The first table below looks at the demand for OOD skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OOD over the 3 months to 23 May 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.

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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
Rank 304 309 230
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -79
Contract jobs citing OOD 256 290 477
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.552% 0.497% 0.769%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.778% 0.732% 1.137%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 171 251
Average daily rate £350 £351 £455
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.14% -22.96%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £288 £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £548 £525 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £303 £331 £330
% change year-on-year
-8.67% +0.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 25 18
Average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £39.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -10.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.50 £31.50 £31.35
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.00 £40.90 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £39.00
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +2.56%
All Processes & Methodologies
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
32894 39591 41969
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 70.99% 67.83% 67.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 19661 22733 23826
Average daily rate £413 £403 £438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.48% -8.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £579 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 963 1284 1487
Average hourly rate £30.50 £25.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.00% -13.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £12.68 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%

OOD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

OOD Jobs Demand Trend

OOD
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing OOD within the UK.

OOD Daily Rate Trend

OOD
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing OOD within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

OOD Daily Rate Histogram

OOD
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing OOD within the UK.

OOD Hourly Rate Trend

OOD
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OOD within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 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
England +10 219 £353 +0.57%
London -4 101 £406 +1.56%
South East +27 67 £323 -13.06%
Hampshire +40 46 £321 -8.21%
City of London +33 35 £400 -
Basingstoke +2 17 £350 -
South West +26 13 £290 -3.33%
Surrey 0 13 - -
East Midlands -5 13 £280 -8.57%
East of England +11 8 £400 +29.03%
Wiltshire +7 8 £325 -10.34%
Yorkshire -1 7 £343 +30.47%
Staines - 7 - -
Berkshire +15 6 £350 -15.15%
Cambridgeshire +14 6 £400 +29.03%
Cambridge +12 6 £400 +29.03%
Guildford -8 6 - -
Scotland -10 6 £450 +46.34%
North Yorkshire +5 5 £346 -
Southampton 0 5 £400 -
Nottinghamshire -5 5 £285 -6.93%
York - 5 £346 -
West Midlands +11 4 £325 -18.75%
North West +9 4 £300 -
Glasgow - 4 £390 -
Slough - 4 £350 -
Derbyshire +8 3 £245 -
Dorset 0 3 - -
Canary Wharf 0 3 - -
Manchester +9 2 £300 -

OOD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing 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 OOD.

1 356 (73.71%) OO
2 187 (38.72%) SQL
3 176 (36.44%) SQL Server
4 170 (35.20%) UML
5 169 (34.99%) Java
5 169 (34.99%) JavaScript
6 144 (29.81%) CSS
7 138 (28.57%) HTML
8 135 (27.95%) .NET
8 135 (27.95%) C++
9 134 (27.74%) C#
10 129 (26.71%) jQuery
11 122 (25.26%) XML
12 118 (24.43%) Web Services
13 115 (23.81%) Agile Software Development
14 109 (22.57%) Linux
15 98 (20.29%) Oracle
16 93 (19.25%) Spring
17 92 (19.05%) Windows
18 89 (18.43%) ASP.NET
19 85 (17.60%) MVC
20 84 (17.39%) TDD
20 84 (17.39%) Multithreading
21 83 (17.18%) C
22 81 (16.77%) Continuous Integration
23 78 (16.15%) Git (software)
24 77 (15.94%) UNIX
25 75 (15.53%) JSON
26 73 (15.11%) Ajax
26 73 (15.11%) JUnit

