East Sussex OOP Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) skills within the East Sussex region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited OOP over the 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
Location Aylesbury Barking Bath Berkshire Birmingham Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Crawley Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Gateshead Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Leeds London Manchester Middlesex Midlands Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Scotland Slough Somerset South Coast South East South West Stevenage Stockport Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Warrington West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Windsor Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	24	35
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching contract IT job ads	1	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	1.087 %	2.162 %
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	£293	£346
% change on same period last year	-15.41 %
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	£37.61	£34.50
% change on same period last year	+9.01 %
Processes & Methodologies East Sussex
Matching contract IT job ads	92	185
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.131 %	0.187 %
Daily rates quoted	21	52
Average minimum daily rate	£347	£380
Average daily rate	£362	£404
% change on same period last year	-10.48 %
Average maximum daily rate	£376	£428
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£371
% change on same period last year	+1.63 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.88	£30.73
Average hourly rate	£25.81	£33.27
% change on same period last year	-22.42 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.73	£35.81
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.32	£30.04
% change on same period last year	-2.39 %
OOP South East

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.

OOP
Demand Trend

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

OOP
Daily Rate Trend

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

OOP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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 Sussex region over the 3 months to 7 October 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
Brighton	+4	1	-	-

OOP South East

OOP
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Sussex 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 2 (66.67 %) PHP 1 2 (66.67 %) CSS 1 2 (66.67 %) HTML 2 1 (33.33 %) JavaScript 2 1 (33.33 %) C# 2 1 (33.33 %) SOAP 2 1 (33.33 %) XML 2 1 (33.33 %) XHTML 2 1 (33.33 %) Internet 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL 2 1 (33.33 %) VB.NET 2 1 (33.33 %) .NET 2 1 (33.33 %) MySQL 2 1 (33.33 %) ASP.NET 2 1 (33.33 %) AJAX

2 1 (33.33 %) Web 2.0 2 1 (33.33 %) TYPO3 2 1 (33.33 %) LAMP

OOP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Sussex 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 2 (66.67 %) CSS 1 2 (66.67 %) HTML 2 1 (33.33 %) .NET 2 1 (33.33 %) ASP.NET 2 1 (33.33 %) SOAP 2 1 (33.33 %) XML 2 1 (33.33 %) XHTML 2 1 (33.33 %) LAMP 2 1 (33.33 %) AJAX	Application Platforms 1 1 (33.33 %) TYPO3
Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) MySQL
Job Titles 1 3 (100.00 %) Developer 2 2 (66.67 %) PHP Developer 3 1 (33.33 %) PHP Web Developer 3 1 (33.33 %) Web Developer 3 1 (33.33 %) .NET Developer 3 1 (33.33 %) Software Developer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) Web 2.0
Programming Languages 1 2 (66.67 %) PHP 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL 2 1 (33.33 %) VB.NET 2 1 (33.33 %) C# 2 1 (33.33 %) JavaScript