West Midlands OOP Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) 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 OOP over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
Location Aylesbury Barking Bath Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Coventry Crawley Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Essex Gateshead Hampshire Havant Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent Leeds London Luton Manchester Midlands Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Portsmouth Scotland Sevenoaks Somerset South East South West Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	105	127
Rank change on same period last year	+22
Matching contract IT job ads	18	13
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.013 %
As % of the category below	1.030 %	0.766 %
Daily rates quoted	6	1
Average minimum daily rate	£317	£300
Average daily rate	£325	£325
% change on same period last year	-0.12 %
Average maximum daily rate	£333	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£318	£317
% change on same period last year	+0.52 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	11
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£30.00
Average hourly rate	-	£31.67
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£33.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£37.14	£33.80
% change on same period last year	+9.85 %
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 %
OOP England

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.

OOP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing OOP 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 OOP across the West Midlands region.

OOP
Daily Rate Histogram

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

OOP
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing OOP 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 OOP 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
Coventry	-	7	£322	-
Herefordshire	-	5	-	-
Warwickshire	+7	2	£360	+10.76 %
Birmingham	-	2	£300	-
Staffordshire	-	1	-	-

OOP England

OOP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, 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 25 (83.33 %) OO 2 24 (80.00 %) .NET 3 23 (76.67 %) ASP.NET 4 22 (73.33 %) C# 5 20 (66.67 %) SQL Server 6 19 (63.33 %) CSS 6 19 (63.33 %) XML 7 18 (60.00 %) Web Development 8 17 (56.67 %) XHTML 8 17 (56.67 %) JavaScript 9 15 (50.00 %) XSL 9 15 (50.00 %) ASP.NET 2.0 10 14 (46.67 %) Microsoft 10 14 (46.67 %) W3C 10 14 (46.67 %) Agile Software Development

11 13 (43.33 %) Web Design 11 13 (43.33 %) SOAP 12 12 (40.00 %) WebServices 12 12 (40.00 %) MS Excel 12 12 (40.00 %) SQL 13 7 (23.33 %) Health 13 7 (23.33 %) UML 14 6 (20.00 %) NHS 14 6 (20.00 %) TDD 14 6 (20.00 %) AJAX 15 5 (16.67 %) SQL Server 2005 15 5 (16.67 %) Web 2.0 15 5 (16.67 %) Scrum 15 5 (16.67 %) HTML 15 5 (16.67 %) Visual Studio

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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 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 24 (80.00 %) .NET 2 23 (76.67 %) ASP.NET 3 19 (63.33 %) CSS 3 19 (63.33 %) XML 4 17 (56.67 %) XHTML 5 15 (50.00 %) XSL 5 15 (50.00 %) ASP.NET 2.0 6 13 (43.33 %) SOAP 7 12 (40.00 %) WebServices 8 6 (20.00 %) AJAX 9 5 (16.67 %) HTML 10 2 (6.667 %) ASP 11 1 (3.333 %) J2EE 11 1 (3.333 %) JSP 11 1 (3.333 %) Servlets 11 1 (3.333 %) EJB 11 1 (3.333 %) XSLT 11 1 (3.333 %) Hibernate 11 1 (3.333 %) Spring 11 1 (3.333 %) JSF	Application Platforms 1 1 (3.333 %) Zope
Applications 1 12 (40.00 %) MS Excel 2 2 (6.667 %) Photoshop	Database & Business Intelligence 1 20 (66.67 %) SQL Server 2 5 (16.67 %) SQL Server 2005 3 3 (10.00 %) SQL Server 2000 3 3 (10.00 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 1 (3.333 %) MySQL
Development Applications 1 5 (16.67 %) Visual Studio 2 2 (6.667 %) Flash 3 1 (3.333 %) Dreamweaver	General 1 7 (23.33 %) Health 2 1 (3.333 %) Retail 2 1 (3.333 %) Multimedia 2 1 (3.333 %) Finance 2 1 (3.333 %) Automotive
Job Titles 1 28 (93.33 %) Developer 2 20 (66.67 %) Web Developer 3 3 (10.00 %) Senior Developer 3 3 (10.00 %) .NET Developer 3 3 (10.00 %) Senior Web Developer 3 3 (10.00 %) SQL Developer 3 3 (10.00 %) SQL Server Developer 4 2 (6.667 %) VB6 Developer 4 2 (6.667 %) C# Developer 4 2 (6.667 %) VB Developer 5 1 (3.333 %) J2EE Developer 5 1 (3.333 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 1 (3.333 %) Programmer 5 1 (3.333 %) Java Developer 5 1 (3.333 %) C# Web Developer 5 1 (3.333 %) Java/J2EE Developer 5 1 (3.333 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 5 1 (3.333 %) Flash Developer 5 1 (3.333 %) Java Programmer 5 1 (3.333 %) .NET Web Developer	Miscellaneous 1 14 (46.67 %) W3C 2 6 (20.00 %) NHS 3 5 (16.67 %) Web 2.0 4 1 (3.333 %) Computer Science 4 1 (3.333 %) Streaming Media
Processes & Methodologies 1 25 (83.33 %) OO 2 18 (60.00 %) Web Development 3 14 (46.67 %) Agile Software Development 4 13 (43.33 %) Web Design 5 7 (23.33 %) UML 6 6 (20.00 %) TDD 7 5 (16.67 %) Scrum 7 5 (16.67 %) RAD 8 4 (13.33 %) Content Management 9 2 (6.667 %) Enterprise Architecture 9 2 (6.667 %) E-Commerce 9 2 (6.667 %) Migration 10 1 (3.333 %) OOD 10 1 (3.333 %) Workflow	Programming Languages 1 22 (73.33 %) C# 2 17 (56.67 %) JavaScript 3 12 (40.00 %) SQL 4 3 (10.00 %) VB 4 3 (10.00 %) VB6 5 2 (6.667 %) Java 6 1 (3.333 %) PHP 6 1 (3.333 %) VB.NET 6 1 (3.333 %) ActionScript 6 1 (3.333 %) Python 6 1 (3.333 %) PHP5
Qualifications 1 1 (3.333 %) Degree	Vendors 1 14 (46.67 %) Microsoft 2 1 (3.333 %) Sun