The first table below looks at the demand for OOP 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 OOP over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
Rank 53 56 -
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -
Contract jobs citing OOP 2 5 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 0.377% 0.707% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.522% 1.075% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 0
Average daily rate - £288 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £310 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.61% -4.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.00 £60.00 -
% change year-on-year
-36.66% -
All Processes & Methodologies
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
383 465 343
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 72.26% 65.77% 56.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 212 153
Average daily rate £350 £325 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £405 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 25 31
Average hourly rate £16.50 £14.75 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.86% -1.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £10.58 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.50 £17.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
OOP
Buckinghamshire

OOP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes OOP Jobs Demand Trend

OOP
Daily Rate Trend

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

Milton Keynes OOP Daily Rate Trend

OOP
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing OOP 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 OOP.

1 2 (66.67%) PHP
1 2 (66.67%) CSS
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
1 2 (66.67%) OO
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 1 (33.33%) SOAP
2 1 (33.33%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) XSLT
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) MVC
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Ajax
2 1 (33.33%) Web Development
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) WPF
2 1 (33.33%) YUI
2 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Git (software)
2 1 (33.33%) Moodle
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (33.33%) HTML5
2 1 (33.33%) CSS3

OOP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing OOP 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 OOP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (66.67%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 1 (33.33%) SOAP
2 1 (33.33%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) XSLT
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) Ajax
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) WPF
2 1 (33.33%) YUI
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (33.33%) HTML5
2 1 (33.33%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Moodle
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git (software)
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Programmer
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) PHP Developer
2 1 (33.33%) MySQL Developer
2 1 (33.33%) PHP Programmer
2 1 (33.33%) XML Developer
2 1 (33.33%) CSS Developer
2 1 (33.33%) PHP MySQL Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Moodle Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) OO
2 1 (33.33%) MVC
2 1 (33.33%) Web Development
2 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PHP
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript