The first table below looks at the demand for OO skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OO over the 3 months to 24 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 Edinburgh 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented (OO)
Rank 46 56 60
Rank change year-on-year
+10 +4
Contract jobs citing OO 11 7 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 1.321% 0.644% 0.618%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.926% 0.963% 0.933%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 3
Average daily rate £350 £300 £215
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% +39.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £236 £183
10% offered a daily rate of more than £406 £312 £283
UK excluding London average daily rate £336 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.46% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+8.69% -1.42%
All Processes & Methodologies
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
571 727 857
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 68.55% 66.88% 66.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 362 465
Average daily rate £413 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £246 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £475 £535
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 16 8
Average hourly rate £20.00 £27.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-27.27% +57.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.88 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.45 £39.00 £43.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
OO
Scotland

OO
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh OO Jobs Demand Trend

OO
Daily Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh OO Daily Rate Trend

OO
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh OO Hourly Rate Trend

OO
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 9 (50.00%) Java
1 9 (50.00%) CSS
2 7 (38.89%) JavaScript
2 7 (38.89%) jQuery
3 6 (33.33%) HTML5
3 6 (33.33%) XML
4 5 (27.78%) JSON
5 4 (22.22%) Web Services
5 4 (22.22%) MVC
5 4 (22.22%) J2EE
5 4 (22.22%) PHP
5 4 (22.22%) IBM
6 3 (16.67%) Eclipse
6 3 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (16.67%) HP
6 3 (16.67%) IBM Certification
6 3 (16.67%) PL/SQL
6 3 (16.67%) SQL
6 3 (16.67%) C#
6 3 (16.67%) MySQL
6 3 (16.67%) Photoshop
6 3 (16.67%) WebSphere Application Server
6 3 (16.67%) JSP
6 3 (16.67%) Servlets
6 3 (16.67%) Web Design
6 3 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
6 3 (16.67%) TDD
6 3 (16.67%) WebSphere
6 3 (16.67%) Content Management
6 3 (16.67%) Data Analysis

OO
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 9 (50.00%) CSS
2 7 (38.89%) jQuery
3 6 (33.33%) HTML5
3 6 (33.33%) XML
4 5 (27.78%) JSON
5 4 (22.22%) Web Services
5 4 (22.22%) J2EE
6 3 (16.67%) JSP
6 3 (16.67%) Servlets
6 3 (16.67%) WebSphere
6 3 (16.67%) Spring
6 3 (16.67%) JSF
6 3 (16.67%) Ajax
6 3 (16.67%) CSS3
6 3 (16.67%) Highcharts JS
6 3 (16.67%) Dojo
7 2 (11.11%) REST
7 2 (11.11%) .NET
8 1 (5.556%) Flash
8 1 (5.556%) CGI
Application Platforms
1 3 (16.67%) WebSphere Application Server
1 3 (16.67%) WebSphere Portal
2 2 (11.11%) Jadu
3 1 (5.556%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Photoshop
1 3 (16.67%) Gephi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) MySQL
2 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Eclipse
1 3 (16.67%) Rational Application Developer
2 1 (5.556%) Subversion
2 1 (5.556%) WebDriver
2 1 (5.556%) Selenium
General
1 2 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (5.556%) Finance
2 1 (5.556%) Games
Job Titles
1 13 (72.22%) Developer
2 3 (16.67%) WebSphere Developer
2 3 (16.67%) Portal Developer
2 3 (16.67%) WebSphere Portal Developer
3 2 (11.11%) iOS Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Web Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Architect
4 1 (5.556%) Trainer
4 1 (5.556%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) Consultant
4 1 (5.556%) Software Developer
4 1 (5.556%) Applications Developer
4 1 (5.556%) Senior Developer
4 1 (5.556%) Configuration Manager
4 1 (5.556%) Games Developer
4 1 (5.556%) Software Configuration Manager
4 1 (5.556%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.556%) J2EE Developer
4 1 (5.556%) PHP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Web 2.0
1 3 (16.67%) Visualisation
1 3 (16.67%) Open Source
1 3 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
1 3 (16.67%) Graphic Design
2 1 (5.556%) Mathematics
2 1 (5.556%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Apple iOS
2 2 (11.11%) AIX
2 2 (11.11%) Linux
3 1 (5.556%) UNIX
3 1 (5.556%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (22.22%) MVC
2 3 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (16.67%) Web Design
2 3 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (16.67%) TDD
2 3 (16.67%) Content Management
2 3 (16.67%) Data Analysis
2 3 (16.67%) Statistical Analysis
2 3 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (11.11%) Bug Management
3 2 (11.11%) Web Application Development
3 2 (11.11%) OOP
4 1 (5.556%) Scrum
4 1 (5.556%) Web Development
4 1 (5.556%) Game Development
4 1 (5.556%) Data Virtualisation
4 1 (5.556%) Software Distribution
4 1 (5.556%) Test Automation
4 1 (5.556%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) Java
2 7 (38.89%) JavaScript
3 4 (22.22%) PHP
4 3 (16.67%) PL/SQL
4 3 (16.67%) SQL
4 3 (16.67%) C#
5 2 (11.11%) Objective-C
5 2 (11.11%) C++
6 1 (5.556%) Python
6 1 (5.556%) C
6 1 (5.556%) ActionScript
6 1 (5.556%) Ruby
6 1 (5.556%) ActionScript 3.0
6 1 (5.556%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) IBM Certification
2 1 (5.556%) Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) HP Operations Orchestration
2 1 (5.556%) Tivoli
2 1 (5.556%) Tivoli Configuration Manager
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) IBM
2 3 (16.67%) HP
3 1 (5.556%) LANDesk
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