Bedfordshire OOD Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Object-Oriented Design (OOD) skills within the Bedfordshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited OOD over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
Location Aberdeen Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Halifax Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newport North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Redhill Scotland Somerset South East South Wales South West Southend-on-Sea Surrey Thames Valley Twickenham UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	36
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.581 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£325	£375
% change on same period last year	-13.27 %
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	£38.94	£36.29
% change on same period last year	+7.31 %
Processes & Methodologies Bedfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	73	172
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.096 %	0.171 %
Daily rates quoted	22	24
Average minimum daily rate	£353	£290
Average daily rate	£371	£307
% change on same period last year	+20.96 %
Average maximum daily rate	£389	£323
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£377
% change on same period last year	+0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	£30.50
Average hourly rate	£23.17	£30.94
% change on same period last year	-25.13 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.33	£31.39
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.30	£30.18
% change on same period last year	+0.42 %
OOD East of England

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.

OOD
Demand Trend

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

OOD
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing OOD across the Bedfordshire region.