The first table below looks at the demand for OO skills in IT contracts advertised for the North Wales region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OO over the 3 months to 20 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 North Wales 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented (OO)
Rank 5 4 -
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -
Contract jobs citing OO 1 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in North Wales 7.143% 6.250% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.00% 11.11% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £300 £250 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £332 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+2.15% -
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
North Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
10 9 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in North Wales 71.43% 56.25% 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 0
Average daily rate £350 £250 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+40.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 2
Average hourly rate £26.00 £14.50 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+79.31% -35.55%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
OO
Wales

OO
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North Wales 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 North Wales region.

North Wales OO Daily Rate Trend

OO
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North Wales 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 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 5 (100.00%) PHP
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) HTML
2 4 (80.00%) MySQL
2 4 (80.00%) Ajax
2 4 (80.00%) PHP5
2 4 (80.00%) HTML5
3 1 (20.00%) jQuery
3 1 (20.00%) Web Development
3 1 (20.00%) CSS
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Java

OO
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North Wales 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 5 (100.00%) HTML
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
2 4 (80.00%) Ajax
2 4 (80.00%) HTML5
3 1 (20.00%) jQuery
3 1 (20.00%) CSS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (80.00%) PHP Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Web Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 5 (100.00%) PHP
2 4 (80.00%) PHP5
3 1 (20.00%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft