Kent OO Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Object-Oriented (OO) skills within the Kent 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 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Object-Oriented (OO)
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Cheshire Chester City of London Clapham Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dumbarton East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Farnborough Gateshead Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire 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 Newport Newton-le-Willows North East North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Redhill Rickmansworth Rotherham Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge 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 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	39	22
Rank change on same period last year	-17
Matching contract IT job ads	6	35
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.035 %
As % of the category below	3.352 %	12.73 %
Daily rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum daily rate	£250	£270
Average daily rate	£279	£270
% change on same period last year	+3.39 %
Average maximum daily rate	£308	£270
UK excluding London average daily rate	£345	£363
% change on same period last year	-5.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.50	£36.88
Average hourly rate	£32.50	£43.00
% change on same period last year	-24.41 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.50	£49.13
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£38.54	£33.34
% change on same period last year	+15.60 %
Processes & Methodologies Kent
Matching contract IT job ads	179	275
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.236 %	0.274 %
Daily rates quoted	61	57
Average minimum daily rate	£312	£285
Average daily rate	£333	£308
% change on same period last year	+8.19 %
Average maximum daily rate	£354	£331
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£377
% change on same period last year	+0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	47
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.33	£35.21
Average hourly rate	£20.87	£40.59
% change on same period last year	-48.59 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.40	£45.97
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.30	£30.18
% change on same period last year	+0.42 %
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 Kent 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 Kent 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 Kent region over the 3 months to 21 August 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 Kent 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 Kent region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 5 (38.46 %) XML 1 5 (38.46 %) UML 2 4 (30.77 %) CSS 2 4 (30.77 %) HTML 2 4 (30.77 %) WebLogic 2 4 (30.77 %) SQL Server 2 4 (30.77 %) Finance 2 4 (30.77 %) Military 3 3 (23.08 %) BEA 3 3 (23.08 %) Banking 3 3 (23.08 %) Retail 3 3 (23.08 %) Insurance 3 3 (23.08 %) Retail Banking 3 3 (23.08 %) WebSphere 3 3 (23.08 %) Unit Testing

3 3 (23.08 %) Oracle 3 3 (23.08 %) Java 3 3 (23.08 %) PHP 3 3 (23.08 %) J2EE 3 3 (23.08 %) XHTML 4 2 (15.38 %) OOP 4 2 (15.38 %) MySQL 4 2 (15.38 %) SQL 4 2 (15.38 %) .NET 4 2 (15.38 %) JavaScript 4 2 (15.38 %) ASP.NET 4 2 (15.38 %) Web Development 4 2 (15.38 %) AJAX 5 1 (7.692 %) Content Management 5 1 (7.692 %) W3C

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 5 (38.46 %) XML 2 4 (30.77 %) CSS 2 4 (30.77 %) HTML 3 3 (23.08 %) WebSphere 3 3 (23.08 %) J2EE 3 3 (23.08 %) XHTML 4 2 (15.38 %) .NET 4 2 (15.38 %) ASP.NET 4 2 (15.38 %) AJAX 5 1 (7.692 %) Dojo 5 1 (7.692 %) CakePHP 5 1 (7.692 %) GWT 5 1 (7.692 %) YUI 5 1 (7.692 %) jQuery 5 1 (7.692 %) ASP 5 1 (7.692 %) JSP 5 1 (7.692 %) XSL 5 1 (7.692 %) XSLT	Application Platforms 1 4 (30.77 %) WebLogic 2 1 (7.692 %) IIS 2 1 (7.692 %) Apache
Applications 1 1 (7.692 %) Photoshop	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (30.77 %) SQL Server 2 2 (15.38 %) MySQL
Development Applications 1 1 (7.692 %) ARTiSAN 1 1 (7.692 %) Visual Studio 1 1 (7.692 %) Dreamweaver	General 1 4 (30.77 %) Finance 1 4 (30.77 %) Military 2 3 (23.08 %) Banking 2 3 (23.08 %) Retail 2 3 (23.08 %) Insurance 2 3 (23.08 %) Retail Banking
Job Titles 1 13 (100.00 %) Developer 2 3 (23.08 %) Java Developer 2 3 (23.08 %) J2EE Developer 2 3 (23.08 %) PHP Developer 2 3 (23.08 %) Tester 2 3 (23.08 %) Java/J2EE Developer 3 2 (15.38 %) Web Developer 4 1 (7.692 %) MySQL Developer 4 1 (7.692 %) PHP Web Developer 4 1 (7.692 %) Senior J2EE Developer 4 1 (7.692 %) Senior Java Developer 4 1 (7.692 %) .NET Developer 4 1 (7.692 %) Senior Java/J2EE Developer 4 1 (7.692 %) Applications Developer 4 1 (7.692 %) Senior Developer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (7.692 %) W3C
Operating Systems 1 1 (7.692 %) UNIX 1 1 (7.692 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (38.46 %) UML 2 3 (23.08 %) Unit Testing 3 2 (15.38 %) OOP 3 2 (15.38 %) Web Development 4 1 (7.692 %) Content Management 4 1 (7.692 %) E-Commerce 4 1 (7.692 %) OOD
Programming Languages 1 3 (23.08 %) Java 1 3 (23.08 %) PHP 2 2 (15.38 %) SQL 2 2 (15.38 %) JavaScript 3 1 (7.692 %) PHP5 3 1 (7.692 %) C# 3 1 (7.692 %) DHTML	Vendors 1 3 (23.08 %) BEA 1 3 (23.08 %) Oracle