The first table below looks at the demand for OO skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OO over the 3 months to 21 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 Yorkshire 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented (OO)
Rank 71 85 44
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -41
Contract jobs citing OO 21 10 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 1.636% 0.623% 2.557%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.295% 0.856% 3.911%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 2 19
Average daily rate £313 £381 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.03% +22.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £219 £336 £254
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £426 £347
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £38.00 - £21.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+8.69% -1.42%
All Processes & Methodologies
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
915 1168 716
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 71.26% 72.82% 65.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 499 669 346
Average daily rate £325 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £235 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £459 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 24 27
Average hourly rate £23.75 £19.25 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+23.37% +10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.78 £12.00 £7.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £62.50 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
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Yorkshire

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Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Leeds +5 18 £290 -10.76%
Bradford - 1 £325 -
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Yorkshire

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 28 (54.90%) Agile Software Development
2 18 (35.29%) JavaScript
3 17 (33.33%) .NET
4 16 (31.37%) C#
4 16 (31.37%) CSS
5 14 (27.45%) XML
5 14 (27.45%) Web Development
5 14 (27.45%) MVC
6 13 (25.49%) ASP.NET
6 13 (25.49%) PHP
6 13 (25.49%) SQL
7 12 (23.53%) Web Services
7 12 (23.53%) Multithreading
8 11 (21.57%) TDD
8 11 (21.57%) HTML
9 9 (17.65%) SQL Server
9 9 (17.65%) Scrum
9 9 (17.65%) Open Source
10 7 (13.73%) Mobile App
10 7 (13.73%) NHibernate
10 7 (13.73%) C++
10 7 (13.73%) Linux
10 7 (13.73%) XHTML
11 6 (11.76%) OOP
11 6 (11.76%) MySQL
11 6 (11.76%) .NET Framework
11 6 (11.76%) Automated Testing
11 6 (11.76%) Software Engineering
11 6 (11.76%) Software Testing
11 6 (11.76%) Project Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 17 (33.33%) .NET
2 16 (31.37%) CSS
3 14 (27.45%) XML
4 13 (25.49%) ASP.NET
5 12 (23.53%) Web Services
6 11 (21.57%) HTML
7 7 (13.73%) NHibernate
7 7 (13.73%) XHTML
8 6 (11.76%) .NET Framework
8 6 (11.76%) HTML5
9 5 (9.804%) Ajax
9 5 (9.804%) XSLT
9 5 (9.804%) Middleware
10 4 (7.843%) GStreamer
10 4 (7.843%) ASP.NET MVC
10 4 (7.843%) Symfony
10 4 (7.843%) jQuery
11 3 (5.882%) WCF
11 3 (5.882%) WPF
11 3 (5.882%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Application Platforms
1 5 (9.804%) Apache
2 3 (5.882%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.922%) Force.com
4 1 (1.961%) Plone
4 1 (1.961%) ESB
4 1 (1.961%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 2 (3.922%) MS Excel
1 2 (3.922%) MS Project
2 1 (1.961%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (1.961%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.804%) Internet
2 4 (7.843%) DVB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (17.65%) SQL Server
2 6 (11.76%) MySQL
3 5 (9.804%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 4 (7.843%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (7.843%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 2 (3.922%) RDBMS
