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The first part of the 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 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category.

LinkObject-Oriented Design (OOD)
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank188273261
Rank change year-on-year
Up+85Down-12
Matching contract IT job ads409172423
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.847 %0.436 %0.515 %
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category1.438 %0.822 %1.034 %
Daily rates quoted20162158
Average daily rate£525£375£363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+40.00 %+3.440 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£300£241£255
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£500£525
UK excluding London average daily rate£338£280£355
% change year-on-year
+20.53 %-21.12 %
Hourly rates quoted71937
Average hourly rate£37.50£32.50£40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.38 %-18.75 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£18.70£32.50£31.80
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£46.80£40.70£46.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£37.50£32.50£40.00
% change year-on-year
+15.38 %-18.75 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryAll Processes & Methodologies
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
284392091640911
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK58.87 %53.02 %49.77 %
Daily rates quoted13684739614067
Average daily rate£410£400£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.500 %-
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£250£235£263
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£575£550£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£350£360£375
% change year-on-year
-2.770 %-4.000 %
Hourly rates quoted114812112463
Average hourly rate£25.00£27.50£30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.090 %-8.330 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£12.21£13.00£13.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£42.50£42.50£44.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£24.50£27.50£30.00
% change year-on-year
-10.90 %-8.330 %

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.

OOD
Demand Trend

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

OOD Demand Trend

OOD
Daily Rate Trend

The 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

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing OOD within the UK over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

OOD Daily Rate Histogram

OOD
Hourly Rate Trend

The 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing OOD within the UK over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

OOD Hourly Rate Histogram

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 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandUp+96384£525+40.00 %
LondonUp+60306£538+40.70 %
City of LondonDown-1393£525+31.25 %
South EastUp+2240£340+30.76 %
ScotlandNo change023£363-
EdinburghDown-416--
SurreyDown-713£335+36.73 %
South WestDown-1810£400+66.66 %
Canary WharfNew entry-10--
StainesNew entry-9£375-
East of EnglandUp+178£325-
MiddlesexNew entry-8--
North WestDown-87--
EssexNew entry-7£325-
East MidlandsDown-16£325+44.44 %
ManchesterDown-75--
West MidlandsUp+154--
DevonNew entry-4£400-
NottinghamshireNew entry-3--
Milton KeynesNew entry-3--
ExeterNew entry-3£400-
BuckinghamshireNew entry-3--
BerkshireUp+72--
ReadingUp+22--
HampshireDown-42--
West SussexDown-82£300-
GlasgowNew entry-2£363-
BasingstokeNew entry-2--
WalesNew entry-2--
GuildfordUp+101£275+29.41 %

OOD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, 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.

1501 (67.25 %)OO
2373 (50.07 %)C#
3288 (38.66 %)Java
4275 (36.91 %).NET
5234 (31.41 %)SQL
6230 (30.87 %)Agile Software Development
7204 (27.38 %)C++
8194 (26.04 %)Banking
9177 (23.76 %)SQL Server
10164 (22.01 %)XML
11157 (21.07 %)Front Office
12152 (20.40 %)Oracle
13151 (20.27 %)Derivative
14137 (18.39 %)UML
15133 (17.85 %)TDD
16131 (17.58 %)ASP.NET
17127 (17.05 %)Continuous Integration
18115 (15.44 %)Linux
18115 (15.44 %)Windows
19114 (15.30 %)Finance
20113 (15.17 %)UNIX
20113 (15.17 %)Spring
2198 (13.15 %)Hibernate
2295 (12.75 %)Fixed Income
2392 (12.35 %)Investment Banking
2486 (11.54 %)OOA/OOD
2576 (10.20 %)Web Services
2672 (9.664 %)Microsoft
2769 (9.262 %)SQL Server 2005
2868 (9.128 %)Sybase

