Suffolk OO Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Object-Oriented (OO) skills within the Suffolk 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 8 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Object-Oriented (OO)
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dumbarton Dundee East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Farnborough Gateshead Glamorgan Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Kent Lanarkshire Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Redditch Redhill Rickmansworth Rotherham Rugby Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Dunbartonshire West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	25	25
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	2	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	3.125 %	4.800 %
Daily rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£500
Average daily rate	£350	£500
% change on same period last year	-30.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£500
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£361
% change on same period last year	-3.49 %
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	£37.84	£33.23
% change on same period last year	+13.87 %
Processes & Methodologies Suffolk
Matching contract IT job ads	64	125
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.087 %	0.124 %
Daily rates quoted	20	40
Average minimum daily rate	£294	£321
Average daily rate	£314	£335
% change on same period last year	-6.31 %
Average maximum daily rate	£334	£349
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£375
% change on same period last year	+0.61 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	19
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.19	£32.51
Average hourly rate	£35.98	£32.97
% change on same period last year	+9.14 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.78	£33.43
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.40	£30.42
% change on same period last year	-0.08 %
OO East of 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.

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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 Suffolk 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 Suffolk region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing OO across the Suffolk region.

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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 Suffolk region over the 3 months to 8 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
Bury St Edmunds	-	1	£350	-
Ipswich	-3	1	-	-

OO East of England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 10 (90.91 %) XML 2 9 (81.82 %) SOA 2 9 (81.82 %) WebServices 3 8 (72.73 %) WSDL 3 8 (72.73 %) SOAP 3 8 (72.73 %) Struts 3 8 (72.73 %) Java 3 8 (72.73 %) J2EE 4 6 (54.55 %) Telecoms 5 5 (45.45 %) Hibernate 5 5 (45.45 %) Agile Software Development 5 5 (45.45 %) Insurance 5 5 (45.45 %) Tapestry 5 5 (45.45 %) WebLogic 5 5 (45.45 %) UML

5 5 (45.45 %) Apache 5 5 (45.45 %) AquaLogic 5 5 (45.45 %) JSR 168 5 5 (45.45 %) Use Case 5 5 (45.45 %) Apache Wicket 6 4 (36.36 %) OOA/OOD 6 4 (36.36 %) Banking 6 4 (36.36 %) WebWork 6 4 (36.36 %) Finance 7 2 (18.18 %) Microsoft 7 2 (18.18 %) SQL Server 7 2 (18.18 %) .NET 8 1 (9.091 %) C# 8 1 (9.091 %) SQL 8 1 (9.091 %) Transact-SQL

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 10 (90.91 %) XML 2 9 (81.82 %) WebServices 3 8 (72.73 %) J2EE 3 8 (72.73 %) SOAP 3 8 (72.73 %) Struts 3 8 (72.73 %) WSDL 4 5 (45.45 %) Hibernate 4 5 (45.45 %) Tapestry 4 5 (45.45 %) JSR 168 4 5 (45.45 %) Apache Wicket 5 4 (36.36 %) WebWork 6 2 (18.18 %) .NET 7 1 (9.091 %) WinForms 7 1 (9.091 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 5 (45.45 %) WebLogic 1 5 (45.45 %) Apache
Applications 1 1 (9.091 %) MS Excel	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (18.18 %) SQL Server 2 1 (9.091 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 1 (9.091 %) Visual Studio	General 1 6 (54.55 %) Telecoms 2 5 (45.45 %) Insurance 3 4 (36.36 %) Finance 3 4 (36.36 %) Banking 4 1 (9.091 %) Retail 4 1 (9.091 %) Pensions
Job Titles 1 10 (90.91 %) Developer 2 6 (54.55 %) Java Developer 3 3 (27.27 %) Senior Developer 4 2 (18.18 %) Applications Developer 4 2 (18.18 %) Senior Java Developer 5 1 (9.091 %) Java Applications Developer 5 1 (9.091 %) Java/J2EE Developer 5 1 (9.091 %) J2EE Applications Developer 5 1 (9.091 %) C# Developer 5 1 (9.091 %) J2EE Developer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (9.091 %) N-Tier 1 1 (9.091 %) IVR
Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (81.82 %) SOA 2 5 (45.45 %) UML 2 5 (45.45 %) Agile Software Development 2 5 (45.45 %) Use Case 3 4 (36.36 %) OOA/OOD 4 1 (9.091 %) Business Intelligence 4 1 (9.091 %) E-business	Programming Languages 1 8 (72.73 %) Java 2 1 (9.091 %) SQL 2 1 (9.091 %) Transact-SQL 2 1 (9.091 %) C#
Qualifications 1 1 (9.091 %) MCP 1 1 (9.091 %) MCSD 1 1 (9.091 %) Microsoft Certification	System Software 1 5 (45.45 %) AquaLogic
Vendors 1 2 (18.18 %) Microsoft 2 1 (9.091 %) BEA