The first table below looks at the demand for OOP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OOP 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 Oxford 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 Programming (OOP)
Rank 32 37 21
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -16
Contract jobs citing OOP 2 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 0.877% 0.294% 1.282%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.250% 0.521% 2.941%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
Average daily rate £400 - £275
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £300 £330
% change year-on-year
+5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £16.61 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.00 £60.00 -
% change year-on-year
-36.66% -
All Processes & Methodologies
Oxford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
160 192 68
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 70.18% 56.47% 43.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 121 38
Average daily rate £350 £425 £230
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.64% +84.78%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £257 £300 £178
10% offered a daily rate of more than £498 £500 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 19 2
Average hourly rate £10.33 £20.06 £11.39
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-48.52% +76.15%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
OOP
Oxfordshire

OOP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford OOP Daily Rate Trend

OOP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Oxford OOP Hourly Rate Trend

OOP
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 4 (100.00%) MySQL
1 4 (100.00%) CMS
1 4 (100.00%) HTML5
2 2 (50.00%) Workflow
2 2 (50.00%) Publishing
2 2 (50.00%) Apple iOS
2 2 (50.00%) iOS SDK
2 2 (50.00%) CSS3
2 2 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (50.00%) Objective-C
2 2 (50.00%) Web Design
2 2 (50.00%) Marketing
2 2 (50.00%) JSON
2 2 (50.00%) SQLite
2 2 (50.00%) jQuery
2 2 (50.00%) Android
2 2 (50.00%) CSS
2 2 (50.00%) Web Services
2 2 (50.00%) XML
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) PHP
2 2 (50.00%) J2EE
3 1 (25.00%) B2B

OOP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 4 (100.00%) HTML5
2 2 (50.00%) iOS SDK
2 2 (50.00%) CSS3
2 2 (50.00%) J2EE
2 2 (50.00%) CSS
2 2 (50.00%) Web Services
2 2 (50.00%) XML
2 2 (50.00%) JSON
2 2 (50.00%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) CMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) MySQL
2 2 (50.00%) SQLite
General
1 2 (50.00%) Publishing
1 2 (50.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) PHP Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Mobile Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Android
1 2 (50.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Workflow
1 2 (50.00%) Web Design
2 1 (25.00%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) PHP
1 2 (50.00%) Objective-C