OOD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, 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.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1275 (36.91 %).NET
2164 (22.01 %)XML
3131 (17.58 %)ASP.NET
4113 (15.17 %)Spring
598 (13.15 %)Hibernate
676 (10.20 %)Web Services
757 (7.651 %).NET Framework
855 (7.383 %)WCF
953 (7.114 %)HTML
953 (7.114 %)J2EE
1052 (6.980 %)WPF
1150 (6.711 %)AJAX
1248 (6.443 %)NHibernate
1341 (5.503 %)iBATIS
1437 (4.966 %)WinForms
1437 (4.966 %)CSS
1533 (4.430 %)STL
1632 (4.295 %)Swing
1731 (4.161 %)JSP
1827 (3.624 %)J2SE
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
134 (4.564 %)Tomcat
220 (2.685 %)Apache
317 (2.282 %)SharePoint
317 (2.282 %)TIBCO EMS
412 (1.611 %)Alfresco
510 (1.342 %)MQSeries
510 (1.342 %)Rendezvous
67 (0.940 %)IIS
76 (0.805 %)SharePoint Server 2007
76 (0.805 %)BizTalk Server
85 (0.671 %)ActiveMQ
94 (0.537 %)ESB
94 (0.537 %)CMS
94 (0.537 %)Oracle Workflow
103 (0.403 %)LiveLink
103 (0.403 %)WebLogic
103 (0.403 %)Sitecore CMS
112 (0.268 %)GlassFish
121 (0.134 %)Smallworld
121 (0.134 %)WebSphere MQ
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
121 (2.819 %)Spreadsheet
218 (2.416 %)MS Excel
314 (1.879 %)MS Office
45 (0.671 %)MS Visio
54 (0.537 %)Quicktime
62 (0.268 %)MS Project
62 (0.268 %)MATLAB
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
118 (2.416 %)Endur
25 (0.671 %)ION MarketView
34 (0.537 %)Minerva
34 (0.537 %)Global One
42 (0.268 %)FENICS FX
51 (0.134 %)Oracle EBS
51 (0.134 %)SAP FI/CO
51 (0.134 %)SAP FI
51 (0.134 %)SAP CO
51 (0.134 %)RMDS
51 (0.134 %)InvestOne
51 (0.134 %)Siebel Analytics
51 (0.134 %)Oracle BPM
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
117 (2.282 %)TCP/IP
212 (1.611 %)HTTP
212 (1.611 %)Bluetooth
310 (1.342 %)Internet
44 (0.537 %)DNS
44 (0.537 %)FTP
44 (0.537 %)DVB
53 (0.403 %)Network Security
62 (0.268 %)HTTPS
62 (0.268 %)SMTP
71 (0.134 %)Firewall
71 (0.134 %)DMZ
71 (0.134 %)Intranet
71 (0.134 %)VoIP
71 (0.134 %)WLAN
71 (0.134 %)GPRS
71 (0.134 %)GSM
71 (0.134 %)LAN
71 (0.134 %)DHCP
71 (0.134 %)Kerberos
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1177 (23.76 %)SQL Server
269 (9.262 %)SQL Server 2005
351 (6.846 %)SQL Server 2000
420 (2.685 %)OLTP
519 (2.550 %)RDBMS
616 (2.148 %)SQL Server 2008
715 (2.013 %)MySQL
715 (2.013 %)SQL Server Integration Services
88 (1.074 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
97 (0.940 %)BusinessObjects
106 (0.805 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
106 (0.805 %)ETL
106 (0.805 %)Datawarehouse
106 (0.805 %)Oracle 10g
115 (0.671 %)OLAP
115 (0.671 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
115 (0.671 %)Oracle 11g
124 (0.537 %)Reference Data
124 (0.537 %)Sybase ASE
133 (0.403 %)GIS
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
168 (9.128 %)TeamCity
263 (8.456 %)Subversion
263 (8.456 %)NUnit
357 (7.651 %)JUnit
442 (5.638 %)FitNesse
540 (5.369 %)ReSharper
639 (5.235 %)Ant
737 (4.966 %)WATIR
737 (4.966 %)Selenium
737 (4.966 %)WatiN
832 (4.295 %)Eclipse
926 (3.490 %)csUnit
1023 (3.087 %)NCover
1122 (2.953 %)NDepend
1220 (2.685 %)Visual Studio
1220 (2.685 %)VSS/SourceSafe
1316 (2.148 %)CruiseControl
1415 (2.013 %)ClearCase
1514 (1.879 %)Maven
1612 (1.611 %)WebDriver
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1194 (26.04 %)Banking
2157 (21.07 %)Front Office
3114 (15.30 %)Finance
492 (12.35 %)Investment Banking
520 (2.685 %)Back Office
618 (2.416 %)Games
717 (2.282 %)Education
810 (1.342 %)Government
98 (1.074 %)Law
106 (0.805 %)Insurance
115 (0.671 %)Retail
124 (0.537 %)Marketing
124 (0.537 %)Electric
133 (0.403 %)Mobile Games
133 (0.403 %)Publishing
133 (0.403 %)Online Games
142 (0.268 %)Social Media
142 (0.268 %)Music
142 (0.268 %)Music Industry
142 (0.268 %)Graphic Design
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1552 (74.09 %)Developer
2142 (19.06 %).NET Developer
3141 (18.93 %)Java Developer
4133 (17.85 %)C# Developer
588 (11.81 %)C++ Developer
680 (10.74 %)Senior Developer
761 (8.188 %)Software Engineer
849 (6.577 %)Analyst
931 (4.161 %)Senior .NET Developer
1029 (3.893 %)Senior Software Engineer
1127 (3.624 %)Software Developer
1226 (3.490 %)Business Analyst
1226 (3.490 %)ASP.NET Developer
1324 (3.221 %)Agile .NET Developer
1422 (2.953 %)C++/C# Developer
1422 (2.953 %)Architect
1521 (2.819 %)Senior C# Developer
1620 (2.685 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
1718 (2.416 %)Analyst Developer
1718 (2.416 %)C++ Software Engineer
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1151 (20.27 %)Derivative
295 (12.75 %)Fixed Income
351 (6.846 %)Multithreading
448 (6.443 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
543 (5.772 %)Computer Science
629 (3.893 %)Credit Risk
725 (3.356 %)Credit Derivative
725 (3.356 %)Client/Server
819 (2.550 %)Equities
918 (2.416 %)Open Source
1013 (1.745 %)SaaS
1112 (1.611 %)N-Tier
1211 (1.477 %)Social Network
1211 (1.477 %)STB
1211 (1.477 %)iPhone
139 (1.208 %)Mathematics
147 (0.940 %)Web 2.0
147 (0.940 %)Physics
156 (0.805 %)Equity Derivative
156 (0.805 %)Data Protection Act
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1115 (15.44 %)Linux
1115 (15.44 %)Windows
2113 (15.17 %)UNIX
316 (2.148 %)Windows XP
410 (1.342 %)Windows Mobile
58 (1.074 %)Windows Server 2003
66 (0.805 %)Solaris
72 (0.268 %)Windows Vista
72 (0.268 %)VMS
72 (0.268 %)Mac OS X
81 (0.134 %)Windows NT
81 (0.134 %)Windows XP Embedded
81 (0.134 %)Android
81 (0.134 %)Mac OS
81 (0.134 %)Red Hat Linux
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1501 (67.25 %)OO
2230 (30.87 %)Agile Software Development
3137 (18.39 %)UML
4133 (17.85 %)TDD
5127 (17.05 %)Continuous Integration
686 (11.54 %)OOA/OOD
767 (8.993 %)Scrum
866 (8.859 %)Unit Testing
961 (8.188 %)Refactoring
1046 (6.174 %)Pair Programming
1141 (5.503 %)MVC
1239 (5.235 %)SOA
1337 (4.966 %)Extreme Programming
1436 (4.832 %)Risk Management
1533 (4.430 %)OOP
1630 (4.027 %)RAD
1725 (3.356 %)Feature Driven Development
1824 (3.221 %)Software Engineering
1922 (2.953 %)E-Commerce
2017 (2.282 %)Data Modelling
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1373 (50.07 %)C#
2288 (38.66 %)Java
3234 (31.41 %)SQL
4204 (27.38 %)C++
568 (9.128 %)JavaScript
656 (7.517 %)PL/SQL
752 (6.980 %)C
843 (5.772 %)VBA
927 (3.624 %)T-SQL
1024 (3.221 %)Shell Script
1120 (2.685 %)Perl
1120 (2.685 %)Assembly Language
1217 (2.282 %)PHP
1316 (2.148 %)VC++
1415 (2.013 %)Python
1415 (2.013 %)VB
1510 (1.342 %)ActionScript
168 (1.074 %)ActionScript 3.0
168 (1.074 %)ActionScript 2.0
168 (1.074 %)VB.NET
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
138 (5.101 %)Degree
214 (1.879 %)Security Cleared
311 (1.477 %)Microsoft Certification
47 (0.940 %)DV Cleared
53 (0.403 %)PhD
62 (0.268 %)BC Cleared
62 (0.268 %)MCTS
62 (0.268 %)MCAD
62 (0.268 %)Sun Certification
71 (0.134 %)HNC
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
16 (0.805 %)QA
24 (0.537 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
33 (0.403 %)ISO9001
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
16 (0.805 %)MSMQ
22 (0.268 %)Active Directory
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
14 (0.537 %)CONTROL-M
22 (0.268 %)MSI
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1152 (20.40 %)Oracle
272 (9.664 %)Microsoft
368 (9.128 %)Sybase
439 (5.235 %)TIBCO
528 (3.758 %)IBM
614 (1.879 %)Perforce
713 (1.745 %)JBoss
713 (1.745 %)Google
810 (1.342 %)Symbian
810 (1.342 %)OpenLink
99 (1.208 %)DevExpress
108 (1.074 %)Bloomberg
108 (1.074 %)Infragistics
117 (0.940 %)Charles River
117 (0.940 %)Business Objects
125 (0.671 %)SAP
125 (0.671 %)Siebel
125 (0.671 %)ION Trading
125 (0.671 %)LatentZero
133 (0.403 %)Adobe