The first table below looks at the demand for OOA/OOD skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OOA/OOD over the 3 months to 17 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 London 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (OOA/OOD)
Rank 362 353 248
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -105
Contract jobs citing OOA/OOD 23 53 195
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.107% 0.198% 0.624%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.143% 0.276% 0.875%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 21 143
Average daily rate £400 £451 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.20% +12.62%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £375 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £549 £600 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+7.69% +0.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
Average hourly rate - - £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £44.13 £27.50 -
% change year-on-year
+60.45% -
All Processes & Methodologies
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
16095 19235 22284
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 74.54% 71.82% 71.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11073 12624 14702
Average daily rate £450 £450 £480
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £303
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 334 354
Average hourly rate £30.00 £29.00 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% +3.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £15.00 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £45.00 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
OOA/OOD
England

OOA/OOD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London OOA/OOD Daily Rate Trend

OOA/OOD
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing OOA/OOD across the London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

London OOA/OOD Daily Rate Histogram

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 London region.

London OOA/OOD Hourly Rate Trend

OOA/OOD
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OOA/OOD within the London region over the 3 months to 17 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
City of London -9 8 £444 -1.49%
Hounslow 0 4 £400 +21.21%
Canary Wharf - 2 - -
OOA/OOD
England

OOA/OOD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 36 (66.67%) OO
2 27 (50.00%) Java
3 25 (46.30%) Agile Software Development
4 21 (38.89%) TDD
5 18 (33.33%) UML
5 18 (33.33%) RESTful
6 16 (29.63%) JSON
6 16 (29.63%) Web Services
7 15 (27.78%) XML
7 15 (27.78%) SQL
8 14 (25.93%) MVC
9 13 (24.07%) RUP
9 13 (24.07%) Continuous Integration
9 13 (24.07%) Multithreading
10 12 (22.22%) Git (software)
10 12 (22.22%) Mobile App
10 12 (22.22%) MySQL
11 11 (20.37%) SOA
11 11 (20.37%) Android
12 10 (18.52%) Unit Testing
12 10 (18.52%) IBM
12 10 (18.52%) Oracle
12 10 (18.52%) MS Office
13 9 (16.67%) HTTP
13 9 (16.67%) Subversion
13 9 (16.67%) Unified Process
13 9 (16.67%) SQLite
13 9 (16.67%) Automated Testing
13 9 (16.67%) Mobile Application Development
13 9 (16.67%) HTML5

