The first table below looks at the demand for OO skills in IT contracts advertised for the East Midlands 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 East Midlands 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 39 42 45
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +3
Contract jobs citing OO 49 38 40
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 3.907% 2.772% 2.869%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.833% 4.304% 4.415%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 9 11
Average daily rate £290 £300 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.33% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £169 £245 £221
10% offered a daily rate of more than £323 £318 £490
UK excluding London average daily rate £336 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.46% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
Average hourly rate - - £26.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+8.69% -1.42%
All Processes & Methodologies
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
840 883 906
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 66.99% 64.41% 64.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 397 449 392
Average daily rate £375 £375 £375
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £245 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 49 65
Average hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £26.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-15.38% +25.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £10.50 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £57.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
OO
England

OO
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands 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 East Midlands 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
Nottinghamshire -5 13 £270 -6.08%
Leicestershire -10 8 £313 -10.71%
Derbyshire +4 3 £245 -
Northamptonshire - 1 £135 -
OO
England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 55 (70.51%) JavaScript
2 41 (52.56%) .NET
3 38 (48.72%) jQuery
4 34 (43.59%) Ajax
5 33 (42.31%) C#
6 31 (39.74%) CSS
7 29 (37.18%) ASP.NET
8 28 (35.90%) HTML
9 22 (28.21%) Visual Studio
10 20 (25.64%) SQL
10 20 (25.64%) MVC
11 19 (24.36%) OOP
11 19 (24.36%) N-Tier
12 18 (23.08%) UML
12 18 (23.08%) Java
13 17 (21.79%) Content Management
14 16 (20.51%) SQL Server
14 16 (20.51%) UNIX
14 16 (20.51%) WebSphere
15 15 (19.23%) .NET Framework
15 15 (19.23%) XML
15 15 (19.23%) OOD
16 14 (17.95%) XHTML
16 14 (17.95%) MySQL
17 13 (16.67%) PHP
17 13 (16.67%) JUnit
17 13 (16.67%) Eclipse
17 13 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
18 12 (15.38%) Bash shell
18 12 (15.38%) RDBMS

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 41 (52.56%) .NET
2 38 (48.72%) jQuery
3 34 (43.59%) Ajax
4 31 (39.74%) CSS
5 29 (37.18%) ASP.NET
6 28 (35.90%) HTML
7 16 (20.51%) WebSphere
8 15 (19.23%) .NET Framework
8 15 (19.23%) XML
9 14 (17.95%) XHTML
10 12 (15.38%) EJB
10 12 (15.38%) JDBC
10 12 (15.38%) JSP
10 12 (15.38%) Servlets
10 12 (15.38%) J2EE
11 9 (11.54%) WCF
12 8 (10.26%) WinForms
12 8 (10.26%) WPF
13 7 (8.974%) ASP.NET MVC
13 7 (8.974%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 12 (15.38%) WebSphere Application Server
2 8 (10.26%) CMS
3 6 (7.692%) Kentico
3 6 (7.692%) Umbraco
4 5 (6.410%) Apache
4 5 (6.410%) IIS
5 3 (3.846%) Tomcat
5 3 (3.846%) MSMQ
6 2 (2.564%) SharePoint
6 2 (2.564%) Papyrus
7 1 (1.282%) GlassFish
7 1 (1.282%) Apache Solr
7 1 (1.282%) Commerce Server
Applications
1 2 (2.564%) MS Office
2 1 (1.282%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.564%) SAP CRM
2 1 (1.282%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (1.282%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.692%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (20.51%) SQL Server
2 14 (17.95%) MySQL
3 12 (15.38%) RDBMS
3 12 (15.38%) DB2
4 6 (7.692%) SQL Server 2008
4 6 (7.692%) SQL Server 2005
5 2 (2.564%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.564%) Data Mining
5 2 (2.564%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (2.564%) GIS
5 2 (2.564%) QlikView
5 2 (2.564%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.282%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.282%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 22 (28.21%) Visual Studio
2 13 (16.67%) JUnit
2 13 (16.67%) Eclipse
3 12 (15.38%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
4 4 (5.128%) PHPUnit
4 4 (5.128%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (3.846%) MSTest
5 3 (3.846%) NUnit
6 2 (2.564%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.564%) Selenium
7 1 (1.282%) WebDriver
7 1 (1.282%) Maven
7 1 (1.282%) LSMW
7 1 (1.282%) Subversion
7 1 (1.282%) Ant
7 1 (1.282%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 1 (1.282%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 10 (12.82%) Banking
1 10 (12.82%) Investment Banking
2 5 (6.410%) Finance
3 3 (3.846%) Retail
4 2 (2.564%) Automotive
4 2 (2.564%) Electronics
4 2 (2.564%) Marketing
5 1 (1.282%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.282%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 68 (87.18%) Developer
2 26 (33.33%) .NET Developer
3 15 (19.23%) ASP.NET Developer
4 12 (15.38%) WebSphere Developer
4 12 (15.38%) C# Developer
5 8 (10.26%) Web Developer
6 7 (8.974%) C# .NET Developer
7 5 (6.410%) Analyst
8 4 (5.128%) Senior Developer
8 4 (5.128%) .NET Web Developer
8 4 (5.128%) Front-End Developer
9 3 (3.846%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 3 (3.846%) Analyst Developer
9 3 (3.846%) Software Developer
10 2 (2.564%) Business Analyst
10 2 (2.564%) Software Engineer
10 2 (2.564%) Consultant
10 2 (2.564%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 2 (2.564%) ASP Developer
10 2 (2.564%) Embedded Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 19 (24.36%) N-Tier
2 2 (2.564%) Client/Server
2 2 (2.564%) Device Driver
3 1 (1.282%) Fat Client
3 1 (1.282%) SaaS
3 1 (1.282%) Smartphone
3 1 (1.282%) Computer Science
3 1 (1.282%) Social Media
3 1 (1.282%) Digital Media
3 1 (1.282%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 16 (20.51%) UNIX
2 10 (12.82%) Windows
3 9 (11.54%) Linux
4 1 (1.282%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (25.64%) MVC
2 19 (24.36%) OOP
3 18 (23.08%) UML
4 17 (21.79%) Content Management
5 15 (19.23%) OOD
6 13 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
7 12 (15.38%) RAD
8 10 (12.82%) E-Commerce
9 9 (11.54%) TDD
10 7 (8.974%) Dependency Injection
10 7 (8.974%) MVVM
10 7 (8.974%) Agile Software Development
11 6 (7.692%) E-business
11 6 (7.692%) Configuration Management
11 6 (7.692%) Business Analysis
12 3 (3.846%) Web Development
12 3 (3.846%) Web Application Development
12 3 (3.846%) Data Analysis
13 2 (2.564%) Business Intelligence
13 2 (2.564%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 55 (70.51%) JavaScript
2 33 (42.31%) C#
3 20 (25.64%) SQL
4 18 (23.08%) Java
5 13 (16.67%) PHP
6 12 (15.38%) Bash shell
6 12 (15.38%) Perl
7 4 (5.128%) C++
8 2 (2.564%) ABAP
8 2 (2.564%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.564%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.564%) PHP5
9 1 (1.282%) CoffeeScript
9 1 (1.282%) VB6
9 1 (1.282%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.282%) VB
9 1 (1.282%) VB.NET
9 1 (1.282%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (14.10%) Sun Certification
2 3 (3.846%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.564%) QA
Vendors
1 12 (15.38%) IBM
1 12 (15.38%) Oracle
2 11 (14.10%) Sun
3 10 (12.82%) DevExpress
4 9 (11.54%) Telerik
5 8 (10.26%) Microsoft
6 5 (6.410%) Zend
6 5 (6.410%) Twitter
7 2 (2.564%) SAP
7 2 (2.564%) QNX
8 1 (1.282%) hybris
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