OOP Contracts in the West Midlands
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for OOP skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OOP 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 for the West Midlands 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
Rank 90 102 94
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -8
Contract jobs citing OOP 7 3 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.429% 0.133% 0.314%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.644% 0.210% 0.497%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 5
Average daily rate £313 £250 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% +11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £378 £250 £310
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £310 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.61% -4.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.00 £60.00 -
% change year-on-year
-36.66% -
All Processes & Methodologies
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 1087 1429 1208
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 66.65% 63.54% 63.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 524 674 553
Average daily rate £340 £330 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.03% -5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £233 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £523 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 72 76
Average hourly rate £37.80 £20.26 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+86.62% -18.98%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
OOP
England

OOP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands OOP Jobs Demand Trend

OOP
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Midlands OOP Daily Rate Trend

OOP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing OOP across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

West Midlands OOP Daily Rate Histogram

OOP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Midlands OOP Hourly Rate Trend

OOP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OOP within the West Midlands region 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
Birmingham +12 2 £425 +70.00%
Staffordshire - 2 £225 -
Warwickshire - 1 £300 -
OOP
England

OOP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing OOP 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 OOP.

1 12 (75.00%) XML
2 11 (68.75%) SQL
3 9 (56.25%) JavaScript
3 9 (56.25%) Web Services
4 8 (50.00%) OO
4 8 (50.00%) HTML
5 7 (43.75%) C#
5 7 (43.75%) CSS
5 7 (43.75%) .NET
6 6 (37.50%) SQL Server
6 6 (37.50%) Java
7 5 (31.25%) Objective-C
7 5 (31.25%) Unit Testing
7 5 (31.25%) HTML5
8 4 (25.00%) JSON
8 4 (25.00%) ActionScript 3.0
8 4 (25.00%) Games
8 4 (25.00%) PHP
8 4 (25.00%) ActionScript
8 4 (25.00%) MySQL
8 4 (25.00%) ASP.NET
8 4 (25.00%) Windows
8 4 (25.00%) Flash
9 3 (18.75%) MVC
9 3 (18.75%) MS Excel
9 3 (18.75%) VB.NET
10 2 (12.50%) WinForms
10 2 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
10 2 (12.50%) Degree

OOP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing OOP 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 OOP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 12 (75.00%) XML
2 9 (56.25%) Web Services
3 8 (50.00%) HTML
4 7 (43.75%) CSS
4 7 (43.75%) .NET
5 5 (31.25%) HTML5
6 4 (25.00%) JSON
6 4 (25.00%) ASP.NET
6 4 (25.00%) Flash
7 2 (12.50%) WinForms
7 2 (12.50%) jQuery
7 2 (12.50%) Silverlight
8 1 (6.250%) CSS3
8 1 (6.250%) UIKit
8 1 (6.250%) LAMP
8 1 (6.250%) XHTML
8 1 (6.250%) J2ME
8 1 (6.250%) Symfony
8 1 (6.250%) Zend Framework
8 1 (6.250%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.250%) CMS
2 1 (6.250%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 4 (25.00%) MySQL
3 2 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (6.250%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (6.250%) Appcelerator Titanium
1 1 (6.250%) Xcode
General
1 4 (25.00%) Games
2 1 (6.250%) Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Flash ActionScript Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Flash Developer
2 4 (25.00%) ActionScript Developer
3 3 (18.75%) .NET Developer
4 2 (12.50%) C# Developer
4 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET Developer
4 2 (12.50%) PHP Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Developer
4 2 (12.50%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 2 (12.50%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (6.250%) iOS Developer
5 1 (6.250%) Business Developer
5 1 (6.250%) CRM Developer
5 1 (6.250%) Android Developer
5 1 (6.250%) Dynamics CRM Developer
5 1 (6.250%) Business Objects Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) N-Tier
2 1 (6.250%) Mobile App
2 1 (6.250%) Inversion of Control
2 1 (6.250%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Windows
2 2 (12.50%) Apple iOS
3 1 (6.250%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) OO
2 5 (31.25%) Unit Testing
3 3 (18.75%) MVC
4 2 (12.50%) CRM
4 2 (12.50%) Waterfall
5 1 (6.250%) Memory Management
5 1 (6.250%) Web Application Development
5 1 (6.250%) OOD
5 1 (6.250%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (6.250%) SEO
5 1 (6.250%) ITIL
5 1 (6.250%) Performance Testing
5 1 (6.250%) Dimensional Modelling
5 1 (6.250%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) SQL
2 9 (56.25%) JavaScript
3 7 (43.75%) C#
4 6 (37.50%) Java
5 5 (31.25%) Objective-C
6 4 (25.00%) ActionScript 3.0
6 4 (25.00%) PHP
6 4 (25.00%) ActionScript
7 3 (18.75%) VB.NET
8 2 (12.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.250%) Appcelerator
2 1 (6.250%) Business Objects
2 1 (6.250%) Zend
2 1 (6.250%) Sitecore
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