The first table below looks at the demand for OO skills in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire 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 44 56 60
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +4
Contract jobs citing OO 24 19 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 3.004% 1.883% 1.708%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.301% 2.819% 2.786%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 12 13
Average daily rate £325 £343 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.10% +14.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £286 £300 £110
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £375 £408
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
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
558 674 646
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 69.84% 66.80% 61.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 343 318 268
Average daily rate £325 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £188 £200 £196
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £425 £508
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 32 49
Average hourly rate £18.00 £15.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -25.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £10.58 £12.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £18.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
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South East

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Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

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

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire OO Hourly Rate Trend

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OO within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Milton Keynes +12 15 £375 +9.48%
High Wycombe -2 3 £298 -
Marlow - 1 - -
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South East

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 23 (56.10%) JavaScript
2 21 (51.22%) CSS
3 19 (46.34%) Ajax
4 17 (41.46%) C#
5 16 (39.02%) Finance
6 15 (36.59%) .NET
7 14 (34.15%) MVC
8 13 (31.71%) Agile Software Development
9 12 (29.27%) XML
10 11 (26.83%) ASP.NET
11 9 (21.95%) HTML
11 9 (21.95%) Dojo
11 9 (21.95%) Use Case
11 9 (21.95%) HTML5
12 8 (19.51%) Java
12 8 (19.51%) SQL Server
13 7 (17.07%) PHP
13 7 (17.07%) SQL
13 7 (17.07%) J2EE
13 7 (17.07%) Web Services
13 7 (17.07%) N-Tier
13 7 (17.07%) JSON
13 7 (17.07%) WCF
13 7 (17.07%) jQuery
13 7 (17.07%) CSS3
14 6 (14.63%) Software Architecture
14 6 (14.63%) Web Development
14 6 (14.63%) Spring
14 6 (14.63%) OOA/OOD
14 6 (14.63%) JMS

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 21 (51.22%) CSS
2 19 (46.34%) Ajax
3 15 (36.59%) .NET
4 12 (29.27%) XML
5 11 (26.83%) ASP.NET
6 9 (21.95%) HTML
6 9 (21.95%) Dojo
6 9 (21.95%) HTML5
7 7 (17.07%) CSS3
7 7 (17.07%) WCF
7 7 (17.07%) JSON
7 7 (17.07%) jQuery
7 7 (17.07%) J2EE
7 7 (17.07%) Web Services
8 6 (14.63%) Struts
8 6 (14.63%) JMS
8 6 (14.63%) DHTML
8 6 (14.63%) JDBC
8 6 (14.63%) JSP
8 6 (14.63%) Servlets
Application Platforms
1 2 (4.878%) CMS
1 2 (4.878%) Umbraco
2 1 (2.439%) Moodle
2 1 (2.439%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (2.439%) TYPO3
2 1 (2.439%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (2.439%) WebLogic
2 1 (2.439%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (2.439%) MS Office
1 1 (2.439%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (14.63%) HTTP
1 6 (14.63%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (19.51%) SQL Server
2 4 (9.756%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (7.317%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (4.878%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (9.756%) Team Foundation Server
2 3 (7.317%) Git (software)
3 2 (4.878%) Maven
3 2 (4.878%) Ant
4 1 (2.439%) JUnit
4 1 (2.439%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.439%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 1 (2.439%) Eclipse
4 1 (2.439%) NUnit
4 1 (2.439%) Subversion
4 1 (2.439%) NMock
General
1 16 (39.02%) Finance
2 3 (7.317%) Banking
2 3 (7.317%) Marketing
3 1 (2.439%) Retail
3 1 (2.439%) Legal
Job Titles
1 33 (80.49%) Developer
2 13 (31.71%) .NET Developer
3 8 (19.51%) JavaScript Developer
4 7 (17.07%) Agile .NET Developer
5 5 (12.20%) PHP Developer
5 5 (12.20%) Web Developer
6 4 (9.756%) Senior Developer
7 3 (7.317%) Analyst
7 3 (7.317%) Business Analyst
8 2 (4.878%) Programmer
8 2 (4.878%) Architect
8 2 (4.878%) Java Developer
8 2 (4.878%) Senior .NET Developer
8 2 (4.878%) PHP Web Developer
8 2 (4.878%) .NET Programmer
9 1 (2.439%) IT Business Analyst
9 1 (2.439%) Automation Tester
9 1 (2.439%) C# .NET Developer
9 1 (2.439%) WPF Developer
9 1 (2.439%) Moodle Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.07%) N-Tier
2 5 (12.20%) Open Source
3 1 (2.439%) Social Media
3 1 (2.439%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.439%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.439%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.878%) UNIX
1 2 (4.878%) Linux
2 1 (2.439%) Windows
2 1 (2.439%) AIX
2 1 (2.439%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (34.15%) MVC
2 13 (31.71%) Agile Software Development
3 9 (21.95%) Use Case
4 6 (14.63%) Web Development
4 6 (14.63%) OOA/OOD
4 6 (14.63%) Software Architecture
5 5 (12.20%) Scrum
6 4 (9.756%) User Acceptance Testing
6 4 (9.756%) TDD
7 3 (7.317%) Automated Testing
7 3 (7.317%) Software Engineering
7 3 (7.317%) Business Analysis
7 3 (7.317%) Software Testing
7 3 (7.317%) Manual Testing
7 3 (7.317%) UML
7 3 (7.317%) OOP
7 3 (7.317%) Automation Testing
8 2 (4.878%) Integration Testing
8 2 (4.878%) Test Scripting
8 2 (4.878%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 23 (56.10%) JavaScript
2 17 (41.46%) C#
3 8 (19.51%) Java
4 7 (17.07%) SQL
4 7 (17.07%) PHP
5 2 (4.878%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.439%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.439%) C++
Vendors
1 3 (7.317%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.878%) Oracle
2 2 (4.878%) Zend
3 1 (2.439%) JBoss
3 1 (2.439%) IBM
3 1 (2.439%) Sun
3 1 (2.439%) Software AG
3 1 (2.439%) JDA
3 1 (2.439%) webMethods
3 1 (2.439%) ATG
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