Cheltenham OO Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Object-Oriented (OO) skills within the Cheltenham region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited OO over the 3 months to 8 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Object-Oriented (OO)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Avon Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dumbarton Dundee Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Farnborough Gateshead Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hartlepool Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Huddersfield Ipswich Kent Lanarkshire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Reading Redditch Redhill Rickmansworth Rotherham Rugby Salford Salisbury Scotland Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville West Dunbartonshire West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	32	29
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	1	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	0.407 %	2.344 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£342	£360
% change on same period last year	-5.13 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.35	£33.89
% change on same period last year	+4.30 %
Processes & Methodologies Cheltenham
Matching contract IT job ads	246	128
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.345 %	0.131 %
Daily rates quoted	82	54
Average minimum daily rate	£392	£395
Average daily rate	£400	£404
% change on same period last year	-0.85 %
Average maximum daily rate	£409	£413
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£371
% change on same period last year	+1.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	18	22
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.02	£30.22
Average hourly rate	£23.57	£30.81
% change on same period last year	-23.48 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.13	£31.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.37	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-2.09 %
OO Gloucestershire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing OO across the Cheltenham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing OO across the Cheltenham region.

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Top 4 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheltenham 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 1 (100.00 %) C++ 1 1 (100.00 %) RUP 1 1 (100.00 %) DV Cleared 1 1 (100.00 %) Security Cleared

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheltenham 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.

Job Titles 1 1 (100.00 %) Developer 1 1 (100.00 %) C++ Developer	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (100.00 %) RUP 1 1 (100.00 %) DV Cleared 1 1 (100.00 %) Security Cleared
Programming Languages 1 1 (100.00 %) C++