Berkshire OO Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Object-Oriented (OO) skills within the Berkshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited OO over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Object-Oriented (OO)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Basildon Basingstoke Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Cheshire Chester City of London Clapham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Kent Lanarkshire Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newport Newton-le-Willows North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Windsor Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	76	89
Rank change on same period last year	+13
Matching contract IT job ads	52	79
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.069 %	0.080 %
As % of the category below	2.663 %	3.074 %
Daily rates quoted	17	31
Average minimum daily rate	£331	£404
Average daily rate	£359	£424
% change on same period last year	-15.20 %
Average maximum daily rate	£387	£444
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£364
% change on same period last year	-4.38 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.50	£34.00
Average hourly rate	£28.00	£36.75
% change on same period last year	-23.80 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.50	£39.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£37.61	£33.71
% change on same period last year	+11.56 %
Processes & Methodologies Berkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	1953	2570
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.603 %	2.600 %
Daily rates quoted	515	896
Average minimum daily rate	£356	£357
Average daily rate	£378	£378
% change on same period last year	-0.09 %
Average maximum daily rate	£399	£399
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	87	150
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.32	£31.30
Average hourly rate	£26.03	£33.05
% change on same period last year	-21.23 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.74	£34.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
OO South East

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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing OO across the Berkshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OO within the Berkshire 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
Reading	-5	10	£425	-15.00 %
Bracknell	+19	6	£360	-10.00 %
Windsor	-	3	£250	-
Slough	-10	2	£375	+25.00 %

OO South East

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing OO 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 OO.

1 51 (39.53 %) C# 2 47 (36.43 %) XML 3 44 (34.11 %) Java 4 41 (31.78 %) SQL Server 5 38 (29.46 %) Windows 6 36 (27.91 %) Finance 7 35 (27.13 %) UML 8 32 (24.81 %) .NET 9 28 (21.71 %) SQL 9 28 (21.71 %) Microsoft 10 26 (20.16 %) OOP 11 25 (19.38 %) WebServices 12 24 (18.60 %) J2EE 13 23 (17.83 %) WebSphere 13 23 (17.83 %) Oracle

13 23 (17.83 %) Service Management 14 21 (16.28 %) ASP.NET 14 21 (16.28 %) RUP 15 19 (14.73 %) IBM 16 18 (13.95 %) SQL Server 2005 16 18 (13.95 %) Use Case 17 17 (13.18 %) RDBMS 17 17 (13.18 %) WebSphere Application Server 17 17 (13.18 %) DB2 18 16 (12.40 %) WinForms 18 16 (12.40 %) Degree 18 16 (12.40 %) Security Cleared 19 15 (11.63 %) Data Migration 19 15 (11.63 %) C++ 19 15 (11.63 %) MS Excel

