The first table below looks at the demand for OOD skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OOD 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 Scotland 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 Design (OOD)
Rank 116 104 100
Rank change year-on-year
-12 -4
Contract jobs citing OOD 6 5 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.243% 0.189% 0.585%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.357% 0.295% 0.871%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 11
Average daily rate £450 £315 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+42.85% -4.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £314 £303 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £490 £315 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £303 £325 £330
% change year-on-year
-6.92% -1.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £39.00
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +2.56%
All Processes & Methodologies
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1682 1696 1838
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 68.04% 64.17% 67.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 867 863 956
Average daily rate £360 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £261 £225 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 66 48
Average hourly rate £20.50 £22.75 £29.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.89% -22.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £9.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.00 £35.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
OOD
UK

OOD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland OOD Jobs Demand Trend

OOD
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland OOD Daily Rate Trend

OOD
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing OOD across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Scotland OOD Daily Rate Histogram

OOD
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland OOD Hourly Rate Trend

OOD
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OOD within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 21 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
Glasgow - 4 £390 -
Stirling - 1 - -
OOD
UK

OOD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing OOD 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 OOD.

1 9 (81.82%) SQL
1 9 (81.82%) OO
2 8 (72.73%) C#
3 6 (54.55%) .NET
3 6 (54.55%) Web Services
4 5 (45.45%) XML
4 5 (45.45%) XSLT
4 5 (45.45%) XHTML
4 5 (45.45%) ASP.NET
4 5 (45.45%) CSS
4 5 (45.45%) SQL Server
4 5 (45.45%) T-SQL
4 5 (45.45%) HTML
4 5 (45.45%) Java
4 5 (45.45%) JavaScript
4 5 (45.45%) Ajax
4 5 (45.45%) .NET Framework
4 5 (45.45%) XPath
4 5 (45.45%) LINQ
4 5 (45.45%) jQuery
4 5 (45.45%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 4 (36.36%) Umbraco
5 4 (36.36%) CMS
5 4 (36.36%) Agile Software Development
5 4 (36.36%) UNIX
6 3 (27.27%) UML
6 3 (27.27%) OOA/OOD
6 3 (27.27%) J2EE
6 3 (27.27%) Oracle
6 3 (27.27%) Social Network

OOD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing OOD 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 OOD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (54.55%) .NET
1 6 (54.55%) Web Services
2 5 (45.45%) XML
2 5 (45.45%) XSLT
2 5 (45.45%) XHTML
2 5 (45.45%) ASP.NET
2 5 (45.45%) CSS
2 5 (45.45%) HTML
2 5 (45.45%) Ajax
2 5 (45.45%) .NET Framework
2 5 (45.45%) LINQ
2 5 (45.45%) jQuery
2 5 (45.45%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 3 (27.27%) J2EE
4 2 (18.18%) Spring
4 2 (18.18%) WebSphere
4 2 (18.18%) Razor View Engine
4 2 (18.18%) JMS
5 1 (9.091%) J2SE
5 1 (9.091%) Flash
Application Platforms
1 4 (36.36%) Umbraco
1 4 (36.36%) CMS
2 2 (18.18%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (9.091%) Tomcat
3 1 (9.091%) WebLogic
3 1 (9.091%) Mule
Applications
1 1 (9.091%) MS Excel
1 1 (9.091%) Photoshop
1 1 (9.091%) Adobe Illustrator
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.091%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (9.091%) DB2
2 1 (9.091%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (9.091%) JUnit
1 1 (9.091%) Expression Blend
General
1 3 (27.27%) Banking
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 1 (9.091%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) Developer
2 5 (45.45%) Senior Developer
3 4 (36.36%) Java Developer
4 3 (27.27%) Senior Web Developer
4 3 (27.27%) Web Developer
5 2 (18.18%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 2 (18.18%) .NET Developer
5 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET Developer
5 2 (18.18%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (9.091%) Programmer
6 1 (9.091%) Senior .NET Developer
6 1 (9.091%) Oracle Consultant
6 1 (9.091%) Java Programmer
6 1 (9.091%) .NET Web Developer
6 1 (9.091%) Consultant
6 1 (9.091%) Data Warehouse Consultant
6 1 (9.091%) UI Programmer
6 1 (9.091%) UI Developer
6 1 (9.091%) Senior .NET Web Developer
6 1 (9.091%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Social Network
1 3 (27.27%) Web 2.0
2 2 (18.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (18.18%) NHS
3 1 (9.091%) Fixed Income
3 1 (9.091%) Computer Science
3 1 (9.091%) Mobile App
3 1 (9.091%) Derivative
3 1 (9.091%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) UNIX
2 1 (9.091%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) OO
2 4 (36.36%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (27.27%) UML
3 3 (27.27%) OOA/OOD
4 2 (18.18%) Content Management
5 1 (9.091%) OOP
5 1 (9.091%) ETL
5 1 (9.091%) BPR
5 1 (9.091%) TDD
5 1 (9.091%) Scrum
5 1 (9.091%) Mobile Application Development
5 1 (9.091%) Electronic Trading
5 1 (9.091%) Web Development
5 1 (9.091%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) SQL
2 8 (72.73%) C#
3 5 (45.45%) T-SQL
3 5 (45.45%) Java
3 5 (45.45%) JavaScript
3 5 (45.45%) XPath
4 2 (18.18%) Perl
4 2 (18.18%) PL/SQL
4 2 (18.18%) C
5 1 (9.091%) C++
5 1 (9.091%) Smalltalk
5 1 (9.091%) XAML
5 1 (9.091%) Korn
Qualifications
1 1 (9.091%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle
2 1 (9.091%) JBoss
2 1 (9.091%) Sybase
2 1 (9.091%) IBM
2 1 (9.091%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.091%) Adobe
2 1 (9.091%) Informatica