The first table below looks at the demand for OOP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Brighton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OOP over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Brighton 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
Rank 16 21 24
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +3
Contract jobs citing OOP 16 17 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 8.602% 5.862% 1.887%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.67% 7.981% 2.752%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 3
Average daily rate £335 £443 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-24.29% +47.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £325 £320
% change year-on-year
-7.69% +1.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.50 £25.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year
+46.00% -65.51%
All Processes & Methodologies
Brighton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
150 213 109
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 80.65% 73.45% 68.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 109 73
Average daily rate £375 £401 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.36% +6.80%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £310 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £524 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 4
Average hourly rate - £27.50 £45.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -38.88%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
OOP
East Sussex

OOP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Brighton OOP Daily Rate Trend

OOP
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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 16 (100.00%) HTML
1 16 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 16 (100.00%) CSS
1 16 (100.00%) jQuery
2 15 (93.75%) MVC
2 15 (93.75%) LAMP
2 15 (93.75%) PHP
2 15 (93.75%) MySQL
3 1 (6.250%) SQL Server
3 1 (6.250%) IIS
3 1 (6.250%) ASP.NET
3 1 (6.250%) VB.NET
3 1 (6.250%) .NET
3 1 (6.250%) RESTful
3 1 (6.250%) Bing Maps
3 1 (6.250%) Web Services
3 1 (6.250%) OO

OOP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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 16 (100.00%) HTML
1 16 (100.00%) CSS
1 16 (100.00%) jQuery
2 15 (93.75%) LAMP
3 1 (6.250%) ASP.NET
3 1 (6.250%) .NET
3 1 (6.250%) RESTful
3 1 (6.250%) Bing Maps
3 1 (6.250%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 1 (6.250%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (93.75%) MySQL
2 1 (6.250%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 16 (100.00%) Developer
2 15 (93.75%) PHP Developer
3 1 (6.250%) Web Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) MVC
2 1 (6.250%) OO
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 15 (93.75%) PHP
3 1 (6.250%) VB.NET