North West OO Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Object-Oriented (OO) skills within the North West region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited OO over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Object-Oriented (OO)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Avon Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dumbarton Dundee Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Farnborough Gateshead Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hartlepool Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Huddersfield Ipswich Kent Lanarkshire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Reading Redditch Redhill Rickmansworth Rotherham Rugby Salford Salisbury Scotland Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville West Dunbartonshire West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	66	75
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching contract IT job ads	62	75
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.087 %	0.076 %
As % of the category below	3.307 %	3.817 %
Daily rates quoted	9	3
Average minimum daily rate	£357	£328
Average daily rate	£377	£362
% change on same period last year	+3.95 %
Average maximum daily rate	£397	£397
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£359
% change on same period last year	-5.03 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.50	£30.89
Average hourly rate	£30.63	£34.11
% change on same period last year	-10.21 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.75	£37.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.35	£33.94
% change on same period last year	+4.16 %
Processes & Methodologies North West
Matching contract IT job ads	1875	1965
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.640 %	1.986 %
Daily rates quoted	483	480
Average minimum daily rate	£355	£332
Average daily rate	£377	£350
% change on same period last year	+7.87 %
Average maximum daily rate	£399	£367
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£370
% change on same period last year	+1.87 %
Hourly rates quoted	183	163
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.20	£26.23
Average hourly rate	£26.70	£28.30
% change on same period last year	-5.65 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.21	£30.37
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.44	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-1.89 %
OO England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing OO across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing OO across the North West region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing OO across the North West region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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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 10 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Manchester	+10	29	£393	+74.72 %
Cheshire	+3	17	£330	-
Merseyside	+7	10	-	-
Cumbria	-	1	£500	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, 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 58 (41.43 %) .NET 2 49 (35.00 %) C# 3 46 (32.86 %) Java 3 46 (32.86 %) XML 4 38 (27.14 %) WebServices 5 36 (25.71 %) JavaScript 5 36 (25.71 %) SQL 5 36 (25.71 %) ASP.NET 6 35 (25.00 %) CSS 6 35 (25.00 %) HTML 7 29 (20.71 %) SQL Server 8 27 (19.29 %) OOD 9 24 (17.14 %) JSP 9 24 (17.14 %) J2EE 10 23 (16.43 %) Oracle

11 22 (15.71 %) UNIX 12 21 (15.00 %) UML 13 20 (14.29 %) Microsoft 13 20 (14.29 %) AJAX 14 18 (12.86 %) Visual Studio 15 16 (11.43 %) OOP 15 16 (11.43 %) Windows 16 15 (10.71 %) VB.NET 16 15 (10.71 %) PHP 17 13 (9.286 %) C++ 17 13 (9.286 %) SOAP 17 13 (9.286 %) Chordiant 17 13 (9.286 %) Agile Software Development 17 13 (9.286 %) Degree 17 13 (9.286 %) JSF

