The first table below looks at the demand for OOD skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited 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 Manchester 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 Design (OOD)
Rank 73 78 59
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -19
Contract jobs citing OOD 2 5 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.214% 0.387% 1.248%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.302% 0.612% 1.923%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 4
Average daily rate £300 £300 £296
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +1.26%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £290 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £340 £370 £321
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £330 £330
% change year-on-year
-9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £31.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £39.00
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +2.56%
All Processes & Methodologies
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
662 817 676
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 70.95% 63.24% 64.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 407 306
Average daily rate £325 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 35 38
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -2.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.03 £12.01 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £77.50 £34.50 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
OOD
North West

OOD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester OOD Daily Rate Trend

OOD
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester OOD Hourly Rate Trend

OOD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 7 (77.78%) OO
2 5 (55.56%) HTML
2 5 (55.56%) JavaScript
3 4 (44.44%) Java
3 4 (44.44%) J2EE
3 4 (44.44%) Python
3 4 (44.44%) UML
3 4 (44.44%) Hibernate
3 4 (44.44%) Spring
3 4 (44.44%) Mathematics
3 4 (44.44%) Computer Science
3 4 (44.44%) Django
3 4 (44.44%) Unit Testing
3 4 (44.44%) PCI DSS
3 4 (44.44%) Memcached
3 4 (44.44%) Redis
3 4 (44.44%) Mobile Payment
4 3 (33.33%) Time Management
4 3 (33.33%) Integration Testing
4 3 (33.33%) Code Coverage
4 3 (33.33%) Eclipse
5 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
5 2 (22.22%) C#
5 2 (22.22%) C++
5 2 (22.22%) Use Case
6 1 (11.11%) Drupal
6 1 (11.11%) WCF
6 1 (11.11%) WPF
6 1 (11.11%) Silverlight
6 1 (11.11%) Agile Software Development

OOD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 5 (55.56%) HTML
2 4 (44.44%) J2EE
2 4 (44.44%) Hibernate
2 4 (44.44%) Spring
2 4 (44.44%) Django
2 4 (44.44%) Memcached
3 1 (11.11%) WCF
3 1 (11.11%) WPF
3 1 (11.11%) Silverlight
3 1 (11.11%) CSS3
3 1 (11.11%) .NET
3 1 (11.11%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Drupal
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Redis
2 1 (11.11%) MySQL
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) GIS
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Eclipse
2 1 (11.11%) NUnit
2 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (11.11%) Games
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Java/J2EE Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Business Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) C# Software Developer
4 1 (11.11%) C# Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Business Systems Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Mathematics
1 4 (44.44%) Computer Science
1 4 (44.44%) Mobile Payment
2 1 (11.11%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) OO
2 4 (44.44%) UML
2 4 (44.44%) Unit Testing
3 3 (33.33%) Time Management
3 3 (33.33%) Integration Testing
3 3 (33.33%) Code Coverage
4 2 (22.22%) Use Case
5 1 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (11.11%) TDD
5 1 (11.11%) Scrum
5 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (11.11%) Multithreading
5 1 (11.11%) ITIL
5 1 (11.11%) OOP
5 1 (11.11%) OOA/OOD
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) JavaScript
2 4 (44.44%) Java
2 4 (44.44%) Python
3 2 (22.22%) C#
3 2 (22.22%) C++
4 1 (11.11%) PHP
4 1 (11.11%) SQL
4 1 (11.11%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) PCI DSS
2 1 (11.11%) TickIT
2 1 (11.11%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Twitter
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
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