East of England OLE Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) skills within the East of England region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited OLE over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Object Linking and Embedding (OLE)
Location Abingdon Chorley East of England England Lancashire London North West Oxfordshire South East UK	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	159
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.074 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	-	£363
% change on same period last year	-
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Application Development East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	928	1351
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.225 %	1.346 %
Daily rates quoted	316	401
Average minimum daily rate	£347	£341
Average daily rate	£374	£360
% change on same period last year	+3.73 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£380
UK excluding London average daily rate	£338	£337
% change on same period last year	+0.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	65	167
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.47	£30.17
Average hourly rate	£31.95	£31.31
% change on same period last year	+2.03 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.44	£32.46
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.72	£33.29
% change on same period last year	-1.69 %
OLE England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

OLE
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing OLE across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

OLE
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing OLE across the East of England region.