The first table below looks at the demand for OOP 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 OOP over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
Rank 86 83 75
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -8
Contract jobs citing OOP 2 8 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.159% 0.511% 0.356%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.225% 0.707% 0.541%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 4
Average daily rate £400 £295 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+35.59% -9.23%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £313 £325
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -3.84%
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 Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
887 1132 740
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 70.68% 72.33% 65.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 659 357
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 £455 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 23 30
Average hourly rate £23.50 £15.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+56.66% -14.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.35 £11.64 £7.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £62.50 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
OOP
Yorkshire

OOP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire OOP Daily Rate Trend

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 Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 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 -13 1 - -
OOP
Yorkshire

OOP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 6 (85.71%) OO
2 5 (71.43%) JavaScript
3 4 (57.14%) .NET
3 4 (57.14%) Project Management
3 4 (57.14%) TDD
3 4 (57.14%) NUnit
3 4 (57.14%) NHibernate
4 3 (42.86%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (42.86%) Business Analysis
4 3 (42.86%) Oracle
4 3 (42.86%) PL/SQL
4 3 (42.86%) SQL
4 3 (42.86%) MSTest
4 3 (42.86%) Business Transformation
5 2 (28.57%) MVC
6 1 (14.29%) Finance
6 1 (14.29%) Mobile Games
6 1 (14.29%) Games
6 1 (14.29%) Scrum
6 1 (14.29%) Xcode
6 1 (14.29%) Objective-C
6 1 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
6 1 (14.29%) Git (software)
6 1 (14.29%) ActionScript 3.0
6 1 (14.29%) Project Planning
6 1 (14.29%) ESB
6 1 (14.29%) QA
6 1 (14.29%) Apache Flex
6 1 (14.29%) jQuery

OOP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 4 (57.14%) .NET
1 4 (57.14%) NHibernate
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Flex
2 1 (14.29%) jQuery
2 1 (14.29%) Flash
2 1 (14.29%) CSS
2 1 (14.29%) Web Services
2 1 (14.29%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (14.29%) HTML
2 1 (14.29%) HTML5
2 1 (14.29%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) Backbone.js
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) ESB
1 1 (14.29%) BizTalk Server
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) NUnit
2 3 (42.86%) MSTest
3 1 (14.29%) Xcode
3 1 (14.29%) Git (software)
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Games
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Architect
2 3 (42.86%) Applications Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Front-End Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Agile Project Manager
4 1 (14.29%) Data Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
4 1 (14.29%) iOS Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Mobile Games
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) OO
2 4 (57.14%) Project Management
2 4 (57.14%) TDD
3 3 (42.86%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Business Analysis
3 3 (42.86%) Business Transformation
4 2 (28.57%) MVC
5 1 (14.29%) Scrum
5 1 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Project Planning
5 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce
5 1 (14.29%) Information Architecture
5 1 (14.29%) Software Architecture
5 1 (14.29%) MVVM
5 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
5 1 (14.29%) Agile Project Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) JavaScript
2 3 (42.86%) PL/SQL
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) Objective-C
3 1 (14.29%) ActionScript 3.0
3 1 (14.29%) ActionScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle
West Yorkshire
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