West Midlands OO Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Object-Oriented (OO) skills within the West Midlands 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 5 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 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	55	48
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching contract IT job ads	72	99
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.097 %	0.098 %
As % of the category below	4.119 %	5.834 %
Daily rates quoted	19	20
Average minimum daily rate	£324	£279
Average daily rate	£352	£321
% change on same period last year	+9.95 %
Average maximum daily rate	£381	£363
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£361
% change on same period last year	-3.22 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£59.00	£18.73
Average hourly rate	£59.25	£20.43
% change on same period last year	+190.04 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£59.50	£22.13
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£37.89	£33.24
% change on same period last year	+14.00 %
Processes & Methodologies West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	1748	1697
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.363 %	1.673 %
Daily rates quoted	472	463
Average minimum daily rate	£337	£319
Average daily rate	£362	£340
% change on same period last year	+6.43 %
Average maximum daily rate	£387	£362
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£375
% change on same period last year	+0.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	104	186
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.58	£24.78
Average hourly rate	£27.50	£26.97
% change on same period last year	+1.97 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.42	£29.15
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.41	£30.41
% change on same period last year	+0.01 %
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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 West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing OO across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

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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 West Midlands 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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 5 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
Birmingham	-8	18	£343	-1.03 %
Coventry	-	17	£314	-
Warwickshire	-14	14	£310	+5.83 %
Herefordshire	+2	6	-	-
Shropshire	-	4	£429	-
Wolverhampton	-	2	-	-
Worcestershire	-8	2	-	-
Solihull	-	1	-	-
Staffordshire	-3	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 74 (58.27 %) .NET 2 61 (48.03 %) XML 3 58 (45.67 %) C# 4 55 (43.31 %) SQL Server 4 55 (43.31 %) ASP.NET 5 45 (35.43 %) WebServices 6 43 (33.86 %) UML 7 41 (32.28 %) CSS 8 40 (31.50 %) Web Development 9 39 (30.71 %) Java 10 36 (28.35 %) JavaScript 11 29 (22.83 %) SQL 12 28 (22.05 %) SOAP 13 27 (21.26 %) Agile Software Development 14 26 (20.47 %) XHTML

14 26 (20.47 %) HTML 14 26 (20.47 %) J2EE 15 25 (19.69 %) OOP 16 20 (15.75 %) XSL 17 18 (14.17 %) Microsoft 17 18 (14.17 %) AJAX 18 17 (13.39 %) Web Design 18 17 (13.39 %) ASP.NET 2.0 18 17 (13.39 %) W3C 18 17 (13.39 %) OOD 18 17 (13.39 %) VB.NET 19 15 (11.81 %) VB 19 15 (11.81 %) MS Excel 20 14 (11.02 %) Scrum 20 14 (11.02 %) XSLT

