The first table below looks at the demand for OO skills in IT contracts advertised for the Macclesfield region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OO 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 Macclesfield 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 (OO)
Rank - - 19
Contract jobs citing OO 0 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Macclesfield - - 3.077%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - 5.128%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
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
Macclesfield
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
31 41 39
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Macclesfield 83.78% 87.23% 60.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 17 14
Average daily rate £350 £345 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.44% -8.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £296 £174 £278
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
Average hourly rate £40.00 - £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
OO
Cheshire

OO
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Macclesfield OO Jobs Demand Trend

OO
Daily Rate Trend

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

Macclesfield OO Daily Rate Trend

OO
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Macclesfield 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 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) UML
1 2 (100.00%) W3C
1 2 (100.00%) Internet
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Automotive

OO
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Macclesfield 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 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Web Developer
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Web Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# Web Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) UML
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree