East of England OO Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Object-Oriented (OO) skills within the East of England region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited OO over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Basildon Basingstoke Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Cheshire Chester City of London Clapham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Kent Lanarkshire Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newport Newton-le-Willows North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Windsor Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	33	37
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	170	171
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.227 %	0.173 %
As % of the category below	7.703 %	7.349 %
Daily rates quoted	58	41
Average minimum daily rate	£381	£362
Average daily rate	£415	£393
% change on same period last year	+5.44 %
Average maximum daily rate	£449	£425
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£364
% change on same period last year	-4.38 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	39
Average minimum hourly rate	£38.00	£33.99
Average hourly rate	£39.92	£34.60
% change on same period last year	+15.34 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£41.83	£35.22
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£37.61	£33.71
% change on same period last year	+11.56 %
Processes & Methodologies East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	2207	2327
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.942 %	2.354 %
Daily rates quoted	810	817
Average minimum daily rate	£375	£362
Average daily rate	£399	£383
% change on same period last year	+4.14 %
Average maximum daily rate	£422	£403
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	209	236
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.47	£28.76
Average hourly rate	£30.60	£30.20
% change on same period last year	+1.32 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.74	£31.65
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
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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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing OO across the East of England region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing OO across the East of England region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing OO across the East of England region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OO within the East of England region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Hertfordshire	+19	84	£448	+19.62 %
Cambridgeshire	+7	46	£317	+2.77 %
Essex	-15	30	£428	-8.35 %
Suffolk	+10	9	£346	-30.83 %
Bedfordshire	+11	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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.

1 179 (50.14 %) SQL 2 165 (46.22 %) UML 3 161 (45.10 %) Java 4 118 (33.05 %) XML 5 115 (32.21 %) J2EE 6 107 (29.97 %) .NET 7 99 (27.73 %) Finance 8 90 (25.21 %) Oracle 9 87 (24.37 %) Hibernate 10 85 (23.81 %) JUnit 11 82 (22.97 %) WebServices 12 81 (22.69 %) Spring 13 77 (21.57 %) ASP.NET 13 77 (21.57 %) Eclipse 14 73 (20.45 %) RAD

