East of England OOD Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Object-Oriented Design (OOD) 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 job ads that have cited OOD over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Coventry Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset East Midlands East of England England Essex Farnborough Halifax Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire Horsham Ipswich Kenilworth Kent Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leicestershire Livingston London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Pontypridd Portsmouth Rhondda Cynon Taff Romford Scotland Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire Waterlooville West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	126	98
Rank change on same period last year	-28
Matching contract IT job ads	25	46
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.033 %	0.049 %
As % of the category below	1.124 %	2.124 %
Daily rates quoted	6	13
Average minimum daily rate	£328	£395
Average daily rate	£362	£449
% change on same period last year	-19.45 %
Average maximum daily rate	£395	£503
UK excluding London average daily rate	£320	£394
% change on same period last year	-18.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	16
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.50	£34.74
Average hourly rate	£35.00	£35.86
% change on same period last year	-2.40 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.50	£36.99
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£39.51	£35.57
% change on same period last year	+11.09 %
Processes & Methodologies East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	2224	2166
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.933 %	2.298 %
Daily rates quoted	857	749
Average minimum daily rate	£375	£360
Average daily rate	£399	£381
% change on same period last year	+4.72 %
Average maximum daily rate	£424	£403
UK excluding London average daily rate	£384	£374
% change on same period last year	+2.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	189	213
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.65	£27.80
Average hourly rate	£31.80	£29.25
% change on same period last year	+8.73 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.95	£30.69
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.40	£30.19
% change on same period last year	-2.62 %
OOD 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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing OOD 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 OOD 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 OOD across the East of England region over the 3 months to 4 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 OOD 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 OOD across the East of England region over the 3 months to 4 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 job ads citing OOD within the East of England region over the 3 months to 4 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
Cambridgeshire	+3	18	£343	+1.48 %
Essex	-27	3	£400	-17.09 %
Suffolk	-	2	-	-
Hertfordshire	-16	1	-	-
Norfolk	-	1	-	-

OOD England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing OOD 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 OOD.

1 57 (71.25 %) XML 2 36 (45.00 %) OO 3 33 (41.25 %) UML 3 33 (41.25 %) WebServices 3 33 (41.25 %) .NET 3 33 (41.25 %) ASP.NET 4 30 (37.50 %) SQL Server 4 30 (37.50 %) C# 5 29 (36.25 %) Java 6 22 (27.50 %) J2EE 6 22 (27.50 %) OOA/OOD 7 20 (25.00 %) C++ 8 19 (23.75 %) HTML 9 18 (22.50 %) SQL 9 18 (22.50 %) CSS

