Watford Use Case Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Use Cases skills within the Watford region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Use Case over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Use Cases
Location Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Coventry Crewe Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucestershire Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Livingston London M4 Corridor Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newport Norfolk North West Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Poole Preston Reading Rickmansworth Rotherham Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Surrey Sussex Swindon UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	10
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	29
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.029 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	21.32 %
Daily rates quoted	0	28
Average minimum daily rate	-	£355
Average daily rate	-	£363
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£371
UK excluding London average daily rate	£382	£366
% change on same period last year	+4.22 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.13	£29.89
% change on same period last year	+14.15 %
Processes & Methodologies Watford
Matching contract IT job ads	92	136
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.124 %	0.134 %
Daily rates quoted	34	83
Average minimum daily rate	£404	£334
Average daily rate	£432	£342
% change on same period last year	+26.26 %
Average maximum daily rate	£460	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£375
% change on same period last year	+0.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£11.00	-
Average hourly rate	£12.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£13.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.41	£30.41
% change on same period last year	+0.01 %
Use Case Hertfordshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Use Case
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Use Case across the Watford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Use Case
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Use Case across the Watford region.

Use Case
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Watford region citing Use Case 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 Use Case.

1 3 (100.00 %) iDTV 1 3 (100.00 %) Internet 2 1 (33.33 %) CMMI 2 1 (33.33 %) AJAX 2 1 (33.33 %) Requirements Analysis 2 1 (33.33 %) WCAG 2 1 (33.33 %) DHTML 2 1 (33.33 %) HTML 2 1 (33.33 %) CSS 2 1 (33.33 %) XML 2 1 (33.33 %) PRINCE2 2 1 (33.33 %) DSDM 2 1 (33.33 %) XHTML 2 1 (33.33 %) E-Commerce 2 1 (33.33 %) Business Intelligence

2 1 (33.33 %) W3C

Use Case
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Watford region citing Use Case 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 Use Case. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (33.33 %) HTML 1 1 (33.33 %) CSS 1 1 (33.33 %) XML 1 1 (33.33 %) XHTML 1 1 (33.33 %) AJAX	Communications & Networking 1 3 (100.00 %) Internet
Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Analyst 1 2 (66.67 %) Business Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) Web Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) Senior Business Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) Senior Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) Team Leader 2 1 (33.33 %) Web Team Leader	Miscellaneous 1 3 (100.00 %) iDTV 2 1 (33.33 %) W3C
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) PRINCE2 1 1 (33.33 %) DSDM 1 1 (33.33 %) E-Commerce 1 1 (33.33 %) Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) CMMI 1 1 (33.33 %) Requirements Analysis	Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) DHTML
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (33.33 %) WCAG