The first table below looks at the demand for OO skills in IT contracts advertised for the Lancashire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OO over the 3 months to 21 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 Lancashire 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented (OO)
Rank 20 - 29
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing OO 12 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 5.941% - 0.431%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.600% - 0.813%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 1
Average daily rate £338 - £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -
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
Lancashire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
125 251 123
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 61.88% 58.78% 53.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 141 56
Average daily rate £315 £375 £328
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.00% +14.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £420 £500 £427
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 12 16
Average hourly rate £21.00 £20.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% -42.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.90 £16.80 £21.94
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £65.07 £26.60 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
OO
North West

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Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

Lancashire OO Daily Rate Trend

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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 Lancashire region.

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region over the 3 months to 21 May 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
Blackpool - 5 £315 -
Lytham St Annes - 4 £342 -
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North West

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 13 (76.47%) XML
2 12 (70.59%) Java
2 12 (70.59%) SQL
2 12 (70.59%) WSDL
3 11 (64.71%) HTML
4 10 (58.82%) J2EE
4 10 (58.82%) DB2
4 10 (58.82%) SOAP
4 10 (58.82%) Web Services
4 10 (58.82%) RDBMS
5 9 (52.94%) JMS
5 9 (52.94%) Curam
5 9 (52.94%) EJB
5 9 (52.94%) XSL
5 9 (52.94%) OOA/OOD
5 9 (52.94%) Oracle
5 9 (52.94%) JNDI
6 8 (47.06%) Use Case
6 8 (47.06%) JAAS
7 5 (29.41%) UML
8 4 (23.53%) Requirements Analysis
8 4 (23.53%) WCF
8 4 (23.53%) Mobile App
8 4 (23.53%) Mobile Application Development
8 4 (23.53%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
8 4 (23.53%) Agile Software Development
8 4 (23.53%) TDD
8 4 (23.53%) MVC
8 4 (23.53%) Workflow

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 13 (76.47%) XML
2 12 (70.59%) WSDL
3 11 (64.71%) HTML
4 10 (58.82%) J2EE
4 10 (58.82%) SOAP
4 10 (58.82%) Web Services
5 9 (52.94%) JMS
5 9 (52.94%) EJB
5 9 (52.94%) XSL
5 9 (52.94%) JNDI
6 8 (47.06%) JAAS
7 4 (23.53%) WCF
7 4 (23.53%) .NET
7 4 (23.53%) XSD
8 3 (17.65%) WPF
8 3 (17.65%) .NET Framework
9 2 (11.76%) RESTful
9 2 (11.76%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 2 (11.76%) Ninject
9 2 (11.76%) Web Dynpro
Application Platforms
1 3 (17.65%) IIS
2 1 (5.882%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (5.882%) ESB
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) SAP GRC
1 2 (11.76%) SAP BPC
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.882%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (58.82%) DB2
1 10 (58.82%) RDBMS
2 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
3 2 (11.76%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (11.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (11.76%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (11.76%) SQL Server 2012
3 2 (11.76%) SQL Server 7
Development Applications
1 1 (5.882%) Visual Studio
1 1 (5.882%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 1 (5.882%) Eclipse
1 1 (5.882%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 14 (82.35%) Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Java Developer
3 2 (11.76%) .NET Developer
3 2 (11.76%) SAP Developer
3 2 (11.76%) ABAP Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) WebSphere Administrator
4 1 (5.882%) Administrator
4 1 (5.882%) C# Developer
4 1 (5.882%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) WPF Developer
4 1 (5.882%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (5.882%) Java/J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Mobile App
1 4 (23.53%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Windows
2 1 (5.882%) Linux
2 1 (5.882%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) OOA/OOD
2 8 (47.06%) Use Case
3 5 (29.41%) UML
4 4 (23.53%) Requirements Analysis
4 4 (23.53%) Mobile Application Development
4 4 (23.53%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (23.53%) TDD
4 4 (23.53%) MVC
4 4 (23.53%) Workflow
5 3 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (17.65%) Document Management
6 2 (11.76%) Dependency Injection
6 2 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (5.882%) RAD
7 1 (5.882%) E-Commerce
7 1 (5.882%) Benchmarking
7 1 (5.882%) RDF
7 1 (5.882%) Pair Programming
7 1 (5.882%) Web Application Development
7 1 (5.882%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) Java
1 12 (70.59%) SQL
2 4 (23.53%) C#
3 3 (17.65%) VB
3 3 (17.65%) VB.NET
3 3 (17.65%) VB6
4 2 (11.76%) ABAP
4 2 (11.76%) C
4 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.882%) PHP
5 1 (5.882%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) QA
Vendors
1 9 (52.94%) Curam
1 9 (52.94%) Oracle
2 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.76%) Open Text
3 2 (11.76%) Adobe
3 2 (11.76%) SAP
4 1 (5.882%) IBM