The first table below looks at the demand for OOD 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 OOD 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 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
Rank 91 90 73
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -17
Contract jobs citing OOD 2 4 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.160% 0.253% 0.349%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.225% 0.350% 0.531%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 1
Average daily rate £325 £250 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+30.00% -23.07%
UK excluding London average daily rate £303 £331 £330
% change year-on-year
-8.67% +0.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £38.00 £62.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-39.20% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £39.00
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +2.56%
All Processes & Methodologies
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
890 1143 753
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 71.09% 72.34% 65.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 666 361
Average daily rate £325 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £230 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £457 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 24 30
Average hourly rate £23.50 £18.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+30.55% +2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.35 £12.00 £7.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £62.50 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
OOD
Yorkshire

OOD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire OOD Jobs Demand Trend

OOD
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire OOD Daily Rate Trend

OOD
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire OOD Hourly Rate Trend

OOD
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OOD within the West Yorkshire 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
Leeds -8 2 £325 +30.00%
OOD
Yorkshire

OOD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 4 (80.00%) RUP
2 3 (60.00%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (60.00%) Multithreading
3 2 (40.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (40.00%) JIRA
3 2 (40.00%) WCF
3 2 (40.00%) WPF
3 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (40.00%) CMMI
3 2 (40.00%) MVC
3 2 (40.00%) Perforce
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) WinForms
3 2 (40.00%) DSDM
3 2 (40.00%) MS Excel
3 2 (40.00%) CRM
3 2 (40.00%) C#
3 2 (40.00%) C++
3 2 (40.00%) Java
3 2 (40.00%) .NET
3 2 (40.00%) J2EE
3 2 (40.00%) Oracle
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (40.00%) JUnit
3 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 2 (40.00%) UML
3 2 (40.00%) OO
4 1 (20.00%) ActionScript

OOD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 2 (40.00%) WCF
1 2 (40.00%) WPF
1 2 (40.00%) WinForms
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
1 2 (40.00%) J2EE
1 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (20.00%) CSS
2 1 (20.00%) Web Services
2 1 (20.00%) ASP
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) Middleware
2 1 (20.00%) Flash
2 1 (20.00%) REST
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (20.00%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
1 2 (40.00%) JUnit
2 1 (20.00%) Flash Builder
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (20.00%) ActionScript Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Graphic Design
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) RUP
2 3 (60.00%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (60.00%) Multithreading
3 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (40.00%) CMMI
3 2 (40.00%) MVC
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) DSDM
3 2 (40.00%) CRM
3 2 (40.00%) UML
3 2 (40.00%) OO
4 1 (20.00%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C#
1 2 (40.00%) C++
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) ActionScript
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) ActionScript 3.0
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Perforce
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Adobe
2 1 (20.00%) Remedy