The first table below looks at the demand for OOA/OOD 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 OOA/OOD over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (OOA/OOD)
Rank 449 434 328
Rank change year-on-year
-15 -106
Contract jobs citing OOA/OOD 63 125 252
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.149% 0.234% 0.455%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.209% 0.342% 0.667%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 63 161
Average daily rate £388 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.71% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £323 £250 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £565 £572 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 9
Average hourly rate £47.50 - £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £44.13 £27.50 -
% change year-on-year
+60.45% -
All Processes & Methodologies
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
30182 36546 37754
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 71.34% 68.30% 68.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 18435 21484 21848
Average daily rate £425 £413 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.90% -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £595 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 936 1202 1371
Average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £28.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.00% -12.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £13.12 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £46.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
OOA/OOD
UK

OOA/OOD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England OOA/OOD Jobs Demand Trend

OOA/OOD
Daily Rate Trend

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

England OOA/OOD Daily Rate Trend

OOA/OOD
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing OOA/OOD across the England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

England OOA/OOD Daily Rate Histogram

OOA/OOD
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England OOA/OOD Hourly Rate Trend

OOA/OOD
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing OOA/OOD across the England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

England OOA/OOD Hourly Rate Histogram

OOA/OOD
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OOA/OOD within the England region over the 3 months to 21 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
London -15 23 £400 -11.20%
South East +5 16 £365 +14.06%
North West +21 9 £334 +2.76%
South West +22 5 £350 -16.46%
West Midlands +16 5 £565 +126.00%
East of England +1 5 £400 +18.51%
OOA/OOD
UK

OOA/OOD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing OOA/OOD 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 OOA/OOD.

1 93 (65.49%) OO
2 84 (59.15%) Java
3 77 (54.23%) UML
4 58 (40.85%) Agile Software Development
5 47 (33.10%) XML
6 43 (30.28%) Web Services
6 43 (30.28%) Oracle
7 40 (28.17%) SQL
8 39 (27.46%) JMS
9 37 (26.06%) JavaScript
10 33 (23.24%) J2EE
11 31 (21.83%) EJB
12 29 (20.42%) C#
13 28 (19.72%) .NET
14 27 (19.01%) RDBMS
15 26 (18.31%) C
16 25 (17.61%) Use Case
16 25 (17.61%) Security Cleared
17 24 (16.90%) jQuery
17 24 (16.90%) RUP
17 24 (16.90%) TDD
17 24 (16.90%) MVC
17 24 (16.90%) Maven
18 23 (16.20%) Windows
19 22 (15.49%) Linux
19 22 (15.49%) SOA
19 22 (15.49%) Configuration Management
20 21 (14.79%) JBoss
20 21 (14.79%) HTML
20 21 (14.79%) Scrum

