West Yorkshire Use Case Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Use Cases skills within the West Yorkshire 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Use Cases
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Crewe Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire England Essex Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newport Norfolk North West Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Poole Reading Rickmansworth Rotherham Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	73	90
Rank change on same period last year	+17
Matching contract IT job ads	22	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.029 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	2.144 %	0.600 %
Daily rates quoted	14	2
Average minimum daily rate	£349	£300
Average daily rate	£355	£313
% change on same period last year	+13.59 %
Average maximum daily rate	£361	£325
UK excluding London average daily rate	£372	£364
% change on same period last year	+2.07 %
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	£35.53	£30.70
% change on same period last year	+15.74 %
Processes & Methodologies West Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	1026	1000
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.368 %	1.012 %
Daily rates quoted	305	207
Average minimum daily rate	£340	£332
Average daily rate	£363	£352
% change on same period last year	+3.04 %
Average maximum daily rate	£386	£371
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	38	51
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.57	£26.19
Average hourly rate	£23.81	£27.23
% change on same period last year	-12.55 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.05	£28.27
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
Use Case Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region.

Use Case
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Use Case across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Use Case
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Use Case within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Leeds	+2	11	£427	+42.33 %
Halifax	-	7	£313	-

Use Case Yorkshire

Use Case
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 15 (45.45 %) Finance 2 14 (42.42 %) UML 3 8 (24.24 %) PRINCE2 3 8 (24.24 %) EDRMS 3 8 (24.24 %) SharePoint 3 8 (24.24 %) Workflow 3 8 (24.24 %) Data Protection 4 7 (21.21 %) Data Protection Act 4 7 (21.21 %) Freedom of Information Act 4 7 (21.21 %) Freedom of Information 4 7 (21.21 %) GAP Analysis 4 7 (21.21 %) Data Modelling 5 6 (18.18 %) Business Analysis 6 5 (15.15 %) Systems Analysis 6 5 (15.15 %) Microsoft

6 5 (15.15 %) Banking 7 4 (12.12 %) Risk Management 7 4 (12.12 %) Migration 7 4 (12.12 %) Requirements Analysis 7 4 (12.12 %) Data Migration 8 3 (9.091 %) Stakeholder Management 8 3 (9.091 %) Change Management 8 3 (9.091 %) Construction 8 3 (9.091 %) NHS 8 3 (9.091 %) XML 8 3 (9.091 %) C# 8 3 (9.091 %) SQL 8 3 (9.091 %) .NET 9 2 (6.061 %) IIS 9 2 (6.061 %) MS Project

Use Case
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 3 (9.091 %) XML 1 3 (9.091 %) .NET 2 2 (6.061 %) ASP.NET 2 2 (6.061 %) CSS 2 2 (6.061 %) HTML 2 2 (6.061 %) XSD 2 2 (6.061 %) XSLT 2 2 (6.061 %) XML Schema	Application Platforms 1 8 (24.24 %) SharePoint 2 2 (6.061 %) IIS
Applications 1 2 (6.061 %) MS Project 1 2 (6.061 %) MS Office 1 2 (6.061 %) MS Excel 1 2 (6.061 %) CA Clarity	Communications & Networking 1 1 (3.030 %) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (24.24 %) EDRMS	Development Applications 1 1 (3.030 %) Rational Rose
General 1 15 (45.45 %) Finance 2 5 (15.15 %) Banking 3 3 (9.091 %) Construction 4 2 (6.061 %) Health 4 2 (6.061 %) Insurance 5 1 (3.030 %) Billing 5 1 (3.030 %) Electric 5 1 (3.030 %) Government	Job Titles 1 27 (81.82 %) Analyst 2 26 (78.79 %) Business Analyst 3 8 (24.24 %) Senior Business Analyst 3 8 (24.24 %) Senior Analyst 4 3 (9.091 %) Business Systems Analyst 4 3 (9.091 %) Systems Analyst 5 2 (6.061 %) .NET Developer 5 2 (6.061 %) Developer 6 1 (3.030 %) Insurance Business Analyst 6 1 (3.030 %) Process Analyst 6 1 (3.030 %) Consultant 6 1 (3.030 %) Business Process Analyst 6 1 (3.030 %) Management Consultant 6 1 (3.030 %) Test Manager 6 1 (3.030 %) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 7 (21.21 %) Freedom of Information 1 7 (21.21 %) Data Protection Act 1 7 (21.21 %) Freedom of Information Act 2 3 (9.091 %) NHS	Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (42.42 %) UML 2 8 (24.24 %) PRINCE2 2 8 (24.24 %) Workflow 2 8 (24.24 %) Data Protection 3 7 (21.21 %) Data Modelling 3 7 (21.21 %) GAP Analysis 4 6 (18.18 %) Business Analysis 5 5 (15.15 %) Systems Analysis 6 4 (12.12 %) Data Migration 6 4 (12.12 %) Requirements Analysis 6 4 (12.12 %) Risk Management 6 4 (12.12 %) Migration 7 3 (9.091 %) Stakeholder Management 7 3 (9.091 %) Change Management 8 2 (6.061 %) OOD 8 2 (6.061 %) DNA 8 2 (6.061 %) OO 8 2 (6.061 %) Configuration Management 8 2 (6.061 %) Document Management 8 2 (6.061 %) Data Analysis
Programming Languages 1 3 (9.091 %) C# 1 3 (9.091 %) SQL 2 2 (6.061 %) VBScript 2 2 (6.061 %) JavaScript 3 1 (3.030 %) Java	Qualifications 1 2 (6.061 %) PRINCE2 Certification 1 2 (6.061 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 2 1 (3.030 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (6.061 %) WAI 2 1 (3.030 %) QA 2 1 (3.030 %) SNOMED CT 2 1 (3.030 %) HL7	Vendors 1 5 (15.15 %) Microsoft 2 2 (6.061 %) CA 3 1 (3.030 %) Sun