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This section looks at the demand for Object-Oriented (OO) skills within the 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 OO over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkObject-Oriented (OO)
Location
3 months to 4 Jul 2008Same period last year
Rank4738
Rank change on same period last yearDown-9
Matching contract IT job ads22273176
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled2.937 %3.369 %
As % of the category below5.908 %7.303 %
Daily rates quoted9021263
Average minimum daily rate£385£456
Average daily rate£414£491
% change on same period last year-15.62 %
Average maximum daily rate£443£525
UK excluding London average daily rate£353£357
% change on same period last year-1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted116163
Average minimum hourly rate£35.15£34.22
Average hourly rate£37.23£35.78
% change on same period last year+4.06 %
Average maximum hourly rate£39.32£37.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate£37.50£34.13
% change on same period last year+9.85 %
Processes & Methodologies EnglandProcesses & Methodologies
England
Matching contract IT job ads3769343486
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled49.70 %46.13 %
Daily rates quoted1386814508
Average minimum daily rate£389£395
Average daily rate£416£420
% change on same period last year-0.89 %
Average maximum daily rate£443£444
UK excluding London average daily rate£384£374
% change on same period last year+2.50 %
Hourly rates quoted22942701
Average minimum hourly rate£27.46£29.05
Average hourly rate£29.32£30.85
% change on same period last year-4.95 %
Average maximum hourly rate£31.18£32.65
UK excluding London average hourly rate£29.40£30.19
% change on same period last year-2.62 %
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UK

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 OO across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

England OO Demand Trend

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Daily Rate Trend

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

England OO Daily Rate Trend

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing OO across the England region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

England OO Daily Rate Histogram

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

England OO Hourly Rate Trend

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing OO across the England region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

England OO Hourly Rate Histogram

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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 OO within the 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.

LocationRank 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
LondonDown-81397£439-14.45 %
South EastUp+8329£330-7.62 %
East of EnglandUp+20179£415+14.38 %
North WestUp+880£344+12.29 %
West MidlandsDown-273£340+21.42 %
YorkshireUp+1162£300+0.04 %
South WestDown-1050£361+0.89 %
East MidlandsDown-3127£295+4.11 %
MidlandsDown-1518£360+20.00 %
North EastDown-412£300-4.00 %
South CoastUp+72--
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UK

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

11696 (35.11 %)C#
21674 (34.65 %)Java
31626 (33.66 %).NET
41391 (28.79 %)XML
51324 (27.41 %)SQL
61121 (23.20 %)UML
71008 (20.87 %)SQL Server
8996 (20.62 %)Finance
9972 (20.12 %)JavaScript
10970 (20.08 %)Oracle
11913 (18.90 %)HTML
12792 (16.39 %)C++
12792 (16.39 %)ASP.NET
13782 (16.19 %)J2EE
14772 (15.98 %)CSS
15756 (15.65 %)Banking
16669 (13.85 %)WebServices
17646 (13.37 %)Unix
18569 (11.78 %)Spring
19548 (11.34 %)Front Office
20536 (11.10 %)AJAX
21530 (10.97 %)OOD
22527 (10.91 %)Hibernate
23479 (9.915 %)Investment Banking
24475 (9.832 %)Windows
25467 (9.667 %)Agile Software Development
26464 (9.605 %)Linux
27442 (9.149 %)OOP
28418 (8.652 %)PHP
29410 (8.487 %)Derivative

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England 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
11626 (33.66 %).NET
21391 (28.79 %)XML
3913 (18.90 %)HTML
4792 (16.39 %)ASP.NET
5782 (16.19 %)J2EE
6772 (15.98 %)CSS
7669 (13.85 %)WebServices
8569 (11.78 %)Spring
9536 (11.10 %)AJAX
10527 (10.91 %)Hibernate
11349 (7.224 %)XSLT
12329 (6.810 %)XHTML
13282 (5.837 %)WinForms
14267 (5.527 %)Struts
15240 (4.968 %)JSP
16224 (4.637 %)WebSphere
17223 (4.616 %).NET Framework
18174 (3.602 %)SOAP
19158 (3.271 %)ASP
20145 (3.001 %)JDBC
Application Platforms
1215 (4.450 %)WebLogic
2122 (2.525 %)IIS
3121 (2.505 %)Apache
499 (2.049 %)SharePoint
589 (1.842 %)BizTalk Server
688 (1.822 %)Tomcat
776 (1.573 %)JBoss
865 (1.345 %)CMS
960 (1.242 %)WebSphere Application Server
1051 (1.056 %)TIBCO EMS
1051 (1.056 %)SharePoint Server 2007
1147 (0.973 %)Rendezvous
1244 (0.911 %)MTS
1339 (0.807 %)WebLogic Portal
1339 (0.807 %)Oracle Application Server
1429 (0.600 %)WebSphere MQ
1429 (0.600 %)Oracle 10gAS
1528 (0.580 %)ColdFusion
1625 (0.517 %)MQSeries
1720 (0.414 %)TeamSite
Applications
1107 (2.215 %)MS Excel
299 (2.049 %)MS Office
360 (1.242 %)MS Project
454 (1.118 %)Photoshop
543 (0.890 %)MS Visio
612 (0.248 %)MS PowerPoint
711 (0.228 %)Quicktime
88 (0.166 %)Acrobat
96 (0.124 %)InfoPath
105 (0.103 %)CATIA
114 (0.083 %)Fireworks
122 (0.041 %)MATLAB
122 (0.041 %)Maya
122 (0.041 %)CINEMA 4D
122 (0.041 %)CA Clarity
131 (0.021 %)Adobe Illustrator
131 (0.021 %)3ds Max
Business Applications
128 (0.580 %)SAP CRM
218 (0.373 %)Global One
313 (0.269 %)FRONT ARENA
48 (0.166 %)MarketView
55 (0.103 %)Teamcenter
64 (0.083 %)Sophis RISQUE
73 (0.062 %)Murex MxG2000
73 (0.062 %)Loan IQ
73 (0.062 %)Advent Geneva
82 (0.041 %)Oracle Applications
82 (0.041 %)SAP Retail
82 (0.041 %)Beauchamp
82 (0.041 %)WebTrends
82 (0.041 %)BusinessWorks
82 (0.041 %)SAP PS
82 (0.041 %)HiInvest
82 (0.041 %)Endur
91 (0.021 %)Staffware
91 (0.021 %)TIBCO iProcess
91 (0.021 %)Adaptiv
Communications & Networking
1179 (3.705 %)Internet
2126 (2.608 %)HTTP
395 (1.966 %)TCP/IP
444 (0.911 %)Intranet
531 (0.642 %)SMTP
630 (0.621 %)LDAP
728 (0.580 %)FTP
816 (0.331 %)VoIP
915 (0.310 %)Extranet
1014 (0.290 %)3G
1110 (0.207 %)Firewall
129 (0.186 %)Broadband
129 (0.186 %)2G
129 (0.186 %)RNC
138 (0.166 %)Network Security
138 (0.166 %)GSM
138 (0.166 %)SSL
147 (0.145 %)SAN
156 (0.124 %)Wireless
156 (0.124 %)GPRS
Database & Business Intelligence
11008 (20.87 %)SQL Server
2368 (7.617 %)MySQL
3303 (6.272 %)SQL Server 2005
4189 (3.912 %)SQL Server 2000
5135 (2.794 %)Oracle 10g
6120 (2.484 %)RDBMS
776 (1.573 %)DB2
875 (1.552 %)SQL Server 7
964 (1.325 %)Oracle 9i
1054 (1.118 %)Crystal Reports
1145 (0.931 %)Oracle 8/8i
1243 (0.890 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1333 (0.683 %)Datawarehouse
1428 (0.580 %)Oracle Reports
1523 (0.476 %)MS Access
1523 (0.476 %)TOAD
1619 (0.393 %)SQL Server Integration Services
1718 (0.373 %)GIS
1816 (0.331 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1816 (0.331 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1351 (7.266 %)Eclipse
2325 (6.727 %)Flash
3316 (6.541 %)JUnit
4207 (4.285 %)Visual Studio
5200 (4.140 %)Ant
6181 (3.747 %)NUnit
7177 (3.664 %)Subversion
8133 (2.753 %)ClearCase
991 (1.884 %)Rational Rose
1082 (1.697 %)VSS/SourceSafe
1165 (1.345 %)RequisitePro
1261 (1.263 %)FitNesse
1360 (1.242 %)ClearQuest
1455 (1.138 %)Selenium
1544 (0.911 %)CruiseControl
1635 (0.724 %)ReSharper
1726 (0.538 %)ARTiSAN
1726 (0.538 %)Log4j
1824 (0.497 %)Log4Net
1923 (0.476 %)WebSphere Studio Application Developer
General
1996 (20.62 %)Finance
2756 (15.65 %)Banking
3548 (11.34 %)Front Office
4479 (9.915 %)Investment Banking
5145 (3.001 %)Back Office
6108 (2.236 %)Government
793 (1.925 %)Retail
886 (1.780 %)Financial Institution
981 (1.677 %)Telecoms
981 (1.677 %)Games
1073 (1.511 %)Insurance
1165 (1.345 %)Marketing
1243 (0.890 %)Military
1338 (0.787 %)Construction
1434 (0.704 %)Advertising
1531 (0.642 %)Education
1629 (0.600 %)Multimedia
1721 (0.435 %)Health
1818 (0.373 %)Publishing
1917 (0.352 %)Electronics
Job Titles
13656 (75.68 %)Developer
2907 (18.77 %)Java Developer
3748 (15.48 %)C# Developer
4632 (13.08 %).NET Developer
5406 (8.404 %)Analyst
6318 (6.582 %)Web Developer
7292 (6.044 %)Senior Developer
8245 (5.071 %)J2EE Developer
9238 (4.927 %)PHP Developer
10223 (4.616 %)Architect
11202 (4.181 %)Java/J2EE Developer
12193 (3.995 %)C++ Developer
13191 (3.954 %)Flash Developer
14189 (3.912 %)Software Engineer
15187 (3.871 %)ASP.NET Developer
16160 (3.312 %)Programmer
17144 (2.981 %)Business Analyst
18138 (2.857 %)C#/ASP.NET Developer
19104 (2.153 %)SQL Developer
2097 (2.008 %)Senior Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1410 (8.487 %)Derivative
2288 (5.961 %)Fixed Income
3192 (3.974 %)N-Tier
4187 (3.871 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
5151 (3.126 %)Equities
6123 (2.546 %)Multithreading
7114 (2.360 %)Equity Derivative
896 (1.987 %)Asset Management
985 (1.759 %)Credit Derivative
1082 (1.697 %)Computer Science
1179 (1.635 %)W3C
1276 (1.573 %)Web 2.0
1370 (1.449 %)Credit Risk
1451 (1.056 %)Interest Rate Derivative
1550 (1.035 %)Client/Server
1641 (0.849 %)Mathematics
1731 (0.642 %)Contract for Difference
1830 (0.621 %)Market Risk
1926 (0.538 %)Fat Client
1926 (0.538 %)Thin Client
Operating Systems
1646 (13.37 %)Unix
2475 (9.832 %)Windows
3464 (9.605 %)Linux
4122 (2.525 %)Solaris
541 (0.849 %)Windows NT
628 (0.580 %)Windows XP
721 (0.435 %)Mac OS X
820 (0.414 %)Windows 2000
919 (0.393 %)HPUX