OOD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing 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 OOD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 144 (29.81%) CSS
2 138 (28.57%) HTML
3 135 (27.95%) .NET
4 129 (26.71%) jQuery
5 122 (25.26%) XML
6 118 (24.43%) Web Services
7 93 (19.25%) Spring
8 89 (18.43%) ASP.NET
9 75 (15.53%) JSON
10 73 (15.11%) Ajax
10 73 (15.11%) Hibernate
11 68 (14.08%) SOAP
12 61 (12.63%) J2EE
12 61 (12.63%) REST
13 49 (10.14%) Java EE
14 46 (9.524%) .NET Framework
15 43 (8.903%) Motif
16 42 (8.696%) JPA
16 42 (8.696%) ASP.NET MVC
17 40 (8.282%) Spring MVC
Application Platforms
1 39 (8.075%) CMS
2 21 (4.348%) IIS
3 20 (4.141%) BizTalk Server
3 20 (4.141%) WebLogic
4 16 (3.313%) Umbraco
5 15 (3.106%) ESB
6 13 (2.692%) Tomcat
7 11 (2.277%) Apache
8 9 (1.863%) WordPress
8 9 (1.863%) Alfresco
9 8 (1.656%) Adobe CQ
9 8 (1.656%) Documentum
10 7 (1.449%) SharePoint
11 6 (1.242%) Kentico
11 6 (1.242%) Drupal
12 5 (1.035%) TIBCO EMS
13 3 (0.621%) MSMQ
14 2 (0.414%) Rendezvous
14 2 (0.414%) WebSphere MQ
14 2 (0.414%) GlassFish
Applications
1 41 (8.489%) MS Excel
2 18 (3.727%) MS Office
3 17 (3.520%) Photoshop
4 6 (1.242%) MS Project
5 3 (0.621%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.621%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.414%) PowerPivot
7 1 (0.207%) Adobe Captivate
7 1 (0.207%) InfoPath
7 1 (0.207%) Doxygen
7 1 (0.207%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (0.621%) Summit
2 2 (0.414%) BASE24
2 2 (0.414%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.207%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.207%) Adaptiv
3 1 (0.207%) Oracle ERP
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.727%) Internet
2 13 (2.692%) TCP/IP
3 11 (2.277%) HTTP
4 8 (1.656%) Wireless
4 8 (1.656%) 3G
4 8 (1.656%) GSM
5 6 (1.242%) Asterisk PBX
5 6 (1.242%) 2G
5 6 (1.242%) RTP
5 6 (1.242%) UMTS
5 6 (1.242%) VoIP
5 6 (1.242%) PBX
5 6 (1.242%) LTE
6 5 (1.035%) DNS
7 3 (0.621%) GGSN
7 3 (0.621%) SGSN
7 3 (0.621%) RANAP
7 3 (0.621%) RFID
8 2 (0.414%) Intranet
9 1 (0.207%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (36.44%) SQL Server
2 43 (8.903%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 42 (8.696%) PostgreSQL
4 40 (8.282%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 35 (7.246%) Ingres
6 23 (4.762%) SQL Server 2005
7 22 (4.555%) MySQL
8 19 (3.934%) SQL Server 2008
9 16 (3.313%) NoSQL
10 12 (2.484%) SQL Server 2000
10 12 (2.484%) MS Access
11 11 (2.277%) RDBMS
12 8 (1.656%) Oracle 8/8i
13 6 (1.242%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (1.242%) Oracle 10g
14 5 (1.035%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 5 (1.035%) DTS
14 5 (1.035%) Big Data
14 5 (1.035%) Redis
15 4 (0.828%) GIS
Development Applications
1 78 (16.15%) Git (software)
2 73 (15.11%) JUnit
3 68 (14.08%) NUnit
4 66 (13.66%) Subversion
5 59 (12.22%) Ant
6 56 (11.59%) ClearCase
7 50 (10.35%) Visual Studio
8 47 (9.731%) Maven
9 45 (9.317%) GoogleTest
10 44 (9.110%) CppUnit
11 41 (8.489%) Mockito
12 36 (7.453%) CruiseControl
13 32 (6.625%) Eclipse
14 30 (6.211%) ClearQuest
15 22 (4.555%) Selenium
16 20 (4.141%) Rational Rose
16 20 (4.141%) Hudson
16 20 (4.141%) Jenkins
17 19 (3.934%) Xcode
18 17 (3.520%) GDB
General
1 55 (11.39%) Finance
2 37 (7.660%) Banking
3 29 (6.004%) Investment Banking
4 19 (3.934%) Telecoms
5 15 (3.106%) Front Office
6 12 (2.484%) Back Office
7 10 (2.070%) Retail
8 8 (1.656%) Manufacturing
9 4 (0.828%) Military
9 4 (0.828%) Games
9 4 (0.828%) Advertising
9 4 (0.828%) Publishing
9 4 (0.828%) Avionics
10 3 (0.621%) Marketing
10 3 (0.621%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (0.621%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.414%) Billing
12 1 (0.207%) Japanese Language
12 1 (0.207%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 351 (72.67%) Developer
2 98 (20.29%) Java Developer
3 65 (13.46%) .NET Developer
3 65 (13.46%) Software Engineer
4 54 (11.18%) C# Developer
5 43 (8.903%) Senior Developer
6 31 (6.418%) C++ Developer
7 30 (6.211%) Web Developer
8 25 (5.176%) C# .NET Developer
9 24 (4.969%) Software Developer
10 20 (4.141%) Programmer
10 20 (4.141%) C++ Software Engineer
10 20 (4.141%) iOS Developer
11 19 (3.934%) Android Developer
11 19 (3.934%) ASP.NET Developer
12 16 (3.313%) Senior .NET Developer
13 14 (2.899%) Senior C# Developer
