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 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
V-Model
Rank 502 471 491
Rank change year-on-year
-31 +20
Contract jobs citing V-Model 39 94 95
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.084% 0.161% 0.153%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.119% 0.237% 0.226%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 39 54
Average daily rate £350 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £213 £222
10% offered a daily rate of more than £461 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £275 £325
% change year-on-year
+27.27% -15.38%
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
32894 39591 41969
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 70.99% 67.83% 67.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 19661 22733 23826
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 £579 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 963 1284 1487
Average hourly rate £30.50 £25.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.00% -13.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £12.68 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%

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 23 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 23 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 +28 14 £350 -12.55%
South East +23 13 £383 +24.39%
City of London +21 9 £350 +3.70%
Yorkshire 0 6 £250 -
Buckinghamshire +7 5 £365 +18.69%
West Yorkshire +2 5 £250 -
Leeds -5 5 £250 -
Berkshire +19 4 - -
Reading +17 4 - -
Milton Keynes +8 3 £365 +37.73%
Hampshire - 3 £383 -
South West +3 2 £350 +20.68%
Dorset - 2 £350 -
Scotland -19 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 23 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 41 (45.56%) Waterfall
2 36 (40.00%) Finance
3 28 (31.11%) Test Scripting
4 25 (27.78%) Oracle
5 24 (26.67%) SQL
6 23 (25.56%) HP Quality Center
7 22 (24.44%) Test Strategy
8 21 (23.33%) ISEB
9 20 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
9 20 (22.22%) Banking
10 17 (18.89%) .NET
11 16 (17.78%) ISTQB
12 15 (16.67%) Java
13 14 (15.56%) Agile Software Development
14 13 (14.44%) Business Analysis
14 13 (14.44%) Test Management
14 13 (14.44%) ITIL
15 11 (12.22%) Windows
15 11 (12.22%) QA
16 10 (11.11%) JIRA
16 10 (11.11%) Test Automation
16 10 (11.11%) Security Cleared
16 10 (11.11%) TestDirector
16 10 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
17 9 (10.00%) Project Management
17 9 (10.00%) SQL Server
18 8 (8.889%) Visual Studio
18 8 (8.889%) Linux
18 8 (8.889%) Data Warehouse
18 8 (8.889%) HP

V-Model
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 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 (18.89%) .NET
2 6 (6.667%) ASP.NET
3 5 (5.556%) SOAP
4 3 (3.333%) ASP.NET MVC
4 3 (3.333%) CSS
4 3 (3.333%) XML
4 3 (3.333%) HTML
4 3 (3.333%) J2EE
5 2 (2.222%) Web Services
5 2 (2.222%) WSDL
5 2 (2.222%) soapUI
6 1 (1.111%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.111%) BPEL4WS
6 1 (1.111%) ASP.NET MVC 3
6 1 (1.111%) XSD
6 1 (1.111%) XSLT
6 1 (1.111%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 4 (4.444%) Tomcat
1 4 (4.444%) Apache
1 4 (4.444%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.111%) LiveCycle
2 1 (1.111%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (1.111%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (2.222%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.333%) Dynamics AX
1 3 (3.333%) Oracle CRM
1 3 (3.333%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (2.222%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.222%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (1.111%) SAP HR
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.333%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (8.889%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (4.444%) Oracle BI EE
4 3 (3.333%) Oracle 8/8i
5 2 (2.222%) MySQL
5 2 (2.222%) MS Access
5 2 (2.222%) Oracle 10g
5 2 (2.222%) SQL Server 2012
6 1 (1.111%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
6 1 (1.111%) Oracle OLAP
6 1 (1.111%) BODI
6 1 (1.111%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (1.111%) SQL Server 2008
6 1 (1.111%) OLTP
6 1 (1.111%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.111%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (1.111%) TOAD
6 1 (1.111%) SQL Server 2000
6 1 (1.111%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.111%) DB2
Development Applications
1 10 (11.11%) JIRA
1 10 (11.11%) TestDirector
2 8 (8.889%) Visual Studio
2 8 (8.889%) QuickTest Pro
2 8 (8.889%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (3.333%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 3 (3.333%) Selenium
3 3 (3.333%) WinRunner
4 1 (1.111%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (1.111%) WebDriver
4 1 (1.111%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.111%) Bugzilla
General
1 36 (40.00%) Finance
2 20 (22.22%) Banking
3 6 (6.667%) Investment Banking
4 5 (5.556%) International Banking
5 4 (4.444%) Back Office
5 4 (4.444%) Retail
6 3 (3.333%) Games
6 3 (3.333%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.222%) Legal
7 2 (2.222%) Advertising
7 2 (2.222%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.111%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.111%) Dutch Language
8 1 (1.111%) French Language
8 1 (1.111%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 49 (54.44%) Analyst
2 31 (34.44%) Test Analyst
3 14 (15.56%) Business Analyst
4 12 (13.33%) Test Manager
5 10 (11.11%) Test Leader
6 7 (7.778%) Banking Business Analyst
6 7 (7.778%) Tester
7 5 (5.556%) Banking Analyst
7 5 (5.556%) Systems Analyst
7 5 (5.556%) Developer
8 4 (4.444%) Project Manager
8 4 (4.444%) Front-End Developer
8 4 (4.444%) Performance Analyst
8 4 (4.444%) Performance Test Analyst
9 3 (3.333%) Programme Test Manager
9 3 (3.333%) Architect
9 3 (3.333%) Programme Manager
9 3 (3.333%) Senior Analyst
10 2 (2.222%) Test Team Leader
10 2 (2.222%) Senior Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.556%) Open Source
2 4 (4.444%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.222%) EPoS
3 2 (2.222%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (2.222%) Reference Data
3 2 (2.222%) Derivative
4 1 (1.111%) Online Games
4 1 (1.111%) Mashup
4 1 (1.111%) PKI
4 1 (1.111%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.111%) SaaS
4 1 (1.111%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.111%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.111%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 11 (12.22%) Windows
2 8 (8.889%) Linux
3 4 (4.444%) Windows 7
4 3 (3.333%) UNIX
5 1 (1.111%) Windows Vista
5 1 (1.111%) Windows 8
5 1 (1.111%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.111%) Windows XP
5 1 (1.111%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (1.111%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (45.56%) Waterfall
2 28 (31.11%) Test Scripting
3 22 (24.44%) Test Strategy
4 20 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
5 14 (15.56%) Agile Software Development
6 13 (14.44%) Business Analysis
6 13 (14.44%) Test Management
6 13 (14.44%) ITIL
7 10 (11.11%) Test Automation
7 10 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (10.00%) Project Management
9 8 (8.889%) Scrum
9 8 (8.889%) Regression Testing
9 8 (8.889%) Performance Testing
10 7 (7.778%) Integration Testing
10 7 (7.778%) System Testing
10 7 (7.778%) GAP Analysis
10 7 (7.778%) UML
11 6 (6.667%) PRINCE2
11 6 (6.667%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 24 (26.67%) SQL
2 15 (16.67%) Java
3 7 (7.778%) C#
4 5 (5.556%) C
5 2 (2.222%) VB.NET
5 2 (2.222%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.222%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.111%) Embedded C
6 1 (1.111%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (23.33%) ISEB
2 16 (17.78%) ISTQB
3 10 (11.11%) Security Cleared
4 7 (7.778%) DV Cleared
5 6 (6.667%) SC Cleared
5 6 (6.667%) Degree
6 3 (3.333%) ISEB Practitioner
7 2 (2.222%) CISSP
7 2 (2.222%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 2 (2.222%) CISA
7 2 (2.222%) CISM
7 2 (2.222%) APMP
7 2 (2.222%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (1.111%) BC Cleared
8 1 (1.111%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.22%) QA
2 2 (2.222%) ISO 9001
2 2 (2.222%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.111%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.111%) Solvency II
3 1 (1.111%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.222%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (25.56%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 25 (27.78%) Oracle
2 8 (8.889%) HP
3 7 (7.778%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.778%) SAP
4 4 (4.444%) Siebel
5 3 (3.333%) JD Edwards
6 2 (2.222%) Sun
6 2 (2.222%) VMware
7 1 (1.111%) Capita
7 1 (1.111%) Adobe
7 1 (1.111%) TIBCO
7 1 (1.111%) Reuters
7 1 (1.111%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.111%) PeopleSoft
7 1 (1.111%) Sybase
7 1 (1.111%) Business Objects
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