The first table below looks at the demand for 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 OOD over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
Rank 43 55 -
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -
Contract jobs citing OOD 1 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.229% 0.160% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.339% 0.253% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £325 £400 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.75% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £303 £331 £330
% change year-on-year
-8.67% +0.37%
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
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
295 395 299
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 67.51% 63.10% 57.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 215 183
Average daily rate £361 £330 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.46% -5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £525 £490
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 19 10
Average hourly rate £34.75 £15.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+131.66% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.28 £12.00 £10.99
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £133.60 £34.80 £127.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
OOD
West Midlands

OOD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham OOD Hourly Rate Trend

OOD
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) Photoshop
2 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) Dreamweaver
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Adobe
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Ajax
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Graphic Design
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3

OOD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) Ajax
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (50.00%) jQuery
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Photoshop
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe Illustrator
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (50.00%) Dreamweaver
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (50.00%) C# Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Web Designer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior C# Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior .NET Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Designer
1 1 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Graphic Design
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) C#
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe