The first table below looks at the demand for OOP 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 OOP over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
Rank 53 62 68
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +6
Contract jobs citing OOP 3 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.370% 0.271% 0.075%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.545% 0.405% 0.114%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
Average daily rate £300 £210 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+42.85% -30.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £300 £330
% change year-on-year
+4.16% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.00 £60.00 -
% change year-on-year
-36.66% -
All Processes & Methodologies
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
550 740 881
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 67.90% 66.91% 65.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 373 484
Average daily rate £413 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £240 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £488 £549
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 16 9
Average hourly rate £19.50 £25.75 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-24.27% +60.93%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £14.37 £10.45
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.35 £32.00 £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
OOP
Scotland

OOP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh OOP Jobs Demand Trend

OOP
Daily Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh OOP Daily Rate Trend

OOP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 3 (75.00%) MVC
2 2 (50.00%) Ruby
2 2 (50.00%) Google
2 2 (50.00%) SEO
2 2 (50.00%) Zend
2 2 (50.00%) Zend Framework
2 2 (50.00%) Drupal
2 2 (50.00%) PHP5
2 2 (50.00%) jQuery
2 2 (50.00%) Google Maps API
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (50.00%) Information Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Twitter
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) MySQL
2 2 (50.00%) CSS
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) PHP
2 2 (50.00%) UNIX
2 2 (50.00%) OO
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) W3C
2 2 (50.00%) WAI
3 1 (25.00%) C
3 1 (25.00%) CGI
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) J2EE
3 1 (25.00%) Web Services
3 1 (25.00%) XML

OOP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 (50.00%) CSS
1 2 (50.00%) HTML
1 2 (50.00%) Zend Framework
1 2 (50.00%) jQuery
1 2 (50.00%) Google Maps API
2 1 (25.00%) J2EE
2 1 (25.00%) Web Services
2 1 (25.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) CGI
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Drupal
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Drupal Developer
2 2 (50.00%) PHP Drupal Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Trainer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) J2EE Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior J2EE Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) W3C
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) UNIX
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) MVC
2 2 (50.00%) SEO
2 2 (50.00%) Information Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) PHP
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) Ruby
1 2 (50.00%) PHP5
1 2 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) C++
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) C
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) WAI
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google
1 2 (50.00%) Zend
1 2 (50.00%) Twitter