The first table below looks at the demand for OO skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OO over the 3 months to 20 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 Birmingham 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented (OO)
Rank 35 34 42
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +8
Contract jobs citing OO 12 21 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 2.691% 3.382% 0.408%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.987% 5.512% 0.714%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 0
Average daily rate £288 £300 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.16% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £332 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+2.15% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+8.69% -1.42%
All Processes & Methodologies
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
301 381 280
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 67.49% 61.35% 57.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 209 174
Average daily rate £350 £340 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £228 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £525 £490
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 20 10
Average hourly rate £32.50 £15.00 £14.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+116.66% +5.26%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.00 £10.99
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £119.80 £34.40 £127.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
OO
West Midlands

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Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham OO Hourly Rate Trend

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 15 (68.18%) Microsoft
2 12 (54.55%) .NET
3 11 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 11 (50.00%) C#
4 9 (40.91%) Workflow
4 9 (40.91%) Agile Software Development
5 8 (36.36%) JavaScript
6 7 (31.82%) SQL
6 7 (31.82%) Web Services
6 7 (31.82%) Windows
7 6 (27.27%) UML
7 6 (27.27%) ASP.NET
7 6 (27.27%) HTML
7 6 (27.27%) MVC
8 5 (22.73%) Business Analysis
8 5 (22.73%) SOAP
8 5 (22.73%) WSDL
9 4 (18.18%) SharePoint
9 4 (18.18%) Finance
9 4 (18.18%) CSS
9 4 (18.18%) RAD
9 4 (18.18%) SSADM
9 4 (18.18%) DSDM
9 4 (18.18%) Systems Analysis
10 3 (13.64%) Telecoms
10 3 (13.64%) Ajax
10 3 (13.64%) Team Foundation Server
10 3 (13.64%) ASP.NET MVC
10 3 (13.64%) .NET Framework
10 3 (13.64%) Waterfall

OO
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 12 (54.55%) .NET
2 7 (31.82%) Web Services
3 6 (27.27%) ASP.NET
3 6 (27.27%) HTML
4 5 (22.73%) WSDL
4 5 (22.73%) SOAP
5 4 (18.18%) CSS
6 3 (13.64%) XML
6 3 (13.64%) .NET Framework
6 3 (13.64%) Ajax
6 3 (13.64%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (9.091%) Silverlight
7 2 (9.091%) jQuery
7 2 (9.091%) ADO.NET
8 1 (4.545%) ASP
8 1 (4.545%) DHTML
8 1 (4.545%) DOM
8 1 (4.545%) Java SE
8 1 (4.545%) JSON
8 1 (4.545%) Dojo
Application Platforms
1 4 (18.18%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.545%) NetWeaver
2 1 (4.545%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (4.545%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (4.545%) SAP Portal
2 1 (4.545%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (4.545%) SharePoint Foundation
2 1 (4.545%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (13.64%) MS Excel
2 2 (9.091%) MS Office
2 2 (9.091%) InfoPath
3 1 (4.545%) Photoshop
3 1 (4.545%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 2 (9.091%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.545%) Intranet
1 1 (4.545%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (9.091%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (4.545%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (4.545%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (4.545%) DTS
3 1 (4.545%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (9.091%) Visual Studio
3 1 (4.545%) Dreamweaver
3 1 (4.545%) Xcode
3 1 (4.545%) NUnit
3 1 (4.545%) CruiseControl
3 1 (4.545%) Maven
3 1 (4.545%) Visual Studio Team System
3 1 (4.545%) Git (software)
3 1 (4.545%) MSBuild
General
1 4 (18.18%) Finance
2 3 (13.64%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.545%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (72.73%) Developer
2 6 (27.27%) .NET Developer
3 5 (22.73%) Analyst
4 4 (18.18%) Business Systems Analyst
4 4 (18.18%) Systems Analyst
4 4 (18.18%) Business Analyst
5 2 (9.091%) Software Engineer
5 2 (9.091%) C# .NET Developer
5 2 (9.091%) Microsoft Developer
5 2 (9.091%) Web Developer
5 2 (9.091%) C# Developer
6 1 (4.545%) Web Designer
6 1 (4.545%) Senior C# Developer
6 1 (4.545%) Developer Analyst
6 1 (4.545%) Senior .NET Developer
6 1 (4.545%) .NET Analyst Programmer
6 1 (4.545%) .NET Software Engineer
6 1 (4.545%) .NET Programmer
6 1 (4.545%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.545%) Analyst Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.545%) N-Tier
1 1 (4.545%) Graphic Design
1 1 (4.545%) Animation
1 1 (4.545%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 7 (31.82%) Windows
2 1 (4.545%) Apple iOS
2 1 (4.545%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (40.91%) Workflow
1 9 (40.91%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (27.27%) MVC
2 6 (27.27%) UML
3 5 (22.73%) Business Analysis
4 4 (18.18%) RAD
4 4 (18.18%) SSADM
4 4 (18.18%) DSDM
4 4 (18.18%) Systems Analysis
5 3 (13.64%) Waterfall
5 3 (13.64%) OOP
6 2 (9.091%) CRM
6 2 (9.091%) OOD
6 2 (9.091%) Web Development
6 2 (9.091%) Unit Testing
7 1 (4.545%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (4.545%) Web Usability
7 1 (4.545%) MSF
7 1 (4.545%) PRINCE2
7 1 (4.545%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 11 (50.00%) C#
2 8 (36.36%) JavaScript
3 7 (31.82%) SQL
4 2 (9.091%) T-SQL
4 2 (9.091%) VB.NET
5 1 (4.545%) ABAP
5 1 (4.545%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.545%) Objective-C
5 1 (4.545%) Java
5 1 (4.545%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (9.091%) Degree
2 1 (4.545%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.545%) DV Cleared
2 1 (4.545%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 15 (68.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.545%) Adobe
2 1 (4.545%) Pega
2 1 (4.545%) Sybase
2 1 (4.545%) SAP
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