The first table below looks at the demand for OOD skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OOD over the 3 months to 23 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 City of London 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
Rank 164 197 188
Rank change year-on-year
+33 -9
Contract jobs citing OOD 35 22 57
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.551% 0.279% 0.572%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.751% 0.390% 0.796%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 16 50
Average daily rate £400 £400 £588
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -31.91%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £338 £375
10% offered a daily rate of more than £633 £525 £700
UK excluding London average daily rate £303 £331 £330
% change year-on-year
-8.67% +0.37%
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
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
4658 5642 7164
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 73.33% 71.67% 71.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3513 4087 5301
Average daily rate £450 £460 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.17% -8.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 94 100
Average hourly rate £41.50 £22.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+84.44% -10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.90 £15.00 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £47.50 £50.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
OOD
London

OOD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London 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 City of London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London OOD Hourly Rate Trend

OOD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 54 (91.53%) OO
2 30 (50.85%) Java
3 22 (37.29%) TDD
4 18 (30.51%) Finance
5 17 (28.81%) C#
5 17 (28.81%) Git (software)
6 15 (25.42%) SQL Server
6 15 (25.42%) Agile Software Development
7 14 (23.73%) JavaScript
7 14 (23.73%) SQL
8 12 (20.34%) .NET
8 12 (20.34%) Banking
9 11 (18.64%) WinForms
9 11 (18.64%) CSS
9 11 (18.64%) XML
9 11 (18.64%) Multithreading
10 10 (16.95%) Derivative
10 10 (16.95%) Windows
10 10 (16.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 10 (16.95%) Subversion
11 9 (15.25%) UML
11 9 (15.25%) C++
11 9 (15.25%) Ruby
12 8 (13.56%) Cucumber
12 8 (13.56%) BDD
12 8 (13.56%) Jenkins
12 8 (13.56%) Web Services
12 8 (13.56%) E-Commerce
12 8 (13.56%) Investment Banking
13 7 (11.86%) Software Engineering