919 (0.393 %)Windows Server 2003
1010 (0.207 %)Windows Mobile
117 (0.145 %)MVS
126 (0.124 %)Windows CE
126 (0.124 %)AIX
135 (0.103 %)VMS
144 (0.083 %)FreeBSD
152 (0.041 %)Embedded Linux
152 (0.041 %)Symbian OS
161 (0.021 %)ThreadX
161 (0.021 %)OS/390
Processes & Methodologies
11121 (23.20 %)UML
2530 (10.97 %)OOD
3467 (9.667 %)Agile Software Development
4442 (9.149 %)OOP
5291 (6.024 %)TDD
6264 (5.465 %)Unit Testing
7243 (5.030 %)Web Development
8237 (4.906 %)SOA
9220 (4.554 %)RUP
10190 (3.933 %)E-Commerce
11185 (3.829 %)Security Cleared
12180 (3.726 %)Scrum
13165 (3.415 %)OOA/OOD
14148 (3.064 %)RAD
15143 (2.960 %)Data Modelling
16118 (2.443 %)Continuous Integration
17111 (2.298 %)Use Case
18106 (2.194 %)Risk Management
19104 (2.153 %)Software Engineering
20103 (2.132 %)Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
11696 (35.11 %)C#
21674 (34.65 %)Java
31324 (27.41 %)SQL
4972 (20.12 %)JavaScript
5792 (16.39 %)C++
6418 (8.652 %)PHP
7310 (6.417 %)ActionScript
8282 (5.837 %)VB
9258 (5.341 %)PL/SQL
10257 (5.320 %)Perl
11241 (4.989 %)VB.NET
12204 (4.223 %)PHP5
13168 (3.478 %)C
14162 (3.353 %)Transact-SQL
15132 (2.732 %)DHTML
16127 (2.629 %)Shell Script
17124 (2.567 %)VBA
18121 (2.505 %)VB6
19109 (2.256 %)VC++
2093 (1.925 %)Python
Qualifications
1227 (4.699 %)Degree
245 (0.931 %)Microsoft Certification
344 (0.911 %)Sun Certification
424 (0.497 %)MCSD
515 (0.310 %)MCAD
611 (0.228 %)PhD
78 (0.166 %)ISEB
86 (0.124 %)MCTS
94 (0.083 %)PRINCE2 Certification
94 (0.083 %)MCP
102 (0.041 %)HNC
111 (0.021 %)Postgraduate
111 (0.021 %)MCSE
111 (0.021 %)ISTQB
111 (0.021 %)MOS
111 (0.021 %)MCDST
111 (0.021 %)SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
150 (1.035 %)QA
225 (0.517 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
323 (0.476 %)ISO9001
413 (0.269 %)WAI
58 (0.166 %)WCAG
64 (0.083 %)TickIT
73 (0.062 %)SNOMED CT
73 (0.062 %)PCI DSS
82 (0.041 %)ISO27001
82 (0.041 %)MiFID
82 (0.041 %)Basel II
91 (0.021 %)ISO9000
System Software
129 (0.600 %)AquaLogic
214 (0.290 %)Orbix
310 (0.207 %)MSMQ
46 (0.124 %)Active Directory
53 (0.062 %)VMware Infrastructure
62 (0.041 %)NFS
71 (0.021 %)Squid
Systems Management
127 (0.559 %)AutoSys
217 (0.352 %)CONTROL-M
313 (0.269 %)MOM
313 (0.269 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
41 (0.021 %)Netcool
Vendors
1970 (20.08 %)Oracle
2388 (8.031 %)Microsoft
3380 (7.866 %)Sybase
4122 (2.525 %)IBM
5116 (2.401 %)TIBCO
693 (1.925 %)BEA
760 (1.242 %)SAP
848 (0.994 %)Adobe
947 (0.973 %)Sun
1045 (0.931 %)ILOG
1136 (0.745 %)Bloomberg
1136 (0.745 %)Zend
1230 (0.621 %)Calypso
1325 (0.517 %)Infragistics
1424 (0.497 %)Google
1520 (0.414 %)ATG
1520 (0.414 %)Reuters
1617 (0.352 %)Altova
1617 (0.352 %)Syncfusion
1716 (0.331 %)Borland
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