1.136%) PKI
4 1 (1.136%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.136%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 11 (12.50%) Windows
2 8 (9.091%) Linux
3 4 (4.545%) Windows 7
4 3 (3.409%) UNIX
5 1 (1.136%) Windows 8
5 1 (1.136%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.136%) Windows Vista
5 1 (1.136%) Windows 2000
5 1 (1.136%) Windows XP
5 1 (1.136%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (45.45%) Waterfall
2 27 (30.68%) Test Scripting
3 22 (25.00%) Test Strategy
4 20 (22.73%) User Acceptance Testing
5 14 (15.91%) Agile Software Development
6 13 (14.77%) Business Analysis
6 13 (14.77%) Test Management
6 13 (14.77%) ITIL
7 10 (11.36%) Test Automation
7 10 (11.36%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (10.23%) Project Management
9 8 (9.091%) Regression Testing
9 8 (9.091%) Scrum
10 7 (7.955%) System Testing
10 7 (7.955%) Performance Testing
10 7 (7.955%) Integration Testing
10 7 (7.955%) GAP Analysis
11 6 (6.818%) UML
11 6 (6.818%) PRINCE2
11 6 (6.818%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 23 (26.14%) SQL
2 15 (17.05%) Java
3 7 (7.955%) C#
4 4 (4.545%) C
5 2 (2.273%) VB.NET
5 2 (2.273%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.273%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.136%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (23.86%) ISEB
2 16 (18.18%) ISTQB
3 10 (11.36%) Security Cleared
4 7 (7.955%) DV Cleared
5 6 (6.818%) Degree
5 6 (6.818%) SC Cleared
6 3 (3.409%) ISEB Practitioner
7 2 (2.273%) CISA
7 2 (2.273%) CISM
7 2 (2.273%) CISSP
7 2 (2.273%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 2 (2.273%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 2 (2.273%) APMP
8 1 (1.136%) BC Cleared
8 1 (1.136%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.50%) QA
2 2 (2.273%) ISO 9001
2 2 (2.273%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.136%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.136%) Solvency II
3 1 (1.136%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.273%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (25.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 24 (27.27%) Oracle
2 8 (9.091%) HP
3 7 (7.955%) Microsoft
4 6 (6.818%) SAP
5 3 (3.409%) Siebel
5 3 (3.409%) JD Edwards
6 2 (2.273%) VMware
7 1 (1.136%) Capita
7 1 (1.136%) PeopleSoft
7 1 (1.136%) Sybase
7 1 (1.136%) Business Objects
7 1 (1.136%) Sun
7 1 (1.136%) Adobe
7 1 (1.136%) TIBCO
7 1 (1.136%) Reuters
7 1 (1.136%) Bloomberg
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