South West OOA/OOD Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (OOA/OOD) skills within the South West region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited OOA/OOD over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (OOA/OOD)
Location Berkshire Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cardiff City of London Coventry Croydon Docklands, London Dorset Dumbarton Dundee East Midlands East of England England Farnborough Glasgow Hampshire Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire London Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East Norwich Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxfordshire Portsmouth Rickmansworth Scotland Shropshire South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staines Surrey Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwickshire West Dunbartonshire West Midlands Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	137	167
Rank change on same period last year	+30
Matching contract IT job ads	7	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	0.248 %	0.115 %
Daily rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum daily rate	£400	£350
Average daily rate	£450	£400
% change on same period last year	+12.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£500	£450
UK excluding London average daily rate	£413	£347
% change on same period last year	+19.00 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.00	-
Average hourly rate	£38.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£42.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.58	£34.35
% change on same period last year	-2.23 %
Processes & Methodologies South West
Matching contract IT job ads	2821	3478
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.813 %	3.430 %
Daily rates quoted	953	1125
Average minimum daily rate	£368	£363
Average daily rate	£391	£383
% change on same period last year	+2.30 %
Average maximum daily rate	£415	£402
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£375
% change on same period last year	+0.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	323	405
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.43	£29.31
Average hourly rate	£32.97	£31.19
% change on same period last year	+5.71 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.52	£33.07
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.41	£30.41
% change on same period last year	+0.01 %
OOA/OOD England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

OOA/OOD
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing OOA/OOD across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing OOA/OOD across the South West region.

OOA/OOD
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing OOA/OOD across the South West region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

OOA/OOD
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing OOA/OOD across the South West region.

OOA/OOD
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OOA/OOD within the South West region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Wiltshire	+7	3	-	-
Dorset	+4	2	-	-

OOA/OOD England

OOA/OOD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing OOA/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 OOA/OOD.

1 8 (66.67 %) UML 1 8 (66.67 %) OO 2 5 (41.67 %) C# 2 5 (41.67 %) WebServices 2 5 (41.67 %) XML 3 4 (33.33 %) Java 3 4 (33.33 %) .NET 3 4 (33.33 %) J2EE 3 4 (33.33 %) Oracle 3 4 (33.33 %) SQL Server 4 3 (25.00 %) SQL Server 2005 4 3 (25.00 %) Visual Studio 4 3 (25.00 %) ASP.NET 4 3 (25.00 %) OOD 4 3 (25.00 %) SQL Server 2000

5 2 (16.67 %) Windows 5 2 (16.67 %) GIS 5 2 (16.67 %) SOA 5 2 (16.67 %) Fortran 5 2 (16.67 %) C++ 5 2 (16.67 %) VC++ 5 2 (16.67 %) C 5 2 (16.67 %) Telecoms 5 2 (16.67 %) Government 5 2 (16.67 %) Stakeholder Management 6 1 (8.333 %) WinForms 6 1 (8.333 %) Agile Software Development 6 1 (8.333 %) Banking 6 1 (8.333 %) Retail 6 1 (8.333 %) VB6

OOA/OOD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing OOA/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 OOA/OOD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 5 (41.67 %) WebServices 1 5 (41.67 %) XML 2 4 (33.33 %) .NET 2 4 (33.33 %) J2EE 3 3 (25.00 %) ASP.NET 4 1 (8.333 %) HTML 4 1 (8.333 %) XSLT 4 1 (8.333 %) WinForms 4 1 (8.333 %) Windows SharePoint Services	Application Platforms 1 1 (8.333 %) SharePoint
Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2 3 (25.00 %) SQL Server 2000 2 3 (25.00 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (16.67 %) GIS 4 1 (8.333 %) DTS	Development Applications 1 3 (25.00 %) Visual Studio
General 1 2 (16.67 %) Government 1 2 (16.67 %) Telecoms 2 1 (8.333 %) Finance 2 1 (8.333 %) Electric 2 1 (8.333 %) Back Office 2 1 (8.333 %) Banking 2 1 (8.333 %) Retail 2 1 (8.333 %) Pensions 2 1 (8.333 %) Retail Banking	Job Titles 1 4 (33.33 %) Technical Lead 2 3 (25.00 %) Developer 2 3 (25.00 %) Analyst 3 2 (16.67 %) Analyst Programmer 3 2 (16.67 %) Programmer 4 1 (8.333 %) Senior Business Analyst 4 1 (8.333 %) Senior Analyst 4 1 (8.333 %) C# Developer 4 1 (8.333 %) Analyst Developer 4 1 (8.333 %) WinForms Developer 4 1 (8.333 %) Real Time Engineer 4 1 (8.333 %) Business Analyst 4 1 (8.333 %) Software Engineer
Operating Systems 1 2 (16.67 %) Windows 2 1 (8.333 %) Linux 2 1 (8.333 %) Windows Mobile	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (66.67 %) UML 1 8 (66.67 %) OO 2 3 (25.00 %) OOD 3 2 (16.67 %) SOA 3 2 (16.67 %) Stakeholder Management 4 1 (8.333 %) Agile Software Development 4 1 (8.333 %) Software Engineering 4 1 (8.333 %) Business Analysis 4 1 (8.333 %) Web Development 4 1 (8.333 %) Resource Management 4 1 (8.333 %) SC Cleared 4 1 (8.333 %) Security Cleared 4 1 (8.333 %) Project Management 4 1 (8.333 %) Migration 4 1 (8.333 %) Data Modelling
Programming Languages 1 5 (41.67 %) C# 2 4 (33.33 %) Java 3 2 (16.67 %) C++ 3 2 (16.67 %) VC++ 3 2 (16.67 %) Fortran 3 2 (16.67 %) C 4 1 (8.333 %) VB6 4 1 (8.333 %) SQL 4 1 (8.333 %) Transact-SQL 4 1 (8.333 %) VB 4 1 (8.333 %) VB.NET 4 1 (8.333 %) VBA	System Software 1 1 (8.333 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 4 (33.33 %) Oracle 2 1 (8.333 %) Microsoft