Southend-on-Sea OO Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Object-Oriented (OO) skills within the Southend-on-Sea region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited OO over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Object-Oriented (OO)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Avon Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Caerphilly Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Cumbria Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Farnham Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hartlepool Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Huddersfield Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Malvern Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Potters Bar Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Rugby Salisbury Scotland Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Asaph Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Sutton-in-Ashfield Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Tonbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£328	£341
% change on same period last year	-3.61 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.43	£35.28
% change on same period last year	-5.22 %
Processes & Methodologies Southend-on-Sea
Matching contract IT job ads	19	13
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.030 %	0.014 %
Daily rates quoted	8	7
Average minimum daily rate	£427	£339
Average daily rate	£457	£354
% change on same period last year	+28.95 %
Average maximum daily rate	£487	£369
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£370
% change on same period last year	+2.76 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.17	£29.91
% change on same period last year	-5.80 %
OO Essex

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing OO across the Southend-on-Sea 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 OO across the Southend-on-Sea region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Southend-on-Sea 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 15 (93.75 %) UML 2 13 (81.25 %) J2EE 3 11 (68.75 %) Government 4 9 (56.25 %) RUP 5 7 (43.75 %) UNIX 6 6 (37.50 %) Servlets 6 6 (37.50 %) WebLogic 7 5 (31.25 %) BEA 7 5 (31.25 %) XML 7 5 (31.25 %) Tuxedo 7 5 (31.25 %) E-Commerce 7 5 (31.25 %) Enterprise Architecture 8 4 (25.00 %) DSDM 8 4 (25.00 %) N-Tier 8 4 (25.00 %) Data Modelling

8 4 (25.00 %) Configuration Management 9 3 (18.75 %) EAI 9 3 (18.75 %) Middleware 9 3 (18.75 %) ETL 9 3 (18.75 %) AIX 9 3 (18.75 %) Solaris 9 3 (18.75 %) Security Cleared 10 2 (12.50 %) Time Management 10 2 (12.50 %) BC Cleared 10 2 (12.50 %) Perl 10 2 (12.50 %) RAD 10 2 (12.50 %) JMS 10 2 (12.50 %) MQSeries 10 2 (12.50 %) OOD 10 2 (12.50 %) VSS/SourceSafe

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Southend-on-Sea 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 13 (81.25 %) J2EE 2 6 (37.50 %) Servlets 3 5 (31.25 %) XML 4 3 (18.75 %) Middleware 5 2 (12.50 %) JMS	Application Platforms 1 6 (37.50 %) WebLogic 2 5 (31.25 %) Tuxedo 3 2 (12.50 %) MQSeries
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (18.75 %) ETL	Development Applications 1 2 (12.50 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 1 (6.250 %) PVCS
General 1 11 (68.75 %) Government	Job Titles 1 8 (50.00 %) Architect 1 8 (50.00 %) Analyst 2 7 (43.75 %) Technical Analyst 3 6 (37.50 %) Systems Analyst 4 3 (18.75 %) IT Architect 5 2 (12.50 %) Technical Architect 6 1 (6.250 %) Data Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 4 (25.00 %) N-Tier	Operating Systems 1 7 (43.75 %) UNIX 2 3 (18.75 %) AIX 2 3 (18.75 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (93.75 %) UML 2 9 (56.25 %) RUP 3 5 (31.25 %) E-Commerce 3 5 (31.25 %) Enterprise Architecture 4 4 (25.00 %) Configuration Management 4 4 (25.00 %) Data Modelling 4 4 (25.00 %) DSDM 5 3 (18.75 %) EAI 5 3 (18.75 %) Security Cleared 6 2 (12.50 %) Time Management 6 2 (12.50 %) BC Cleared 6 2 (12.50 %) E-business 6 2 (12.50 %) OOD 6 2 (12.50 %) RAD 7 1 (6.250 %) Agile Software Development 7 1 (6.250 %) Data Analysis 7 1 (6.250 %) Systems Analysis	Programming Languages 1 2 (12.50 %) Perl 2 1 (6.250 %) C
Vendors 1 5 (31.25 %) BEA 2 1 (6.250 %) Microsoft