The first table below looks at the demand for OOA/OOD skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OOA/OOD over the 3 months to 22 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 Cambridge 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (OOA/OOD)
Rank 34 45 33
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -12
Contract jobs citing OOA/OOD 3 4 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.893% 0.935% 0.398%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.613% 1.770% 0.694%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
Average daily rate £400 £310 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+29.03% +6.89%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £330
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -1.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £47.50 £27.50 -
% change year-on-year
+72.72% -
All Processes & Methodologies
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
186 226 144
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 55.36% 52.80% 57.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 111 90
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £275 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £434 £550 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 21 17
Average hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.88% +34.92%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.75 £35.00 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £56.50 £44.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
OOA/OOD
Cambridgeshire

OOA/OOD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge OOA/OOD Hourly Rate Trend

OOA/OOD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 6 (100.00%) .NET
1 6 (100.00%) C#
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) OOD
2 3 (50.00%) MVC
2 3 (50.00%) Advertising
2 3 (50.00%) Scrum
2 3 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 3 (50.00%) WCF
2 3 (50.00%) jQuery
2 3 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 3 (50.00%) JSUnit
2 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 3 (50.00%) KnockoutJS
2 3 (50.00%) CAD
2 3 (50.00%) OO
2 3 (50.00%) VC++
2 3 (50.00%) C++
2 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 3 (50.00%) ADO.NET
2 3 (50.00%) ASP
2 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (50.00%) Web Services
2 3 (50.00%) XML
2 3 (50.00%) C
3 1 (16.67%) Logistics
3 1 (16.67%) SQL

OOA/OOD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 6 (100.00%) .NET
2 3 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 3 (50.00%) WCF
2 3 (50.00%) jQuery
2 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 3 (50.00%) KnockoutJS
2 3 (50.00%) ADO.NET
2 3 (50.00%) ASP
2 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (50.00%) Web Services
2 3 (50.00%) XML
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) JSUnit
1 3 (50.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (50.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) .NET Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior C# Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior C++ Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
4 1 (16.67%) C++ Developer
4 1 (16.67%) C# Developer
4 1 (16.67%) C++/C# Developer
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) OOD
2 3 (50.00%) MVC
2 3 (50.00%) Scrum
2 3 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 3 (50.00%) CAD
2 3 (50.00%) OO
3 1 (16.67%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (50.00%) VC++
2 3 (50.00%) C++
2 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (50.00%) C
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
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