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 74 (58.27 %) .NET 2 61 (48.03 %) XML 3 55 (43.31 %) ASP.NET 4 45 (35.43 %) WebServices 5 41 (32.28 %) CSS 6 28 (22.05 %) SOAP 7 26 (20.47 %) HTML 7 26 (20.47 %) J2EE 7 26 (20.47 %) XHTML 8 20 (15.75 %) XSL 9 18 (14.17 %) AJAX 10 17 (13.39 %) ASP.NET 2.0 11 14 (11.02 %) XSLT 12 8 (6.299 %) Servlets 12 8 (6.299 %) Hibernate 13 7 (5.512 %) Spring 13 7 (5.512 %) JSP 13 7 (5.512 %) XSD 13 7 (5.512 %) ASP 13 7 (5.512 %) EJB	Application Platforms 1 2 (1.575 %) WebLogic 1 2 (1.575 %) CMS 2 1 (0.787 %) Zope 2 1 (0.787 %) ESB 2 1 (0.787 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 1 (0.787 %) IIS 2 1 (0.787 %) Apache 2 1 (0.787 %) MTS 2 1 (0.787 %) NetWeaver 2 1 (0.787 %) WebSphere Application Server
Applications 1 15 (11.81 %) MS Excel 2 2 (1.575 %) Photoshop	Business Applications 1 2 (1.575 %) SAP CRM
Communications & Networking 1 2 (1.575 %) VoIP 1 2 (1.575 %) HTTP 1 2 (1.575 %) SNMP 1 2 (1.575 %) Internet 2 1 (0.787 %) Firewall	Database & Business Intelligence 1 55 (43.31 %) SQL Server 2 13 (10.24 %) SQL Server 2005 3 12 (9.449 %) SQL Server 2000 4 5 (3.937 %) MySQL 5 4 (3.150 %) Oracle 8/8i 6 3 (2.362 %) DB2 6 3 (2.362 %) GIS 7 2 (1.575 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 7 2 (1.575 %) ObjectStore 7 2 (1.575 %) Informix 7 2 (1.575 %) Oracle 9i 8 1 (0.787 %) MS Access 8 1 (0.787 %) RDBMS 8 1 (0.787 %) Oracle 10g 8 1 (0.787 %) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications 1 7 (5.512 %) Visual Studio 2 5 (3.937 %) Flash 3 4 (3.150 %) Subversion 4 3 (2.362 %) Ant 4 3 (2.362 %) JUnit 4 3 (2.362 %) Eclipse 5 1 (0.787 %) Dreamweaver 5 1 (0.787 %) ClearQuest 5 1 (0.787 %) NUnit 5 1 (0.787 %) LSMW 5 1 (0.787 %) ClearCase 5 1 (0.787 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 5 1 (0.787 %) Rational Rose	General 1 12 (9.449 %) Finance 2 8 (6.299 %) Health 3 4 (3.150 %) Government 3 4 (3.150 %) Telecoms 3 4 (3.150 %) Pensions 4 3 (2.362 %) Games 4 3 (2.362 %) Banking 5 2 (1.575 %) Retail 5 2 (1.575 %) Graphic Design 5 2 (1.575 %) Education 6 1 (0.787 %) Manufacturing 6 1 (0.787 %) Financial Institution 6 1 (0.787 %) Automotive 6 1 (0.787 %) Construction 6 1 (0.787 %) Multimedia 6 1 (0.787 %) Local Government
Job Titles 1 101 (79.53 %) Developer 2 31 (24.41 %) Web Developer 2 31 (24.41 %) .NET Developer 3 22 (17.32 %) C# Developer 4 18 (14.17 %) Java Developer 5 15 (11.81 %) J2EE Developer 6 8 (6.299 %) Java/J2EE Developer 7 6 (4.724 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 7 6 (4.724 %) VB.NET Developer 7 6 (4.724 %) ASP.NET Developer 7 6 (4.724 %) Consultant 7 6 (4.724 %) Development Specialist 8 5 (3.937 %) Senior Developer 8 5 (3.937 %) Software Engineer 9 4 (3.150 %) Applications Developer 9 4 (3.150 %) .NET Applications Developer 9 4 (3.150 %) Solutions Consultant 9 4 (3.150 %) C# Web Developer 10 3 (2.362 %) C# Application Developer 10 3 (2.362 %) Senior Web Developer	Miscellaneous 1 17 (13.39 %) W3C 2 12 (9.449 %) NHS 2 12 (9.449 %) Web 2.0 3 6 (4.724 %) Computer Science 4 4 (3.150 %) Mathematics 5 1 (0.787 %) Physics 5 1 (0.787 %) PDA 5 1 (0.787 %) N-Tier 5 1 (0.787 %) Streaming Media
Operating Systems 1 7 (5.512 %) Windows 2 6 (4.724 %) UNIX 3 2 (1.575 %) Solaris 3 2 (1.575 %) Linux 4 1 (0.787 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (0.787 %) Windows XP 4 1 (0.787 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 43 (33.86 %) UML 2 40 (31.50 %) Web Development 3 27 (21.26 %) Agile Software Development 4 25 (19.69 %) OOP 5 17 (13.39 %) OOD 5 17 (13.39 %) Web Design 6 14 (11.02 %) Scrum 7 13 (10.24 %) TDD 8 11 (8.661 %) SOA 9 9 (7.087 %) Content Management 10 7 (5.512 %) OOA/OOD 10 7 (5.512 %) RAD 11 6 (4.724 %) Continuous Integration 12 5 (3.937 %) RUP 12 5 (3.937 %) CRM 13 4 (3.150 %) E-Commerce 13 4 (3.150 %) Configuration Management 13 4 (3.150 %) Unit Testing 14 3 (2.362 %) Security Cleared 14 3 (2.362 %) Use Case
Programming Languages 1 58 (45.67 %) C# 2 39 (30.71 %) Java 3 36 (28.35 %) JavaScript 4 29 (22.83 %) SQL 5 17 (13.39 %) VB.NET 6 15 (11.81 %) VB 7 13 (10.24 %) C++ 8 10 (7.874 %) PHP 8 10 (7.874 %) VB6 9 5 (3.937 %) XAML 10 4 (3.150 %) ActionScript 10 4 (3.150 %) VBScript 11 3 (2.362 %) ABAP 11 3 (2.362 %) C 11 3 (2.362 %) C++/CLI 12 2 (1.575 %) Perl 12 2 (1.575 %) PHP5 13 1 (0.787 %) PHP4 13 1 (0.787 %) Python 13 1 (0.787 %) SAPscript	Qualifications 1 9 (7.087 %) Degree 2 2 (1.575 %) MCAD 2 2 (1.575 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1 (0.787 %) Sun Certification 3 1 (0.787 %) MCDST 3 1 (0.787 %) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (1.575 %) WAI 2 1 (0.787 %) Sarbanes-Oxley	System Software 1 4 (3.150 %) AquaLogic
Vendors 1 18 (14.17 %) Microsoft 2 9 (7.087 %) Oracle 3 6 (4.724 %) BEA 4 4 (3.150 %) SAP 5 3 (2.362 %) Mercator 6 2 (1.575 %) ION Trading 6 2 (1.575 %) Adobe 6 2 (1.575 %) Sun 6 2 (1.575 %) Sybase 7 1 (0.787 %) Citrix 7 1 (0.787 %) Northgate