The first table below looks at the demand for OO skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OO over the 3 months to 24 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 Oxfordshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented (OO)
Rank 43 47 35
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -12
Contract jobs citing OO 8 10 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 1.754% 1.616% 2.808%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.548% 2.725% 5.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 9
Average daily rate £350 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
UK excluding London average daily rate £336 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.46% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £14.00 £16.61 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-15.68% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+8.69% -1.42%
All Processes & Methodologies
Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
314 367 259
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 68.86% 59.29% 55.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 189 136
Average daily rate £350 £400 £315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% +26.98%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £253 £183
10% offered a daily rate of more than £498 £500 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 35 10
Average hourly rate £11.50 £22.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-48.88% -10.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
OO
South East

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Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire OO Daily Rate Trend

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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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Oxford +6 5 £350 -12.50%
Abingdon - 1 - -
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South East

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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 11 (57.89%) C#
2 7 (36.84%) C++
2 7 (36.84%) Scrum
2 7 (36.84%) TDD
3 6 (31.58%) Mathematics
3 6 (31.58%) CSS
4 5 (26.32%) .NET
4 5 (26.32%) MySQL
4 5 (26.32%) PHP
4 5 (26.32%) SQL
4 5 (26.32%) ASP.NET
4 5 (26.32%) MVC
4 5 (26.32%) Unit Testing
5 4 (21.05%) LAMP
5 4 (21.05%) jQuery
5 4 (21.05%) JavaScript
5 4 (21.05%) HTML
5 4 (21.05%) XML
6 3 (15.79%) Java
6 3 (15.79%) PHP5
6 3 (15.79%) Requirements Analysis
7 2 (10.53%) Marketing
7 2 (10.53%) .NET Framework
7 2 (10.53%) Drupal
7 2 (10.53%) CodeIgniter
7 2 (10.53%) LINQ
7 2 (10.53%) Ajax
7 2 (10.53%) Windows
7 2 (10.53%) Linux
7 2 (10.53%) E-Commerce

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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 6 (31.58%) CSS
2 5 (26.32%) .NET
2 5 (26.32%) ASP.NET
3 4 (21.05%) LAMP
3 4 (21.05%) jQuery
3 4 (21.05%) HTML
3 4 (21.05%) XML
4 2 (10.53%) .NET Framework
4 2 (10.53%) CodeIgniter
4 2 (10.53%) LINQ
4 2 (10.53%) Ajax
4 2 (10.53%) ASP
4 2 (10.53%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 1 (5.263%) RESTful
5 1 (5.263%) HTML5
5 1 (5.263%) iOS SDK
5 1 (5.263%) Web Services
5 1 (5.263%) Hibernate
5 1 (5.263%) Spring
5 1 (5.263%) GWT
Application Platforms
1 2 (10.53%) Drupal
2 1 (5.263%) ExpressionEngine
2 1 (5.263%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 1 (5.263%) Apache
2 1 (5.263%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.263%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) MySQL
2 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Git (software)
2 1 (5.263%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.263%) Eclipse
2 1 (5.263%) Maven
2 1 (5.263%) JIRA
General
1 2 (10.53%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 18 (94.74%) Developer
2 6 (31.58%) C++ Developer
2 6 (31.58%) C# Developer
2 6 (31.58%) C++/C# Developer
3 4 (21.05%) PHP Developer
4 3 (15.79%) Programmer
4 3 (15.79%) Web Developer
4 3 (15.79%) .NET Developer
5 2 (10.53%) .NET Web Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Analyst Developer
5 2 (10.53%) ASP.NET Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Analyst Programmer
6 1 (5.263%) IT Support
6 1 (5.263%) PHP MySQL Developer
6 1 (5.263%) iOS Developer
6 1 (5.263%) LAMP Developer
6 1 (5.263%) Drupal Developer
6 1 (5.263%) Administrator
6 1 (5.263%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Mathematics
2 2 (10.53%) Digital Media
3 1 (5.263%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.263%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.263%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
2 1 (5.263%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) Scrum
1 7 (36.84%) TDD
2 5 (26.32%) MVC
2 5 (26.32%) Unit Testing
3 3 (15.79%) Requirements Analysis
4 2 (10.53%) E-Commerce
5 1 (5.263%) Web Application Development
5 1 (5.263%) User Stories
5 1 (5.263%) Memory Management
5 1 (5.263%) ITIL
5 1 (5.263%) OOA/OOD
5 1 (5.263%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (5.263%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 11 (57.89%) C#
2 7 (36.84%) C++
3 5 (26.32%) PHP
3 5 (26.32%) SQL
4 4 (21.05%) JavaScript
5 3 (15.79%) Java
5 3 (15.79%) PHP5
6 1 (5.263%) COBOL
6 1 (5.263%) C
6 1 (5.263%) VB
6 1 (5.263%) Shell Script
6 1 (5.263%) Objective-C
6 1 (5.263%) VB6
Qualifications
1 1 (5.263%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (5.263%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (5.263%) Facebook
1 1 (5.263%) Twitter
1 1 (5.263%) Oracle
1 1 (5.263%) Salesforce.com
1 1 (5.263%) Google