The first table below looks at the demand for OOP 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 OOP over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
Rank 41 53 48
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -5
Contract jobs citing OOP 2 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.456% 0.483% 0.195%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.676% 0.756% 0.337%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
Average daily rate £425 £245 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+73.46% +8.88%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £313 £325
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.00 £60.00 -
% change year-on-year
-36.66% -
All Processes & Methodologies
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
296 397 297
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 67.43% 63.93% 57.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 214 183
Average daily rate £358 £340 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.14% -2.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £525 £493
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 20 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 £39.00 £127.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
OOP
West Midlands

OOP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham OOP Jobs Demand Trend

OOP
Daily Rate Trend

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

Birmingham OOP Daily Rate Trend

OOP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Birmingham OOP Hourly Rate Trend

OOP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing OOP 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 OOP.

1 8 (100.00%) XML
2 6 (75.00%) Web Services
2 6 (75.00%) HTML
2 6 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (75.00%) SQL
3 5 (62.50%) Java
3 5 (62.50%) Objective-C
4 4 (50.00%) Games
4 4 (50.00%) ActionScript
4 4 (50.00%) Flash
4 4 (50.00%) CSS
4 4 (50.00%) ActionScript 3.0
4 4 (50.00%) HTML5
5 3 (37.50%) OO
6 2 (25.00%) C#
6 2 (25.00%) Windows
6 2 (25.00%) .NET
6 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
6 2 (25.00%) MVC
6 2 (25.00%) MS Excel
6 2 (25.00%) CRM
6 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
6 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
6 2 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (25.00%) Degree
6 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (25.00%) Waterfall
6 2 (25.00%) JSON
6 2 (25.00%) Unit Testing
7 1 (12.50%) Android

OOP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing OOP 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 OOP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (100.00%) XML
2 6 (75.00%) Web Services
2 6 (75.00%) HTML
3 4 (50.00%) Flash
3 4 (50.00%) CSS
3 4 (50.00%) HTML5
4 2 (25.00%) .NET
4 2 (25.00%) JSON
5 1 (12.50%) Core Animation
5 1 (12.50%) Silverlight
5 1 (12.50%) UIKit
5 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
5 1 (12.50%) J2ME
Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Xcode
General
1 4 (50.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Flash Developer
2 4 (50.00%) ActionScript Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Flash ActionScript Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM Developer
4 1 (12.50%) CRM Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Android Developer
4 1 (12.50%) iOS Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
1 1 (12.50%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Android
2 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) OO
2 2 (25.00%) MVC
2 2 (25.00%) CRM
2 2 (25.00%) Waterfall
2 2 (25.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Memory Management
3 1 (12.50%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (75.00%) SQL
2 5 (62.50%) Java
2 5 (62.50%) Objective-C
3 4 (50.00%) ActionScript
3 4 (50.00%) ActionScript 3.0
4 2 (25.00%) C#
5 1 (12.50%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
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