The first table below looks at the demand for OOA/OOD skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OOA/OOD over the 3 months to 24 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 Leeds 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (OOA/OOD)
Rank - 60 -
Contract jobs citing OOA/OOD 0 7 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds - 0.806% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 1.135% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 7 0
Average daily rate - £275 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £47.50 £27.50 -
% change year-on-year
+72.72% -
All Processes & Methodologies
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
540 617 429
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 73.07% 71.00% 67.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 367 208
Average daily rate £310 £345 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.14% -1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £243 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £453 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 14 23
Average hourly rate £34.00 £13.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+151.85% -22.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.20 £11.40 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £62.50 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
OOA/OOD
West Yorkshire

OOA/OOD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds OOA/OOD Jobs Demand Trend

OOA/OOD
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing OOA/OOD across the Leeds region.

Leeds OOA/OOD Daily Rate Trend

OOA/OOD
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing OOA/OOD across the Leeds region.

Leeds OOA/OOD Hourly Rate Trend

OOA/OOD
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing OOA/OOD 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 OOA/OOD.

1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Cocoa
1 2 (100.00%) Xcode
1 2 (100.00%) Objective-C
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Subversion
1 2 (100.00%) Automated Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 2 (100.00%) Android
1 2 (100.00%) iPhone
1 2 (100.00%) iPad
1 2 (100.00%) Memory Management
1 2 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 2 (100.00%) Cocoa Touch
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile App
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Telecoms

OOA/OOD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing OOA/OOD 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 OOA/OOD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) Cocoa
1 2 (100.00%) Cocoa Touch
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Xcode
1 2 (100.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) iOS Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) iPhone
1 2 (100.00%) iPad
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Android
1 2 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Automated Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 2 (100.00%) Memory Management
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Objective-C