OOA/OOD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing OOA/OOD 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 OOA/OOD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 47 (33.10%) XML
2 43 (30.28%) Web Services
3 39 (27.46%) JMS
4 33 (23.24%) J2EE
5 31 (21.83%) EJB
6 28 (19.72%) .NET
7 24 (16.90%) jQuery
8 21 (14.79%) HTML
9 20 (14.08%) JSON
9 20 (14.08%) JPA
10 18 (12.68%) Spring
11 17 (11.97%) EJB 3.0
11 17 (11.97%) GWT
11 17 (11.97%) RESTful
11 17 (11.97%) Hibernate
12 16 (11.27%) CSS
13 15 (10.56%) Ajax
14 13 (9.155%) JSP
15 11 (7.746%) WCF
15 11 (7.746%) Servlets
Application Platforms
1 9 (6.338%) Apache
2 8 (5.634%) Tomcat
3 7 (4.930%) ESB
3 7 (4.930%) WebLogic
4 4 (2.817%) Documentum
4 4 (2.817%) SAP EP
4 4 (2.817%) Apache Solr
4 4 (2.817%) nginx
5 3 (2.113%) SAP Portal
5 3 (2.113%) GlassFish
5 3 (2.113%) CMS
5 3 (2.113%) IIS
6 2 (1.408%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (1.408%) Commerce Server
6 2 (1.408%) WebSphere Application Server
6 2 (1.408%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (1.408%) Confluence
7 1 (0.704%) Mule
7 1 (0.704%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (0.704%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 11 (7.746%) MS Office
2 7 (4.930%) MS Project
3 5 (3.521%) MS Excel
4 1 (0.704%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 3 (2.113%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 17 (11.97%) HTTP
2 15 (10.56%) Internet
3 7 (4.930%) TCP/IP
4 5 (3.521%) Intranet
5 1 (0.704%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (19.01%) RDBMS
2 15 (10.56%) SQL Server
3 11 (7.746%) MySQL
4 10 (7.042%) DB2
4 10 (7.042%) SQLite
5 4 (2.817%) Redis
6 3 (2.113%) SQL Server 2008
6 3 (2.113%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.408%) Oracle 10g
7 2 (1.408%) Oracle 11g
8 1 (0.704%) KDB
8 1 (0.704%) GIS
8 1 (0.704%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.704%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 24 (16.90%) Maven
2 13 (9.155%) Visual Studio
2 13 (9.155%) JUnit
3 12 (8.451%) Subversion
3 12 (8.451%) Git (software)
4 9 (6.338%) NUnit
5 6 (4.225%) InstallShield
5 6 (4.225%) ClearQuest
5 6 (4.225%) Jenkins
6 4 (2.817%) JIRA
6 4 (2.817%) Capistrano
6 4 (2.817%) NWDI
6 4 (2.817%) NWDS
7 3 (2.113%) JSUnit
7 3 (2.113%) Visual Studio Team System
7 3 (2.113%) Xcode
7 3 (2.113%) Ant
7 3 (2.113%) Eclipse
8 2 (1.408%) Selenium
8 2 (1.408%) Bugzilla
General
1 15 (10.56%) Finance
2 12 (8.451%) Retail
3 4 (2.817%) Banking
3 4 (2.817%) Advertising
3 4 (2.817%) Publishing
4 3 (2.113%) Front Office
4 3 (2.113%) Marketing
4 3 (2.113%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (1.408%) Retail Banking
5 2 (1.408%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.704%) Electronics
6 1 (0.704%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.704%) Games
6 1 (0.704%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 75 (52.82%) Developer
2 24 (16.90%) Java Developer
3 18 (12.68%) Architect
4 17 (11.97%) Software Engineer
5 15 (10.56%) Analyst
6 14 (9.859%) Business Analyst
7 10 (7.042%) Agile Business Analyst
7 10 (7.042%) Android Developer
8 9 (6.338%) Software Developer
9 8 (5.634%) Lead Architect
10 7 (4.930%) .NET Developer
10 7 (4.930%) JavaScript Developer
10 7 (4.930%) Consultant
11 6 (4.225%) Senior Developer
12 5 (3.521%) C# Developer
13 4 (2.817%) Solutions Architect
13 4 (2.817%) Applications Developer
13 4 (2.817%) Java/J2EE Developer
13 4 (2.817%) Team Leader
13 4 (2.817%) Ruby Developer
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.68%) Mobile App
2 15 (10.56%) RIA
3 8 (5.634%) Open Source
4 7 (4.930%) Computer Science
5 3 (2.113%) iPhone
5 3 (2.113%) Data Integration
5 3 (2.113%) iPad
5 3 (2.113%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.113%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.408%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.408%) N-Tier
6 2 (1.408%) Mathematics
6 2 (1.408%) Wiki
7 1 (0.704%) Telematics
7 1 (0.704%) Fat Client
7 1 (0.704%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.704%) 3D Graphics
7 1 (0.704%) Equities
7 1 (0.704%) Derivative
7 1 (0.704%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 23 (16.20%) Windows
2 22 (15.49%) Linux
3 15 (10.56%) Android
4 9 (6.338%) Apple iOS
5 5 (3.521%) UNIX
6 4 (2.817%) Mac OS X
6 4 (2.817%) Ubuntu
6 4 (2.817%) Gentoo
7 3 (2.113%) AIX
7 3 (2.113%) Solaris
8 2 (1.408%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (65.49%) OO
2 77 (54.23%) UML
3 58 (40.85%) Agile Software Development
4 25 (17.61%) Use Case
5 24 (16.90%) RUP
5 24 (16.90%) TDD
5 24 (16.90%) MVC
6 22 (15.49%) SOA
6 22 (15.49%) Configuration Management
7 21 (14.79%) Scrum
8 19 (13.38%) Unified Process
9 17 (11.97%) Unit Testing
10 16 (11.27%) OOD
10 16 (11.27%) Continuous Integration
10 16 (11.27%) Multithreading
11 15 (10.56%) Customer Engagement
12 13 (9.155%) E-Commerce
12 13 (9.155%) Automated Testing
13 12 (8.451%) Mobile Application Development
14 11 (7.746%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 84 (59.15%) Java
2 40 (28.17%) SQL
3 37 (26.06%) JavaScript
4 29 (20.42%) C#
5 26 (18.31%) C
6 9 (6.338%) PL/SQL
7 8 (5.634%) C++
8 5 (3.521%) Objective-C
8 5 (3.521%) Ruby
8 5 (3.521%) VC++
9 3 (2.113%) VB.NET
10 2 (1.408%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.408%) VBA
10 2 (1.408%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.704%) VB6
11 1 (0.704%) XPath
11 1 (0.704%) VB
11 1 (0.704%) Perl
11 1 (0.704%) Embedded C
11 1 (0.704%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 25 (17.61%) Security Cleared
2 16 (11.27%) DV Cleared
3 9 (6.338%) Degree
4 8 (5.634%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.408%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.408%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.704%) QA
2 1 (0.704%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (4.225%) VMware Workstation
1 6 (4.225%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (2.817%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 2 (1.408%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 43 (30.28%) Oracle
2 21 (14.79%) JBoss
3 15 (10.56%) Microsoft
4 13 (9.155%) IBM
5 10 (7.042%) ATG
5 10 (7.042%) Pega
6 9 (6.338%) Curam
7 6 (4.225%) VMware
7 6 (4.225%) Serena
8 5 (3.521%) EMC
9 4 (2.817%) Apple
9 4 (2.817%) SAP
10 2 (1.408%) HP
10 2 (1.408%) Adobe
10 2 (1.408%) TIBCO
10 2 (1.408%) Sencha
11 1 (0.704%) Coverity
11 1 (0.704%) hybris
11 1 (0.704%) Guidewire
11 1 (0.704%) Lombardi
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