15 69 (19.33 %) C# 16 68 (19.05 %) SOA 17 67 (18.77 %) JavaScript 18 66 (18.49 %) CSS 19 65 (18.21 %) XSLT 20 63 (17.65 %) UNIX 21 57 (15.97 %) PL/SQL 21 57 (15.97 %) Banking 22 56 (15.69 %) SQL Server 23 54 (15.13 %) Agile Software Development 24 53 (14.85 %) HTML 25 51 (14.29 %) AJAX 26 48 (13.45 %) WebLogic 27 44 (12.32 %) C++ 27 44 (12.32 %) E-Commerce

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 1 118 (33.05 %) XML 2 115 (32.21 %) J2EE 3 107 (29.97 %) .NET 4 87 (24.37 %) Hibernate 5 82 (22.97 %) WebServices 6 81 (22.69 %) Spring 7 77 (21.57 %) ASP.NET 8 66 (18.49 %) CSS 9 65 (18.21 %) XSLT 10 53 (14.85 %) HTML 11 51 (14.29 %) AJAX 12 42 (11.76 %) WebSphere 13 41 (11.48 %) Struts 14 36 (10.08 %) Java EE 15 32 (8.964 %) WPF 16 25 (7.003 %) ADO.NET 17 24 (6.723 %) JSF 18 23 (6.443 %) JSP 18 23 (6.443 %) Servlets 18 23 (6.443 %) DOM	Application Platforms 1 48 (13.45 %) WebLogic 2 20 (5.602 %) BizTalk Server 3 12 (3.361 %) WebSphere Application Server 4 10 (2.801 %) JBoss 5 9 (2.521 %) IIS 5 9 (2.521 %) WebLogic Portal 6 8 (2.241 %) Apache 7 7 (1.961 %) Tuxedo 7 7 (1.961 %) CMS 8 5 (1.401 %) MQSeries 9 4 (1.120 %) Joomla! 10 2 (0.560 %) IBM HTTP Server 10 2 (0.560 %) Oracle HTTP Server 10 2 (0.560 %) Tomcat 10 2 (0.560 %) DotNetNuke 11 1 (0.280 %) SharePoint 11 1 (0.280 %) ESB 11 1 (0.280 %) Office Project Server 11 1 (0.280 %) SharePoint Server 2007 11 1 (0.280 %) Zope
Applications 1 4 (1.120 %) MS Excel 2 1 (0.280 %) InfoPath 2 1 (0.280 %) MS Project 2 1 (0.280 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 1 (0.280 %) SAP PS
Communications & Networking 1 31 (8.683 %) HTTP 2 30 (8.403 %) Internet 3 23 (6.443 %) TCP/IP 4 21 (5.882 %) SMTP 4 21 (5.882 %) FTP 5 16 (4.482 %) 3G 6 13 (3.641 %) RNC 7 11 (3.081 %) 2G 8 10 (2.801 %) GSM 9 9 (2.521 %) SS7 10 3 (0.840 %) DVB 11 2 (0.560 %) Firewall 11 2 (0.560 %) UMTS 11 2 (0.560 %) LDAP 12 1 (0.280 %) Bluetooth 12 1 (0.280 %) CDMA 12 1 (0.280 %) GPRS 12 1 (0.280 %) Ethernet 12 1 (0.280 %) Wireless 12 1 (0.280 %) HSDPA	Database & Business Intelligence 1 56 (15.69 %) SQL Server 2 19 (5.322 %) SQL Server 2005 3 15 (4.202 %) DB2 4 11 (3.081 %) SQL Server 2000 5 8 (2.241 %) Crystal Reports 6 7 (1.961 %) MySQL 7 6 (1.681 %) Oracle Reports 8 5 (1.401 %) RDBMS 8 5 (1.401 %) Oracle 10g 9 4 (1.120 %) Oracle 9i 10 3 (0.840 %) Oracle 8/8i 11 2 (0.560 %) MS Access 12 1 (0.280 %) DTS 12 1 (0.280 %) Oracle Discoverer 12 1 (0.280 %) BusinessObjects 12 1 (0.280 %) SQL Server 7 12 1 (0.280 %) GIS
Development Applications 1 85 (23.81 %) JUnit 2 77 (21.57 %) Eclipse 3 26 (7.283 %) Ant 4 17 (4.762 %) Visual Studio 4 17 (4.762 %) Subversion 5 15 (4.202 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 6 13 (3.641 %) VSS/SourceSafe 7 12 (3.361 %) ClearCase 7 12 (3.361 %) IntelliJ 8 11 (3.081 %) ClearQuest 8 11 (3.081 %) CruiseControl 8 11 (3.081 %) JIRA 8 11 (3.081 %) Atlassian Bamboo 9 6 (1.681 %) FitNesse 9 6 (1.681 %) NUnit 10 4 (1.120 %) Log4j 11 3 (0.840 %) Flash 12 2 (0.560 %) JBuilder 12 2 (0.560 %) PVCS 12 2 (0.560 %) JDeveloper	General 1 99 (27.73 %) Finance 2 57 (15.97 %) Banking 3 43 (12.04 %) Back Office 4 42 (11.76 %) Retail 5 29 (8.123 %) Telecoms 6 13 (3.641 %) Games 7 12 (3.361 %) Government 8 11 (3.081 %) Marketing 8 11 (3.081 %) Financial Institution 9 5 (1.401 %) Insurance 10 4 (1.120 %) Automotive 11 3 (0.840 %) Pharmaceutical 12 2 (0.560 %) Electronics 12 2 (0.560 %) Education 12 2 (0.560 %) Multimedia 13 1 (0.280 %) Manufacturing 13 1 (0.280 %) Advertising 13 1 (0.280 %) Construction
