The first table below looks at the demand for OO skills in IT contracts advertised for the Sheffield region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OO over the 3 months to 20 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 Sheffield 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented (OO)
Rank 21 16 -
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -
Contract jobs citing OO 3 6 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Sheffield 2.013% 4.317% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.970% 7.595% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
Average daily rate £310 £288 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.82% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £332 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+2.15% -
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
Sheffield
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
101 79 86
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Sheffield 67.79% 56.83% 57.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 42 43
Average daily rate £310 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.61% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £165 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 13
Average hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% -29.41%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.44 £20.70 £30.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £30.00 £60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
OO
South Yorkshire

OO
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sheffield 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 Sheffield region.

Sheffield 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 Sheffield region.

Sheffield OO Hourly Rate Trend

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Sheffield 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 14 (66.67%) PHP
1 14 (66.67%) Symfony
1 14 (66.67%) PHPUnit
2 6 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 5 (23.81%) OOP
4 3 (14.29%) SQL
4 3 (14.29%) ActionScript
4 3 (14.29%) MVC
4 3 (14.29%) SCORM
4 3 (14.29%) CSS
4 3 (14.29%) Oracle
4 3 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (14.29%) ActionScript 3.0
4 3 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (9.524%) SPML
5 2 (9.524%) GlassFish
5 2 (9.524%) Sun Identity Manager
5 2 (9.524%) Software Architecture
5 2 (9.524%) J2EE
5 2 (9.524%) Configuration Management
5 2 (9.524%) JDBC
5 2 (9.524%) JSP
5 2 (9.524%) XML
5 2 (9.524%) ITIL
5 2 (9.524%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (9.524%) NetBeans
5 2 (9.524%) Workflow
5 2 (9.524%) Identity Management
5 2 (9.524%) Management Information System
5 2 (9.524%) HTML

OO
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Sheffield 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 14 (66.67%) Symfony
2 3 (14.29%) CSS
3 2 (9.524%) JDBC
3 2 (9.524%) JSP
3 2 (9.524%) XML
3 2 (9.524%) Flash
3 2 (9.524%) HTML
3 2 (9.524%) J2EE
3 2 (9.524%) SPML
4 1 (4.762%) HTML5
4 1 (4.762%) CSS3
4 1 (4.762%) KnockoutJS
4 1 (4.762%) Ember.js
4 1 (4.762%) jQuery
4 1 (4.762%) ASP.NET
4 1 (4.762%) .NET
4 1 (4.762%) WCF
4 1 (4.762%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 2 (9.524%) Oracle Workflow
1 2 (9.524%) GlassFish
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.524%) LDAP
2 1 (4.762%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.524%) Oracle 8/8i
1 2 (9.524%) Oracle 9i
1 2 (9.524%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (4.762%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (66.67%) PHPUnit
2 2 (9.524%) Eclipse
2 2 (9.524%) NetBeans
General
1 1 (4.762%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 18 (85.71%) Developer
2 14 (66.67%) PHP Developer
3 3 (14.29%) Software Developer
4 2 (9.524%) Java Developer
5 1 (4.762%) C# Developer
5 1 (4.762%) Front-End Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) SCORM
1 3 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (9.524%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (23.81%) OOP
2 3 (14.29%) MVC
2 3 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (9.524%) ITIL
3 2 (9.524%) Software Architecture
3 2 (9.524%) Workflow
3 2 (9.524%) Configuration Management
3 2 (9.524%) Identity Management
4 1 (4.762%) Unit Testing
4 1 (4.762%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 14 (66.67%) PHP
2 6 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 3 (14.29%) SQL
3 3 (14.29%) ActionScript
3 3 (14.29%) ActionScript 3.0
4 2 (9.524%) Java
5 1 (4.762%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.524%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (9.524%) Sun Identity Manager
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Oracle
2 2 (9.524%) Sun