The first table below looks at the demand for OOP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OOP 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 Bedfordshire 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
Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
Rank 30 26 -
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -
Contract jobs citing OOP 1 6 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 0.526% 2.206% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.667% 3.030% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £350 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £313 £325
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.00 £60.00 -
% change year-on-year
-36.66% -
All Processes & Methodologies
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
150 198 215
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 78.95% 72.79% 74.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 105 109
Average daily rate £350 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £238 £182
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £488 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 8
Average hourly rate £32.75 £41.50 £47.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.08% -12.63%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
OOP
East of England

OOP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire OOP Jobs Demand Trend

OOP
Daily Rate Trend

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

Bedfordshire OOP Daily Rate Trend

OOP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Bedfordshire OOP Hourly Rate Trend

OOP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OOP within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
Luton -8 1 - -
OOP
East of England

OOP
Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing OOP 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 OOP.

1 3 (100.00%) XML
2 2 (66.67%) OO
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) CMS
3 1 (33.33%) Web Development
3 1 (33.33%) HTML5
3 1 (33.33%) CSS3
3 1 (33.33%) MySQL
3 1 (33.33%) CSS
3 1 (33.33%) SOAP
3 1 (33.33%) PHP

OOP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing OOP 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 OOP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) HTML5
2 1 (33.33%) CSS3
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) CMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Web Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Junior Developer
3 1 (33.33%) PHP Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Junior Web Developer
3 1 (33.33%) MySQL Developer
3 1 (33.33%) PHP Programmer
3 1 (33.33%) XML Developer
3 1 (33.33%) CSS Developer
3 1 (33.33%) PHP MySQL Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Junior
3 1 (33.33%) Programmer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) OO
2 1 (33.33%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) PHP