The first table below looks at the demand for OO skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OO over the 3 months to 18 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 Reading 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented (OO)
Rank 64 36 66
Rank change year-on-year
-28 +30
Contract jobs citing OO 7 47 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.800% 4.083% 1.186%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.201% 6.258% 1.775%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 22 9
Average daily rate £388 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.33% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.84% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £25.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.50 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.89% -1.42%
All Processes & Methodologies
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
583 751 676
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 66.63% 65.25% 66.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 288 315
Average daily rate £411 £370 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.14% +5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £264 £235 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £550 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 18 15
Average hourly rate £30.00 £14.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+106.89% -27.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.50 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.50 £24.80 £24.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
OO
Berkshire

OO
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading OO Jobs Demand Trend

OO
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing OO across the Reading region.

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading OO Hourly Rate Trend

OO
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 9 (52.94%) JavaScript
2 8 (47.06%) CSS
3 7 (41.18%) XML
3 7 (41.18%) UNIX
3 7 (41.18%) Telecoms
3 7 (41.18%) Subversion
4 6 (35.29%) .NET
4 6 (35.29%) MySQL
4 6 (35.29%) SQL
4 6 (35.29%) HTML
4 6 (35.29%) jQuery
4 6 (35.29%) HTML5
5 5 (29.41%) Greenplum
5 5 (29.41%) Perl
5 5 (29.41%) Oracle
5 5 (29.41%) Linux
5 5 (29.41%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (29.41%) Red Hat
6 4 (23.53%) Ajax
6 4 (23.53%) Windows
6 4 (23.53%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (23.53%) C#
6 4 (23.53%) Apple iOS
6 4 (23.53%) CSS3
6 4 (23.53%) Android
6 4 (23.53%) Performance Management
7 3 (17.65%) Nokia Siemens Networks
7 3 (17.65%) Unit Testing
7 3 (17.65%) Wiki
7 3 (17.65%) Degree

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 8 (47.06%) CSS
2 7 (41.18%) XML
3 6 (35.29%) HTML
3 6 (35.29%) .NET
3 6 (35.29%) jQuery
3 6 (35.29%) HTML5
4 4 (23.53%) CSS3
4 4 (23.53%) Ajax
5 3 (17.65%) Web Services
5 3 (17.65%) KnockoutJS
5 3 (17.65%) AngularJS
6 2 (11.76%) Sass
6 2 (11.76%) REST
6 2 (11.76%) Sencha Touch
6 2 (11.76%) Spring
6 2 (11.76%) Struts2
6 2 (11.76%) JSON
6 2 (11.76%) J2EE
6 2 (11.76%) SOAP
6 2 (11.76%) Struts
Application Platforms
1 2 (11.76%) CMS
2 1 (5.882%) Drupal
2 1 (5.882%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) MS Excel
2 1 (5.882%) InfoPath
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) GSM
1 2 (11.76%) 3G
1 2 (11.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) MySQL
2 5 (29.41%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (23.53%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
5 2 (11.76%) MS Access
5 2 (11.76%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 7 (41.18%) Subversion
2 2 (11.76%) StarTeam
2 2 (11.76%) Jasmine
2 2 (11.76%) Eclipse
3 1 (5.882%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (41.18%) Telecoms
2 2 (11.76%) Publishing
3 1 (5.882%) Finance
Job Titles
1 15 (88.24%) Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Senior Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Senior Software Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Software Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Mobile Applications Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Mobile Developer
4 2 (11.76%) JavaScript Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Front-End Developer
4 2 (11.76%) .NET Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Web Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Applications Developer
5 1 (5.882%) C# Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Perl Developer
5 1 (5.882%) PHP Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Web Applications Developer
5 1 (5.882%) SharePoint Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Agile .NET Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Agile C# Developer
5 1 (5.882%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Wiki
2 2 (11.76%) Digital Media
2 2 (11.76%) Mobile App
2 2 (11.76%) Blackberry
2 2 (11.76%) Smartphone
3 1 (5.882%) Streaming Music
3 1 (5.882%) IPTV
Operating Systems
1 7 (41.18%) UNIX
2 5 (29.41%) Linux
3 4 (23.53%) Android
3 4 (23.53%) Apple iOS
3 4 (23.53%) Windows
4 2 (11.76%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (23.53%) Performance Management
2 3 (17.65%) Unit Testing
2 3 (17.65%) MVC
2 3 (17.65%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (11.76%) TDD
3 2 (11.76%) Content Management
3 2 (11.76%) Systems Analysis
3 2 (11.76%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (11.76%) Web Development
3 2 (11.76%) OOD
3 2 (11.76%) Web Application Development
4 1 (5.882%) Time Management
4 1 (5.882%) UML
4 1 (5.882%) Workflow
4 1 (5.882%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) JavaScript
2 6 (35.29%) SQL
3 5 (29.41%) Perl
4 4 (23.53%) C#
5 3 (17.65%) VBA
6 2 (11.76%) Java
7 1 (5.882%) VB.NET
7 1 (5.882%) C++
7 1 (5.882%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Degree
2 1 (5.882%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.882%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.882%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Oracle
1 5 (29.41%) Red Hat
1 5 (29.41%) Greenplum
2 3 (17.65%) Nokia Siemens Networks
2 3 (17.65%) Huawei
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 3 (17.65%) Ericsson
3 2 (11.76%) Cramer
3 2 (11.76%) Sencha