The first table below looks at the demand for 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 OOD 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
Rank 30 44 33
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -11
Contract jobs citing OOD 6 4 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 1.824% 0.943% 0.391%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.297% 1.794% 0.699%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 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 £300 £330 £330
% change year-on-year
-9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £39.50 £42.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.05% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £39.00
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +2.56%
All Processes & Methodologies
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
182 223 143
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 55.32% 52.59% 55.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 110 89
Average daily rate £350 £350 £365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -4.10%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £275 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £435 £550 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 20 18
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 £32.50 £33.25 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £56.85 £43.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
OOD
Cambridgeshire

OOD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge OOD Jobs Demand Trend

OOD
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cambridge OOD Daily Rate Trend

OOD
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing OOD across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Cambridge OOD Daily Rate Histogram

OOD
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cambridge OOD Hourly Rate Trend

OOD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 7 (63.64%) Windows
2 6 (54.55%) C#
2 6 (54.55%) C++
2 6 (54.55%) .NET
2 6 (54.55%) OOA/OOD
2 6 (54.55%) OO
3 4 (36.36%) C
4 3 (27.27%) Linux
4 3 (27.27%) CAD
4 3 (27.27%) MVC
4 3 (27.27%) Advertising
4 3 (27.27%) Scrum
4 3 (27.27%) VC++
4 3 (27.27%) Web Services
4 3 (27.27%) XML
4 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
4 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
4 3 (27.27%) Visual Studio
4 3 (27.27%) ADO.NET
4 3 (27.27%) ASP
4 3 (27.27%) ASP.NET
4 3 (27.27%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (27.27%) .NET Framework
4 3 (27.27%) WCF
4 3 (27.27%) jQuery
4 3 (27.27%) Unit Testing
4 3 (27.27%) JSUnit
4 3 (27.27%) ASP.NET MVC
4 3 (27.27%) KnockoutJS
5 2 (18.18%) Drupal

OOD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 6 (54.55%) .NET
2 3 (27.27%) Web Services
2 3 (27.27%) XML
2 3 (27.27%) ADO.NET
2 3 (27.27%) ASP
2 3 (27.27%) ASP.NET
2 3 (27.27%) .NET Framework
2 3 (27.27%) WCF
2 3 (27.27%) jQuery
2 3 (27.27%) ASP.NET MVC
2 3 (27.27%) KnockoutJS
3 2 (18.18%) HTML5
3 2 (18.18%) CSS
4 1 (9.091%) STL
4 1 (9.091%) Boost C++ Libraries
Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) Drupal
1 2 (18.18%) WordPress
1 2 (18.18%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (9.091%) Simulink
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
2 2 (18.18%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Visual Studio
1 3 (27.27%) JSUnit
2 2 (18.18%) Git (software)
2 2 (18.18%) Subversion
General
1 3 (27.27%) Advertising
2 1 (9.091%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Software Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) .NET Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) PHP Developer
5 1 (9.091%) Senior C# Developer
5 1 (9.091%) Senior C++ Developer
5 1 (9.091%) Senior Developer
5 1 (9.091%) C++/C# Developer
5 1 (9.091%) C++ Developer
5 1 (9.091%) C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Open Source
2 1 (9.091%) Client/Server
2 1 (9.091%) Visualisation
2 1 (9.091%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 7 (63.64%) Windows
2 3 (27.27%) Linux
3 2 (18.18%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) OOA/OOD
1 6 (54.55%) OO
2 3 (27.27%) CAD
2 3 (27.27%) MVC
2 3 (27.27%) Scrum
2 3 (27.27%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (27.27%) Unit Testing
3 2 (18.18%) Information Architecture
4 1 (9.091%) Logistics
4 1 (9.091%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) C#
1 6 (54.55%) C++
2 4 (36.36%) C
3 3 (27.27%) VC++
3 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
4 2 (18.18%) PHP5
4 2 (18.18%) PHP
5 1 (9.091%) MATLAB
5 1 (9.091%) Embedded C++
5 1 (9.091%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.091%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.091%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (9.091%) Twitter