OOA/OOD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 18 (33.33%) RESTful
2 16 (29.63%) Web Services
2 16 (29.63%) JSON
3 15 (27.78%) XML
4 9 (16.67%) HTML5
5 7 (12.96%) HTML
5 7 (12.96%) CSS
5 7 (12.96%) Hibernate
5 7 (12.96%) Spring
5 7 (12.96%) Ruby on Rails
6 6 (11.11%) .NET
6 6 (11.11%) Resque
7 5 (9.259%) WCF
7 5 (9.259%) jQuery
8 4 (7.407%) J2EE
8 4 (7.407%) ASP.NET
8 4 (7.407%) JMS
8 4 (7.407%) ASP.NET MVC
9 3 (5.556%) Backbone.js
9 3 (5.556%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 8 (14.81%) Apache
2 6 (11.11%) nginx
2 6 (11.11%) Apache Solr
3 5 (9.259%) Tomcat
4 4 (7.407%) ESB
5 3 (5.556%) WebLogic
5 3 (5.556%) Documentum
5 3 (5.556%) CMS
6 2 (3.704%) IIS
6 2 (3.704%) Confluence
6 2 (3.704%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.852%) GlassFish
7 1 (1.852%) Mule
7 1 (1.852%) MSMQ
7 1 (1.852%) SAP EP
7 1 (1.852%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (1.852%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (1.852%) Rendezvous
Applications
1 10 (18.52%) MS Office
2 7 (12.96%) MS Project
3 4 (7.407%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.704%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 9 (16.67%) HTTP
2 5 (9.259%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (22.22%) MySQL
2 9 (16.67%) SQLite
3 6 (11.11%) Redis
4 3 (5.556%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (5.556%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.704%) SQL Server 2008
6 1 (1.852%) KDB
6 1 (1.852%) DB2
6 1 (1.852%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 12 (22.22%) Git (software)
2 9 (16.67%) Subversion
3 8 (14.81%) JUnit
4 6 (11.11%) Maven
4 6 (11.11%) ClearQuest
4 6 (11.11%) Capistrano
4 6 (11.11%) Jenkins
5 3 (5.556%) JIRA
6 2 (3.704%) Selenium
6 2 (3.704%) Visual Studio
6 2 (3.704%) Bugzilla
6 2 (3.704%) NUnit
6 2 (3.704%) Visual Studio Team System
6 2 (3.704%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
6 2 (3.704%) MSTest
6 2 (3.704%) Rhino Mocks
6 2 (3.704%) PhoneGap
7 1 (1.852%) Capybara
7 1 (1.852%) NWDI
7 1 (1.852%) NWDS
General
1 5 (9.259%) Finance
2 3 (5.556%) Publishing
2 3 (5.556%) Pharmaceutical
2 3 (5.556%) Front Office
3 2 (3.704%) Banking
4 1 (1.852%) Retail
4 1 (1.852%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.852%) Retail Banking
4 1 (1.852%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 30 (55.56%) Developer
2 9 (16.67%) Android Developer
3 7 (12.96%) Architect
4 6 (11.11%) Analyst
4 6 (11.11%) Ruby Developer
4 6 (11.11%) Software Developer
5 5 (9.259%) Business Analyst
6 4 (7.407%) C# Developer
7 3 (5.556%) JavaScript Developer
7 3 (5.556%) Project Manager
7 3 (5.556%) Applications Developer
7 3 (5.556%) Java Developer
7 3 (5.556%) .NET Developer
7 3 (5.556%) Team Leader
8 2 (3.704%) Software Architect
8 2 (3.704%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.704%) Lead Architect
8 2 (3.704%) Mobile Applications Developer
8 2 (3.704%) Mobile Developer
8 2 (3.704%) Designer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (22.22%) Mobile App
2 7 (12.96%) Computer Science
3 3 (5.556%) Data Integration
3 3 (5.556%) Open Source
4 2 (3.704%) Mathematics
4 2 (3.704%) Wiki
4 2 (3.704%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.852%) Equities
5 1 (1.852%) Derivative
5 1 (1.852%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.852%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.852%) Telematics
5 1 (1.852%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 11 (20.37%) Android
2 8 (14.81%) Apple iOS
3 6 (11.11%) Mac OS X
3 6 (11.11%) Gentoo
3 6 (11.11%) Ubuntu
4 5 (9.259%) Linux
5 4 (7.407%) Windows
6 2 (3.704%) UNIX
6 2 (3.704%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (66.67%) OO
2 25 (46.30%) Agile Software Development
3 21 (38.89%) TDD
4 18 (33.33%) UML
5 14 (25.93%) MVC
6 13 (24.07%) RUP
6 13 (24.07%) Continuous Integration
6 13 (24.07%) Multithreading
7 11 (20.37%) SOA
8 10 (18.52%) Unit Testing
9 9 (16.67%) Mobile Application Development
9 9 (16.67%) Automated Testing
9 9 (16.67%) Unified Process
10 8 (14.81%) Pair Programming
10 8 (14.81%) Content Management
11 7 (12.96%) Information Governance
12 6 (11.11%) Active Record
13 5 (9.259%) Technical Architecture
13 5 (9.259%) OOD
14 4 (7.407%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 27 (50.00%) Java
2 15 (27.78%) SQL
3 8 (14.81%) JavaScript
4 7 (12.96%) C#
4 7 (12.96%) Ruby
5 2 (3.704%) Objective-C
5 2 (3.704%) VBA
6 1 (1.852%) Smalltalk
6 1 (1.852%) C++
6 1 (1.852%) Perl
6 1 (1.852%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.852%) XPath
Qualifications
1 5 (9.259%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.704%) ISO 9001
2 1 (1.852%) SLA
2 1 (1.852%) QA
System Software
1 6 (11.11%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 2 (3.704%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 10 (18.52%) Oracle
1 10 (18.52%) IBM
2 6 (11.11%) Apple
3 5 (9.259%) Microsoft
3 5 (9.259%) EMC
4 4 (7.407%) Pega
5 2 (3.704%) JBoss
5 2 (3.704%) Sencha
5 2 (3.704%) Adobe
5 2 (3.704%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.852%) SeeBeyond
6 1 (1.852%) webMethods
6 1 (1.852%) ATG
6 1 (1.852%) Lombardi
6 1 (1.852%) SAP
6 1 (1.852%) hybris
6 1 (1.852%) BEA
6 1 (1.852%) Informatica