Job Titles 1 238 (66.67 %) Developer 2 88 (24.65 %) Java Developer 3 68 (19.05 %) .NET Developer 4 37 (10.36 %) Senior Developer 5 30 (8.403 %) C# Developer 6 28 (7.843 %) Architect 6 28 (7.843 %) Senior Java Developer 7 27 (7.563 %) Software Engineer 8 26 (7.283 %) Analyst 9 25 (7.003 %) VB.NET Developer 10 23 (6.443 %) J2EE Developer 11 21 (5.882 %) ASP.NET Developer 12 16 (4.482 %) Web Developer 13 15 (4.202 %) Technical Analyst 13 15 (4.202 %) Java/J2EE Developer 14 13 (3.641 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 14 13 (3.641 %) Software Architect 15 12 (3.361 %) Software Developer 16 11 (3.081 %) Team Leader 16 11 (3.081 %) Senior J2EE Developer	Miscellaneous 1 32 (8.964 %) N-Tier 2 19 (5.322 %) W3C 3 9 (2.521 %) Computer Science 4 7 (1.961 %) Client/Server 5 3 (0.840 %) Device Driver 5 3 (0.840 %) IVR 6 2 (0.560 %) E-Learning 6 2 (0.560 %) SCORM 6 2 (0.560 %) Multithreading 6 2 (0.560 %) Management Information System 6 2 (0.560 %) Firmware 7 1 (0.280 %) ASIC 7 1 (0.280 %) Handset 7 1 (0.280 %) Blog 7 1 (0.280 %) Verilog 7 1 (0.280 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 7 1 (0.280 %) Web 2.0
Operating Systems 1 63 (17.65 %) UNIX 2 41 (11.48 %) Linux 3 24 (6.723 %) Windows 4 17 (4.762 %) Solaris 5 12 (3.361 %) HPUX 6 4 (1.120 %) AIX 7 3 (0.840 %) Windows NT 8 2 (0.560 %) Windows XP 9 1 (0.280 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 165 (46.22 %) UML 2 73 (20.45 %) RAD 3 68 (19.05 %) SOA 4 54 (15.13 %) Agile Software Development 5 44 (12.32 %) E-Commerce 6 38 (10.64 %) OOD 7 36 (10.08 %) Scrum 8 30 (8.403 %) CRM 9 22 (6.162 %) Change Management 10 18 (5.042 %) OOP 11 17 (4.762 %) RUP 11 17 (4.762 %) Web Development 12 16 (4.482 %) Unit Testing 13 15 (4.202 %) Continuous Integration 13 15 (4.202 %) OOA/OOD 14 13 (3.641 %) Software Engineering 15 8 (2.241 %) Supplier Management 15 8 (2.241 %) TDD 15 8 (2.241 %) Use Case 16 7 (1.961 %) Content Management
Programming Languages 1 179 (50.14 %) SQL 2 161 (45.10 %) Java 3 69 (19.33 %) C# 4 67 (18.77 %) JavaScript 5 57 (15.97 %) PL/SQL 6 44 (12.32 %) C++ 7 42 (11.76 %) VB.NET 8 39 (10.92 %) C 9 25 (7.003 %) Transact-SQL 10 22 (6.162 %) VB 10 22 (6.162 %) VB6 11 17 (4.762 %) Perl 12 12 (3.361 %) DHTML 13 10 (2.801 %) PHP 14 8 (2.241 %) Delphi 15 5 (1.401 %) VBScript 16 4 (1.120 %) ActionScript 16 4 (1.120 %) ECMAScript 17 3 (0.840 %) ABAP 17 3 (0.840 %) Ruby	Qualifications 1 7 (1.961 %) Degree 2 5 (1.401 %) Sun Certification 3 4 (1.120 %) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 12 (3.361 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 1 (0.280 %) QA 2 1 (0.280 %) PCI DSS	System Software 1 6 (1.681 %) AquaLogic
Systems Management 1 1 (0.280 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 90 (25.21 %) Oracle 2 25 (7.003 %) BEA 3 23 (6.443 %) Microsoft 4 19 (5.322 %) ILOG 5 15 (4.202 %) IBM 6 11 (3.081 %) Serena 7 8 (2.241 %) Sun 7 8 (2.241 %) FatWire 8 6 (1.681 %) Zend 9 4 (1.120 %) SAP 10 3 (0.840 %) Sybase 10 3 (0.840 %) Brocade 10 3 (0.840 %) StorageTek 11 1 (0.280 %) Tridion 11 1 (0.280 %) Borland 11 1 (0.280 %) CheckPoint 11 1 (0.280 %) Mercator 11 1 (0.280 %) Business Objects 11 1 (0.280 %) Interwoven 11 1 (0.280 %) Adobe