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, 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 58 (41.43 %) .NET 2 46 (32.86 %) XML 3 38 (27.14 %) WebServices 4 36 (25.71 %) ASP.NET 5 35 (25.00 %) CSS 5 35 (25.00 %) HTML 6 24 (17.14 %) J2EE 6 24 (17.14 %) JSP 7 20 (14.29 %) AJAX 8 13 (9.286 %) JSF 8 13 (9.286 %) SOAP 9 12 (8.571 %) Servlets 9 12 (8.571 %) .NET Framework 10 11 (7.857 %) Hibernate 11 10 (7.143 %) XHTML 12 9 (6.429 %) ASP 12 9 (6.429 %) JDBC 13 8 (5.714 %) WinForms 14 7 (5.000 %) XSLT 15 4 (2.857 %) ASP.NET 2.0	Application Platforms 1 5 (3.571 %) CMS 2 4 (2.857 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 3 (2.143 %) MS Exchange 4 1 (0.714 %) Oracle 9iAS 4 1 (0.714 %) ColdFusion 4 1 (0.714 %) IIS 4 1 (0.714 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 10 (7.143 %) MS Office 2 2 (1.429 %) CATIA 3 1 (0.714 %) Adobe Illustrator 3 1 (0.714 %) CA Clarity 3 1 (0.714 %) Photoshop	Business Applications 1 3 (2.143 %) Axapta 2 2 (1.429 %) Teamcenter 2 2 (1.429 %) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking 1 10 (7.143 %) Internet 2 2 (1.429 %) GPRS 3 1 (0.714 %) BSS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 29 (20.71 %) SQL Server 2 12 (8.571 %) SQL Server 2005 3 11 (7.857 %) MySQL 4 10 (7.143 %) SQL Server 2000 5 8 (5.714 %) Oracle 10g 6 7 (5.000 %) Oracle 9i 7 3 (2.143 %) Oracle 8/8i 8 1 (0.714 %) Crystal Reports 8 1 (0.714 %) Datawarehouse 8 1 (0.714 %) ETL 8 1 (0.714 %) TOAD 8 1 (0.714 %) BusinessObjects 8 1 (0.714 %) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications 1 18 (12.86 %) Visual Studio 2 8 (5.714 %) Flash 3 6 (4.286 %) Eclipse 4 4 (2.857 %) Ant 5 3 (2.143 %) Subversion 5 3 (2.143 %) MorphX 5 3 (2.143 %) Oracle Forms 6 2 (1.429 %) Oracle APEX 7 1 (0.714 %) Dreamweaver	General 1 5 (3.571 %) Finance 1 5 (3.571 %) Retail 2 4 (2.857 %) Government 3 3 (2.143 %) Education 3 3 (2.143 %) Publishing 3 3 (2.143 %) Marketing 4 2 (1.429 %) Animation 4 2 (1.429 %) Pensions 4 2 (1.429 %) Advertising 4 2 (1.429 %) Banking 5 1 (0.714 %) Multimedia 5 1 (0.714 %) Local Government 5 1 (0.714 %) Health 5 1 (0.714 %) Manufacturing 5 1 (0.714 %) Online Banking
Job Titles 1 101 (72.14 %) Developer 2 26 (18.57 %) Java Developer 2 26 (18.57 %) .NET Developer 3 16 (11.43 %) C# Developer 4 11 (7.857 %) Programmer 4 11 (7.857 %) Web Developer 5 9 (6.429 %) Senior Developer 6 8 (5.714 %) J2EE Developer 6 8 (5.714 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 8 (5.714 %) PHP Developer 7 7 (5.000 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 7 7 (5.000 %) VB.NET Developer 7 7 (5.000 %) C++ Developer 8 6 (4.286 %) Analyst 8 6 (4.286 %) Java/J2EE Developer 9 5 (3.571 %) Java Programmer 9 5 (3.571 %) Flash Developer 9 5 (3.571 %) Software Developer 9 5 (3.571 %) Analyst Programmer 10 4 (2.857 %) VB Developer	Miscellaneous 1 10 (7.143 %) N-Tier 2 8 (5.714 %) Computer Science 3 6 (4.286 %) German Language 4 5 (3.571 %) Dutch Language 5 3 (2.143 %) RIA 6 2 (1.429 %) Multithreading 6 2 (1.429 %) E-Learning 6 2 (1.429 %) Web 2.0 6 2 (1.429 %) PDA 7 1 (0.714 %) Informatics 7 1 (0.714 %) Chemistry 7 1 (0.714 %) W3C 7 1 (0.714 %) Mainframe 7 1 (0.714 %) Management Information System 7 1 (0.714 %) Replication 7 1 (0.714 %) Data Integration 7 1 (0.714 %) Client/Server 7 1 (0.714 %) Social Network
Operating Systems 1 22 (15.71 %) UNIX 2 16 (11.43 %) Windows 3 9 (6.429 %) Linux 4 3 (2.143 %) HPUX 5 2 (1.429 %) Windows CE 5 2 (1.429 %) Windows Mobile 6 1 (0.714 %) VxWorks	Processes & Methodologies 1 27 (19.29 %) OOD 2 21 (15.00 %) UML 3 16 (11.43 %) OOP 4 13 (9.286 %) Agile Software Development 5 12 (8.571 %) SOA 6 11 (7.857 %) E-Commerce 7 7 (5.000 %) OOA/OOD 8 6 (4.286 %) CRM 8 6 (4.286 %) TDD 9 5 (3.571 %) Web Development 10 4 (2.857 %) e-GIF 11 3 (2.143 %) Data Modelling 11 3 (2.143 %) Validation 11 3 (2.143 %) Migration 11 3 (2.143 %) Content Management 11 3 (2.143 %) SEO 11 3 (2.143 %) Data Architecture 12 2 (1.429 %) Web Design 12 2 (1.429 %) Asset Management 12 2 (1.429 %) Data Management
Programming Languages 1 49 (35.00 %) C# 2 46 (32.86 %) Java 3 36 (25.71 %) JavaScript 3 36 (25.71 %) SQL 4 15 (10.71 %) VB.NET 4 15 (10.71 %) PHP 5 13 (9.286 %) C++ 6 11 (7.857 %) VB6 6 11 (7.857 %) VB 7 9 (6.429 %) Ruby 7 9 (6.429 %) Transact-SQL 8 8 (5.714 %) C 8 8 (5.714 %) PL/SQL 8 8 (5.714 %) Perl 9 7 (5.000 %) PHP5 10 6 (4.286 %) ActionScript 11 3 (2.143 %) XPath 11 3 (2.143 %) X++ 12 2 (1.429 %) DHTML 13 1 (0.714 %) Delphi	Qualifications 1 13 (9.286 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (4.286 %) QA 2 3 (2.143 %) WCAG 2 3 (2.143 %) WAI 3 1 (0.714 %) ISO9001	System Software 1 3 (2.143 %) MSMQ 2 1 (0.714 %) Oracle RAC
Vendors 1 23 (16.43 %) Oracle 2 20 (14.29 %) Microsoft 3 13 (9.286 %) Chordiant 4 2 (1.429 %) Baan 5 1 (0.714 %) Zend 5 1 (0.714 %) Interwoven 5 1 (0.714 %) Business Objects 5 1 (0.714 %) SAP 5 1 (0.714 %) Cognos