The first table below looks at the demand for OO skills in IT contracts advertised for the Norfolk 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 Norfolk 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 21 35 -
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -
Contract jobs citing OO 11 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Norfolk 6.180% 0.395% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.09% 0.513% -
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 8 0 0
Average hourly rate £38.75 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+8.69% -1.42%
All Processes & Methodologies
Norfolk
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
109 195 190
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Norfolk 61.24% 77.08% 70.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 94 61
Average daily rate £290 £350 £380
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.14% -7.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £186 £203 £243
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £528 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 11 7
Average hourly rate £37.50 £23.00 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+63.04% +64.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £15.00 £7.90
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £33.00 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
OO
East of England

OO
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Norfolk 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 Norfolk region.

Norfolk OO Daily Rate Trend

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

Norfolk OO Hourly Rate Trend

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OO within the Norfolk region over the 3 months to 17 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
Norwich +2 3 - -
OO
East of England

OO
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Norfolk 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 11 (84.62%) C#
1 11 (84.62%) .NET
1 11 (84.62%) MS Excel
1 11 (84.62%) Microsoft
2 8 (61.54%) B2C
2 8 (61.54%) E-Commerce
2 8 (61.54%) Open Source
2 8 (61.54%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (38.46%) Unit Testing
4 3 (23.08%) jQuery
4 3 (23.08%) .NET Framework
4 3 (23.08%) QA
4 3 (23.08%) WatiN
4 3 (23.08%) SpecFlow
4 3 (23.08%) BDD
4 3 (23.08%) OOP
5 2 (15.38%) Apache
5 2 (15.38%) Tomcat
5 2 (15.38%) UML
5 2 (15.38%) Games
5 2 (15.38%) Hibernate
5 2 (15.38%) Spring
5 2 (15.38%) Automated Testing
5 2 (15.38%) Business Analysis
5 2 (15.38%) Requirements Analysis
5 2 (15.38%) OOD
5 2 (15.38%) CSS
5 2 (15.38%) JDBC
5 2 (15.38%) Servlets
5 2 (15.38%) Struts

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Norfolk 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 11 (84.62%) .NET
2 3 (23.08%) .NET Framework
2 3 (23.08%) jQuery
3 2 (15.38%) J2EE
3 2 (15.38%) Hibernate
3 2 (15.38%) Spring
3 2 (15.38%) CSS
3 2 (15.38%) JDBC
3 2 (15.38%) Servlets
3 2 (15.38%) Struts
4 1 (7.692%) Web Services
4 1 (7.692%) ASP.NET
4 1 (7.692%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) WebLogic
1 2 (15.38%) Apache
1 2 (15.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (84.62%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.692%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) WatiN
1 3 (23.08%) SpecFlow
2 2 (15.38%) JUnit
3 1 (7.692%) Visual Studio
3 1 (7.692%) Selenium
General
1 2 (15.38%) Games
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Software Developer
1 8 (61.54%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Programmer
2 2 (15.38%) Tester
2 2 (15.38%) QA Tester
2 2 (15.38%) Java Programmer
2 2 (15.38%) Automation Tester
3 1 (7.692%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (61.54%) Open Source
1 8 (61.54%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (15.38%) Online Games
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) E-Commerce
1 8 (61.54%) B2C
2 5 (38.46%) Unit Testing
3 3 (23.08%) BDD
3 3 (23.08%) OOP
4 2 (15.38%) UML
4 2 (15.38%) OOD
4 2 (15.38%) Automated Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Business Analysis
4 2 (15.38%) Requirements Analysis
5 1 (7.692%) Regression Testing
5 1 (7.692%) TDD
5 1 (7.692%) User Stories
5 1 (7.692%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (84.62%) C#
2 2 (15.38%) Java
3 1 (7.692%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.692%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) QA
Vendors
1 11 (84.62%) Microsoft