The first table below looks at the demand for HOOD skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HOOD over the 3 months to 20 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 England 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Hierarchical Object Oriented Design (HOOD)
Rank 477 516 536
Rank change year-on-year
+39 +20
Contract jobs citing HOOD 26 50 34
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.062% 0.094% 0.061%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.087% 0.137% 0.090%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 11
Average daily rate £450 £350 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+28.57% +14.75%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £320 £303 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £540 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £400 £305
% change year-on-year
-20.00% +31.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
29770 36442 37800
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 71.38% 68.27% 68.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 18181 21411 21871
Average daily rate £423 £410 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.04% -8.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £588 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 1189 1376
Average hourly rate £32.00 £25.25 £28.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+26.73% -11.40%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.97 £13.50 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.00 £46.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
HOOD
UK

HOOD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England HOOD Jobs Demand Trend

HOOD
Daily Rate Trend

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

England HOOD Daily Rate Trend

HOOD
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing HOOD across the England region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

England HOOD Daily Rate Histogram

HOOD
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England HOOD Hourly Rate Trend

HOOD
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HOOD within the England region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
South East -3 18 £320 -20.00%
London +21 7 £500 +48.14%
East of England - 1 £315 -
HOOD
UK

HOOD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing HOOD 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 HOOD.

1 23 (37.70%) Telecoms
2 14 (22.95%) ITIL
3 11 (18.03%) PRINCE2
3 11 (18.03%) Project Management
3 11 (18.03%) Radio Access Network
4 7 (11.48%) Law
4 7 (11.48%) Incident Management
5 6 (9.836%) Logistics
5 6 (9.836%) Microsoft
5 6 (9.836%) Citrix
5 6 (9.836%) Java
5 6 (9.836%) Windows
6 5 (8.197%) XML
6 5 (8.197%) MSI
6 5 (8.197%) Service Delivery
6 5 (8.197%) Legal
6 5 (8.197%) Retail
6 5 (8.197%) Microsoft App-V
6 5 (8.197%) Business Analysis
6 5 (8.197%) Application Packaging
7 4 (6.557%) Use Case
7 4 (6.557%) SCOM
7 4 (6.557%) Service Management
7 4 (6.557%) PRINCE
7 4 (6.557%) 3G
7 4 (6.557%) HTML
8 3 (4.918%) CSS
8 3 (4.918%) Cisco
8 3 (4.918%) Linux
8 3 (4.918%) UML

HOOD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing HOOD 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 HOOD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (8.197%) XML
1 5 (8.197%) Application Packaging
2 4 (6.557%) HTML
3 3 (4.918%) CSS
3 3 (4.918%) Spring
3 3 (4.918%) JPA
4 1 (1.639%) Core Animation
4 1 (1.639%) HTML5
4 1 (1.639%) iOS SDK
4 1 (1.639%) Cocoa Touch
4 1 (1.639%) Ajax
4 1 (1.639%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.639%) JSTL
4 1 (1.639%) JSP
4 1 (1.639%) J2EE
4 1 (1.639%) EJB
4 1 (1.639%) JMS
4 1 (1.639%) OpenGL
4 1 (1.639%) Cocoa
Application Platforms
1 2 (3.279%) CMS
2 1 (1.639%) Lync
2 1 (1.639%) SAS
2 1 (1.639%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 2 (3.279%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.639%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (1.639%) InDesign
2 1 (1.639%) MS Office
2 1 (1.639%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.639%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.639%) Oracle SCM
1 1 (1.639%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 11 (18.03%) Radio Access Network
2 4 (6.557%) 3G
3 3 (4.918%) BSS
4 2 (3.279%) LTE
4 2 (3.279%) 4G
4 2 (3.279%) 2G
5 1 (1.639%) LAN
5 1 (1.639%) WAN
5 1 (1.639%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.918%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.639%) DB2
2 1 (1.639%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (1.639%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (1.639%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (1.639%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (1.639%) Base SAS
Development Applications
1 5 (8.197%) MSI
2 3 (4.918%) AdminStudio
2 3 (4.918%) Git (software)
3 1 (1.639%) JUnit
3 1 (1.639%) Dreamweaver
3 1 (1.639%) Xcode
3 1 (1.639%) Subversion
General
1 23 (37.70%) Telecoms
2 7 (11.48%) Law
3 5 (8.197%) Legal
3 5 (8.197%) Retail
4 2 (3.279%) Finance
4 2 (3.279%) Marketing
5 1 (1.639%) French Language
5 1 (1.639%) Billing
Job Titles
1 11 (18.03%) Analyst
2 9 (14.75%) Project Manager
2 9 (14.75%) Developer
3 7 (11.48%) Business Analyst
4 6 (9.836%) Service Manager
5 5 (8.197%) Delivery Manager
6 4 (6.557%) Services Delivery Manager
6 4 (6.557%) Consultant
7 3 (4.918%) Operations Manager
7 3 (4.918%) Java Developer
7 3 (4.918%) Systems Developer
7 3 (4.918%) Transition Manager
7 3 (4.918%) Cisco Consultant
8 2 (3.279%) Performance Manager
8 2 (3.279%) Service Performance Manager
8 2 (3.279%) Report Analyst
8 2 (3.279%) Architect
9 1 (1.639%) Coordinator
9 1 (1.639%) Tester
9 1 (1.639%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.279%) NHS
1 2 (3.279%) Smartcard
2 1 (1.639%) Blackberry
2 1 (1.639%) BBC
2 1 (1.639%) Streaming Video
2 1 (1.639%) IPTV
2 1 (1.639%) Animation
2 1 (1.639%) Data Extraction
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.836%) Windows
2 3 (4.918%) Linux
3 2 (3.279%) Windows XP
3 2 (3.279%) Android
3 2 (3.279%) UNIX
4 1 (1.639%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (22.95%) ITIL
2 11 (18.03%) PRINCE2
2 11 (18.03%) Project Management
3 7 (11.48%) Incident Management
4 6 (9.836%) Logistics
5 5 (8.197%) Service Delivery
5 5 (8.197%) Business Analysis
6 4 (6.557%) Use Case
6 4 (6.557%) Service Management
6 4 (6.557%) PRINCE
7 3 (4.918%) UML
7 3 (4.918%) Requirements Analysis
8 2 (3.279%) Network Performance Management
8 2 (3.279%) Performance Management
8 2 (3.279%) User Acceptance Testing
8 2 (3.279%) ETL
8 2 (3.279%) GAP Analysis
8 2 (3.279%) Migration
8 2 (3.279%) Content Management
9 1 (1.639%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (9.836%) Java
2 3 (4.918%) SQL
3 2 (3.279%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.639%) VB
4 1 (1.639%) Objective-C
4 1 (1.639%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (3.279%) ISEB
1 2 (3.279%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (1.639%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.639%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.279%) SLA
2 1 (1.639%) QA
System Software
1 5 (8.197%) Microsoft App-V
2 2 (3.279%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.279%) XenApp
2 2 (3.279%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (6.557%) SCOM
2 3 (4.918%) Cisco UCCE
2 3 (4.918%) Cisco UCCX
3 1 (1.639%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (9.836%) Citrix
1 6 (9.836%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.918%) Cisco
3 2 (3.279%) Oracle
3 2 (3.279%) Adobe
3 2 (3.279%) VMware
4 1 (1.639%) Mitel
4 1 (1.639%) Business Objects
4 1 (1.639%) JBoss
4 1 (1.639%) IBM
4 1 (1.639%) Apple
4 1 (1.639%) JD Edwards
4 1 (1.639%) Symantec
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