The first table below looks at the demand for 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 OOD 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
Rank 302 302 235
Rank change year-on-year
0 -67
Contract jobs citing OOD 224 278 426
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.539% 0.521% 0.755%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.755% 0.763% 1.108%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 168 239
Average daily rate £375 £351 £455
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.99% -22.96%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £288 £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £537 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £303 £325 £328
% change year-on-year
-6.92% -0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 25 18
Average hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £39.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -3.84%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £29.50 £31.50 £31.35
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.00 £42.10 £42.65
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £39.00
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +2.56%
All Processes & Methodologies
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
29662 36423 38448
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 71.36% 68.27% 68.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 18133 21396 22256
Average daily rate £425 £410 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.53% -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 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 916 1186 1394
Average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.00% -13.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.99 £13.50 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
OOD
UK

OOD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England OOD Jobs Demand Trend

OOD
Daily Rate Trend

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

England OOD Daily Rate Trend

OOD
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing OOD across the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

England OOD Daily Rate Histogram

OOD
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England OOD Hourly Rate Trend

OOD
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OOD within the England region over the 3 months to 17 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 -19 101 £438 +9.37%
South East +34 71 £350 -4.03%
East Midlands -2 15 £280 -8.57%
South West +20 13 £290 -3.33%
East of England +5 8 £400 +29.03%
Yorkshire -1 6 £343 +30.47%
North West +14 5 £300 -
West Midlands +11 4 £325 -18.75%
OOD
UK

OOD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing 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 OOD.

1 320 (72.89%) OO
2 170 (38.72%) JavaScript
3 167 (38.04%) SQL Server
4 164 (37.36%) Java
5 158 (35.99%) SQL
6 140 (31.89%) CSS
7 135 (30.75%) HTML
8 131 (29.84%) UML
9 127 (28.93%) .NET
10 126 (28.70%) C#
10 126 (28.70%) jQuery
11 112 (25.51%) Web Services
12 109 (24.83%) Agile Software Development
13 102 (23.23%) C++
14 96 (21.87%) Oracle
14 96 (21.87%) XML
15 92 (20.96%) Spring
16 86 (19.59%) MVC
17 85 (19.36%) TDD
18 82 (18.68%) ASP.NET
19 78 (17.77%) JSON
20 77 (17.54%) Git (software)
21 75 (17.08%) Windows
21 75 (17.08%) Hibernate
22 73 (16.63%) Linux
23 71 (16.17%) Ajax
24 69 (15.72%) SOAP
24 69 (15.72%) JUnit
25 63 (14.35%) REST
26 62 (14.12%) Unit Testing

