The first table below looks at the demand for OO skills in IT contracts advertised for the Devon 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 Devon 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 22 23 24
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +1
Contract jobs citing OO 7 8 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Devon 4.142% 4.372% 3.922%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.645% 6.897% 8.108%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 2
Average daily rate £325 £416 £240
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.82% +73.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £250 £132
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £466 £348
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
Devon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
124 116 74
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Devon 73.37% 63.39% 48.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 59 37
Average daily rate £313 £335 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.71% -10.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £223 £205 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £388 £475 £488
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 20 10
Average hourly rate £19.39 £16.00 £29.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+21.18% -45.76%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
OO
South West

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Jobs Demand Trend

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

Devon 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 Devon region.

Devon OO Daily Rate Trend

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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 Devon region.

Devon 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 Devon 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
Exeter -7 4 £350 -16.40%
Barnstaple - 2 £278 -
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South West

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Devon 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 13 (81.25%) JavaScript
2 11 (68.75%) CSS
2 11 (68.75%) XML
3 10 (62.50%) Web Services
3 10 (62.50%) ASP.NET
3 10 (62.50%) C#
3 10 (62.50%) HTML
3 10 (62.50%) .NET
3 10 (62.50%) Agile Software Development
4 9 (56.25%) Oracle
4 9 (56.25%) SOA
5 8 (50.00%) XSLT
6 7 (43.75%) XQuery
6 7 (43.75%) VB.NET
6 7 (43.75%) Configuration Management
7 6 (37.50%) XPath
7 6 (37.50%) Waterfall
8 5 (31.25%) Git (software)
8 5 (31.25%) Back Office
8 5 (31.25%) B2B
8 5 (31.25%) B2C
9 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (25.00%) MCAD
9 4 (25.00%) MCSD
9 4 (25.00%) SQL
9 4 (25.00%) Finance
9 4 (25.00%) Oracle Applications
9 4 (25.00%) .NET Framework
10 3 (18.75%) Oracle Service Bus
10 3 (18.75%) Unit Testing

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Devon 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 11 (68.75%) CSS
1 11 (68.75%) XML
2 10 (62.50%) Web Services
2 10 (62.50%) ASP.NET
2 10 (62.50%) HTML
2 10 (62.50%) .NET
3 8 (50.00%) XSLT
4 4 (25.00%) .NET Framework
5 3 (18.75%) jQuery
5 3 (18.75%) Ajax
5 3 (18.75%) SOAP
5 3 (18.75%) Middleware
6 2 (12.50%) J2EE
6 2 (12.50%) Hibernate
6 2 (12.50%) Spring
7 1 (6.250%) ASP.NET MVC 2
7 1 (6.250%) Node.js
7 1 (6.250%) ASP.NET MVC 3
7 1 (6.250%) Razor View Engine
7 1 (6.250%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle Service Bus
2 2 (12.50%) MQSeries
2 2 (12.50%) Tomcat
2 2 (12.50%) AquaLogic
2 2 (12.50%) GlassFish
2 2 (12.50%) AquaLogic Service Bus
3 1 (6.250%) ArcGIS
Business Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Oracle Applications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (6.250%) GIS
2 1 (6.250%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Git (software)
2 2 (12.50%) JUnit
2 2 (12.50%) Visual Studio
2 2 (12.50%) Selenium
2 2 (12.50%) jMock
2 2 (12.50%) Mockito
3 1 (6.250%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.250%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (6.250%) Maven
3 1 (6.250%) Subversion
General
1 5 (31.25%) Back Office
2 4 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 15 (93.75%) Developer
2 10 (62.50%) .NET Developer
3 4 (25.00%) ASP.NET Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (6.250%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (6.250%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (6.250%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (6.250%) Oracle Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) Developer Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) Senior .NET Developer
5 1 (6.250%) JavaScript Developer
5 1 (6.250%) Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) Senior Developer
5 1 (6.250%) Service Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) Java Developer
5 1 (6.250%) C# Developer
5 1 (6.250%) VB.NET Developer
5 1 (6.250%) Analyst Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.250%) Web 2.0
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Agile Software Development
2 9 (56.25%) SOA
3 7 (43.75%) Configuration Management
4 6 (37.50%) Waterfall
5 5 (31.25%) B2B
5 5 (31.25%) B2C
6 3 (18.75%) Unit Testing
6 3 (18.75%) Scrum
6 3 (18.75%) OOD
7 2 (12.50%) Functional Testing
8 1 (6.250%) Continuous Integration
8 1 (6.250%) Software Engineering
8 1 (6.250%) TDD
8 1 (6.250%) Web Development
8 1 (6.250%) MVC
8 1 (6.250%) UML
8 1 (6.250%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 13 (81.25%) JavaScript
2 10 (62.50%) C#
3 7 (43.75%) XQuery
3 7 (43.75%) VB.NET
4 6 (37.50%) XPath
5 4 (25.00%) SQL
6 2 (12.50%) C
6 2 (12.50%) Java
6 2 (12.50%) PL/SQL
7 1 (6.250%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (25.00%) MCAD
1 4 (25.00%) MCSD
2 3 (18.75%) Degree
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Oracle
2 1 (6.250%) BEA
2 1 (6.250%) Microsoft