The first table below looks at the demand for 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 OOD 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 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
Rank 287 264 211
Rank change year-on-year
-23 -53
Contract jobs citing OOD 103 141 265
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.468% 0.523% 0.864%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.627% 0.727% 1.211%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 93 174
Average daily rate £419 £400 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.68% -23.80%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £300 £317
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £543 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £303 £325 £330
% change year-on-year
-6.92% -1.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 15 1
Average hourly rate - £32.50 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -18.75%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £39.00
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +2.56%
All Processes & Methodologies
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
16430 19385 21875
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 74.58% 71.84% 71.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11280 12741 14396
Average daily rate £450 £450 £483
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.73%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £305
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 257 335 346
Average hourly rate £31.00 £27.50 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.72% -1.78%
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 £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
OOD
England

OOD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London OOD Jobs Demand Trend

OOD
Daily Rate Trend

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

London OOD Daily Rate Trend

OOD
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing OOD across the London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

London OOD Daily Rate Histogram

OOD
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London OOD Hourly Rate Trend

OOD
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OOD within the London 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
City of London +29 36 £400 -
Docklands, London -2 2 £463 -7.50%
Canary Wharf -5 2 - -
OOD
England

OOD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing 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 OOD.

1 173 (86.50%) OO
2 83 (41.50%) Java
3 79 (39.50%) SQL
4 73 (36.50%) C#
5 67 (33.50%) SQL Server
6 63 (31.50%) TDD
7 60 (30.00%) JavaScript
8 55 (27.50%) .NET
9 54 (27.00%) Web Services
10 52 (26.00%) CSS
11 51 (25.50%) Oracle
12 50 (25.00%) HTML
13 48 (24.00%) XML
13 48 (24.00%) Agile Software Development
14 45 (22.50%) C++
15 44 (22.00%) jQuery
16 43 (21.50%) JSON
17 38 (19.00%) Git (software)
18 37 (18.50%) Finance
19 35 (17.50%) Ajax
20 33 (16.50%) Banking
20 33 (16.50%) ASP.NET
21 32 (16.00%) Spring
22 31 (15.50%) SOAP
23 30 (15.00%) Microsoft
23 30 (15.00%) Multithreading
23 30 (15.00%) Apple iOS
24 29 (14.50%) REST
25 28 (14.00%) Investment Banking
25 28 (14.00%) SOA

OOD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing 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 OOD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 55 (27.50%) .NET
2 54 (27.00%) Web Services
3 52 (26.00%) CSS
4 50 (25.00%) HTML
5 48 (24.00%) XML
6 44 (22.00%) jQuery
7 43 (21.50%) JSON
8 35 (17.50%) Ajax
9 33 (16.50%) ASP.NET
10 32 (16.00%) Spring
11 31 (15.50%) SOAP
12 29 (14.50%) REST
13 24 (12.00%) J2EE
14 23 (11.50%) RESTful
15 21 (10.50%) Hibernate
16 20 (10.00%) WCF
17 17 (8.500%) ASP.NET MVC
17 17 (8.500%) .NET Framework
18 16 (8.000%) WinForms
18 16 (8.000%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 15 (7.500%) CMS
2 9 (4.500%) Alfresco
2 9 (4.500%) IIS
3 8 (4.000%) Documentum
4 7 (3.500%) WebLogic
5 6 (3.000%) Apache
5 6 (3.000%) ESB
6 5 (2.500%) Tomcat
6 5 (2.500%) TIBCO EMS
7 4 (2.000%) SharePoint
8 3 (1.500%) Drupal
9 2 (1.000%) Rendezvous
9 2 (1.000%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (1.000%) Sitecore CMS
9 2 (1.000%) WordPress
10 1 (0.500%) Mule
10 1 (0.500%) Amazon AWS
10 1 (0.500%) Magento
10 1 (0.500%) Adobe CQ
10 1 (0.500%) GemFire
Applications
1 16 (8.000%) MS Excel
2 12 (6.000%) MS Office
3 11 (5.500%) Photoshop
4 5 (2.500%) MS Project
5 3 (1.500%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.500%) Adobe Captivate
6 1 (0.500%) PowerPivot
6 1 (0.500%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 3 (1.500%) Summit
2 1 (0.500%) Oracle ERP
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.500%) Internet
2 10 (5.000%) HTTP
3 5 (2.500%) DNS
4 3 (1.500%) RTP
4 3 (1.500%) RFID
4 3 (1.500%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.500%) Intranet
5 1 (0.500%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.500%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (33.50%) SQL Server
2 11 (5.500%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 8 (4.000%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 7 (3.500%) SQL Server 2008
4 7 (3.500%) MySQL
5 6 (3.000%) RDBMS
5 6 (3.000%) Big Data
6 5 (2.500%) SQL Server 2000
6 5 (2.500%) Oracle 10g
6 5 (2.500%) DTS
6 5 (2.500%) Oracle 8/8i
7 4 (2.000%) MS Access
7 4 (2.000%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (1.500%) Oracle 11g
8 3 (1.500%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.500%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 2 (1.000%) DB2
9 2 (1.000%) Oracle 9i
9 2 (1.000%) TOAD
9 2 (1.000%) SQL Navigator
Development Applications
1 38 (19.00%) Git (software)
2 27 (13.50%) Subversion
3 17 (8.500%) Mercurial
3 17 (8.500%) Xcode
4 16 (8.000%) JUnit
5 13 (6.500%) Maven
6 12 (6.000%) TeamCity
7 11 (5.500%) GitHub
7 11 (5.500%) Trac
7 11 (5.500%) Eclipse
8 10 (5.000%) Visual Studio
9 9 (4.500%) Cucumber
9 9 (4.500%) Hudson
10 8 (4.000%) Jenkins
10 8 (4.000%) Balsamiq Mockups
10 8 (4.000%) NMock
11 7 (3.500%) MSBuild
11 7 (3.500%) NUnit
12 5 (2.500%) Team Foundation Server
13 4 (2.000%) Ant
General
1 37 (18.50%) Finance
2 33 (16.50%) Banking
3 28 (14.00%) Investment Banking
4 15 (7.500%) Front Office
5 12 (6.000%) Back Office
6 8 (4.000%) Retail
7 6 (3.000%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.000%) Publishing
9 3 (1.500%) Games
9 3 (1.500%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.500%) Japanese Language
10 1 (0.500%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.500%) Wholesale Banking
10 1 (0.500%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 165 (82.50%) Developer
2 33 (16.50%) Java Developer
3 29 (14.50%) .NET Developer
3 29 (14.50%) C# Developer
4 26 (13.00%) Senior Developer
5 18 (9.000%) iOS Developer
6 14 (7.000%) C++ Developer
7 12 (6.000%) Senior .NET Developer
7 12 (6.000%) Web Developer
7 12 (6.000%) Agile C# Developer
8 11 (5.500%) C# .NET Developer
8 11 (5.500%) Android Developer
9 10 (5.000%) Software Engineer
10 9 (4.500%) Agile Java Developer
10 9 (4.500%) Architect
10 9 (4.500%) Lead Developer
10 9 (4.500%) Programmer
10 9 (4.500%) Java Web Developer
10 9 (4.500%) Senior C# Developer
11 8 (4.000%) Ruby Developer
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.000%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 15 (7.500%) Open Source
3 14 (7.000%) Derivative
4 11 (5.500%) Computer Science
4 11 (5.500%) Graphic Design
5 10 (5.000%) Fixed Income
6 9 (4.500%) N-Tier
7 8 (4.000%) RIA
8 7 (3.500%) Inversion of Control
8 7 (3.500%) Mathematics
8 7 (3.500%) Physics
9 6 (3.000%) Statistics
9 6 (3.000%) Mobile App
9 6 (3.000%) Market Risk
10 5 (2.500%) Equities
11 4 (2.000%) Credit Derivative
11 4 (2.000%) iPhone
11 4 (2.000%) Credit Risk
12 3 (1.500%) Video on Demand
12 3 (1.500%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 30 (15.00%) Apple iOS
2 28 (14.00%) Windows
3 20 (10.00%) Android
4 16 (8.000%) Linux
5 7 (3.500%) UNIX
6 1 (0.500%) Windows 8
6 1 (0.500%) Windows XP
6 1 (0.500%) Windows Mobile
6 1 (0.500%) Windows XP Embedded
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (86.50%) OO
2 63 (31.50%) TDD
3 48 (24.00%) Agile Software Development
4 30 (15.00%) Multithreading
5 28 (14.00%) SOA
6 27 (13.50%) OOP
6 27 (13.50%) MVC
7 24 (12.00%) UML
7 24 (12.00%) Unit Testing
8 21 (10.50%) Continuous Integration
9 19 (9.500%) BDD
9 19 (9.500%) Scrum
10 15 (7.500%) Risk Management
11 11 (5.500%) Software Engineering
12 10 (5.000%) Data Modelling
12 10 (5.000%) E-Commerce
13 9 (4.500%) Waterfall
13 9 (4.500%) Time Management
13 9 (4.500%) RAD
14 7 (3.500%) RUP
Programming Languages
1 83 (41.50%) Java
2 79 (39.50%) SQL
3 73 (36.50%) C#
4 60 (30.00%) JavaScript
5 45 (22.50%) C++
6 19 (9.500%) Objective-C
7 16 (8.000%) Python
8 15 (7.500%) Ruby
9 10 (5.000%) T-SQL
9 10 (5.000%) C
9 10 (5.000%) Groovy
10 9 (4.500%) PL/SQL
11 5 (2.500%) Perl
12 4 (2.000%) PHP
12 4 (2.000%) VBA
13 3 (1.500%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.500%) VB
14 2 (1.000%) VB6
14 2 (1.000%) XPath
14 2 (1.000%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 17 (8.500%) Degree
2 1 (0.500%) SC Cleared
2 1 (0.500%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.500%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (0.500%) MCAD
2 1 (0.500%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.000%) QA
2 4 (2.000%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.500%) Basel III
System Software
1 4 (2.000%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.000%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 51 (25.50%) Oracle
2 30 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 14 (7.000%) IBM
4 13 (6.500%) Google
5 5 (2.500%) TIBCO
5 5 (2.500%) Adobe
6 4 (2.000%) Sybase
6 4 (2.000%) JBoss
6 4 (2.000%) Informatica
6 4 (2.000%) Apple
6 4 (2.000%) DevExpress
7 3 (1.500%) Syncfusion
7 3 (1.500%) SAP
8 2 (1.000%) Sitecore
8 2 (1.000%) EPiServer
9 1 (0.500%) Zend
9 1 (0.500%) Terracotta
9 1 (0.500%) 29West
9 1 (0.500%) EMC
9 1 (0.500%) BEA
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