The first table below looks at the demand for OO skills in IT contracts advertised for the Somerset region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OO over the 3 months to 19 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 Somerset 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented (OO)
Rank - 28 27
Contract jobs citing OO 0 3 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset - 1.734% 4.785%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 2.609% 8.264%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 4
Average daily rate - - £210
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.84% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Average hourly rate - £25.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -23.07%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.50 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.89% -1.42%
All Processes & Methodologies
Somerset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
109 115 121
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 59.56% 66.47% 57.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 59 56
Average daily rate £325 £400 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.75% +14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £253 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £433 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 13
Average hourly rate £17.50 £25.00 £15.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-30.00% +61.29%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.05 £22.00 £13.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £26.50 £31.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
OO
South West

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Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset OO Jobs Demand Trend

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Daily Rate Trend

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

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset OO Hourly Rate Trend

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OO within the Somerset region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Bath - - - - 10
Bridgwater - - - - 1
OO
South West

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Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 3 (75.00%) Android
1 3 (75.00%) Eclipse
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) VB.NET
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (25.00%) ADO.NET
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (25.00%) Web Services
2 1 (25.00%) OOP
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (25.00%) WCF

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) ADO.NET
1 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (25.00%) Web Services
1 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (25.00%) WCF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Android Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior .NET Developer
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle