The first table below looks at the demand for OO skills in IT contracts advertised for the Dundee 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 Dundee 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 4 13 5
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -8
Contract jobs citing OO 4 2 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dundee 20.00% 4.651% 18.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.53% 9.091% 30.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £238 £350 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-32.14% -
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
Dundee
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
17 22 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dundee 85.00% 51.16% 62.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 0
Average daily rate £150 £230 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-34.78% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 4
Average hourly rate £9.20 £31.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-70.32% -4.61%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
OO
Scotland

OO
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Dundee OO Jobs Demand Trend

OO
Daily Rate Trend

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

Dundee OO Daily Rate Trend

OO
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Dundee OO Hourly Rate Trend

OO
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dundee 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 6 (100.00%) PHP
1 6 (100.00%) MySQL
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) GWT
1 6 (100.00%) Ext JS
2 5 (83.33%) Continuous Integration
2 5 (83.33%) OOP
2 5 (83.33%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (83.33%) TDD
2 5 (83.33%) Refactoring
2 5 (83.33%) CSS
2 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 5 (83.33%) C++
2 5 (83.33%) HTML
2 5 (83.33%) Java
2 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft

OO
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dundee 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 6 (100.00%) GWT
1 6 (100.00%) Ext JS
2 5 (83.33%) CSS
2 5 (83.33%) HTML
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (16.67%) PHP Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Continuous Integration
1 5 (83.33%) OOP
1 5 (83.33%) Agile Software Development
1 5 (83.33%) TDD
1 5 (83.33%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) PHP
2 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 5 (83.33%) C++
2 5 (83.33%) Java
2 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft