The first table below looks at the demand for OO skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OO over the 3 months to 21 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 Berkshire 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented (OO)
Rank 94 75 82
Rank change year-on-year
-19 +7
Contract jobs citing OO 31 63 46
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 1.255% 2.019% 1.571%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.910% 3.208% 2.507%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 27 18
Average daily rate £388 £350 £370
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.71% -5.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £237 £243
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £33.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+8.69% -1.42%
All Processes & Methodologies
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1623 1964 1835
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 65.71% 62.95% 62.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 654 743 727
Average daily rate £388 £370 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.72% +5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 63 74
Average hourly rate £17.00 £19.00 £33.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.52% -42.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.75 £11.00 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £50.00 £47.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
OO
South East

OO
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire OO Jobs Demand Trend

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Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire OO Daily Rate Trend

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Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing OO across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Berkshire OO Daily Rate Histogram

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

Berkshire OO Hourly Rate Trend

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Contract Locations

The table below 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 21 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
Reading -14 8 £388 +3.33%
Slough -9 5 £350 +4.47%
OO
South East

OO
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, 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 28 (53.85%) JavaScript
2 23 (44.23%) CSS
3 19 (36.54%) HTML
4 18 (34.62%) Agile Software Development
4 18 (34.62%) jQuery
5 16 (30.77%) .NET
6 14 (26.92%) HTML5
7 13 (25.00%) MySQL
8 12 (23.08%) SQL
8 12 (23.08%) MVC
9 11 (21.15%) Ajax
9 11 (21.15%) Oracle
10 10 (19.23%) XML
10 10 (19.23%) CSS3
11 9 (17.31%) Java
11 9 (17.31%) C#
11 9 (17.31%) Linux
11 9 (17.31%) Subversion
11 9 (17.31%) Telecoms
11 9 (17.31%) Scrum
12 8 (15.38%) Web Development
12 8 (15.38%) SQL Server
12 8 (15.38%) UNIX
13 7 (13.46%) PHP
13 7 (13.46%) OOD
13 7 (13.46%) Degree
14 6 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
14 6 (11.54%) OOP
14 6 (11.54%) Red Hat
14 6 (11.54%) Perl

OO
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, 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 23 (44.23%) CSS
2 19 (36.54%) HTML
3 18 (34.62%) jQuery
4 16 (30.77%) .NET
5 14 (26.92%) HTML5
6 11 (21.15%) Ajax
7 10 (19.23%) XML
7 10 (19.23%) CSS3
8 6 (11.54%) ASP.NET
8 6 (11.54%) Web Services
9 4 (7.692%) .NET Framework
9 4 (7.692%) LAMP
9 4 (7.692%) XHTML
9 4 (7.692%) KnockoutJS
9 4 (7.692%) Dojo
10 3 (5.769%) WCF
10 3 (5.769%) Zend Framework
10 3 (5.769%) Sass
10 3 (5.769%) AngularJS
10 3 (5.769%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 3 (5.769%) Apache
2 2 (3.846%) CMS
3 1 (1.923%) ExpressionEngine
3 1 (1.923%) Drupal
3 1 (1.923%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.923%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 3 (5.769%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.923%) Photoshop
2 1 (1.923%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (1.923%) InfoPath
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.692%) FTP
1 4 (7.692%) TCP/IP
2 2 (3.846%) Wireless
2 2 (3.846%) 3G
2 2 (3.846%) GSM
3 1 (1.923%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (25.00%) MySQL
2 8 (15.38%) SQL Server
3 6 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (9.615%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (5.769%) MS Access
6 2 (3.846%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 9 (17.31%) Subversion
2 3 (5.769%) Jasmine
2 3 (5.769%) Visual Studio
3 2 (3.846%) StarTeam
3 2 (3.846%) Eclipse
3 2 (3.846%) Git (software)
4 1 (1.923%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.923%) Hudson
4 1 (1.923%) CruiseControl
General
1 9 (17.31%) Telecoms
2 5 (9.615%) Finance
3 2 (3.846%) Publishing
4 1 (1.923%) Music
Job Titles
1 41 (78.85%) Developer
2 8 (15.38%) Front-End Developer
3 7 (13.46%) PHP Developer
4 5 (9.615%) C# .NET Developer
4 5 (9.615%) .NET Developer
4 5 (9.615%) C# Developer
4 5 (9.615%) Senior Developer
4 5 (9.615%) JavaScript Developer
5 4 (7.692%) Web Developer
5 4 (7.692%) Software Engineer
5 4 (7.692%) Software Developer
5 4 (7.692%) Java Developer
6 3 (5.769%) Agile Java Developer
6 3 (5.769%) Architect
6 3 (5.769%) Applications Developer
6 3 (5.769%) Senior Software Developer
7 2 (3.846%) Web Applications Developer
7 2 (3.846%) Programmer
7 2 (3.846%) Analyst
7 2 (3.846%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.692%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
1 4 (7.692%) Client/Server
1 4 (7.692%) Digital Media
1 4 (7.692%) Embedded Systems
1 4 (7.692%) Wiki
1 4 (7.692%) Computer Science
2 2 (3.846%) Smartphone
2 2 (3.846%) Blackberry
2 2 (3.846%) Mainframe
2 2 (3.846%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (3.846%) N-Tier
2 2 (3.846%) Mobile App
2 2 (3.846%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (1.923%) Streaming Music
3 1 (1.923%) IPTV
Operating Systems
1 9 (17.31%) Linux
2 8 (15.38%) UNIX
3 4 (7.692%) Windows
3 4 (7.692%) Apple iOS
3 4 (7.692%) Android
4 2 (3.846%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (34.62%) Agile Software Development
2 12 (23.08%) MVC
3 9 (17.31%) Scrum
4 8 (15.38%) Web Development
5 7 (13.46%) OOD
6 6 (11.54%) OOP
6 6 (11.54%) Unit Testing
7 5 (9.615%) TDD
8 4 (7.692%) UML
8 4 (7.692%) Technical Architecture
8 4 (7.692%) Performance Management
9 3 (5.769%) Data Protection
9 3 (5.769%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (5.769%) Change Control
9 3 (5.769%) E-Commerce
9 3 (5.769%) Systems Analysis
10 2 (3.846%) Content Management
10 2 (3.846%) SOA
10 2 (3.846%) Waterfall
10 2 (3.846%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 28 (53.85%) JavaScript
2 12 (23.08%) SQL
3 9 (17.31%) Java
3 9 (17.31%) C#
4 7 (13.46%) PHP
5 6 (11.54%) Perl
5 6 (11.54%) C++
5 6 (11.54%) PHP5
6 4 (7.692%) Python
6 4 (7.692%) VBA
6 4 (7.692%) C
7 2 (3.846%) VB
8 1 (1.923%) Bash shell
8 1 (1.923%) VB.NET
8 1 (1.923%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (13.46%) Degree
2 1 (1.923%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.923%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.54%) QA
2 1 (1.923%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (7.692%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1 (1.923%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 11 (21.15%) Oracle
2 6 (11.54%) Red Hat
2 6 (11.54%) Greenplum
3 5 (9.615%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.769%) Zend
4 3 (5.769%) Nokia Siemens Networks
4 3 (5.769%) Sencha
4 3 (5.769%) Ericsson
4 3 (5.769%) Huawei
5 2 (3.846%) Cramer
5 2 (3.846%) IBM
6 1 (1.923%) Facebook
6 1 (1.923%) Twitter
6 1 (1.923%) SAP
6 1 (1.923%) Empirix
6 1 (1.923%) Lotus
6 1 (1.923%) JBoss
6 1 (1.923%) Google
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