The first table below looks at the demand for OO skills in IT contracts advertised for the Farnborough region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OO 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 Farnborough 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
Object-Oriented (OO)
Rank 11 11 20
Rank change year-on-year
0 +9
Contract jobs citing OO 2 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Farnborough 5.714% 5.455% 2.299%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.11% 12.00% 4.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 2
Average daily rate £319 £310 £394
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.82% -21.26%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £314 £222 £389
10% offered a daily rate of more than £324 £310 £399
UK excluding London average daily rate £332 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+2.15% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+8.69% -1.42%
All Processes & Methodologies
Farnborough
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
18 25 49
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Farnborough 51.43% 45.45% 56.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 18 42
Average daily rate £325 £328 £378
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.76% -13.24%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £306 £250 £224
10% offered a daily rate of more than £344 £425 £461
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
Average hourly rate £12.50 - £12.12
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
OO
Hampshire

OO
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Farnborough OO Jobs Demand Trend

OO
Daily Rate Trend

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

Farnborough OO Daily Rate Trend

OO
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Farnborough OO Hourly Rate Trend

OO
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Farnborough 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.

1 4 (80.00%) HTML
1 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (80.00%) T-SQL
1 4 (80.00%) .NET
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (80.00%) IIS
1 4 (80.00%) ASP.NET
1 4 (80.00%) N-Tier
1 4 (80.00%) jQuery
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 3 (60.00%) Unit Testing
2 3 (60.00%) JSUnit
2 3 (60.00%) Highcharts JS
2 3 (60.00%) Ajax
2 3 (60.00%) Aquila
2 3 (60.00%) OOD
2 3 (60.00%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (60.00%) NUnit
2 3 (60.00%) Telerik
2 3 (60.00%) UML
2 3 (60.00%) Client/Server
2 3 (60.00%) CSS
2 3 (60.00%) Visual Studio
2 3 (60.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 3 (60.00%) VB
2 3 (60.00%) VB.NET
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Spring
3 1 (20.00%) C#

OO
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Farnborough 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
1 4 (80.00%) HTML
1 4 (80.00%) .NET
1 4 (80.00%) ASP.NET
1 4 (80.00%) jQuery
2 3 (60.00%) Highcharts JS
2 3 (60.00%) Ajax
2 3 (60.00%) CSS
3 1 (20.00%) JSP
3 1 (20.00%) Struts
3 1 (20.00%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 4 (80.00%) IIS
2 1 (20.00%) Tomcat
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Visual Studio
1 3 (60.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 3 (60.00%) NUnit
1 3 (60.00%) JSUnit
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) .NET Developer
2 2 (40.00%) VB.NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst Programmer
3 1 (20.00%) Programmer
3 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) N-Tier
2 3 (60.00%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) UML
1 3 (60.00%) OOD
1 3 (60.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (60.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Data Security
2 1 (20.00%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (80.00%) T-SQL
2 3 (60.00%) VB
2 3 (60.00%) VB.NET
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) Java
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
1 3 (60.00%) Telerik
1 3 (60.00%) Aquila
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft