The first table below looks at the demand for OOA/OOD 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 OOA/OOD 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 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (OOA/OOD)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing OOA/OOD 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham - - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £44.13 £27.50 -
% change year-on-year
+60.45% -
All Processes & Methodologies
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
302 385 281
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 67.11% 61.90% 57.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 210 175
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 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 19 9
Average hourly rate £32.50 £15.00 £18.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+116.66% -18.91%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.00 £10.99
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £119.80 £34.80 £127.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
OOA/OOD
West Midlands

OOA/OOD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham OOA/OOD Jobs Demand Trend

OOA/OOD
Daily Rate Trend

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

Birmingham OOA/OOD Daily Rate Trend

OOA/OOD
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Birmingham OOA/OOD Hourly Rate Trend

OOA/OOD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing OOA/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 OOA/OOD.

1 5 (100.00%) UML
2 4 (80.00%) J2EE
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (60.00%) SAP Portal
3 3 (60.00%) NWDI
3 3 (60.00%) NWDS
3 3 (60.00%) SAP EP
3 3 (60.00%) Java
3 3 (60.00%) SAP
4 2 (40.00%) VB.NET
4 2 (40.00%) .NET
5 1 (20.00%) JSF
5 1 (20.00%) JTA
5 1 (20.00%) Ajax
5 1 (20.00%) InfoPath
5 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (20.00%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (20.00%) Windows SharePoint Services
5 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
5 1 (20.00%) Java EE
5 1 (20.00%) JSTL
5 1 (20.00%) WCF
5 1 (20.00%) WPF
5 1 (20.00%) WF
5 1 (20.00%) Silverlight
5 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
5 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
5 1 (20.00%) Java EE 5

OOA/OOD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing OOA/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 OOA/OOD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (80.00%) J2EE
2 2 (40.00%) .NET
3 1 (20.00%) JSF
3 1 (20.00%) JTA
3 1 (20.00%) Ajax
3 1 (20.00%) Windows SharePoint Services
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (20.00%) Java EE
3 1 (20.00%) JSTL
3 1 (20.00%) WCF
3 1 (20.00%) WPF
3 1 (20.00%) WF
3 1 (20.00%) Silverlight
3 1 (20.00%) Java EE 5
3 1 (20.00%) JPA
3 1 (20.00%) EJB 3.0
3 1 (20.00%) JMX
3 1 (20.00%) HTML
3 1 (20.00%) ADO.NET
3 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) SAP Portal
1 3 (60.00%) SAP EP
2 1 (20.00%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (20.00%) SharePoint Foundation
2 1 (20.00%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (20.00%) IIS
2 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (20.00%) NetWeaver
2 1 (20.00%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) InfoPath
1 1 (20.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) NWDI
1 3 (60.00%) NWDS
2 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio Team System
2 1 (20.00%) MSBuild
2 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (20.00%) NUnit
2 1 (20.00%) CruiseControl
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) SAP Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) SAP Portals Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) J2EE Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) SharePoint Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Java Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) SAP Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Consultant
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) UML
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (20.00%) Unified Process
2 1 (20.00%) Dependency Injection
2 1 (20.00%) MSF
2 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (20.00%) OO
2 1 (20.00%) RUP
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) VB.NET
3 1 (20.00%) C
3 1 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft