OO Contracts in the North West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for OO skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West 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 North West 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 60 74 91
Rank change year-on-year
+14 +17
Contract jobs citing OO 59 59 41
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 2.569% 1.863% 1.332%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.635% 3.030% 2.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 28 9
Average daily rate £330 £294 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.34% -9.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £246 £218
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £400 £465
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+8.69% -1.42%
All Processes & Methodologies
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 1623 1947 2011
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 70.66% 61.48% 65.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 794 1006 1047
Average daily rate £350 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £238 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £465 £490 £460
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 81 98
Average hourly rate £22.06 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.27% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.13 £13.26 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £55.00 £37.00 £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
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England

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Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West OO Jobs Demand Trend

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Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing OO across the North West region.

North West OO Daily Rate Trend

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Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing OO across the North West region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

North West OO Daily Rate Histogram

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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 North West region.

North West 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 North West 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
Manchester +6 33 £323 +12.17%
Lancashire - 12 £338 -
Cheshire +2 7 £375 +28.20%
Merseyside +12 6 - -
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England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 65 (49.24%) Java
2 52 (39.39%) JavaScript
3 50 (37.88%) SQL
4 48 (36.36%) XML
5 42 (31.82%) HTML
6 41 (31.06%) J2EE
6 41 (31.06%) Web Services
7 39 (29.55%) .NET
8 34 (25.76%) MVC
9 33 (25.00%) PHP
10 32 (24.24%) CSS
11 31 (23.48%) MySQL
12 29 (21.97%) SQL Server
12 29 (21.97%) C#
13 28 (21.21%) Agile Software Development
13 28 (21.21%) TDD
13 28 (21.21%) jQuery
13 28 (21.21%) Oracle
14 27 (20.45%) XSLT
15 23 (17.42%) Linux
15 23 (17.42%) RDBMS
15 23 (17.42%) Subversion
15 23 (17.42%) Ajax
16 22 (16.67%) JMS
16 22 (16.67%) Eclipse
17 21 (15.91%) SOAP
17 21 (15.91%) Spring
17 21 (15.91%) XPath
17 21 (15.91%) RESTful
18 20 (15.15%) Continuous Integration

