The first table below looks at the demand for OO skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire 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 Cheshire 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 57 51 66
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +15
Contract jobs citing OO 6 12 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.829% 1.502% 0.619%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.089% 2.439% 0.904%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 4
Average daily rate £400 £310 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+29.03% -8.21%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £321 £218 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £335 £368
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
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
551 492 664
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 76.10% 61.58% 68.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 249 364
Average daily rate £375 £351 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.84% +7.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £250 £227
10% offered a daily rate of more than £465 £500 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 12 25
Average hourly rate £40.00 £22.41 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+78.49% +12.05%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.95 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £31.10 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
OO
North West

OO
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire OO Jobs Demand Trend

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Daily Rate Trend

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

Cheshire OO Daily Rate Trend

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

Cheshire OO Daily Rate Histogram

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cheshire OO Hourly Rate Trend

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OO within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Warrington - 2 £450 -
OO
North West

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 9 (45.00%) PHP
1 9 (45.00%) Web Services
2 8 (40.00%) CMS
2 8 (40.00%) Magento
3 7 (35.00%) RESTful
3 7 (35.00%) SOAP
3 7 (35.00%) MySQL
4 6 (30.00%) Retail
4 6 (30.00%) Subversion
4 6 (30.00%) PHP5
5 5 (25.00%) E-Commerce
6 4 (20.00%) SQL
6 4 (20.00%) .NET
6 4 (20.00%) jQuery
6 4 (20.00%) HTML5
6 4 (20.00%) Ajax
6 4 (20.00%) Web Application Development
7 3 (15.00%) Underscore.js
7 3 (15.00%) Zend
7 3 (15.00%) CSS3
7 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
7 3 (15.00%) SAP
7 3 (15.00%) ASP.NET
7 3 (15.00%) CSS
7 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
7 3 (15.00%) C#
7 3 (15.00%) ABAP
7 3 (15.00%) OOP
7 3 (15.00%) TDD
7 3 (15.00%) MVC

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 9 (45.00%) Web Services
2 7 (35.00%) RESTful
2 7 (35.00%) SOAP
3 4 (20.00%) .NET
3 4 (20.00%) jQuery
3 4 (20.00%) HTML5
3 4 (20.00%) Ajax
4 3 (15.00%) Underscore.js
4 3 (15.00%) CSS3
4 3 (15.00%) ASP.NET
4 3 (15.00%) CSS
5 2 (10.00%) HTML
5 2 (10.00%) JSON
5 2 (10.00%) REST
6 1 (5.000%) WCF
6 1 (5.000%) Java EE
6 1 (5.000%) Zend Framework
6 1 (5.000%) SAP Business Workflow
6 1 (5.000%) KnockoutJS
6 1 (5.000%) Servlets
Application Platforms
1 8 (40.00%) CMS
1 8 (40.00%) Magento
2 2 (10.00%) WordPress
2 2 (10.00%) Drupal
2 2 (10.00%) Joomla!
Business Applications
1 1 (5.000%) SAP GRC
1 1 (5.000%) SAP BPC
1 1 (5.000%) SAP FI
1 1 (5.000%) SAP MM
1 1 (5.000%) SAP PS
1 1 (5.000%) SAP HR
1 1 (5.000%) SAP SD
1 1 (5.000%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (5.000%) SAP CO
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) Internet
2 1 (5.000%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (35.00%) MySQL
2 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Subversion
2 1 (5.000%) Eclipse
General
1 6 (30.00%) Retail
2 1 (5.000%) Games
2 1 (5.000%) Finance
2 1 (5.000%) Automotive
2 1 (5.000%) Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (95.00%) Developer
2 3 (15.00%) SAP Developer
2 3 (15.00%) PHP Developer
2 3 (15.00%) C# Developer
2 3 (15.00%) ABAP Developer
2 3 (15.00%) Web Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (10.00%) C# Web Developer
4 1 (5.000%) Senior JavaScript Developer
4 1 (5.000%) JavaScript Developer
4 1 (5.000%) C Developer
4 1 (5.000%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (5.000%) C++/C# Developer
4 1 (5.000%) UI Developer
4 1 (5.000%) Senior UI Developer
4 1 (5.000%) Front-End Developer
4 1 (5.000%) UI Programmer
4 1 (5.000%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (5.000%) Architect
4 1 (5.000%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) W3C
1 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.000%) Online Games
2 1 (5.000%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (25.00%) E-Commerce
2 4 (20.00%) Web Application Development
3 3 (15.00%) OOP
3 3 (15.00%) TDD
3 3 (15.00%) MVC
3 3 (15.00%) Workflow
4 2 (10.00%) Configuration Management
4 2 (10.00%) UML
5 1 (5.000%) Responsive Web Design
5 1 (5.000%) BDD
5 1 (5.000%) SOA
5 1 (5.000%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (5.000%) Scrum
5 1 (5.000%) Web Design
5 1 (5.000%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 9 (45.00%) PHP
2 6 (30.00%) PHP5
3 4 (20.00%) SQL
4 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (15.00%) C#
4 3 (15.00%) ABAP
5 2 (10.00%) Java
6 1 (5.000%) XPath
6 1 (5.000%) C++
6 1 (5.000%) C
6 1 (5.000%) PL/SQL
6 1 (5.000%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.000%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.000%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Zend
1 3 (15.00%) SAP
2 1 (5.000%) Adobe
2 1 (5.000%) Open Text