The first table below looks at the demand for OOP 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 OOP 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
Rank 10 4 3
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -1
Contract jobs citing OOP 1 7 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Salford 4.000% 18.92% 14.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.556% 25.93% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 0
Average daily rate £350 £300 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £313 £325
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.00 £60.00 -
% change year-on-year
-36.66% -
All Processes & Methodologies
Salford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
18 27 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Salford 72.00% 72.97% 71.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 22 2
Average daily rate £323 £313 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.20% -26.47%
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -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 £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
OOP
Manchester

OOP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Salford OOP Jobs Demand Trend

OOP
Daily Rate Trend

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

Salford OOP Daily Rate Trend

OOP
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Salford region citing OOP 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 OOP.

1 4 (100.00%) C++
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) ActionScript
1 4 (100.00%) Web Services
1 4 (100.00%) OO
1 4 (100.00%) Flash
1 4 (100.00%) Internet
1 4 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 4 (100.00%) TDD
1 4 (100.00%) Subversion
1 4 (100.00%) MTASC
1 4 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 4 (100.00%) ActionScript 2.0
1 4 (100.00%) Memory Management
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
1 4 (100.00%) Embedded Systems

OOP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Salford region citing OOP 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 OOP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) Web Services
1 4 (100.00%) Flash
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Internet
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Subversion
1 4 (100.00%) MTASC
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Flash Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Flash ActionScript Developer
1 3 (75.00%) ActionScript Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Embedded Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) OO
1 4 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 4 (100.00%) TDD
1 4 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Memory Management
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C++
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) ActionScript
1 4 (100.00%) ActionScript 2.0