The first table below looks at the demand for OOD 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 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
Rank 52 44 51
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +7
Contract jobs citing OOD 2 2 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 0.519% 0.541% 1.200%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.631% 0.694% 1.600%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 3
Average daily rate - £500 £625
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -20.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £303 £325 £328
% change year-on-year
-6.92% -0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £39.00
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +2.56%
All Processes & Methodologies
Canary Wharf
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
317 288 375
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 82.34% 77.84% 75.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 183 284
Average daily rate £572 £550 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £400 £425
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -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 £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
OOD
London

OOD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf OOD Daily Rate Trend

OOD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 2 (66.67%) Oracle
1 2 (66.67%) MS Project
1 2 (66.67%) MS Office
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) UML
1 2 (66.67%) OOA/OOD
1 2 (66.67%) RUP
1 2 (66.67%) SOA
1 2 (66.67%) ISO 9001
1 2 (66.67%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 2 (66.67%) Project Management
1 2 (66.67%) Change Management
1 2 (66.67%) Risk Assessment
1 2 (66.67%) Data Management
1 2 (66.67%) ESB
1 2 (66.67%) Release Management
1 2 (66.67%) Data Integration
1 2 (66.67%) Waterfall
1 2 (66.67%) Change Control
2 1 (33.33%) Task Parallel Library
2 1 (33.33%) jQuery
2 1 (33.33%) Stress Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Multithreading
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
2 1 (33.33%) Physics
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Market Risk
2 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking

OOD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
1 1 (33.33%) DCOM
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
1 1 (33.33%) jQuery
1 1 (33.33%) Task Parallel Library
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) ESB
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) MS Project
1 2 (66.67%) MS Office
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
2 1 (33.33%) Physics
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Market Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) UML
1 2 (66.67%) OOA/OOD
1 2 (66.67%) RUP
1 2 (66.67%) SOA
1 2 (66.67%) Project Management
1 2 (66.67%) Change Management
1 2 (66.67%) Release Management
1 2 (66.67%) Risk Assessment
1 2 (66.67%) Data Management
1 2 (66.67%) Waterfall
1 2 (66.67%) Change Control
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Stress Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Multithreading
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) OO
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) C++
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) ISO 9001
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Perforce