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 48 (36.36%) XML
2 42 (31.82%) HTML
3 41 (31.06%) J2EE
3 41 (31.06%) Web Services
4 39 (29.55%) .NET
5 32 (24.24%) CSS
6 28 (21.21%) jQuery
7 27 (20.45%) XSLT
8 23 (17.42%) Ajax
9 22 (16.67%) JMS
10 21 (15.91%) Spring
10 21 (15.91%) SOAP
10 21 (15.91%) RESTful
11 19 (14.39%) Servlets
11 19 (14.39%) ASP.NET
11 19 (14.39%) EJB
12 18 (13.64%) JSP
12 18 (13.64%) HTML5
13 17 (12.88%) JSON
14 16 (12.12%) REST
Application Platforms
1 19 (14.39%) CMS
2 11 (8.333%) WebSphere Application Server
2 11 (8.333%) Magento
3 8 (6.061%) MQSeries
3 8 (6.061%) SharePoint
4 7 (5.303%) IIS
4 7 (5.303%) WordPress
5 5 (3.788%) Umbraco
6 4 (3.030%) SharePoint 2010
6 4 (3.030%) Orchard CMS
7 3 (2.273%) JCAPS
7 3 (2.273%) Drupal
7 3 (2.273%) ESB
8 2 (1.515%) Joomla!
9 1 (0.758%) Commerce Server
9 1 (0.758%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.758%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 8 (6.061%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.758%) InfoPath
2 1 (0.758%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 8 (6.061%) Tridion
2 3 (2.273%) SAP GRC
2 3 (2.273%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.758%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.758%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.758%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.758%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.758%) SAP PS
3 1 (0.758%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.758%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.758%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 17 (12.88%) Internet
2 4 (3.030%) HTTP
3 2 (1.515%) Intranet
4 1 (0.758%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (23.48%) MySQL
2 29 (21.97%) SQL Server
3 23 (17.42%) RDBMS
4 20 (15.15%) DB2
5 5 (3.788%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.030%) MongoDB
6 4 (3.030%) RavenDB
6 4 (3.030%) Redis
7 3 (2.273%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.273%) SQL Server 2008
8 2 (1.515%) SQL Server 2005
8 2 (1.515%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.515%) Oracle 11g
8 2 (1.515%) SQLite
8 2 (1.515%) SQL Server 2012
8 2 (1.515%) MarkLogic
8 2 (1.515%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.515%) Oracle 10g
8 2 (1.515%) SQL Server 7
Development Applications
1 23 (17.42%) Subversion
2 22 (16.67%) Eclipse
3 13 (9.848%) Visual Studio
3 13 (9.848%) Git (software)
4 12 (9.091%) JUnit
5 11 (8.333%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
6 8 (6.061%) Ant
6 8 (6.061%) Log4j
6 8 (6.061%) NetBeans
7 5 (3.788%) TeamCity
8 4 (3.030%) MTASC
8 4 (3.030%) MSBuild
9 3 (2.273%) VSS/SourceSafe
10 2 (1.515%) Maven
10 2 (1.515%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.758%) Mercurial
11 1 (0.758%) ReSharper
11 1 (0.758%) CruiseControl
11 1 (0.758%) Xcode
11 1 (0.758%) SpecFlow
General
1 15 (11.36%) Retail
2 10 (7.576%) Games
3 9 (6.818%) Finance
4 2 (1.515%) Publishing
5 1 (0.758%) Banking
5 1 (0.758%) Automotive
5 1 (0.758%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (0.758%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 103 (78.03%) Developer
2 29 (21.97%) Java Developer
3 16 (12.12%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 13 (9.848%) .NET Developer
5 11 (8.333%) PHP Developer
6 9 (6.818%) J2EE Developer
6 9 (6.818%) Software Engineer
7 8 (6.061%) ASP.NET Developer
8 7 (5.303%) Team Leader
8 7 (5.303%) Software Developer
8 7 (5.303%) Senior Developer
9 6 (4.545%) Web Developer
9 6 (4.545%) Development Team Leader
9 6 (4.545%) Front-End Developer
10 5 (3.788%) SAP Developer
10 5 (3.788%) Java Software Engineer
10 5 (3.788%) ABAP Developer
11 4 (3.030%) C# Developer
11 4 (3.030%) Senior Software Engineer
11 4 (3.030%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.61%) Mobile App
2 12 (9.091%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (6.818%) NHS
4 8 (6.061%) Web 2.0
5 6 (4.545%) Mathematics
5 6 (4.545%) Computer Science
6 4 (3.030%) Social Media
6 4 (3.030%) Embedded Systems
6 4 (3.030%) Statistics
6 4 (3.030%) Mobile Payment
7 3 (2.273%) Streaming Video
7 3 (2.273%) Replication
8 2 (1.515%) Interactive TV
8 2 (1.515%) W3C
8 2 (1.515%) Animation
8 2 (1.515%) Derivative
8 2 (1.515%) Semantic Web
8 2 (1.515%) Physics
9 1 (0.758%) Online Games
9 1 (0.758%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 23 (17.42%) Linux
2 15 (11.36%) Windows
3 12 (9.091%) UNIX
4 10 (7.576%) Solaris
5 8 (6.061%) HPUX
6 6 (4.545%) Android
7 5 (3.788%) Apple iOS
8 2 (1.515%) CentOS
8 2 (1.515%) Mac OS X
8 2 (1.515%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (25.76%) MVC
2 28 (21.21%) Agile Software Development
2 28 (21.21%) TDD
3 20 (15.15%) UML
3 20 (15.15%) Continuous Integration
4 19 (14.39%) OOP
4 19 (14.39%) E-Commerce
5 18 (13.64%) Content Management
6 12 (9.091%) OOD
7 11 (8.333%) OOA/OOD
7 11 (8.333%) RAD
7 11 (8.333%) Pair Programming
8 10 (7.576%) Use Case
8 10 (7.576%) BDD
9 9 (6.818%) Web Application Development
9 9 (6.818%) Test Automation
9 9 (6.818%) RDF
9 9 (6.818%) Benchmarking
10 8 (6.061%) Scrum
10 8 (6.061%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 65 (49.24%) Java
2 52 (39.39%) JavaScript
3 50 (37.88%) SQL
4 33 (25.00%) PHP
5 29 (21.97%) C#
6 21 (15.91%) XPath
7 13 (9.848%) C++
8 11 (8.333%) Perl
9 10 (7.576%) Bash shell
10 8 (6.061%) PHP5
10 8 (6.061%) VB
11 7 (5.303%) XQuery
12 6 (4.545%) ActionScript
13 5 (3.788%) VB.NET
13 5 (3.788%) ABAP
13 5 (3.788%) Ruby
13 5 (3.788%) ActionScript 2.0
14 4 (3.030%) Scala
14 4 (3.030%) Python
14 4 (3.030%) VB6
Qualifications
1 10 (7.576%) Degree
2 4 (3.030%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.515%) Sun Certification
4 1 (0.758%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.030%) PCI DSS
2 3 (2.273%) QA
2 3 (2.273%) HL7
System Software
1 3 (2.273%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (2.273%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 28 (21.21%) Oracle
2 17 (12.88%) Microsoft
3 16 (12.12%) Zend
4 11 (8.333%) IBM
5 9 (6.818%) Curam
6 8 (6.061%) Blue Martini
6 8 (6.061%) Elastic Path
6 8 (6.061%) ATG
6 8 (6.061%) Interwoven
7 7 (5.303%) SAP
8 6 (4.545%) Twitter
9 5 (3.788%) Facebook
9 5 (3.788%) Google
10 4 (3.030%) Adobe
11 3 (2.273%) Open Text
12 2 (1.515%) Sun
12 2 (1.515%) HP
12 2 (1.515%) Red Hat
13 1 (0.758%) Apple
13 1 (0.758%) Sage
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