14 13 (2.692%) Agile C# Developer
14 13 (2.692%) Technical Leader
14 13 (2.692%) Java/J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 30 (6.211%) Derivative
2 26 (5.383%) N-Tier
3 24 (4.969%) Open Source
4 20 (4.141%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 20 (4.141%) Computer Science
5 19 (3.934%) Client/Server
6 16 (3.313%) Graphic Design
7 15 (3.106%) Mobile App
8 11 (2.277%) Mathematics
8 11 (2.277%) Fixed Income
9 8 (1.656%) RIA
10 7 (1.449%) Physics
10 7 (1.449%) Inversion of Control
11 6 (1.242%) Statistics
11 6 (1.242%) Market Risk
11 6 (1.242%) iPhone
12 5 (1.035%) Equities
13 4 (0.828%) Embedded Systems
13 4 (0.828%) Enterprise Software
13 4 (0.828%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 109 (22.57%) Linux
2 92 (19.05%) Windows
3 77 (15.94%) UNIX
4 39 (8.075%) Apple iOS
5 32 (6.625%) Android
6 17 (3.520%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.621%) Windows XP Embedded
7 3 (0.621%) Windows XP
7 3 (0.621%) VxWorks
8 2 (0.414%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.207%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.207%) Windows Mobile
9 1 (0.207%) AIX
9 1 (0.207%) Solaris
9 1 (0.207%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.207%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 356 (73.71%) OO
2 170 (35.20%) UML
3 115 (23.81%) Agile Software Development
4 85 (17.60%) MVC
5 84 (17.39%) TDD
5 84 (17.39%) Multithreading
6 81 (16.77%) Continuous Integration
7 63 (13.04%) Configuration Management
8 62 (12.84%) Unit Testing
9 55 (11.39%) Software Engineering
9 55 (11.39%) Web Development
10 51 (10.56%) BDD
11 50 (10.35%) Software Architecture
12 36 (7.453%) SOA
12 36 (7.453%) Scrum
13 34 (7.039%) OOP
14 32 (6.625%) RUP
15 28 (5.797%) Pair Programming
16 25 (5.176%) Memory Management
16 25 (5.176%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 187 (38.72%) SQL
2 169 (34.99%) Java
2 169 (34.99%) JavaScript
3 135 (27.95%) C++
4 134 (27.74%) C#
5 83 (17.18%) C
6 45 (9.317%) Python
7 33 (6.832%) T-SQL
8 21 (4.348%) Objective-C
9 18 (3.727%) VB
10 16 (3.313%) VB.NET
10 16 (3.313%) PHP
10 16 (3.313%) PL/SQL
11 14 (2.899%) Ruby
12 13 (2.692%) XPath
13 12 (2.484%) VBA
14 10 (2.070%) Groovy
15 9 (1.863%) ActionScript
16 8 (1.656%) Perl
16 8 (1.656%) Ada
Qualifications
1 56 (11.59%) Security Cleared
2 48 (9.938%) SC Cleared
3 39 (8.075%) Degree
4 2 (0.414%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (0.414%) Sun Certification
5 1 (0.207%) MCAD
5 1 (0.207%) MCSD
5 1 (0.207%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (1.863%) QA
2 7 (1.449%) ISO 9001
3 6 (1.242%) DO-178B
4 4 (0.828%) PCI DSS
4 4 (0.828%) JTAG
5 2 (0.414%) ISO 8583
5 2 (0.414%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.207%) TickIT
6 1 (0.207%) Basel III
System Software
1 4 (0.828%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (0.621%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 98 (20.29%) Oracle
2 70 (14.49%) Microsoft
3 36 (7.453%) JBoss
4 20 (4.141%) Twitter
5 18 (3.727%) Adobe
5 18 (3.727%) Google
6 17 (3.520%) Red Hat
7 15 (3.106%) IBM
8 10 (2.070%) Zend
9 9 (1.863%) Coverity
9 9 (1.863%) Telerik
9 9 (1.863%) Aquila
10 8 (1.656%) Facebook
10 8 (1.656%) Cramer
11 7 (1.449%) webMethods
11 7 (1.449%) Software AG
12 6 (1.242%) Informatica
12 6 (1.242%) Cisco
13 5 (1.035%) DevExpress
13 5 (1.035%) SAP
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Posted: 17 May 2013
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Posted: 20 May 2013
London
Java Developer : Futures/Listed Derivatives/Credit Risk Investment Banking, London to £500 daily... Java experience. Hibernate... Competency in Object Oriented Design and Analysis... Scripting (Perl/Kshell/Cshell) UDB &...
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Rate: Up to £500 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
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C++ Developer with OOD Design - UML - Current SC Clearance preferred - Opportunity to apply for an SC Clearance available .. Responsible for design, development and documentation work with full software...
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Rate: £290 - £300 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
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Posted: 22 May 2013
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