The first table below looks at the demand for OOD 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 OOD over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
Rank 115 130 117
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -13
Contract jobs citing OOD 8 9 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.331% 0.295% 0.269%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.502% 0.472% 0.427%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 1
Average daily rate £350 £350 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +16.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £303 £325 £328
% change year-on-year
-6.92% -0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £39.00
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +2.56%
All Processes & Methodologies
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1593 1907 1872
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 65.83% 62.55% 62.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 651 723 742
Average daily rate £388 £365 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.16% +4.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £495 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 63 75
Average hourly rate £17.00 £19.00 £32.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.52% -41.08%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.93 £11.00 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £50.00 £47.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
OOD
South East

OOD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire OOD Jobs Demand Trend

OOD
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire OOD Daily Rate Trend

OOD
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Berkshire OOD Hourly Rate Trend

OOD
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OOD within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Slough - 4 £350 -
Reading +9 2 - -
Bracknell - 1 - -
OOD
South East

OOD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing OOD 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 OOD.

1 8 (61.54%) .NET
1 8 (61.54%) J2EE
1 8 (61.54%) SQL Server
1 8 (61.54%) OO
2 7 (53.85%) Systems Analysis
3 6 (46.15%) Wireless
3 6 (46.15%) Telecoms
3 6 (46.15%) Cramer
3 6 (46.15%) MS Excel
3 6 (46.15%) MS Access
3 6 (46.15%) 3G
3 6 (46.15%) SQL
3 6 (46.15%) VBA
4 5 (38.46%) JavaScript
4 5 (38.46%) Agile Software Development
4 5 (38.46%) SQL Server 2000
5 4 (30.77%) MVC
5 4 (30.77%) Windows
6 3 (23.08%) Linux
6 3 (23.08%) Apache
6 3 (23.08%) UNIX
6 3 (23.08%) OOP
6 3 (23.08%) GSM
6 3 (23.08%) E-Commerce
6 3 (23.08%) PHP
6 3 (23.08%) MySQL
6 3 (23.08%) MS Office
6 3 (23.08%) 2G
6 3 (23.08%) Change Management
6 3 (23.08%) Scrum

OOD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing OOD 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 OOD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (61.54%) .NET
1 8 (61.54%) J2EE
2 3 (23.08%) Zend Framework
2 3 (23.08%) Ajax
3 2 (15.38%) HTML
3 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET
3 2 (15.38%) CSS
3 2 (15.38%) XML
3 2 (15.38%) XSLT
3 2 (15.38%) XHTML
3 2 (15.38%) LAMP
4 1 (7.692%) Spring
4 1 (7.692%) Struts
4 1 (7.692%) Web Services
4 1 (7.692%) WebSphere
4 1 (7.692%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (7.692%) ASP.NET MVC 3
4 1 (7.692%) Regular Expression
Application Platforms
1 3 (23.08%) Apache
2 1 (7.692%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 6 (46.15%) MS Excel
2 3 (23.08%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 6 (46.15%) 3G
1 6 (46.15%) Wireless
2 3 (23.08%) 2G
2 3 (23.08%) GSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (61.54%) SQL Server
2 6 (46.15%) MS Access
3 5 (38.46%) SQL Server 2000
4 3 (23.08%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) StarTeam
General
1 6 (46.15%) Telecoms
2 1 (7.692%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (84.62%) Developer
2 3 (23.08%) PHP Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Software Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Software Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) C# .NET Developer
3 2 (15.38%) C# Developer
4 1 (7.692%) PHP MySQL Developer
4 1 (7.692%) UI Programmer
4 1 (7.692%) Applications Developer
4 1 (7.692%) .NET Developer
4 1 (7.692%) Lead Software Engineer
4 1 (7.692%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (7.692%) UI Developer
4 1 (7.692%) Android Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.692%) Open Source
1 1 (7.692%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Windows
2 3 (23.08%) Linux
2 3 (23.08%) UNIX
3 1 (7.692%) Android
3 1 (7.692%) AIX
3 1 (7.692%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) OO
2 7 (53.85%) Systems Analysis
3 5 (38.46%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (30.77%) MVC
5 3 (23.08%) Scrum
5 3 (23.08%) Change Management
5 3 (23.08%) E-Commerce
5 3 (23.08%) OOP
5 3 (23.08%) Technical Architecture
5 3 (23.08%) Unit Testing
5 3 (23.08%) Data Protection
5 3 (23.08%) Change Control
6 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (15.38%) Web Development
6 2 (15.38%) UML
7 1 (7.692%) SOA
7 1 (7.692%) Multithreading
7 1 (7.692%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) SQL
1 6 (46.15%) VBA
2 5 (38.46%) JavaScript
3 3 (23.08%) PHP
3 3 (23.08%) PHP5
4 2 (15.38%) C#
4 2 (15.38%) Java
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Cramer
2 3 (23.08%) Zend
3 1 (7.692%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.692%) Sun