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing OO 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 OO. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 47 (36.43 %) XML 2 32 (24.81 %) .NET 3 25 (19.38 %) WebServices 4 24 (18.60 %) J2EE 5 23 (17.83 %) WebSphere 6 21 (16.28 %) ASP.NET 7 16 (12.40 %) WinForms 8 12 (9.302 %) JRules 8 12 (9.302 %) XHTML 9 11 (8.527 %) XSD 10 10 (7.752 %) HTML 11 9 (6.977 %) CSS 12 8 (6.202 %) .NET Framework 13 7 (5.426 %) WF 13 7 (5.426 %) CAML 13 7 (5.426 %) XSLT 14 6 (4.651 %) AJAX 15 5 (3.876 %) Spring 15 5 (3.876 %) XSL 16 4 (3.101 %) UIQ	Application Platforms 1 17 (13.18 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 8 (6.202 %) SharePoint 2 8 (6.202 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 3 (2.326 %) Apache 4 2 (1.550 %) IIS 5 1 (0.775 %) Zope
Applications 1 15 (11.63 %) MS Excel 2 9 (6.977 %) MS Office 3 4 (3.101 %) MS PowerPoint 3 4 (3.101 %) MS Visio 3 4 (3.101 %) MS Project 4 2 (1.550 %) Photoshop 5 1 (0.775 %) Adobe Illustrator	Business Applications 1 2 (1.550 %) Advent Geneva
Communications & Networking 1 5 (3.876 %) HTTP 1 5 (3.876 %) TCP/IP 2 4 (3.101 %) Wireless 3 3 (2.326 %) Broadband 3 3 (2.326 %) SAN 4 1 (0.775 %) SSL	Database & Business Intelligence 1 41 (31.78 %) SQL Server 2 18 (13.95 %) SQL Server 2005 3 17 (13.18 %) DB2 3 17 (13.18 %) RDBMS 4 10 (7.752 %) SQL Server 2000 5 5 (3.876 %) MySQL 5 5 (3.876 %) Datawarehouse 6 2 (1.550 %) SQL Server 7 7 1 (0.775 %) Oracle 10g 7 1 (0.775 %) Oracle 9i
Development Applications 1 9 (6.977 %) Flash 2 4 (3.101 %) Ant 3 3 (2.326 %) Subversion 4 2 (1.550 %) JUnit 4 2 (1.550 %) Visual Studio 5 1 (0.775 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 1 (0.775 %) Eclipse 5 1 (0.775 %) NUnit	General 1 36 (27.91 %) Finance 2 6 (4.651 %) Telecoms 3 5 (3.876 %) Electronics 4 3 (2.326 %) Government 5 2 (1.550 %) 3D Graphics 5 2 (1.550 %) Military 5 2 (1.550 %) Banking 6 1 (0.775 %) Retail 6 1 (0.775 %) Aerospace
Job Titles 1 88 (68.22 %) Developer 2 24 (18.60 %) Java Developer 3 22 (17.05 %) Analyst 4 17 (13.18 %) Business Analyst 4 17 (13.18 %) C# Developer 4 17 (13.18 %) J2EE Developer 4 17 (13.18 %) Java/J2EE Developer 5 13 (10.08 %) .NET Developer 6 8 (6.202 %) Change Analyst 6 8 (6.202 %) Consultant 6 8 (6.202 %) Business Change Analyst 7 7 (5.426 %) Programmer 8 6 (4.651 %) Flash Developer 9 5 (3.876 %) C++ Developer 9 5 (3.876 %) Architect 9 5 (3.876 %) PHP Developer 10 4 (3.101 %) SharePoint Consultant 10 4 (3.101 %) Senior Business Change Analyst 10 4 (3.101 %) Web Developer 10 4 (3.101 %) Senior Developer	Miscellaneous 1 4 (3.101 %) Management Information System 1 4 (3.101 %) Smartphone 2 3 (2.326 %) Handset 2 3 (2.326 %) STB 3 2 (1.550 %) Equities 3 2 (1.550 %) N-Tier 3 2 (1.550 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 3 2 (1.550 %) Mathematics 3 2 (1.550 %) Physics 4 1 (0.775 %) Computer Science 4 1 (0.775 %) E-Learning 4 1 (0.775 %) Client/Server 4 1 (0.775 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array
Operating Systems 1 38 (29.46 %) Windows 2 12 (9.302 %) UNIX 3 10 (7.752 %) Linux 4 5 (3.876 %) Windows Mobile 4 5 (3.876 %) Windows Server 2003 5 2 (1.550 %) VxWorks 5 2 (1.550 %) Solaris 6 1 (0.775 %) Mac OS X	Processes & Methodologies 1 35 (27.13 %) UML 2 26 (20.16 %) OOP 3 23 (17.83 %) Service Management 4 21 (16.28 %) RUP 5 18 (13.95 %) Use Case 6 16 (12.40 %) Security Cleared 7 15 (11.63 %) Data Migration 7 15 (11.63 %) Migration 8 11 (8.527 %) Business Analysis 8 11 (8.527 %) SC Cleared 9 10 (7.752 %) Agile Software Development 10 9 (6.977 %) Workflow 11 8 (6.202 %) ITIL 12 7 (5.426 %) Content Management 12 7 (5.426 %) Web Development 13 4 (3.101 %) Continuous Integration 13 4 (3.101 %) TDD 13 4 (3.101 %) OOA/OOD 14 3 (2.326 %) SSADM 14 3 (2.326 %) CRM
Programming Languages 1 51 (39.53 %) C# 2 44 (34.11 %) Java 3 28 (21.71 %) SQL 4 15 (11.63 %) C++ 5 10 (7.752 %) JavaScript 5 10 (7.752 %) VB 6 8 (6.202 %) PHP 7 7 (5.426 %) ActionScript 8 5 (3.876 %) Python 8 5 (3.876 %) Transact-SQL 9 4 (3.101 %) PHP5 9 4 (3.101 %) VB.NET 10 3 (2.326 %) VBScript 10 3 (2.326 %) Perl 10 3 (2.326 %) VB6 11 2 (1.550 %) DHTML 11 2 (1.550 %) C 11 2 (1.550 %) Embedded C 12 1 (0.775 %) PHP4 12 1 (0.775 %) VC++	Qualifications 1 16 (12.40 %) Degree 2 1 (0.775 %) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 12 (9.302 %) QA	System Software 1 3 (2.326 %) VMware Infrastructure 2 2 (1.550 %) NFS
Systems Management 1 4 (3.101 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 1 (0.775 %) Netcool	Vendors 1 28 (21.71 %) Microsoft 2 23 (17.83 %) Oracle 3 19 (14.73 %) IBM 4 10 (7.752 %) ILOG 5 4 (3.101 %) Symbian 6 3 (2.326 %) HP 6 3 (2.326 %) NetApp 6 3 (2.326 %) VMware 6 3 (2.326 %) Trolltech 7 2 (1.550 %) Zend 7 2 (1.550 %) Advent 7 2 (1.550 %) Apple 7 2 (1.550 %) TIBCO