OOD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing 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 OOD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 140 (31.89%) CSS
2 135 (30.75%) HTML
3 127 (28.93%) .NET
4 126 (28.70%) jQuery
5 112 (25.51%) Web Services
6 96 (21.87%) XML
7 92 (20.96%) Spring
8 82 (18.68%) ASP.NET
9 78 (17.77%) JSON
10 75 (17.08%) Hibernate
11 71 (16.17%) Ajax
12 69 (15.72%) SOAP
13 63 (14.35%) REST
14 60 (13.67%) J2EE
15 48 (10.93%) Java EE
16 42 (9.567%) .NET Framework
16 42 (9.567%) Spring MVC
17 41 (9.339%) JPA
18 40 (9.112%) ASP.NET MVC
18 40 (9.112%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 35 (7.973%) CMS
2 22 (5.011%) IIS
3 20 (4.556%) BizTalk Server
4 19 (4.328%) WebLogic
5 14 (3.189%) ESB
6 12 (2.733%) Tomcat
7 11 (2.506%) Umbraco
8 10 (2.278%) Apache
9 9 (2.050%) Alfresco
9 9 (2.050%) WordPress
10 8 (1.822%) Adobe CQ
10 8 (1.822%) Documentum
11 6 (1.367%) SharePoint
11 6 (1.367%) Kentico
12 5 (1.139%) Drupal
12 5 (1.139%) TIBCO EMS
13 3 (0.683%) MSMQ
14 2 (0.456%) Rendezvous
14 2 (0.456%) GlassFish
14 2 (0.456%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 36 (8.200%) MS Excel
2 19 (4.328%) Photoshop
3 15 (3.417%) MS Office
4 6 (1.367%) MS Project
5 3 (0.683%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.456%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.228%) Doxygen
7 1 (0.228%) InfoPath
7 1 (0.228%) Adobe Captivate
7 1 (0.228%) PowerPivot
7 1 (0.228%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (0.683%) Summit
2 2 (0.456%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.456%) BASE24
3 1 (0.228%) Oracle ERP
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.100%) Internet
2 12 (2.733%) TCP/IP
3 11 (2.506%) HTTP
4 7 (1.595%) GSM
5 6 (1.367%) 3G
5 6 (1.367%) Wireless
6 5 (1.139%) DNS
7 4 (0.911%) PBX
7 4 (0.911%) UMTS
7 4 (0.911%) VoIP
7 4 (0.911%) RTP
7 4 (0.911%) LTE
7 4 (0.911%) Asterisk PBX
8 3 (0.683%) RFID
8 3 (0.683%) 2G
9 2 (0.456%) RANAP
9 2 (0.456%) GGSN
9 2 (0.456%) SGSN
9 2 (0.456%) Intranet
10 1 (0.228%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (38.04%) SQL Server
2 42 (9.567%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 39 (8.884%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 23 (5.239%) SQL Server 2005
5 21 (4.784%) MySQL
6 19 (4.328%) PostgreSQL
7 18 (4.100%) SQL Server 2008
8 16 (3.645%) NoSQL
9 13 (2.961%) Ingres
10 10 (2.278%) MS Access
10 10 (2.278%) RDBMS
10 10 (2.278%) SQL Server 2000
11 8 (1.822%) Oracle 8/8i
12 6 (1.367%) Big Data
13 5 (1.139%) Redis
13 5 (1.139%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (1.139%) DTS
13 5 (1.139%) Oracle 10g
14 4 (0.911%) GIS
14 4 (0.911%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 77 (17.54%) Git (software)
2 69 (15.72%) JUnit
3 57 (12.98%) Subversion
4 48 (10.93%) Visual Studio
5 46 (10.48%) Maven
6 39 (8.884%) NUnit
7 36 (8.200%) Mockito
8 31 (7.062%) Eclipse
9 25 (5.695%) Ant
10 23 (5.239%) Selenium
11 21 (4.784%) ClearCase
12 18 (4.100%) Xcode
13 17 (3.872%) GoogleTest
14 16 (3.645%) Mercurial
14 16 (3.645%) CppUnit
15 15 (3.417%) CruiseControl
15 15 (3.417%) Trac
16 14 (3.189%) JBehave
16 14 (3.189%) Rational Rose
17 13 (2.961%) ClearQuest
General
1 52 (11.85%) Finance
2 34 (7.745%) Banking
3 29 (6.606%) Investment Banking
4 15 (3.417%) Front Office
5 12 (2.733%) Back Office
5 12 (2.733%) Telecoms
6 10 (2.278%) Retail
7 8 (1.822%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.139%) Publishing
9 4 (0.911%) Games
9 4 (0.911%) Military
9 4 (0.911%) Avionics
10 3 (0.683%) Advertising
10 3 (0.683%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.456%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.456%) Marketing
11 2 (0.456%) Billing
12 1 (0.228%) Wholesale Banking
12 1 (0.228%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 331 (75.40%) Developer
2 96 (21.87%) Java Developer
3 63 (14.35%) .NET Developer
4 53 (12.07%) Software Engineer
5 52 (11.85%) C# Developer
6 38 (8.656%) Senior Developer
7 27 (6.150%) C++ Developer
8 25 (5.695%) Web Developer
