The first table below looks at the demand for OO skills in IT contracts advertised for the Canary Wharf region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OO 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 Canary Wharf 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 (OO)
Rank 24 30 32
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +2
Contract jobs citing OO 29 20 30
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 7.513% 5.291% 5.825%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.091% 6.734% 7.673%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 18 24
Average daily rate £600 £625 £575
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.00% +8.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £400 £427
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £900 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £336 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.46% -
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
Canary Wharf
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
319 297 391
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 82.64% 78.57% 75.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 186 295
Average daily rate £550 £550 £550
90% offered a daily rate of more than £258 £350 £425
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £650 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
Average hourly rate - £65.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +333.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
OO
London

OO
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf OO Jobs Demand Trend

OO
Daily Rate Trend

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

Canary Wharf OO Daily Rate Trend

OO
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Canary Wharf OO Daily Rate Histogram

OO
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 24 (57.14%) Multithreading
2 22 (52.38%) C#
3 20 (47.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 18 (42.86%) C++
5 16 (38.10%) Derivative
6 15 (35.71%) Java
7 14 (33.33%) Degree
8 13 (30.95%) WCF
8 13 (30.95%) XML
8 13 (30.95%) XSLT
9 12 (28.57%) VBA
9 12 (28.57%) SQL Server
9 12 (28.57%) Microsoft
9 12 (28.57%) Front Office
10 11 (26.19%) Banking
10 11 (26.19%) SQL
11 9 (21.43%) Risk Management
11 9 (21.43%) Scrum
11 9 (21.43%) JIRA
12 8 (19.05%) Oracle
12 8 (19.05%) UML
13 7 (16.67%) OOP
13 7 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
13 7 (16.67%) Investment Banking
13 7 (16.67%) Finance
13 7 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
13 7 (16.67%) TDD
14 6 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
14 6 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
15 5 (11.90%) Enterprise Architecture

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 13 (30.95%) WCF
1 13 (30.95%) XML
1 13 (30.95%) XSLT
2 5 (11.90%) SOAP
3 4 (9.524%) .NET
3 4 (9.524%) WPF
3 4 (9.524%) RESTful
4 3 (7.143%) Spring
4 3 (7.143%) Web Services
5 2 (4.762%) STL
5 2 (4.762%) WSH
5 2 (4.762%) .NET Framework
5 2 (4.762%) Node.js
5 2 (4.762%) jQuery
5 2 (4.762%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 1 (2.381%) Apache CXF
6 1 (2.381%) EJB 3.0
6 1 (2.381%) Task Parallel Library
6 1 (2.381%) Spring Batch
6 1 (2.381%) Guava
Application Platforms
1 2 (4.762%) IIS
1 2 (4.762%) Apache
1 2 (4.762%) Confluence
2 1 (2.381%) TIBCO EMS
2 1 (2.381%) Rendezvous
Applications
1 4 (9.524%) MS Excel
1 4 (9.524%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.524%) Intranet
2 1 (2.381%) Internet
2 1 (2.381%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 4 (9.524%) SQLPlus
2 4 (9.524%) TOAD
3 3 (7.143%) Oracle OLAP
3 3 (7.143%) QlikView
3 3 (7.143%) OLAP
4 2 (4.762%) RDBMS
4 2 (4.762%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (4.762%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (2.381%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 9 (21.43%) JIRA
2 4 (9.524%) ClearQuest
3 3 (7.143%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (7.143%) CruiseControl
3 3 (7.143%) Subversion
4 2 (4.762%) Eclipse
4 2 (4.762%) Hudson
4 2 (4.762%) Build Forge
5 1 (2.381%) Rhino Mocks
5 1 (2.381%) Moq
5 1 (2.381%) TeamCity
5 1 (2.381%) NUnit
5 1 (2.381%) ClearCase
General
1 12 (28.57%) Front Office
2 11 (26.19%) Banking
3 7 (16.67%) Investment Banking
3 7 (16.67%) Finance
4 4 (9.524%) Spanish Language
5 1 (2.381%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (80.95%) Developer
2 16 (38.10%) C# Developer
3 7 (16.67%) Java Developer
4 5 (11.90%) Front Office Developer
5 4 (9.524%) Project Manager
6 3 (7.143%) Market Risk Developer
6 3 (7.143%) Excel Developer
7 2 (4.762%) Architect
7 2 (4.762%) Perl Developer
7 2 (4.762%) UNIX Developer
7 2 (4.762%) DevOps Engineer
8 1 (2.381%) Agile .NET Developer
8 1 (2.381%) RAD Developer
8 1 (2.381%) Java/J2EE Architect
8 1 (2.381%) Java Architect
8 1 (2.381%) Excel VBA Developer
8 1 (2.381%) UAT Tester
8 1 (2.381%) J2EE Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.381%) Tester
8 1 (2.381%) Software Tester
Miscellaneous
1 20 (47.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 16 (38.10%) Derivative
3 4 (9.524%) Market Risk
3 4 (9.524%) Telematics
4 3 (7.143%) Mathematics
4 3 (7.143%) Physics
4 3 (7.143%) Computer Science
4 3 (7.143%) Credit Derivative
5 1 (2.381%) Open Source
5 1 (2.381%) Visualisation
5 1 (2.381%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.381%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.90%) UNIX
1 5 (11.90%) Windows
1 5 (11.90%) Linux
2 2 (4.762%) Solaris
2 2 (4.762%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (4.762%) Windows Server 2012
2 2 (4.762%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (4.762%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (57.14%) Multithreading
2 9 (21.43%) Risk Management
2 9 (21.43%) Scrum
3 8 (19.05%) UML
4 7 (16.67%) OOP
4 7 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
4 7 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
4 7 (16.67%) TDD
5 6 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
6 5 (11.90%) Enterprise Architecture
6 5 (11.90%) Analytics
6 5 (11.90%) Zachman Framework
6 5 (11.90%) TOGAF
6 5 (11.90%) RUP
6 5 (11.90%) E-Commerce
6 5 (11.90%) Data Modelling
7 4 (9.524%) Configuration Management
7 4 (9.524%) PRINCE2
7 4 (9.524%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 22 (52.38%) C#
2 18 (42.86%) C++
3 15 (35.71%) Java
4 12 (28.57%) VBA
5 11 (26.19%) SQL
6 4 (9.524%) Python
6 4 (9.524%) C
6 4 (9.524%) JavaScript
7 2 (4.762%) Perl
7 2 (4.762%) Ruby
7 2 (4.762%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.381%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (4.762%) Hyper-V
1 2 (4.762%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (4.762%) BladeLogic
1 2 (4.762%) Puppet
1 2 (4.762%) HP Operations Orchestration
2 1 (2.381%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 12 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 8 (19.05%) Oracle
3 4 (9.524%) DataSynapse
3 4 (9.524%) 29West
4 3 (7.143%) Business Objects
5 2 (4.762%) Sybase
5 2 (4.762%) HP
5 2 (4.762%) BMC
5 2 (4.762%) NetIQ
5 2 (4.762%) Perforce
5 2 (4.762%) VMware
5 2 (4.762%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.381%) Endeca
6 1 (2.381%) Google
6 1 (2.381%) TIBCO