Hampshire OO Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Object-Oriented (OO) skills within the Hampshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited OO over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Object-Oriented (OO)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Basildon Basingstoke Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Cheshire Chester City of London Clapham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Kent Lanarkshire Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newport Newton-le-Willows North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Windsor Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	40	74
Rank change on same period last year	+34
Matching contract IT job ads	69	52
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.092 %	0.053 %
As % of the category below	5.731 %	3.082 %
Daily rates quoted	11	15
Average minimum daily rate	£261	£325
Average daily rate	£281	£352
% change on same period last year	-20.09 %
Average maximum daily rate	£301	£379
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£364
% change on same period last year	-4.38 %
Hourly rates quoted	29	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.76	£40.00
Average hourly rate	£36.89	£40.00
% change on same period last year	-7.78 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.02	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£37.61	£33.71
% change on same period last year	+11.56 %
Processes & Methodologies Hampshire
Matching contract IT job ads	1204	1687
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.605 %	1.707 %
Daily rates quoted	331	522
Average minimum daily rate	£356	£363
Average daily rate	£380	£385
% change on same period last year	-1.38 %
Average maximum daily rate	£404	£408
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	195	323
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.48	£30.71
Average hourly rate	£33.04	£32.48
% change on same period last year	+1.70 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.60	£34.26
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
OO South East

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 Hampshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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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 Hampshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing OO across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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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 Hampshire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing OO across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OO within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 25 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.

Location	Rank 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
Portsmouth	+14	17	-	-
Basingstoke	-	15	-	-
Southampton	+8	5	£200	-
Havant	+1	3	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 85 (55.92 %) UML 2 56 (36.84 %) C++ 3 54 (35.53 %) Java 4 40 (26.32 %) OOD 5 36 (23.68 %) .NET 6 33 (21.71 %) Unit Testing 7 32 (21.05 %) Security Cleared 8 31 (20.39 %) C# 9 26 (17.11 %) Linux 9 26 (17.11 %) CORBA 9 26 (17.11 %) Military 10 23 (15.13 %) Configuration Management 11 22 (14.47 %) Windows 11 22 (14.47 %) SC Cleared 12 21 (13.82 %) XML

13 19 (12.50 %) Agile Software Development 14 18 (11.84 %) Government 14 18 (11.84 %) SQL 15 17 (11.18 %) Ada 16 15 (9.868 %) ARTiSAN 16 15 (9.868 %) J2SE 16 15 (9.868 %) JUnit 17 14 (9.211 %) Swing 17 14 (9.211 %) UNIX 17 14 (9.211 %) Eclipse 18 13 (8.553 %) Mac OS X 18 13 (8.553 %) Degree 19 12 (7.895 %) Finance 19 12 (7.895 %) WebServices 20 11 (7.237 %) CSS

