OO Contracts in Wales
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for OO skills in IT contracts advertised for the Wales region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OO over the 3 months to 17 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 for the Wales 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented (OO)
Rank 35 41 37
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -4
Contract jobs citing OO 8 13 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 1.980% 2.342% 3.395%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.899% 3.542% 5.500%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 6
Average daily rate £400 £275 £309
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+45.45% -10.93%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £220 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £480 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 7
Average hourly rate - £27.50 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -35.29%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+8.69% -1.42%
All Processes & Methodologies
Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 276 367 400
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 68.32% 66.13% 61.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 178 176
Average daily rate £365 £375 £374
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.66% +0.26%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £216 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £505 £513
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 12 20
Average hourly rate £15.00 £14.50 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% -65.88%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
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Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wales OO Jobs Demand Trend

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Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing OO across the Wales region.

Wales OO Daily Rate Trend

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Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing OO across the Wales region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Wales OO Daily Rate Histogram

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

Wales OO Hourly Rate Trend

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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 Wales region over the 3 months to 17 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
South Wales -4 7 £400 +28.00%
North Wales -1 1 £300 +20.00%
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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales 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 11 (50.00%) UML
1 11 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (45.45%) .NET
3 9 (40.91%) MS Project
3 9 (40.91%) TestDirector
3 9 (40.91%) AS400
3 9 (40.91%) Finance
4 8 (36.36%) Project Management
4 8 (36.36%) MS Office
4 8 (36.36%) UNIX
5 7 (31.82%) Degree
5 7 (31.82%) HTML
5 7 (31.82%) JavaScript
5 7 (31.82%) PHP
6 6 (27.27%) Java
6 6 (27.27%) Content Management
7 5 (22.73%) Agile Software Development
7 5 (22.73%) TDD
7 5 (22.73%) IBM
7 5 (22.73%) Shell Script
7 5 (22.73%) RPG
7 5 (22.73%) MySQL
7 5 (22.73%) DB2
7 5 (22.73%) IIS
7 5 (22.73%) COBOL
7 5 (22.73%) OS/400
7 5 (22.73%) Business Analysis
7 5 (22.73%) Ajax
7 5 (22.73%) iSeries
7 5 (22.73%) WebSphere

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales 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 (45.45%) .NET
2 7 (31.82%) HTML
3 5 (22.73%) Ajax
3 5 (22.73%) WebSphere
4 4 (18.18%) RESTful
4 4 (18.18%) HTML5
4 4 (18.18%) J2EE
4 4 (18.18%) XML
5 3 (13.64%) CSS
5 3 (13.64%) Web Services
6 2 (9.091%) JSON
6 2 (9.091%) jQuery
7 1 (4.545%) .NET Framework
7 1 (4.545%) ASP.NET MVC 3
7 1 (4.545%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (4.545%) Hibernate
7 1 (4.545%) Spring
7 1 (4.545%) ASP.NET
7 1 (4.545%) COM
Application Platforms
1 5 (22.73%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (40.91%) MS Project
2 8 (36.36%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.545%) Ethernet
1 1 (4.545%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) MySQL
1 5 (22.73%) DB2
2 3 (13.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (40.91%) TestDirector
2 4 (18.18%) Cucumber
3 3 (13.64%) Hudson
4 2 (9.091%) Capybara
4 2 (9.091%) WATIR
4 2 (9.091%) Selenium
5 1 (4.545%) Firebug
5 1 (4.545%) TeamCity
5 1 (4.545%) Git (software)
5 1 (4.545%) Jenkins
5 1 (4.545%) CruiseControl
5 1 (4.545%) Subversion
5 1 (4.545%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (40.91%) Finance
2 2 (9.091%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Analyst
2 8 (36.36%) Developer
3 5 (22.73%) Software Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) Business Analyst
4 4 (18.18%) Applications Support Analyst
4 4 (18.18%) PHP Developer
4 4 (18.18%) Support Analyst
4 4 (18.18%) Applications Support
5 2 (9.091%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (4.545%) Software Test Engineer
6 1 (4.545%) Java Developer
6 1 (4.545%) .NET Developer
6 1 (4.545%) C# Developer
6 1 (4.545%) Systems Analyst
6 1 (4.545%) Web Developer
6 1 (4.545%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.545%) Senior C# Developer
6 1 (4.545%) Senior .NET Developer
6 1 (4.545%) AS400 Support
6 1 (4.545%) Testing Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (40.91%) AS400
2 5 (22.73%) iSeries
3 2 (9.091%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 8 (36.36%) UNIX
2 5 (22.73%) OS/400
3 2 (9.091%) Windows
3 2 (9.091%) AIX
4 1 (4.545%) Linux
4 1 (4.545%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) UML
2 8 (36.36%) Project Management
3 6 (27.27%) Content Management
4 5 (22.73%) Business Analysis
4 5 (22.73%) Agile Software Development
4 5 (22.73%) TDD
5 4 (18.18%) Web Development
6 3 (13.64%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (9.091%) Test Automation
7 2 (9.091%) BDD
7 2 (9.091%) Continuous Improvement
8 1 (4.545%) Software Testing
8 1 (4.545%) Disaster Recovery
8 1 (4.545%) MVC
8 1 (4.545%) OOD
8 1 (4.545%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (31.82%) JavaScript
1 7 (31.82%) PHP
2 6 (27.27%) Java
3 5 (22.73%) COBOL
3 5 (22.73%) RPG
3 5 (22.73%) Shell Script
4 4 (18.18%) Ruby
4 4 (18.18%) PHP5
5 3 (13.64%) SQL
6 2 (9.091%) C++
7 1 (4.545%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.545%) SLA
Vendors
1 11 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (22.73%) IBM
3 1 (4.545%) Perforce
3 1 (4.545%) Rackspace
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