9 24 (5.467%) C# .NET Developer
10 19 (4.328%) Android Developer
10 19 (4.328%) iOS Developer
11 18 (4.100%) Programmer
12 16 (3.645%) ASP.NET Developer
13 15 (3.417%) Senior .NET Developer
14 14 (3.189%) Senior C# Developer
14 14 (3.189%) Software Developer
15 13 (2.961%) Lead Developer
15 13 (2.961%) Technical Leader
15 13 (2.961%) Agile C# Developer
16 12 (2.733%) Java Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 27 (6.150%) N-Tier
2 24 (5.467%) Open Source
3 21 (4.784%) Derivative
4 19 (4.328%) Client/Server
4 19 (4.328%) Graphic Design
4 19 (4.328%) Computer Science
4 19 (4.328%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 15 (3.417%) Mobile App
6 11 (2.506%) Mathematics
7 10 (2.278%) Fixed Income
8 8 (1.822%) RIA
9 7 (1.595%) Physics
9 7 (1.595%) Inversion of Control
10 6 (1.367%) Statistics
10 6 (1.367%) iPhone
10 6 (1.367%) Market Risk
11 5 (1.139%) Equities
11 5 (1.139%) Credit Risk
12 4 (0.911%) Embedded Systems
12 4 (0.911%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 75 (17.08%) Windows
2 73 (16.63%) Linux
3 39 (8.884%) UNIX
4 38 (8.656%) Apple iOS
5 32 (7.289%) Android
6 5 (1.139%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.683%) Windows 8
7 3 (0.683%) Windows XP Embedded
7 3 (0.683%) Windows XP
7 3 (0.683%) VxWorks
8 2 (0.456%) Windows Mobile
8 2 (0.456%) Solaris
8 2 (0.456%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.228%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.228%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.228%) AIX
9 1 (0.228%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 320 (72.89%) OO
2 131 (29.84%) UML
3 109 (24.83%) Agile Software Development
4 86 (19.59%) MVC
5 85 (19.36%) TDD
6 62 (14.12%) Unit Testing
7 58 (13.21%) Continuous Integration
8 56 (12.76%) Multithreading
9 55 (12.53%) Web Development
10 52 (11.85%) BDD
11 47 (10.71%) Software Architecture
12 37 (8.428%) SOA
13 33 (7.517%) OOP
13 33 (7.517%) Scrum
14 31 (7.062%) Software Engineering
15 29 (6.606%) Pair Programming
15 29 (6.606%) Configuration Management
16 26 (5.923%) RUP
17 24 (5.467%) E-Commerce
18 23 (5.239%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 170 (38.72%) JavaScript
2 164 (37.36%) Java
3 158 (35.99%) SQL
4 126 (28.70%) C#
5 102 (23.23%) C++
6 49 (11.16%) C
7 32 (7.289%) Python
8 29 (6.606%) T-SQL
9 20 (4.556%) Objective-C
10 19 (4.328%) VB
11 17 (3.872%) Ruby
12 16 (3.645%) VB.NET
13 15 (3.417%) PHP
14 13 (2.961%) PL/SQL
15 11 (2.506%) ActionScript
16 10 (2.278%) VBA
16 10 (2.278%) Groovy
17 8 (1.822%) PHP5
17 8 (1.822%) ActionScript 3.0
17 8 (1.822%) Ada
Qualifications
1 38 (8.656%) Degree
2 22 (5.011%) Security Cleared
3 14 (3.189%) SC Cleared
4 2 (0.456%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (0.456%) Sun Certification
5 1 (0.228%) MCAD
5 1 (0.228%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.050%) QA
2 7 (1.595%) ISO 9001
3 6 (1.367%) DO-178B
4 4 (0.911%) PCI DSS
4 4 (0.911%) JTAG
5 2 (0.456%) ISO 8583
5 2 (0.456%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.228%) TickIT
6 1 (0.228%) Basel III
System Software
1 4 (0.911%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.228%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 3 (0.683%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 96 (21.87%) Oracle
2 56 (12.76%) Microsoft
3 35 (7.973%) JBoss
4 20 (4.556%) Adobe
4 20 (4.556%) Twitter
5 18 (4.100%) Google
6 14 (3.189%) IBM
7 10 (2.278%) Zend
8 9 (2.050%) Telerik
8 9 (2.050%) Aquila
9 8 (1.822%) Facebook
10 7 (1.595%) webMethods
10 7 (1.595%) Software AG
11 6 (1.367%) Cramer
11 6 (1.367%) DevExpress
12 5 (1.139%) TIBCO
12 5 (1.139%) SAP
12 5 (1.139%) Informatica
12 5 (1.139%) Sybase
13 4 (0.911%) Red Hat
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Rate: £375 - £475 per day
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The ideal candidate will have experience of: - Developing iOS and Android apps - Strong OO design and programming skills - Objective C and Java (J2EE/J2ME) or C and C++.
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