The first table below looks at the demand for UML skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Sussex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited UML over the 3 months to 20 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 Sussex 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Unified Modeling Language (UML)
Rank - 33 26
Contract jobs citing UML 0 23 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex - 3.566% 6.164%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 4.883% 8.824%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 6 14
Average daily rate - £346 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -13.43%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £375 £400
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.50 £34.75 £35.50
% change year-on-year
+2.15% -2.11%
All Processes & Methodologies
West Sussex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
256 471 306
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex 67.72% 73.02% 69.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 280 146
Average daily rate £388 £338 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.81% -12.90%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £275 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 5 16
Average hourly rate £32.50 £22.00 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+47.72% -41.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.60 £10.00 £21.79
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.60 £32.50 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
UML
South East

UML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Sussex UML Jobs Demand Trend

UML
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Sussex UML Daily Rate Trend

UML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Sussex UML Hourly Rate Trend

UML
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex region citing UML 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 UML.

1 3 (75.00%) C#
1 3 (75.00%) HTML
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
1 3 (75.00%) T-SQL
1 3 (75.00%) VB.NET
1 3 (75.00%) .NET
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (75.00%) Crystal Reports
1 3 (75.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (75.00%) XML
1 3 (75.00%) ITIL
1 3 (75.00%) PRINCE2
1 3 (75.00%) MS Excel
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Business Analysis
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Use Case
3 1 (25.00%) User Stories

UML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex region citing UML 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 UML. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (75.00%) HTML
1 3 (75.00%) .NET
1 3 (75.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (75.00%) XML
Applications
1 3 (75.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (75.00%) Crystal Reports
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Analyst Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) ITIL
1 3 (75.00%) PRINCE2
1 3 (75.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Use Case
2 1 (25.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) C#
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
1 3 (75.00%) T-SQL
1 3 (75.00%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft