The first table below looks at the demand for OOP 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 OOP over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
Rank 74 81 78
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -3
Contract jobs citing OOP 12 5 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 0.951% 0.358% 0.441%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.405% 0.554% 0.675%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 0
Average daily rate £288 £525 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-45.23% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £314 £310 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.20% -4.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.00 £60.00 -
% change year-on-year
-36.66% -
All Processes & Methodologies
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
854 902 889
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 67.67% 64.52% 65.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 409 460 380
Average daily rate £375 £375 £385
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -2.59%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £239 £238 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 52 64
Average hourly rate £27.50 £34.00 £26.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-19.11% +30.76%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £11.00 £14.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £57.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
OOP
England

OOP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands OOP Jobs Demand Trend

OOP
Daily Rate Trend

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

East Midlands OOP Daily Rate Trend

OOP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East Midlands OOP Hourly Rate Trend

OOP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OOP within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 22 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
Leicestershire - 7 £288 -
Nottinghamshire -1 3 £215 -4.44%
Northamptonshire +14 1 - -
Derbyshire - 1 - -
OOP
England

OOP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing OOP 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 OOP.

1 21 (67.74%) OO
2 19 (61.29%) JavaScript
3 18 (58.06%) C#
3 18 (58.06%) .NET
4 17 (54.84%) ASP.NET
5 16 (51.61%) Telerik
5 16 (51.61%) DevExpress
6 15 (48.39%) N-Tier
7 14 (45.16%) Visual Studio
7 14 (45.16%) Ajax
8 13 (41.94%) jQuery
9 11 (35.48%) CSS
9 11 (35.48%) MySQL
9 11 (35.48%) PHP
10 8 (25.81%) SQL Server
11 7 (22.58%) Twitter
11 7 (22.58%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 7 (22.58%) HTML
11 7 (22.58%) Linux
11 7 (22.58%) Apache
12 6 (19.35%) WCF
13 5 (16.13%) TDD
14 4 (12.90%) Zend
14 4 (12.90%) CodeIgniter
14 4 (12.90%) Agile Software Development
14 4 (12.90%) CSS3
14 4 (12.90%) HTML5
14 4 (12.90%) PHPUnit
15 3 (9.677%) Web Application Development
15 3 (9.677%) Sass

OOP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing OOP 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 OOP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 18 (58.06%) .NET
2 17 (54.84%) ASP.NET
3 14 (45.16%) Ajax
4 13 (41.94%) jQuery
5 11 (35.48%) CSS
6 7 (22.58%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 7 (22.58%) HTML
7 6 (19.35%) WCF
8 4 (12.90%) CodeIgniter
8 4 (12.90%) CSS3
8 4 (12.90%) HTML5
9 3 (9.677%) Sass
9 3 (9.677%) Google Maps API
9 3 (9.677%) TAPI
9 3 (9.677%) JSON
10 2 (6.452%) SOAP
10 2 (6.452%) XML
10 2 (6.452%) .NET Framework
10 2 (6.452%) LINQ
10 2 (6.452%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 7 (22.58%) Apache
2 3 (9.677%) CMS
2 3 (9.677%) IIS
3 1 (3.226%) GlassFish
3 1 (3.226%) MSMQ
Business Applications
1 1 (3.226%) SAP CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.452%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (35.48%) MySQL
2 8 (25.81%) SQL Server
3 3 (9.677%) GIS
Development Applications
1 14 (45.16%) Visual Studio
2 4 (12.90%) PHPUnit
3 2 (6.452%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (3.226%) Eclipse
Job Titles
1 29 (93.55%) Developer
2 12 (38.71%) .NET Developer
3 10 (32.26%) C# Developer
4 8 (25.81%) ASP.NET Developer
4 8 (25.81%) C# .NET Developer
5 7 (22.58%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 3 (9.677%) Front-End Developer
7 2 (6.452%) Software Developer
8 1 (3.226%) UI Programmer
8 1 (3.226%) CRM Developer
8 1 (3.226%) XML Developer
8 1 (3.226%) CSS Developer
8 1 (3.226%) SAP CRM Developer
8 1 (3.226%) PHP MySQL Developer
8 1 (3.226%) Java Developer
8 1 (3.226%) ABAP Developer
8 1 (3.226%) SQL Developer
8 1 (3.226%) SQL Server Developer
8 1 (3.226%) PHP Developer
8 1 (3.226%) SAP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 15 (48.39%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 7 (22.58%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (67.74%) OO
2 5 (16.13%) TDD
3 4 (12.90%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (9.677%) Web Application Development
5 1 (3.226%) Test Strategy
5 1 (3.226%) Software Architecture
5 1 (3.226%) Web Development
5 1 (3.226%) CRM
5 1 (3.226%) SOA
5 1 (3.226%) UML
Programming Languages
1 19 (61.29%) JavaScript
2 18 (58.06%) C#
3 11 (35.48%) PHP
4 1 (3.226%) Java
4 1 (3.226%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 2 (6.452%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.226%) QA
Vendors
1 16 (51.61%) Telerik
1 16 (51.61%) DevExpress
2 7 (22.58%) Twitter
3 4 (12.90%) Zend
4 3 (9.677%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.226%) SAP