Colchester OOP Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) skills within the Colchester region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited OOP over the 3 months to 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
Location Aylesbury Barking Bath Berkshire Birmingham Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Coventry Crawley Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Gateshead Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Leeds London Manchester Middlesex Midlands Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Scotland Slough Somerset South Coast South East South West Stevenage Stockport Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Warrington West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Windsor Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	7
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	6.250 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£280
Average daily rate	-	£300
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£320
UK excluding London average daily rate	£293	£346
% change on same period last year	-15.29 %
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	£37.61	£34.31
% change on same period last year	+9.62 %
Processes & Methodologies Colchester
Matching contract IT job ads	18	16
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.025 %	0.016 %
Daily rates quoted	7	8
Average minimum daily rate	£233	£331
Average daily rate	£237	£347
% change on same period last year	-31.61 %
Average maximum daily rate	£242	£364
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£372
% change on same period last year	+1.69 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£16.00
Average hourly rate	-	£17.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£18.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.30	£30.27
% change on same period last year	-3.20 %
OOP Essex

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.

OOP
Demand Trend

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

OOP
Daily Rate Trend

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