The first table below looks at the demand for RUP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited RUP over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Yorkshire 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Rational Unified Process (RUP)
Rank 102 90 93
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +3
Contract jobs citing RUP 15 26 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.763% 1.092% 0.318%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.094% 1.534% 0.493%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 13 4
Average daily rate £325 £340 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.41% -9.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £274 £333
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £360 £453
UK excluding London average daily rate £323 £370 £375
% change year-on-year
-12.83% -1.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £38.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £35.11 £27.57
% change year-on-year
-21.67% +27.37%
All Processes & Methodologies
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1371 1695 1217
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 69.74% 71.16% 64.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 762 925 608
Average daily rate £325 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 44 61
Average hourly rate £37.50 £16.50 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+127.27% -41.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.45 £12.50 £11.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £30.00 £60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
RUP
England

RUP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire RUP Jobs Demand Trend

RUP
Daily Rate Trend

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

Yorkshire RUP Daily Rate Trend

RUP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing RUP across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Yorkshire RUP Daily Rate Histogram

RUP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Yorkshire RUP Hourly Rate Trend

RUP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RUP within the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
West Yorkshire -10 14 £325 -4.41% 3
North Yorkshire - - - -
South Yorkshire - - - - 1
RUP
England

RUP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region citing RUP 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 RUP.

1 13 (65.00%) CMMI
2 10 (50.00%) .NET
3 9 (45.00%) SQL Server
4 8 (40.00%) C#
4 8 (40.00%) Perforce
4 8 (40.00%) JIRA
5 7 (35.00%) Java
6 6 (30.00%) WinForms
7 5 (25.00%) Scrum
7 5 (25.00%) ASP.NET
7 5 (25.00%) Oracle
7 5 (25.00%) Windows
8 4 (20.00%) UML
8 4 (20.00%) MVC
8 4 (20.00%) WCF
8 4 (20.00%) WPF
9 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
9 3 (15.00%) ASP.NET MVC
9 3 (15.00%) REST
9 3 (15.00%) Finance
9 3 (15.00%) OOD
9 3 (15.00%) Agile Software Development
9 3 (15.00%) Banking
9 3 (15.00%) Business Analysis
9 3 (15.00%) Dynamics CRM
9 3 (15.00%) OO
9 3 (15.00%) CRM
9 3 (15.00%) PRINCE2
9 3 (15.00%) C++
10 2 (10.00%) JavaScript

RUP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region citing RUP 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 RUP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (50.00%) .NET
2 6 (30.00%) WinForms
3 5 (25.00%) ASP.NET
4 4 (20.00%) WCF
4 4 (20.00%) WPF
5 3 (15.00%) ASP.NET MVC
5 3 (15.00%) REST
6 2 (10.00%) SOAP
6 2 (10.00%) XML
6 2 (10.00%) Middleware
6 2 (10.00%) LAMP
6 2 (10.00%) Java EE
7 1 (5.000%) J2EE
7 1 (5.000%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 2 (10.00%) WebLogic
2 1 (5.000%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) HTTP
1 2 (10.00%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (45.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.000%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 8 (40.00%) JIRA
2 2 (10.00%) CruiseControl
3 1 (5.000%) PHPUnit
General
1 3 (15.00%) Finance
1 3 (15.00%) Banking
2 1 (5.000%) Retail
2 1 (5.000%) Manufacturing
2 1 (5.000%) Games
2 1 (5.000%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) Developer
2 3 (15.00%) .NET Developer
2 3 (15.00%) C# Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Team Leader
3 2 (10.00%) Software Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Software Team Leader
4 1 (5.000%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (5.000%) Business Analyst
4 1 (5.000%) Analyst
4 1 (5.000%) Development Team Leader
4 1 (5.000%) PHP Developer
4 1 (5.000%) Software Development Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) IVR
2 1 (5.000%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Windows
2 2 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) CMMI
2 5 (25.00%) Scrum
3 4 (20.00%) MVC
3 4 (20.00%) UML
4 3 (15.00%) OO
4 3 (15.00%) CRM
4 3 (15.00%) OOD
4 3 (15.00%) PRINCE2
4 3 (15.00%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (15.00%) Business Analysis
5 2 (10.00%) Multithreading
5 2 (10.00%) Web Development
5 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (10.00%) DSDM
6 1 (5.000%) ERP
6 1 (5.000%) SOA
6 1 (5.000%) Project Management
6 1 (5.000%) GAP Analysis
6 1 (5.000%) Workflow
6 1 (5.000%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) C#
2 7 (35.00%) Java
3 3 (15.00%) C++
4 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.000%) PHP
5 1 (5.000%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.000%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (5.000%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) Perforce
2 5 (25.00%) Oracle
3 2 (10.00%) IBM
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.000%) Remedy
4 1 (5.000%) JBoss
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