Oxfordshire OO Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Object-Oriented (OO) skills within the Oxfordshire 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Object-Oriented (OO)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Basildon Basingstoke Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Cheshire Chester City of London Clapham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Kent Lanarkshire Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newport Newton-le-Willows North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Windsor Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	18	43
Rank change on same period last year	+25
Matching contract IT job ads	42	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.056 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	12.28 %	4.783 %
Daily rates quoted	5	2
Average minimum daily rate	£256	£300
Average daily rate	£280	£338
% change on same period last year	-17.18 %
Average maximum daily rate	£303	£375
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£364
% change on same period last year	-4.38 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£35.00
Average hourly rate	£30.00	£37.50
% change on same period last year	-20.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£37.61	£33.71
% change on same period last year	+11.56 %
Processes & Methodologies Oxfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	342	230
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.456 %	0.233 %
Daily rates quoted	94	46
Average minimum daily rate	£317	£319
Average daily rate	£350	£346
% change on same period last year	+1.29 %
Average maximum daily rate	£383	£372
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	66	32
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.70	£21.98
Average hourly rate	£24.59	£24.42
% change on same period last year	+0.71 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.49	£26.86
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
OO South East

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 Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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 Oxfordshire region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OO within the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Oxford	+8	18	£274	-
Abingdon	-3	3	-	-

OO South East

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 39 (52.70 %) .NET 2 34 (45.95 %) C# 3 26 (35.14 %) ASP.NET 4 21 (28.38 %) XML 5 20 (27.03 %) C++ 6 17 (22.97 %) Microsoft 7 16 (21.62 %) WebServices 8 15 (20.27 %) Java 8 15 (20.27 %) UML 9 13 (17.57 %) SQL Server 10 12 (16.22 %) Visual Studio 10 12 (16.22 %) OOD 11 11 (14.86 %) MySQL 11 11 (14.86 %) PHP 11 11 (14.86 %) HTML

11 11 (14.86 %) SQL Server 2005 12 9 (12.16 %) Web Development 12 9 (12.16 %) WCF 12 9 (12.16 %) WPF 12 9 (12.16 %) SQL 12 9 (12.16 %) E-Commerce 13 8 (10.81 %) Flash 13 8 (10.81 %) JavaScript 13 8 (10.81 %) ActionScript 13 8 (10.81 %) AJAX 13 8 (10.81 %) PHP5 14 7 (9.459 %) PHP4 14 7 (9.459 %) ASP.NET 2.0 14 7 (9.459 %) PostgreSQL 15 6 (8.108 %) Apache

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 39 (52.70 %) .NET 2 26 (35.14 %) ASP.NET 3 21 (28.38 %) XML 4 16 (21.62 %) WebServices 5 11 (14.86 %) HTML 6 9 (12.16 %) WCF 6 9 (12.16 %) WPF 7 8 (10.81 %) AJAX 8 7 (9.459 %) ASP.NET 2.0 9 6 (8.108 %) WinForms 9 6 (8.108 %) CSS 10 5 (6.757 %) Symfony 11 4 (5.405 %) OpenGL 11 4 (5.405 %) XSLT 11 4 (5.405 %) jQuery 12 3 (4.054 %) Spring 12 3 (4.054 %) DCOM 12 3 (4.054 %) STL 12 3 (4.054 %) ASP 12 3 (4.054 %) Hibernate	Application Platforms 1 6 (8.108 %) Apache 2 2 (2.703 %) MTS 3 1 (1.351 %) SharePoint 3 1 (1.351 %) IIS
Applications 1 1 (1.351 %) Photoshop 1 1 (1.351 %) MS Excel 1 1 (1.351 %) 3ds Max	Communications & Networking 1 3 (4.054 %) Intranet 1 3 (4.054 %) Internet 2 1 (1.351 %) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 13 (17.57 %) SQL Server 2 11 (14.86 %) MySQL 2 11 (14.86 %) SQL Server 2005 3 7 (9.459 %) PostgreSQL 4 4 (5.405 %) SQL Server 2000 4 4 (5.405 %) Oracle 10g 5 1 (1.351 %) SQL Server 7	Development Applications 1 12 (16.22 %) Visual Studio 2 8 (10.81 %) Flash 3 5 (6.757 %) Eclipse 3 5 (6.757 %) NUnit 4 2 (2.703 %) Subversion 5 1 (1.351 %) VSS/SourceSafe
General 1 5 (6.757 %) Games 2 2 (2.703 %) Flash Games 2 2 (2.703 %) Finance 2 2 (2.703 %) Construction 3 1 (1.351 %) Government 3 1 (1.351 %) 3D Graphics 3 1 (1.351 %) Online Games 3 1 (1.351 %) Animation	Job Titles 1 58 (78.38 %) Developer 2 26 (35.14 %) .NET Developer 3 9 (12.16 %) C# Developer 4 8 (10.81 %) PHP Developer 4 8 (10.81 %) Flash Developer 5 7 (9.459 %) Web Developer 6 5 (6.757 %) C++ Developer 6 5 (6.757 %) Senior Developer 6 5 (6.757 %) .NET Web Developer 7 4 (5.405 %) Java Developer 7 4 (5.405 %) ActionScript Developer 8 3 (4.054 %) MySQL Developer 8 3 (4.054 %) Software Engineer 8 3 (4.054 %) Software Developer 8 3 (4.054 %) ASP.NET Developer 9 2 (2.703 %) SQL DBA 9 2 (2.703 %) DBA 9 2 (2.703 %) Applications Developer 9 2 (2.703 %) Programmer 9 2 (2.703 %) SQL Server DBA
Miscellaneous 1 5 (6.757 %) Computer Science 2 3 (4.054 %) Client/Server 2 3 (4.054 %) Mathematics 3 2 (2.703 %) Web 2.0 4 1 (1.351 %) Physics 4 1 (1.351 %) Chemistry 4 1 (1.351 %) Replication	Operating Systems 1 3 (4.054 %) Windows 1 3 (4.054 %) Linux 2 1 (1.351 %) Mac OS X 2 1 (1.351 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (20.27 %) UML 2 12 (16.22 %) OOD 3 9 (12.16 %) Web Development 3 9 (12.16 %) E-Commerce 4 5 (6.757 %) OOP 5 4 (5.405 %) SC Cleared 5 4 (5.405 %) Scrum 5 4 (5.405 %) Security Cleared 6 3 (4.054 %) Matrix Management 7 2 (2.703 %) OOA/OOD 7 2 (2.703 %) RUP 8 1 (1.351 %) B2B 8 1 (1.351 %) B2C 8 1 (1.351 %) Change Management 8 1 (1.351 %) BC Cleared 8 1 (1.351 %) Agile Software Development 8 1 (1.351 %) Content Management 8 1 (1.351 %) Logistics	Programming Languages 1 34 (45.95 %) C# 2 20 (27.03 %) C++ 3 15 (20.27 %) Java 4 11 (14.86 %) PHP 5 9 (12.16 %) SQL 6 8 (10.81 %) ActionScript 6 8 (10.81 %) JavaScript 6 8 (10.81 %) PHP5 7 7 (9.459 %) PHP4 8 5 (6.757 %) VB.NET 9 4 (5.405 %) XQuery 9 4 (5.405 %) XPath 10 3 (4.054 %) VB6 10 3 (4.054 %) VB 11 2 (2.703 %) VC++ 11 2 (2.703 %) DHTML 12 1 (1.351 %) Python 12 1 (1.351 %) Jython
Qualifications 1 4 (5.405 %) Degree	Vendors 1 17 (22.97 %) Microsoft 2 5 (6.757 %) Oracle 3 4 (5.405 %) Zend 4 3 (4.054 %) Perforce 5 1 (1.351 %) Intel