The first table below looks at the demand for OO skills in IT contracts advertised for the South Wales 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 South Wales 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 31 30
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -1
Contract jobs citing OO 9 13 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Wales 2.507% 3.266% 4.471%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.614% 4.962% 6.738%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 9
Average daily rate £400 £313 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+28.00% +7.75%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £290 £225 £257
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £500 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.84% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 6
Average hourly rate - £30.00 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -29.41%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.50 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.89% -1.42%
All Processes & Methodologies
South Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
249 262 282
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Wales 69.36% 65.83% 66.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 151 144
Average daily rate £364 £375 £326
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.00% +14.94%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £260 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 12
Average hourly rate £15.00 £13.35 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.35% -68.58%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
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Wales

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Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Wales 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 South Wales region.

South Wales OO Daily Rate Trend

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Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing OO across the South Wales region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

South Wales OO Daily Rate Histogram

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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 South Wales region.

South Wales 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 South Wales 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
Cardiff -1 4 £350 +27.27% 1
Newport +7 3 £450 -25.00% 1
Torfaen - 2 - - 2
Vale of Glamorgan - - - -
Bridgend - - - -
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Wales

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 11 (68.75%) UML
2 9 (56.25%) Microsoft
3 8 (50.00%) TestDirector
3 8 (50.00%) MS Project
3 8 (50.00%) AS400
3 8 (50.00%) Finance
4 7 (43.75%) MS Office
4 7 (43.75%) Project Management
5 6 (37.50%) Degree
6 5 (31.25%) WebSphere
6 5 (31.25%) iSeries
6 5 (31.25%) OS/400
6 5 (31.25%) IBM
6 5 (31.25%) Shell Script
6 5 (31.25%) IIS
6 5 (31.25%) DB2
6 5 (31.25%) UNIX
6 5 (31.25%) COBOL
6 5 (31.25%) JavaScript
6 5 (31.25%) RPG
7 4 (25.00%) .NET
8 3 (18.75%) Content Management
8 3 (18.75%) Business Analysis
8 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (18.75%) J2EE
8 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
8 3 (18.75%) C++
9 2 (12.50%) DTV
9 2 (12.50%) Ethernet
9 2 (12.50%) AIX

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 5 (31.25%) WebSphere
2 4 (25.00%) .NET
3 3 (18.75%) J2EE
4 2 (12.50%) HTML
5 1 (6.250%) Ajax
5 1 (6.250%) jQuery
5 1 (6.250%) .NET Framework
5 1 (6.250%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (6.250%) ASP.NET MVC 3
5 1 (6.250%) ASP.NET
5 1 (6.250%) COM
Application Platforms
1 5 (31.25%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (50.00%) MS Project
2 7 (43.75%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) DB2
2 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (50.00%) TestDirector
2 2 (12.50%) Ant
2 2 (12.50%) Hudson
2 2 (12.50%) CruiseControl
2 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.250%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Banking
2 2 (12.50%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Analyst
2 5 (31.25%) Developer
3 4 (25.00%) Support Analyst
3 4 (25.00%) Applications Support
3 4 (25.00%) Applications Support Analyst
4 3 (18.75%) Business Analyst
4 3 (18.75%) Software Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) UI Programmer
5 2 (12.50%) UI Developer
5 2 (12.50%) JavaScript Developer
6 1 (6.250%) AS400 Support
6 1 (6.250%) .NET Developer
6 1 (6.250%) C# Developer
6 1 (6.250%) Test Engineer
6 1 (6.250%) Software Test Engineer
6 1 (6.250%) Senior C# Developer
6 1 (6.250%) Senior .NET Developer
6 1 (6.250%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (6.250%) Systems Analyst
6 1 (6.250%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (50.00%) AS400
2 5 (31.25%) iSeries
3 2 (12.50%) DTV
Operating Systems
1 5 (31.25%) OS/400
1 5 (31.25%) UNIX
2 2 (12.50%) AIX
3 1 (6.250%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) UML
2 7 (43.75%) Project Management
3 3 (18.75%) Content Management
3 3 (18.75%) Business Analysis
3 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (12.50%) OOP
4 2 (12.50%) Requirements Analysis
4 2 (12.50%) Unit Testing
4 2 (12.50%) Web Application Development
5 1 (6.250%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (6.250%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (6.250%) MVC
5 1 (6.250%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (6.250%) OOD
5 1 (6.250%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) Shell Script
1 5 (31.25%) COBOL
1 5 (31.25%) JavaScript
1 5 (31.25%) RPG
2 3 (18.75%) C++
3 1 (6.250%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.250%) SLA
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Microsoft
2 5 (31.25%) IBM
3 1 (6.250%) Rackspace
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