The first table below looks at the demand for OO skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OO over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Hertfordshire 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented (OO)
Rank 36 33 49
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +16
Contract jobs citing OO 21 50 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 3.221% 5.076% 1.908%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.646% 7.657% 3.160%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 32 11
Average daily rate £500 £344 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+45.45% +5.76%
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.84% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.50 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.89% -1.42%
All Processes & Methodologies
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
452 653 538
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 69.33% 66.29% 60.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 290 246
Average daily rate £400 £350 £380
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -7.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £461 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 55 69
Average hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.57% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.40 £11.43 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.50 £49.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
OO
East of England

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Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire OO Jobs Demand Trend

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Daily Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire OO Daily Rate Trend

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Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing OO across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Hertfordshire OO Daily Rate Histogram

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire OO Hourly Rate Trend

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OO within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Hemel Hempstead +5 1 £450 +28.57%
Welwyn Garden City +2 1 - - 3
St Albans -1 1 £375 +7.14%
Stevenage - - - - 4
Watford - - - -
Welwyn - - - -
Rickmansworth - - - -
Borehamwood - - - -
Harpenden - - - -
OO
East of England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 47 (52.22%) TDD
2 43 (47.78%) Agile Software Development
3 40 (44.44%) C#
4 34 (37.78%) Retail
5 32 (35.56%) JavaScript
5 32 (35.56%) Windows
6 29 (32.22%) .NET
6 29 (32.22%) BDD
7 25 (27.78%) XML
8 24 (26.67%) CSS
8 24 (26.67%) SQL
8 24 (26.67%) Scrum
9 22 (24.44%) Ajax
9 22 (24.44%) HTML
10 19 (21.11%) Java
10 19 (21.11%) HTML5
11 17 (18.89%) CSS3
11 17 (18.89%) SOA
12 15 (16.67%) JSP
12 15 (16.67%) Linux
13 14 (15.56%) XSLT
13 14 (15.56%) XHTML
14 13 (14.44%) UNIX
14 13 (14.44%) UML
14 13 (14.44%) J2EE
14 13 (14.44%) Domain-Driven Design
15 12 (13.33%) XPath
15 12 (13.33%) JUnit
16 11 (12.22%) REST
17 10 (11.11%) JSON

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 29 (32.22%) .NET
2 25 (27.78%) XML
3 24 (26.67%) CSS
4 22 (24.44%) HTML
4 22 (24.44%) Ajax
5 19 (21.11%) HTML5
6 17 (18.89%) CSS3
7 15 (16.67%) JSP
8 14 (15.56%) XSLT
8 14 (15.56%) XHTML
9 13 (14.44%) J2EE
10 11 (12.22%) REST
11 10 (11.11%) JSON
12 9 (10.00%) Web Services
13 8 (8.889%) Struts
13 8 (8.889%) WebSphere
14 7 (7.778%) Hibernate
14 7 (7.778%) Spring
14 7 (7.778%) jQuery
15 6 (6.667%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 6 (6.667%) WebSphere Application Server
1 6 (6.667%) MQSeries
2 3 (3.333%) ESB
3 2 (2.222%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.111%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (10.00%) Photoshop
2 6 (6.667%) Fireworks
3 1 (1.111%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 6 (6.667%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.667%) Internet
2 2 (2.222%) 3G
2 2 (2.222%) 2G
2 2 (2.222%) LTE
2 2 (2.222%) 3GPP
3 1 (1.111%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.889%) RDBMS
2 6 (6.667%) DB2
3 2 (2.222%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.111%) MS Access
4 1 (1.111%) Oracle 10g
4 1 (1.111%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (1.111%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 12 (13.33%) JUnit
2 9 (10.00%) Subversion
3 8 (8.889%) Eclipse
4 6 (6.667%) Log4j
4 6 (6.667%) Ant
4 6 (6.667%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
5 4 (4.444%) Axure RP
6 3 (3.333%) Maven
7 1 (1.111%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (1.111%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.111%) ClearCase
7 1 (1.111%) Jasmine
General
1 34 (37.78%) Retail
2 7 (7.778%) Telecoms
2 7 (7.778%) Finance
3 5 (5.556%) Games
4 1 (1.111%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 78 (86.67%) Developer
2 37 (41.11%) C# Developer
3 28 (31.11%) .NET Developer
4 26 (28.89%) C# .NET Developer
5 17 (18.89%) C# Architect
5 17 (18.89%) .NET Architect
5 17 (18.89%) Architect
6 13 (14.44%) Senior Developer
7 12 (13.33%) Java Developer
8 11 (12.22%) Agile .NET Developer
9 10 (11.11%) Agile C# Developer
9 10 (11.11%) JavaScript Developer
9 10 (11.11%) Front-End Developer
10 9 (10.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
10 9 (10.00%) J2EE Developer
11 7 (7.778%) UI Developer
12 6 (6.667%) ScrumMaster
12 6 (6.667%) UI Programmer
12 6 (6.667%) Senior C# Developer
12 6 (6.667%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.667%) Web 2.0
2 5 (5.556%) Computer Science
3 3 (3.333%) iPhone
3 3 (3.333%) Video on Demand
3 3 (3.333%) iPad
3 3 (3.333%) Blackberry
4 1 (1.111%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 32 (35.56%) Windows
2 15 (16.67%) Linux
3 13 (14.44%) UNIX
4 6 (6.667%) HPUX
4 6 (6.667%) Solaris
5 3 (3.333%) Android
5 3 (3.333%) Apple iOS
5 3 (3.333%) Windows Phone 8
5 3 (3.333%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (52.22%) TDD
2 43 (47.78%) Agile Software Development
3 29 (32.22%) BDD
4 24 (26.67%) Scrum
5 17 (18.89%) SOA
6 13 (14.44%) UML
6 13 (14.44%) Domain-Driven Design
7 10 (11.11%) AOP
8 9 (10.00%) Web Development
8 9 (10.00%) E-Commerce
9 8 (8.889%) Web Design
10 6 (6.667%) Content Management
10 6 (6.667%) Software Engineering
10 6 (6.667%) RAD
10 6 (6.667%) Responsive Web Design
11 3 (3.333%) Web Application Development
11 3 (3.333%) Unit Testing
11 3 (3.333%) Multithreading
11 3 (3.333%) Pair Programming
11 3 (3.333%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 40 (44.44%) C#
2 32 (35.56%) JavaScript
3 24 (26.67%) SQL
4 19 (21.11%) Java
5 12 (13.33%) XPath
6 8 (8.889%) C++
7 6 (6.667%) Perl
7 6 (6.667%) Bash shell
7 6 (6.667%) PowerHouse
8 4 (4.444%) Embedded C++
9 2 (2.222%) Embedded C
9 2 (2.222%) VB
9 2 (2.222%) C
10 1 (1.111%) ABAP
10 1 (1.111%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.111%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 7 (7.778%) Degree
2 2 (2.222%) SC Cleared
2 2 (2.222%) DV Cleared
2 2 (2.222%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (1.111%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 9 (10.00%) Adobe
2 7 (7.778%) ATG
3 6 (6.667%) Blue Martini
3 6 (6.667%) Interwoven
3 6 (6.667%) JBoss
3 6 (6.667%) IBM
3 6 (6.667%) Elastic Path
4 5 (5.556%) Oracle
5 4 (4.444%) Apple
6 1 (1.111%) Google
6 1 (1.111%) SAP
6 1 (1.111%) Microsoft
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