9 18 (22.50 %) XSLT 10 16 (20.00 %) Agile Software Development 11 15 (18.75 %) Unix 12 14 (17.50 %) Telecoms 12 14 (17.50 %) Finance 13 13 (16.25 %) ADO.NET 13 13 (16.25 %) C 13 13 (16.25 %) WebSphere 14 12 (15.00 %) Linux 14 12 (15.00 %) Microsoft 15 11 (13.75 %) XSD 16 10 (12.50 %) SOAP 16 10 (12.50 %) Struts 16 10 (12.50 %) DHTML 16 10 (12.50 %) JSP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing OOD 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 OOD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 57 (71.25 %) XML 2 33 (41.25 %) WebServices 2 33 (41.25 %) .NET 2 33 (41.25 %) ASP.NET 3 22 (27.50 %) J2EE 4 19 (23.75 %) HTML 5 18 (22.50 %) CSS 5 18 (22.50 %) XSLT 6 13 (16.25 %) WebSphere 6 13 (16.25 %) ADO.NET 7 11 (13.75 %) XSD 8 10 (12.50 %) JSP 8 10 (12.50 %) SOAP 8 10 (12.50 %) Struts 8 10 (12.50 %) COM 9 8 (10.00 %) XSL 10 7 (8.750 %) Servlets 11 6 (7.500 %) WPF 12 4 (5.000 %) EJB 13 3 (3.750 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 3 (3.750 %) WebLogic 2 2 (2.500 %) IIS 2 2 (2.500 %) WebLogic Portal 2 2 (2.500 %) Apache 2 2 (2.500 %) MQSeries 3 1 (1.250 %) SharePoint 3 1 (1.250 %) BizTalk Server 3 1 (1.250 %) ArcGIS 3 1 (1.250 %) JBoss
Applications 1 1 (1.250 %) InfoPath	Communications & Networking 1 9 (11.25 %) 3G 2 8 (10.00 %) 2G 2 8 (10.00 %) RNC 3 5 (6.250 %) SS7 3 5 (6.250 %) GSM 4 4 (5.000 %) Internet 5 3 (3.750 %) HTTP 6 1 (1.250 %) Wireless 6 1 (1.250 %) UWB
Database & Business Intelligence 1 30 (37.50 %) SQL Server 2 4 (5.000 %) SQL Server 2005 3 3 (3.750 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (1.250 %) GIS 4 1 (1.250 %) Crystal Reports 4 1 (1.250 %) Oracle Reports 4 1 (1.250 %) Oracle Discoverer 4 1 (1.250 %) BusinessObjects	Development Applications 1 3 (3.750 %) Visual Studio 1 3 (3.750 %) ClearCase 2 2 (2.500 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 3 1 (1.250 %) ClearQuest 3 1 (1.250 %) Bugzilla 3 1 (1.250 %) NUnit 3 1 (1.250 %) Subversion 3 1 (1.250 %) FitNesse 3 1 (1.250 %) Oracle Forms 3 1 (1.250 %) Ant 3 1 (1.250 %) JUnit
General 1 14 (17.50 %) Telecoms 1 14 (17.50 %) Finance 2 8 (10.00 %) Retail 3 2 (2.500 %) Insurance 3 2 (2.500 %) Marketing 3 2 (2.500 %) Banking	Job Titles 1 52 (65.00 %) Developer 2 23 (28.75 %) .NET Developer 3 18 (22.50 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 17 (21.25 %) C# Developer 4 17 (21.25 %) Software Engineer 5 16 (20.00 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 6 15 (18.75 %) Java Developer 7 11 (13.75 %) SQL Developer 7 11 (13.75 %) SQL Server Developer 8 7 (8.750 %) J2EE Developer 8 7 (8.750 %) WebSphere Developer 9 6 (7.500 %) Architect 10 4 (5.000 %) Software Developer 10 4 (5.000 %) Senior Developer 10 4 (5.000 %) .NET Designer 10 4 (5.000 %) .NET Architect 11 3 (3.750 %) Senior Software Engineer 11 3 (3.750 %) VB.NET Developer 11 3 (3.750 %) C# Software Engineer 11 3 (3.750 %) .NET Software Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 8 (10.00 %) N-Tier 2 4 (5.000 %) IVR 3 2 (2.500 %) Client/Server 3 2 (2.500 %) Firmware 3 2 (2.500 %) Device Driver 4 1 (1.250 %) Streaming Video 4 1 (1.250 %) Management Information System 4 1 (1.250 %) Computer Science	Operating Systems 1 15 (18.75 %) Unix 2 12 (15.00 %) Linux 3 8 (10.00 %) Windows 4 1 (1.250 %) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies 1 36 (45.00 %) OO 2 33 (41.25 %) UML 3 22 (27.50 %) OOA/OOD 4 16 (20.00 %) Agile Software Development 5 8 (10.00 %) E-business 5 8 (10.00 %) Software Engineering 5 8 (10.00 %) RUP 6 7 (8.750 %) CRM 6 7 (8.750 %) Unit Testing 7 4 (5.000 %) RAD 7 4 (5.000 %) Web Development 7 4 (5.000 %) MVC 7 4 (5.000 %) TDD 8 3 (3.750 %) Project Planning 8 3 (3.750 %) Performance Testing 9 2 (2.500 %) Integration Testing 9 2 (2.500 %) Workflow 9 2 (2.500 %) Use Case 9 2 (2.500 %) E-Commerce 9 2 (2.500 %) SOA	Programming Languages 1 30 (37.50 %) C# 2 29 (36.25 %) Java 3 20 (25.00 %) C++ 4 18 (22.50 %) SQL 5 13 (16.25 %) C 6 10 (12.50 %) DHTML 7 8 (10.00 %) JavaScript 8 5 (6.250 %) Perl 8 5 (6.250 %) Transact-SQL 8 5 (6.250 %) VB 9 4 (5.000 %) VB6 10 3 (3.750 %) VB.NET 11 2 (2.500 %) Embedded C++ 11 2 (2.500 %) PL/SQL 12 1 (1.250 %) Delphi 12 1 (1.250 %) VC++
Qualifications 1 4 (5.000 %) PhD	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (2.500 %) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software 1 3 (3.750 %) AquaLogic 2 2 (2.500 %) MSMQ 2 2 (2.500 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 12 (15.00 %) Microsoft 2 5 (6.250 %) Oracle 3 2 (2.500 %) Sybase 3 2 (2.500 %) SAP 3 2 (2.500 %) ILOG 4 1 (1.250 %) Business Objects 4 1 (1.250 %) BEA