OOD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 12 (20.34%) .NET
2 11 (18.64%) WinForms
2 11 (18.64%) CSS
2 11 (18.64%) XML
3 8 (13.56%) Web Services
4 7 (11.86%) jQuery
4 7 (11.86%) RESTful
5 6 (10.17%) Ruby on Rails
5 6 (10.17%) HTML
6 5 (8.475%) SOAP
6 5 (8.475%) J2EE
6 5 (8.475%) NHibernate
6 5 (8.475%) WPF
6 5 (8.475%) iOS SDK
7 4 (6.780%) REST
7 4 (6.780%) Backbone.js
7 4 (6.780%) Node.js
7 4 (6.780%) CSS3
7 4 (6.780%) Underscore.js
7 4 (6.780%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 4 (6.780%) ESB
2 3 (5.085%) WebLogic
2 3 (5.085%) TIBCO EMS
3 2 (3.390%) Apache
3 2 (3.390%) Tomcat
3 2 (3.390%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.390%) CMS
4 1 (1.695%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (1.695%) Rendezvous
Applications
1 3 (5.085%) MS Office
2 1 (1.695%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.695%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.695%) MS Project
2 1 (1.695%) PowerPivot
Business Applications
1 3 (5.085%) Summit
2 1 (1.695%) Oracle ERP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.780%) Internet
2 3 (5.085%) RFID
3 2 (3.390%) RTP
4 1 (1.695%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.695%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (25.42%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.390%) Oracle 11g
2 2 (3.390%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 2 (3.390%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (3.390%) Oracle 10g
2 2 (3.390%) RDBMS
2 2 (3.390%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 2 (3.390%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.695%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (1.695%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (1.695%) PerformancePoint
Development Applications
1 17 (28.81%) Git (software)
2 10 (16.95%) Subversion
3 8 (13.56%) Cucumber
3 8 (13.56%) Jenkins
4 5 (8.475%) Xcode
4 5 (8.475%) TeamCity
5 4 (6.780%) Mercurial
6 3 (5.085%) Ant
6 3 (5.085%) JUnit
7 2 (3.390%) Maven
8 1 (1.695%) NUnit
8 1 (1.695%) Eclipse
8 1 (1.695%) JIRA
8 1 (1.695%) Rhino Mocks
8 1 (1.695%) Moq
8 1 (1.695%) Trac
8 1 (1.695%) FishEye
8 1 (1.695%) GitHub
General
1 18 (30.51%) Finance
2 12 (20.34%) Banking
3 8 (13.56%) Investment Banking
4 7 (11.86%) Retail
5 5 (8.475%) Back Office
6 4 (6.780%) Front Office
7 3 (5.085%) Financial Institution
7 3 (5.085%) Manufacturing
8 2 (3.390%) Publishing
9 1 (1.695%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 47 (79.66%) Developer
2 12 (20.34%) Java Developer
3 10 (16.95%) Senior Developer
4 9 (15.25%) C# Developer
5 6 (10.17%) Ruby Developer
6 5 (8.475%) Lead Developer
6 5 (8.475%) Lead C# Developer
6 5 (8.475%) Agile C# Developer
7 4 (6.780%) Front-End Developer
7 4 (6.780%) JavaScript Developer
7 4 (6.780%) Software Engineer
7 4 (6.780%) Architect
8 3 (5.085%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (5.085%) Senior Java Developer
8 3 (5.085%) Ruby on Rails Developer
8 3 (5.085%) iOS Developer
9 2 (3.390%) Technical Developer
9 2 (3.390%) Mobile Developer
9 2 (3.390%) C# Programmer
9 2 (3.390%) Android Developer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.95%) Derivative
1 10 (16.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (6.780%) Open Source
3 3 (5.085%) Fixed Income
3 3 (5.085%) Credit Derivative
3 3 (5.085%) Credit Risk
3 3 (5.085%) Market Risk
4 2 (3.390%) Video on Demand
4 2 (3.390%) iPhone
4 2 (3.390%) Grid Computing
5 1 (1.695%) Equities
5 1 (1.695%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.695%) Equity Derivative
5 1 (1.695%) Equity Risk
Operating Systems
1 10 (16.95%) Windows
2 7 (11.86%) Linux
3 5 (8.475%) Apple iOS
4 3 (5.085%) Android
5 2 (3.390%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (91.53%) OO
2 22 (37.29%) TDD
3 15 (25.42%) Agile Software Development
4 11 (18.64%) Multithreading
5 9 (15.25%) UML
6 8 (13.56%) BDD
6 8 (13.56%) E-Commerce
7 7 (11.86%) Software Engineering
7 7 (11.86%) SOA
7 7 (11.86%) Unit Testing
8 6 (10.17%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (10.17%) Scrum
9 5 (8.475%) Risk Management
9 5 (8.475%) Asset Management
9 5 (8.475%) OOP
10 4 (6.780%) Workflow
11 3 (5.085%) Web Development
12 2 (3.390%) Memory Management
12 2 (3.390%) Analytics
12 2 (3.390%) Greeks
Programming Languages
1 30 (50.85%) Java
2 17 (28.81%) C#
3 14 (23.73%) JavaScript
3 14 (23.73%) SQL
4 9 (15.25%) C++
4 9 (15.25%) Ruby
5 5 (8.475%) Objective-C
6 2 (3.390%) C
6 2 (3.390%) PL/SQL
6 2 (3.390%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.695%) Python
7 1 (1.695%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.695%) Perl
7 1 (1.695%) XPath
7 1 (1.695%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (1.695%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.085%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (11.86%) Oracle
2 3 (5.085%) Informatica
2 3 (5.085%) TIBCO
2 3 (5.085%) JBoss
2 3 (5.085%) Sybase
2 3 (5.085%) SAP
2 3 (5.085%) Syncfusion
2 3 (5.085%) DevExpress
3 2 (3.390%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.390%) Apple
4 1 (1.695%) IBM
4 1 (1.695%) BEA
4 1 (1.695%) 29West