The first table below looks at the demand for OOP 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 OOP over the 3 months to 17 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing OOP 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset - - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £300 £330
% change year-on-year
+4.16% -9.09%
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
Somerset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
100 100 92
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 54.64% 58.48% 58.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 53 42
Average daily rate £335 £400 £355
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.25% +12.67%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £264 £230 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £460 £433 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 12
Average hourly rate £17.50 £25.00 £15.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-30.00% +63.93%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.75 £22.00 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £25.00 £30.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
OOP
South West

OOP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset OOP Daily Rate Trend

OOP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Somerset OOP Hourly Rate Trend

OOP
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 1 (50.00%) Publishing
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (50.00%) WCF
1 1 (50.00%) Drupal
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
1 1 (50.00%) VB.NET
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (50.00%) ADO.NET
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) OO
1 1 (50.00%) Hyperion

OOP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) ADO.NET
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (50.00%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Drupal
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (50.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Drupal Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) OO
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
1 1 (50.00%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Hyperion