The first table below looks at the demand for OOP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Southampton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OOP 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 Southampton 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 Programming (OOP)
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing OOP 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 0.896% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.442% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £300 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £325 £320
% change year-on-year
-7.69% +1.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.50 £25.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year
+46.00% -65.51%
All Processes & Methodologies
Southampton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
208 162 122
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 62.09% 63.04% 65.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 88 63
Average daily rate £350 £400 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% +14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £256 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £563
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 26 12
Average hourly rate £23.00 £20.00 £33.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.00% -39.39%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.00 £10.07 £11.78
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.00 £41.50 £36.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
OOP
Hampshire

OOP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton OOP Hourly Rate Trend

OOP
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 8 (88.89%) PHP
1 8 (88.89%) jQuery
2 7 (77.78%) MVC
2 7 (77.78%) MySQL
2 7 (77.78%) CSS
2 7 (77.78%) Subversion
3 6 (66.67%) HTML5
3 6 (66.67%) PHP5
3 6 (66.67%) CSS3
3 6 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
3 6 (66.67%) Magento
4 2 (22.22%) Yii
4 2 (22.22%) Symfony
4 2 (22.22%) Zend
5 1 (11.11%) ActionScript 3.0
5 1 (11.11%) ActionScript 2.0
5 1 (11.11%) STB
5 1 (11.11%) OO
5 1 (11.11%) Flash
5 1 (11.11%) Middleware
5 1 (11.11%) ActionScript
5 1 (11.11%) C++
5 1 (11.11%) HTML
5 1 (11.11%) Java

OOP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 8 (88.89%) jQuery
2 7 (77.78%) CSS
3 6 (66.67%) HTML5
3 6 (66.67%) CSS3
4 2 (22.22%) Yii
4 2 (22.22%) Symfony
5 1 (11.11%) Flash
5 1 (11.11%) Middleware
5 1 (11.11%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 6 (66.67%) Magento
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (77.78%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (77.78%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Developer
1 8 (88.89%) PHP Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) STB
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) MVC
2 6 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (11.11%) OO
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) PHP
2 6 (66.67%) PHP5
3 1 (11.11%) ActionScript 3.0
3 1 (11.11%) ActionScript 2.0
3 1 (11.11%) ActionScript
3 1 (11.11%) C++
3 1 (11.11%) Java
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Zend