The first table below looks at the demand for OO skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leicestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OO over the 3 months to 23 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 Leicestershire 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented (OO)
Rank 22 17 19
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +2
Contract jobs citing OO 8 9 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 3.791% 4.186% 6.383%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.755% 6.923% 9.615%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 4
Average daily rate £313 £350 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.71% -22.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £295 £350 £348
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £350 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.84% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
Average hourly rate - - £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+8.69% -1.42%
All Processes & Methodologies
Leicestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
139 130 156
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 65.88% 60.47% 66.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 43 50
Average daily rate £425 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.42% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £206 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £579 £413 £505
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 20
Average hourly rate £18.25 £11.00 £32.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+65.90% -65.89%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.55 £8.50 £26.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £26.20 £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
OO
East Midlands

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Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Leicester -2 4 £420 +20.00%
OO
East Midlands

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 16 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 14 (70.00%) OOP
3 9 (45.00%) PHP
3 9 (45.00%) .NET
3 9 (45.00%) MySQL
3 9 (45.00%) CSS
3 9 (45.00%) jQuery
4 8 (40.00%) C#
4 8 (40.00%) HTML
4 8 (40.00%) Visual Studio
4 8 (40.00%) N-Tier
4 8 (40.00%) ASP.NET
4 8 (40.00%) Ajax
5 7 (35.00%) Telerik
5 7 (35.00%) Linux
5 7 (35.00%) Apache
5 7 (35.00%) Twitter
5 7 (35.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 7 (35.00%) DevExpress
6 6 (30.00%) TDD
7 5 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
7 5 (25.00%) Zend
8 4 (20.00%) CodeIgniter
8 4 (20.00%) PHPUnit
9 3 (15.00%) WCF
9 3 (15.00%) XML
9 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
9 3 (15.00%) SQL
10 2 (10.00%) IIS
10 2 (10.00%) Java

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 9 (45.00%) .NET
1 9 (45.00%) CSS
1 9 (45.00%) jQuery
2 8 (40.00%) HTML
2 8 (40.00%) ASP.NET
2 8 (40.00%) Ajax
3 7 (35.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 4 (20.00%) CodeIgniter
5 3 (15.00%) WCF
5 3 (15.00%) XML
6 2 (10.00%) WebSphere
6 2 (10.00%) Google Maps API
6 2 (10.00%) TAPI
7 1 (5.000%) HTML5
7 1 (5.000%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (5.000%) CSS3
7 1 (5.000%) Backbone.js
7 1 (5.000%) Sass
7 1 (5.000%) Ruby on Rails
7 1 (5.000%) Zend Framework
Application Platforms
1 7 (35.00%) Apache
2 2 (10.00%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (5.000%) SAP IS-U
1 1 (5.000%) SAP CRM
1 1 (5.000%) SAP Oil and Gas
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (45.00%) MySQL
2 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (10.00%) GIS
4 1 (5.000%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (5.000%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 8 (40.00%) Visual Studio
2 4 (20.00%) PHPUnit
3 2 (10.00%) Selenium
3 2 (10.00%) Cucumber
4 1 (5.000%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (5.000%) WebDriver
4 1 (5.000%) LSMW
4 1 (5.000%) QuickTest Pro
4 1 (5.000%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 2 (10.00%) Retail
2 1 (5.000%) Telecoms
2 1 (5.000%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 14 (70.00%) Developer
2 4 (20.00%) .NET Developer
3 3 (15.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 3 (15.00%) C# Developer
3 3 (15.00%) ASP.NET Developer
3 3 (15.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.000%) Web Engineer
5 1 (5.000%) Data Migration Consultant
5 1 (5.000%) SAP Data Consultant
5 1 (5.000%) Agile Tester
5 1 (5.000%) SAP ISU Consultant
5 1 (5.000%) Migration Consultant
5 1 (5.000%) PHP Developer
5 1 (5.000%) SAP Consultant
5 1 (5.000%) SAP Data Migration Consultant
5 1 (5.000%) Data Consultant
5 1 (5.000%) Tester
5 1 (5.000%) Analyst
5 1 (5.000%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 8 (40.00%) N-Tier
2 1 (5.000%) Social Media
2 1 (5.000%) SaaS
2 1 (5.000%) Digital Media
2 1 (5.000%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 7 (35.00%) Linux
2 2 (10.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) OOP
2 6 (30.00%) TDD
3 5 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (10.00%) BDD
5 1 (5.000%) Market Research
5 1 (5.000%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (5.000%) Data Migration
5 1 (5.000%) Automation Testing
5 1 (5.000%) MVC
5 1 (5.000%) Migration
5 1 (5.000%) Scrum
5 1 (5.000%) Extreme Programming
5 1 (5.000%) Data Analysis
5 1 (5.000%) Software Engineering
5 1 (5.000%) Project Management
5 1 (5.000%) CRM
5 1 (5.000%) E-Commerce
5 1 (5.000%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 16 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 9 (45.00%) PHP
3 8 (40.00%) C#
4 3 (15.00%) SQL
5 2 (10.00%) Java
6 1 (5.000%) CoffeeScript
6 1 (5.000%) PHP5
6 1 (5.000%) Python
6 1 (5.000%) T-SQL
6 1 (5.000%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 1 (5.000%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.000%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Telerik
1 7 (35.00%) Twitter
1 7 (35.00%) DevExpress
2 5 (25.00%) Zend
3 1 (5.000%) SAP