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 36 (23.68 %) .NET 2 26 (17.11 %) CORBA 3 21 (13.82 %) XML 4 15 (9.868 %) J2SE 5 14 (9.211 %) Swing 6 12 (7.895 %) WebServices 7 11 (7.237 %) CSS 8 10 (6.579 %) HTML 9 9 (5.921 %) J2EE 9 9 (5.921 %) XHTML 10 8 (5.263 %) WebSphere 10 8 (5.263 %) ASP.NET 11 7 (4.605 %) EJB 11 7 (4.605 %) AJAX 12 6 (3.947 %) Adobe Flex 13 5 (3.289 %) WSDL 14 4 (2.632 %) OpenGL 14 4 (2.632 %) Struts 15 3 (1.974 %) XSLT 15 3 (1.974 %) Servlets	Application Platforms 1 6 (3.947 %) ColdFusion 2 4 (2.632 %) WebSphere Application Server 3 2 (1.316 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 1 (0.658 %) ColdFusion MX 4 1 (0.658 %) WebLogic 4 1 (0.658 %) JBoss 4 1 (0.658 %) Apache 4 1 (0.658 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 6 (3.947 %) Quicktime 2 3 (1.974 %) MS Project 2 3 (1.974 %) MS Office 3 2 (1.316 %) MS Visio 4 1 (0.658 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 4 (2.632 %) DVB 2 1 (0.658 %) Wireless 2 1 (0.658 %) VoIP 2 1 (0.658 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (3.947 %) SQL Server 1 6 (3.947 %) RDBMS 2 5 (3.289 %) DB2 3 4 (2.632 %) Oracle Reports 4 3 (1.974 %) MySQL 5 2 (1.316 %) Oracle 8/8i 6 1 (0.658 %) Oracle 9i 6 1 (0.658 %) Oracle 10g 6 1 (0.658 %) SQL Server Reporting Services	Development Applications 1 15 (9.868 %) JUnit 1 15 (9.868 %) ARTiSAN 2 14 (9.211 %) Eclipse 3 11 (7.237 %) Ant 4 10 (6.579 %) Subversion 5 9 (5.921 %) CruiseControl 6 3 (1.974 %) ClearCase 7 1 (0.658 %) Rational Rose 7 1 (0.658 %) ClearQuest 7 1 (0.658 %) InstallShield 7 1 (0.658 %) NUnit 7 1 (0.658 %) Telelogic Synergy
General 1 26 (17.11 %) Military 2 18 (11.84 %) Government 3 12 (7.895 %) Finance 4 8 (5.263 %) Telecoms 4 8 (5.263 %) Multimedia 5 6 (3.947 %) Aerospace 5 6 (3.947 %) Video Editing 6 2 (1.316 %) Insurance 6 2 (1.316 %) Marketing 7 1 (0.658 %) Construction	Job Titles 1 73 (48.03 %) Developer 2 37 (24.34 %) Software Engineer 3 22 (14.47 %) Architect 4 19 (12.50 %) Software Developer 5 16 (10.53 %) Java Developer 5 16 (10.53 %) C# Developer 6 14 (9.211 %) .NET Developer 7 12 (7.895 %) Software Architect 8 9 (5.921 %) Technical Architect 9 8 (5.263 %) Tester 9 8 (5.263 %) C++ Developer 10 7 (4.605 %) Java Software Engineer 10 7 (4.605 %) Senior Developer 10 7 (4.605 %) Principal Software Engineer 10 7 (4.605 %) Principal Engineer 11 6 (3.947 %) Java Swing Developer 11 6 (3.947 %) ColdFusion Developer 12 5 (3.289 %) Business Analyst 12 5 (3.289 %) Analyst 13 4 (2.632 %) Senior Software Architect
Miscellaneous 1 9 (5.921 %) Computer Science 2 6 (3.947 %) MPEG 3 3 (1.974 %) Client/Server 4 2 (1.316 %) Social Network 5 1 (0.658 %) Web 2.0 5 1 (0.658 %) Statistics	Operating Systems 1 26 (17.11 %) Linux 2 22 (14.47 %) Windows 3 14 (9.211 %) UNIX 4 13 (8.553 %) Mac OS X 5 4 (2.632 %) Windows XP 6 3 (1.974 %) MVS 7 1 (0.658 %) Windows 2000 7 1 (0.658 %) AIX 7 1 (0.658 %) HPUX 7 1 (0.658 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 85 (55.92 %) UML 2 40 (26.32 %) OOD 3 33 (21.71 %) Unit Testing 4 32 (21.05 %) Security Cleared 5 23 (15.13 %) Configuration Management 6 22 (14.47 %) SC Cleared 7 19 (12.50 %) Agile Software Development 8 10 (6.579 %) OOA/OOD 9 9 (5.921 %) OOP 9 9 (5.921 %) Test-First Development 9 9 (5.921 %) Software Engineering 10 7 (4.605 %) SOA 10 7 (4.605 %) BC Cleared 11 6 (3.947 %) Data Modelling 11 6 (3.947 %) Business Analysis 12 5 (3.289 %) Use Case 12 5 (3.289 %) TDD 12 5 (3.289 %) Validation 12 5 (3.289 %) Project Management 12 5 (3.289 %) Continuous Integration	Programming Languages 1 56 (36.84 %) C++ 2 54 (35.53 %) Java 3 31 (20.39 %) C# 4 18 (11.84 %) SQL 5 17 (11.18 %) Ada 6 11 (7.237 %) C 7 7 (4.605 %) Shell Script 7 7 (4.605 %) VB.NET 8 5 (3.289 %) JavaScript 9 4 (2.632 %) PHP 9 4 (2.632 %) Transact-SQL 9 4 (2.632 %) Python 10 3 (1.974 %) VBScript 10 3 (1.974 %) VBA 11 2 (1.316 %) PL/SQL 11 2 (1.316 %) PHP5 12 1 (0.658 %) Perl 12 1 (0.658 %) COBOL 12 1 (0.658 %) DHTML 12 1 (0.658 %) Ruby
Qualifications 1 13 (8.553 %) Degree 2 2 (1.316 %) Microsoft Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (1.316 %) ISO27001 2 1 (0.658 %) ISO9000
System Software 1 2 (1.316 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 10 (6.579 %) Oracle 2 6 (3.947 %) IBM 3 4 (2.632 %) Symbian 3 4 (2.632 %) Adobe 4 3 (1.974 %) Microsoft 5 1 (0.658 %) Telelogic