The first table below looks at the demand for OO skills in IT contracts advertised for the Salford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OO over the 3 months to 21 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 Salford 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented (OO)
Rank 5 5 -
Rank change year-on-year
0 -
Contract jobs citing OO 6 7 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Salford 24.00% 17.07% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 31.58% 22.58% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 0
Average daily rate £323 £300 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.50% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+8.69% -1.42%
All Processes & Methodologies
Salford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
19 31 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Salford 76.00% 75.61% 71.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 26 2
Average daily rate £323 £325 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.76% -23.52%
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Average hourly rate £17.00 £17.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.85% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
OO
Manchester

OO
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Salford 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 Salford region.

Salford OO Daily Rate Trend

OO
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Salford OO Hourly Rate Trend

OO
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Salford 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 (100.00%) Java
1 11 (100.00%) Web Services
1 11 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 11 (100.00%) TDD
2 7 (63.64%) RDF
2 7 (63.64%) XQuery
2 7 (63.64%) Benchmarking
2 7 (63.64%) XML
2 7 (63.64%) XSLT
2 7 (63.64%) J2EE
2 7 (63.64%) Pair Programming
2 7 (63.64%) Spring
2 7 (63.64%) XPath
2 7 (63.64%) JSON
2 7 (63.64%) Enterprise Architecture
2 7 (63.64%) Continuous Integration
2 7 (63.64%) Test Automation
2 7 (63.64%) RESTful
2 7 (63.64%) BDD
2 7 (63.64%) REST
2 7 (63.64%) JAX-RS
3 4 (36.36%) Subversion
3 4 (36.36%) MTASC
3 4 (36.36%) Performance Testing
3 4 (36.36%) C++
3 4 (36.36%) ActionScript
3 4 (36.36%) OOP
3 4 (36.36%) Flash
3 4 (36.36%) Internet
3 4 (36.36%) Embedded Systems

OO
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Salford 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 11 (100.00%) Web Services
2 7 (63.64%) XML
2 7 (63.64%) XSLT
2 7 (63.64%) J2EE
2 7 (63.64%) Spring
2 7 (63.64%) JSON
2 7 (63.64%) RESTful
2 7 (63.64%) REST
2 7 (63.64%) JAX-RS
3 4 (36.36%) Flash
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) NoSQL
1 2 (18.18%) MarkLogic
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Subversion
1 4 (36.36%) MTASC
2 2 (18.18%) Cucumber
General
1 2 (18.18%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Developer
2 5 (45.45%) Java Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Flash ActionScript Developer
3 3 (27.27%) ActionScript Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Flash Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Java Software Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Java Software Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Software Engineer
5 1 (9.091%) Senior Developer
5 1 (9.091%) Senior Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Embedded Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Statistics
2 2 (18.18%) Interactive TV
2 2 (18.18%) Streaming Video
2 2 (18.18%) Semantic Web
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 11 (100.00%) TDD
2 7 (63.64%) RDF
2 7 (63.64%) Benchmarking
2 7 (63.64%) Pair Programming
2 7 (63.64%) Enterprise Architecture
2 7 (63.64%) Continuous Integration
2 7 (63.64%) Test Automation
2 7 (63.64%) BDD
3 4 (36.36%) Performance Testing
3 4 (36.36%) OOP
3 4 (36.36%) Scrum
3 4 (36.36%) Memory Management
4 2 (18.18%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Java
2 7 (63.64%) XQuery
2 7 (63.64%) XPath
3 4 (36.36%) C++
3 4 (36.36%) ActionScript
3 4 (36.36%) ActionScript 2.0
4 2 (18.18%) Ruby
4 2 (18.18%) SPARQL
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