The first table below looks at the demand for OOD skills in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes 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 54 - 54
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing OOD 1 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 0.191% - 0.168%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.264% - 0.288%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £303 £325 £330
% change year-on-year
-6.92% -1.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £39.00
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +2.56%
All Processes & Methodologies
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
379 474 347
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 72.33% 66.02% 58.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 218 154
Average daily rate £345 £325 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.15% -4.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £201 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £409 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 27 32
Average hourly rate £18.45 £15.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.96% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £10.58 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £17.00 £46.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
OOD
Buckinghamshire

OOD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes OOD Daily Rate Trend

OOD
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSLT
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) XHTML
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Regular Expression

OOD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSLT
1 1 (100.00%) XHTML
1 1 (100.00%) Regular Expression
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C# .NET Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft