The first table below looks at the demand for OO skills in IT contracts advertised for the Docklands, London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OO over the 3 months to 21 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 Docklands, 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented (OO)
Rank 25 26 32
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +6
Contract jobs citing OO 5 6 32
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Docklands, London 2.874% 2.740% 5.451%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.817% 3.488% 7.477%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 12
Average daily rate £456 - £400
90% offered a daily rate of more than £258 - £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £471 - £470
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+8.69% -1.42%
All Processes & Methodologies
Docklands, London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
131 172 428
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Docklands, London 75.29% 78.54% 72.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 112 191
Average daily rate £450 £500 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.00% -4.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £360 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 4
Average hourly rate - £26.00 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +13.04%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
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London

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Jobs Demand Trend

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

Docklands, London 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 Docklands, London region.

Docklands, London 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 Docklands, London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Docklands, London 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 Docklands, London region.

Docklands, London OO Hourly Rate Trend

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, London 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 8 (80.00%) Oracle
2 6 (60.00%) C#
2 6 (60.00%) Java
2 6 (60.00%) SQL
3 5 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 5 (50.00%) Finance
3 5 (50.00%) TDD
3 5 (50.00%) Banking
4 4 (40.00%) Change Management
4 4 (40.00%) Web Services
4 4 (40.00%) .NET
5 3 (30.00%) UNIX
5 3 (30.00%) Windows
5 3 (30.00%) Linux
5 3 (30.00%) Cognos
5 3 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (30.00%) IBM
5 3 (30.00%) Perl
5 3 (30.00%) Retail
5 3 (30.00%) Scrum
5 3 (30.00%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (30.00%) Retail Banking
5 3 (30.00%) jQuery
5 3 (30.00%) Bash shell
5 3 (30.00%) BDD
6 2 (20.00%) JSON
6 2 (20.00%) New Media
6 2 (20.00%) Refactoring
6 2 (20.00%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (20.00%) WebSphere

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, London 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 4 (40.00%) Web Services
1 4 (40.00%) .NET
2 3 (30.00%) jQuery
3 2 (20.00%) JSON
3 2 (20.00%) WebSphere
3 2 (20.00%) Spring
3 2 (20.00%) XML
4 1 (10.00%) CSS
4 1 (10.00%) JSP
4 1 (10.00%) Servlets
4 1 (10.00%) XSLT
4 1 (10.00%) JMS
4 1 (10.00%) JCE
4 1 (10.00%) Hibernate
4 1 (10.00%) Java EE
4 1 (10.00%) RESTful
4 1 (10.00%) Dojo
4 1 (10.00%) Spring MVC
4 1 (10.00%) Grails
4 1 (10.00%) Ext JS
Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) CMS
1 2 (20.00%) Documentum
2 1 (10.00%) WebLogic
2 1 (10.00%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) MS Excel
1 2 (20.00%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Intranet
2 1 (10.00%) HTTP
2 1 (10.00%) SSL
2 1 (10.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (20.00%) Maven
1 2 (20.00%) ClearQuest
2 1 (10.00%) WebLogic Workshop
2 1 (10.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (10.00%) Git (software)
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
1 5 (50.00%) Banking
2 3 (30.00%) Retail
2 3 (30.00%) Retail Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (10.00%) Billing
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior .NET Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Project Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (20.00%) .NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Systems Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Systems Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Tester
4 1 (10.00%) Applications Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Software Tester
4 1 (10.00%) UAT Tester
4 1 (10.00%) Java Applications Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Portal Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Mobile Applications Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Mobile Developer
4 1 (10.00%) iPhone Applications Developer
4 1 (10.00%) iPhone Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Front-End Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) New Media
2 1 (10.00%) Handset
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (10.00%) iPhone
2 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (10.00%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) UNIX
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Android
2 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) TDD
2 4 (40.00%) Change Management
3 3 (30.00%) Scrum
3 3 (30.00%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (30.00%) BDD
4 2 (20.00%) Refactoring
4 2 (20.00%) Automated Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Web Design
4 2 (20.00%) ITIL
4 2 (20.00%) PRINCE2
4 2 (20.00%) Configuration Management
4 2 (20.00%) E-Commerce
4 2 (20.00%) OOD
4 2 (20.00%) RUP
5 1 (10.00%) MVC
5 1 (10.00%) Asset Management
5 1 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Test Scripting
5 1 (10.00%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) C#
1 6 (60.00%) Java
1 6 (60.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) Perl
2 3 (30.00%) Bash shell
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Oracle
2 3 (30.00%) Cognos
2 3 (30.00%) IBM
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (20.00%) EMC