The first table below looks at the demand for Unified Process skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Unified Process 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 for the West Midlands region.

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
Unified Process
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Unified Process 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands - - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £288 £455 £310
% change year-on-year
-36.81% +46.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1085 1431 1197
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 66.44% 63.83% 63.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 527 675 550
Average daily rate £350 £330 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% -5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £233 £235 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £527 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 73 75
Average hourly rate £37.80 £20.26 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+86.62% -18.98%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Unified Process
England

Unified Process
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Unified Process across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

West Midlands Unified Process Jobs Demand Trend

Unified Process
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Unified Process across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands Unified Process Daily Rate Trend

Unified Process
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Unified Process across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands Unified Process Hourly Rate Trend

Unified Process
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing Unified Process 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 Unified Process.

1 2 (100.00%) RUP
1 2 (100.00%) UML
2 1 (50.00%) OOA/OOD
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (50.00%) VB.NET
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) IIS
2 1 (50.00%) MS Office
2 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (50.00%) ADO.NET
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (50.00%) ISO 9000
2 1 (50.00%) ISO 9001
2 1 (50.00%) Ethernet
2 1 (50.00%) SLA
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) W3C
2 1 (50.00%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (50.00%) DVB
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Quality Management

Unified Process
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing Unified Process 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 Unified Process. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) ADO.NET
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) Ajax
1 1 (50.00%) Windows SharePoint Services
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (50.00%) WCF
1 1 (50.00%) WPF
1 1 (50.00%) WF
1 1 (50.00%) Silverlight
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) IIS
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (50.00%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint Server
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint Foundation
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Office
1 1 (50.00%) InfoPath
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (50.00%) DVB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (50.00%) NUnit
1 1 (50.00%) CruiseControl
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio Team System
1 1 (50.00%) MSBuild
General
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (50.00%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Quality Manager
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) W3C
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) RUP
1 2 (100.00%) UML
2 1 (50.00%) OOA/OOD
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Quality Management
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Management
2 1 (50.00%) Extreme Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) MSF
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
1 1 (50.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Six Sigma Black Belt
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO 9000
1 1 (50.00%) ISO 9001
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
1 1 (50.00%) WAI
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft