The first table below looks at the demand for OO skills in IT contracts advertised for the Portsmouth region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OO over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Portsmouth 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented (OO)
Rank 18 14 16
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +2
Contract jobs citing OO 4 3 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Portsmouth 3.960% 3.371% 5.882%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.557% 6.667% 9.890%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Average daily rate £331 £350 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.35% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.84% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
Average hourly rate - - £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.50 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.89% -1.42%
All Processes & Methodologies
Portsmouth
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
61 45 91
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Portsmouth 60.40% 50.56% 59.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 20 34
Average daily rate £370 £311 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+19.16% -19.87%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £247 £188
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £500 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 7 26
Average hourly rate £27.50 £21.75 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+26.43% -37.85%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
OO
Hampshire

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Jobs Demand Trend

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

Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth region.

Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth region.

Portsmouth OO Hourly Rate Trend

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Portsmouth 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 4 (80.00%) C++
2 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) Embedded C++
3 2 (40.00%) OpenGL
3 2 (40.00%) C#
3 2 (40.00%) HTML
3 2 (40.00%) CSS
3 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (40.00%) Linux
3 2 (40.00%) OOP
4 1 (20.00%) RAD
4 1 (20.00%) VC++
4 1 (20.00%) Python
4 1 (20.00%) XHTML
4 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (20.00%) Perl
4 1 (20.00%) PHP
4 1 (20.00%) Photoshop
4 1 (20.00%) MS Office
4 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
4 1 (20.00%) XML
4 1 (20.00%) Java
4 1 (20.00%) Operations Research
4 1 (20.00%) Web Development
4 1 (20.00%) Django
4 1 (20.00%) jQuery
4 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (20.00%) 3ds Max
4 1 (20.00%) Military

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Portsmouth 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 2 (40.00%) OpenGL
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
1 2 (40.00%) CSS
2 1 (20.00%) XHTML
2 1 (20.00%) XML
2 1 (20.00%) Django
2 1 (20.00%) jQuery
2 1 (20.00%) HTML5
2 1 (20.00%) CSS3
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (20.00%) Photoshop
1 1 (20.00%) MS Office
1 1 (20.00%) 3ds Max
1 1 (20.00%) Adobe Illustrator
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (20.00%) Git (software)
General
1 1 (20.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Perl Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Front-End Developer
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) OOP
2 1 (20.00%) RAD
2 1 (20.00%) Operations Research
2 1 (20.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) C++
2 2 (40.00%) Embedded C++
2 2 (40.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) VC++
3 1 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) Perl
3 1 (20.00%) PHP
3 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft