OOP 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 OOP 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 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 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
Rank 105 73 115
Rank change year-on-year
-32 +42
Contract jobs citing OOP 13 59 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.555% 1.890% 0.387%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.781% 3.065% 0.596%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 42 8
Average daily rate £265 £275 £369
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.63% -25.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £230 £202
10% offered a daily rate of more than £333 £350 £458
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
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 1664 1925 2014
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 70.99% 61.66% 64.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 821 991 1044
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 £475 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 84 96
Average hourly rate £21.00 £18.25 £20.30
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.06% -10.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.25 £13.35 £12.90
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £52.47 £37.50 £38.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
OOP
England

OOP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West OOP Daily Rate Trend

OOP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing OOP across the North West region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

North West OOP Daily Rate Histogram

OOP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North West OOP Hourly Rate Trend

OOP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OOP within the North West region over the 3 months to 23 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 -23 9 £265 -3.63%
Cheshire -1 1 £225 -16.66%
Cumbria - 1 - -
OOP
England

OOP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 25 (48.08%) PHP
2 21 (40.38%) JavaScript
2 21 (40.38%) MVC
3 19 (36.54%) CSS
4 18 (34.62%) OO
4 18 (34.62%) Java
5 17 (32.69%) SQL
5 17 (32.69%) TDD
6 16 (30.77%) .NET
7 15 (28.85%) SQL Server
7 15 (28.85%) C#
8 13 (25.00%) HTML
8 13 (25.00%) Web Services
8 13 (25.00%) JSON
8 13 (25.00%) Drupal
9 12 (23.08%) ASP.NET
9 12 (23.08%) HTML5
10 11 (21.15%) Mobile App
10 11 (21.15%) Zend
10 11 (21.15%) Android
11 10 (19.23%) jQuery
11 10 (19.23%) Ajax
11 10 (19.23%) SharePoint
11 10 (19.23%) XML
11 10 (19.23%) MySQL
12 9 (17.31%) Agile Software Development
13 8 (15.38%) Web Application Development
13 8 (15.38%) T-SQL
14 7 (13.46%) NHS
14 7 (13.46%) Scrum

OOP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 19 (36.54%) CSS
2 16 (30.77%) .NET
3 13 (25.00%) HTML
3 13 (25.00%) Web Services
3 13 (25.00%) JSON
4 12 (23.08%) ASP.NET
4 12 (23.08%) HTML5
5 10 (19.23%) jQuery
5 10 (19.23%) Ajax
5 10 (19.23%) XML
6 7 (13.46%) ASP.NET MVC
6 7 (13.46%) CSS3
7 6 (11.54%) LAMP
8 5 (9.615%) Flash
9 4 (7.692%) WCF
9 4 (7.692%) RESTful
9 4 (7.692%) .NET Framework
9 4 (7.692%) Hibernate
9 4 (7.692%) XSL
10 3 (5.769%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 13 (25.00%) Drupal
2 10 (19.23%) SharePoint
3 6 (11.54%) CMS
4 5 (9.615%) Joomla!
5 3 (5.769%) JCAPS
5 3 (5.769%) WordPress
6 2 (3.846%) Magento
6 2 (3.846%) Apache
7 1 (1.923%) IIS
7 1 (1.923%) Orchard CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.923%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.615%) Internet
2 4 (7.692%) HTTP
3 1 (1.923%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (28.85%) SQL Server
2 10 (19.23%) MySQL
3 4 (7.692%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (7.692%) SQL Server 2005
4 3 (5.769%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.846%) CouchDB
6 1 (1.923%) GIS
6 1 (1.923%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.923%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (1.923%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.923%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.923%) RavenDB
6 1 (1.923%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (11.54%) Subversion
2 4 (7.692%) MTASC
3 3 (5.769%) Visual Studio
3 3 (5.769%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 3 (5.769%) NetBeans
3 3 (5.769%) Git (software)
3 3 (5.769%) QUnit
4 2 (3.846%) PHPUnit
4 2 (3.846%) TeamCity
4 2 (3.846%) Ant
5 1 (1.923%) Xcode
5 1 (1.923%) ReSharper
5 1 (1.923%) CruiseControl
5 1 (1.923%) Mercurial
5 1 (1.923%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.923%) MSBuild
General
1 3 (5.769%) Games
2 1 (1.923%) Electronics
2 1 (1.923%) Finance
Job Titles
1 45 (86.54%) Developer
2 11 (21.15%) Drupal Developer
3 10 (19.23%) PHP Developer
4 9 (17.31%) Android Developer
5 7 (13.46%) Web Developer
5 7 (13.46%) .NET Developer
6 4 (7.692%) Software Developer
6 4 (7.692%) Senior Developer
7 3 (5.769%) ActionScript Developer
7 3 (5.769%) Flash Developer
7 3 (5.769%) PHP Drupal Developer
7 3 (5.769%) .NET Software Developer
7 3 (5.769%) Flash ActionScript Developer
8 2 (3.846%) Mobile Developer
8 2 (3.846%) PHP Joomla! Developer
8 2 (3.846%) Front-End Developer
8 2 (3.846%) Front-End Web Developer
8 2 (3.846%) Enterprise Architect
8 2 (3.846%) Architect
8 2 (3.846%) Software Architect
Miscellaneous
1 11 (21.15%) Mobile App
2 7 (13.46%) NHS
3 4 (7.692%) Embedded Systems
3 4 (7.692%) N-Tier
4 3 (5.769%) Replication
5 2 (3.846%) Digital Media
5 2 (3.846%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.846%) Linked Data
5 2 (3.846%) Semantic Web
5 2 (3.846%) Smartphone
5 2 (3.846%) BBC
6 1 (1.923%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.923%) CCTV
6 1 (1.923%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 11 (21.15%) Android
2 7 (13.46%) Apple iOS
3 6 (11.54%) Windows
4 3 (5.769%) Linux
5 1 (1.923%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (40.38%) MVC
2 18 (34.62%) OO
3 17 (32.69%) TDD
4 9 (17.31%) Agile Software Development
5 8 (15.38%) Web Application Development
6 7 (13.46%) Scrum
7 6 (11.54%) Content Management
8 5 (9.615%) BDD
9 4 (7.692%) Memory Management
9 4 (7.692%) Performance Testing
10 3 (5.769%) Disaster Recovery
10 3 (5.769%) E-Commerce
10 3 (5.769%) Unit Testing
10 3 (5.769%) Kanban
10 3 (5.769%) Mobile Application Development
11 2 (3.846%) Progressive Enhancement
11 2 (3.846%) Continuous Integration
11 2 (3.846%) Test-First Development
11 2 (3.846%) Pair Programming
11 2 (3.846%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 25 (48.08%) PHP
2 21 (40.38%) JavaScript
3 18 (34.62%) Java
4 17 (32.69%) SQL
5 15 (28.85%) C#
6 8 (15.38%) T-SQL
7 6 (11.54%) C++
8 5 (9.615%) ActionScript
8 5 (9.615%) Objective-C
8 5 (9.615%) ActionScript 2.0
8 5 (9.615%) PHP5
9 3 (5.769%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.923%) VB
10 1 (1.923%) VB6
Qualifications
1 4 (7.692%) Sun Certification
2 1 (1.923%) Degree
2 1 (1.923%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.769%) HL7
System Software
1 3 (5.769%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (5.769%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 11 (21.15%) Zend
2 6 (11.54%) Apple
3 4 (7.692%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.692%) Oracle
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