Home Counties OO Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Object-Oriented (OO) skills within the Home Counties 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 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Object-Oriented (OO)
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dumbarton Dundee East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Farnborough Gateshead Glamorgan Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Kent Lanarkshire Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows North East North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Redditch Redhill Rickmansworth Rotherham Rugby Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Dunbartonshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	27
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	1.563 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£450
Average daily rate	-	£500
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£550
UK excluding London average daily rate	£346	£363
% change on same period last year	-4.56 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£38.11	£33.44
% change on same period last year	+13.98 %
Processes & Methodologies Home Counties
Matching contract IT job ads	46	64
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.061 %	0.064 %
Daily rates quoted	11	12
Average minimum daily rate	£416	£356
Average daily rate	£426	£366
% change on same period last year	+16.53 %
Average maximum daily rate	£437	£376
UK excluding London average daily rate	£379	£376
% change on same period last year	+0.60 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	5
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£34.57
Average hourly rate	-	£35.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£35.43
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.35	£30.32
% change on same period last year	+0.10 %
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 Home Counties 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 Home Counties region.

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Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Home Counties 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 2 (100.00 %) C# 1 2 (100.00 %) .NET 1 2 (100.00 %) SQL Server 1 2 (100.00 %) Visual Studio 1 2 (100.00 %) ASP.NET 1 2 (100.00 %) XML 1 2 (100.00 %) SharePoint 1 2 (100.00 %) InfoPath

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Home Counties 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 2 (100.00 %) .NET 1 2 (100.00 %) ASP.NET 1 2 (100.00 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 2 (100.00 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 2 (100.00 %) InfoPath	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (100.00 %) SQL Server
Development Applications 1 2 (100.00 %) Visual Studio	Job Titles 1 2 (100.00 %) Developer 1 2 (100.00 %) C# Developer 1 2 (100.00 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer
Programming Languages 1 2 (100.00 %) C#