The first table below looks at the demand for OOA/OOD 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 OOA/OOD over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (OOA/OOD)
Rank 62 70 -
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -
Contract jobs citing OOA/OOD 3 5 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 0.381% 0.492% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.545% 0.740% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £350 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+7.69% +0.07%
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
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
550 676 650
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 69.80% 66.54% 61.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 316 268
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 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 34 51
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 £12.85
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £18.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
OOA/OOD
South East

OOA/OOD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire OOA/OOD Hourly Rate Trend

OOA/OOD
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OOA/OOD within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 17 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 +10 3 - -
OOA/OOD
South East

OOA/OOD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 9 (100.00%) J2EE
1 9 (100.00%) Ajax
2 6 (66.67%) Spring
2 6 (66.67%) Dojo
2 6 (66.67%) Use Case
2 6 (66.67%) Software Architecture
2 6 (66.67%) OO
2 6 (66.67%) JMS
2 6 (66.67%) HTTP
2 6 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 6 (66.67%) DHTML
2 6 (66.67%) Java
2 6 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 6 (66.67%) CSS
2 6 (66.67%) JDBC
2 6 (66.67%) JSP
2 6 (66.67%) Servlets
2 6 (66.67%) Struts
2 6 (66.67%) XML
3 5 (55.56%) UML
3 5 (55.56%) Open Source
3 5 (55.56%) Finance
3 5 (55.56%) Hibernate
4 4 (44.44%) WebSphere
4 4 (44.44%) JSON
5 3 (33.33%) Analytics
5 3 (33.33%) Marketing
5 3 (33.33%) Web Analytics
5 3 (33.33%) E-Commerce
5 3 (33.33%) SEO

OOA/OOD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 9 (100.00%) J2EE
1 9 (100.00%) Ajax
2 6 (66.67%) DHTML
2 6 (66.67%) Spring
2 6 (66.67%) Dojo
2 6 (66.67%) XML
2 6 (66.67%) JMS
2 6 (66.67%) CSS
2 6 (66.67%) JDBC
2 6 (66.67%) JSP
2 6 (66.67%) Servlets
2 6 (66.67%) Struts
3 5 (55.56%) Hibernate
4 4 (44.44%) WebSphere
4 4 (44.44%) JSON
5 1 (11.11%) JPA
5 1 (11.11%) EJB
5 1 (11.11%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) Commerce Server
2 1 (11.11%) WebLogic
2 1 (11.11%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) HTTP
1 6 (66.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Ant
1 2 (22.22%) Maven
2 1 (11.11%) JUnit
2 1 (11.11%) Eclipse
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Marketing
3 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Developer
2 4 (44.44%) JavaScript Developer
3 2 (22.22%) WebSphere Consultant
3 2 (22.22%) Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Consultant
3 2 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Java Developer
4 1 (11.11%) J2EE Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior J2EE Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Lead Developer
4 1 (11.11%) WebSphere Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Java/J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) UNIX
1 1 (11.11%) AIX
1 1 (11.11%) Solaris
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) OO
1 6 (66.67%) Use Case
1 6 (66.67%) Software Architecture
2 5 (55.56%) UML
3 3 (33.33%) Analytics
3 3 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 3 (33.33%) SEO
3 3 (33.33%) Web Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) B2C
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Java
1 6 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
2 1 (11.11%) C
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) IBM
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) JBoss