5 2 (3.922%) SQL Server 2000
5 2 (3.922%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (1.961%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 4 (7.843%) NUnit
1 4 (7.843%) Xcode
2 3 (5.882%) MSTest
2 3 (5.882%) Subversion
3 2 (3.922%) Visual Studio
3 2 (3.922%) Visual Studio Team System
4 1 (1.961%) Flash Builder
4 1 (1.961%) Git (software)
4 1 (1.961%) JIRA
General
1 4 (7.843%) Electronics
1 4 (7.843%) Telecoms
2 3 (5.882%) Finance
Job Titles
1 38 (74.51%) Developer
2 12 (23.53%) PHP Developer
3 9 (17.65%) .NET Developer
3 9 (17.65%) C# Developer
4 8 (15.69%) C# .NET Developer
5 7 (13.73%) Software Engineer
6 6 (11.76%) ASP.NET Developer
6 6 (11.76%) Architect
6 6 (11.76%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 5 (9.804%) Software Developer
8 4 (7.843%) iOS Developer
9 3 (5.882%) Mobile Applications Developer
9 3 (5.882%) Mobile Developer
9 3 (5.882%) Windows Mobile Developer
9 3 (5.882%) Java Developer
9 3 (5.882%) Applications Architect
9 3 (5.882%) Java Software Engineer
9 3 (5.882%) Java Software Developer
10 2 (3.922%) SharePoint Developer
10 2 (3.922%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 9 (17.65%) Open Source
2 7 (13.73%) Mobile App
3 5 (9.804%) RIA
4 4 (7.843%) MPEG
4 4 (7.843%) STB
5 3 (5.882%) iPhone
5 3 (5.882%) iPad
6 2 (3.922%) NHS
6 2 (3.922%) N-Tier
6 2 (3.922%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (3.922%) SaaS
7 1 (1.961%) Streaming Video
7 1 (1.961%) IPTV
7 1 (1.961%) Graphic Design
7 1 (1.961%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.961%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 7 (13.73%) Linux
2 4 (7.843%) Windows
2 4 (7.843%) Apple iOS
2 4 (7.843%) Android
3 3 (5.882%) Windows Mobile
3 3 (5.882%) Windows CE
4 2 (3.922%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (1.961%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (54.90%) Agile Software Development
2 14 (27.45%) Web Development
2 14 (27.45%) MVC
3 12 (23.53%) Multithreading
4 11 (21.57%) TDD
5 9 (17.65%) Scrum
6 6 (11.76%) OOP
6 6 (11.76%) Automated Testing
6 6 (11.76%) Software Engineering
6 6 (11.76%) Software Testing
6 6 (11.76%) Project Management
7 5 (9.804%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (9.804%) Mobile Application Development
7 5 (9.804%) B2C
8 4 (7.843%) Data Management
8 4 (7.843%) Kanban
9 3 (5.882%) User Acceptance Testing
9 3 (5.882%) Dependency Injection
9 3 (5.882%) Memory Management
9 3 (5.882%) Business Transformation
Programming Languages
1 18 (35.29%) JavaScript
2 16 (31.37%) C#
3 13 (25.49%) PHP
3 13 (25.49%) SQL
4 7 (13.73%) C++
5 5 (9.804%) Java
5 5 (9.804%) C
6 4 (7.843%) PL/SQL
6 4 (7.843%) VB.NET
6 4 (7.843%) Objective-C
7 3 (5.882%) PHP5
7 3 (5.882%) VC++
8 2 (3.922%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.961%) ActionScript 3.0
9 1 (1.961%) ActionScript
9 1 (1.961%) VB
9 1 (1.961%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (9.804%) Degree
2 2 (3.922%) SC Cleared
2 2 (3.922%) BC Cleared
2 2 (3.922%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.961%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.961%) Tivoli
1 1 (1.961%) Tivoli Configuration Manager
Vendors
1 6 (11.76%) Zend
2 5 (9.804%) Oracle
3 3 (5.882%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.922%) Salesforce.com
5 1 (1.961%) LANDesk
5 1 (1.961%) Perforce
5 1 (1.961%) Remedy
5 1 (1.961%) IBM
5 1 (1.961%) Adobe
5 1 (1.961%) HP
Leeds, West Yorkshire
The ideal candidate will have experience of: - Developing iOS and Android apps - Strong OO design and programming skills - Objective C and Java (J2EE/J2ME) or C and C++.
Rullion IT Plus
Posted: 14 May 2013
West Yorkshire
SCRUM certification is essential for this role, as is knowledge of one or more Agile project management frameworks, excellent verbal and written communication skills and previous experience of...
Hudson
Rate: £350 - £450 per day
Posted: 9 May 2013