The first table below looks at the demand for OO skills in IT contracts advertised for the Worcestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OO over the 3 months to 22 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 Worcestershire 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented (OO)
Rank 11 - 8
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing OO 12 0 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Worcestershire 12.90% - 8.621%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.18% - 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 4
Average daily rate £300 - £263
90% offered a daily rate of more than £255 - £254
10% offered a daily rate of more than £306 - £324
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.84% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+8.69% -1.42%
All Processes & Methodologies
Worcestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
66 36 35
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Worcestershire 70.97% 64.29% 60.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 20 24
Average daily rate £315 £350 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.00% +9.37%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £243 £227 £233
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £405 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 3
Average hourly rate £33.25 £32.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.90% -8.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.00 £21.15 £22.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £57.50 £32.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
OO
West Midlands

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Jobs Demand Trend

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

Worcestershire 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 Worcestershire region.

Worcestershire OO Daily Rate Trend

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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 Worcestershire region.

Worcestershire 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 Worcestershire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Worcester - 6 £281 -
Bromsgrove - 3 - -
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West Midlands

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Worcestershire 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 14 (87.50%) C#
1 14 (87.50%) .NET
1 14 (87.50%) ASP.NET
2 10 (62.50%) Web Services
3 9 (56.25%) SQL Server
4 8 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 8 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 2
4 8 (50.00%) N-Tier
4 8 (50.00%) UML
5 7 (43.75%) SQL
5 7 (43.75%) SQL Server 2005
6 6 (37.50%) E-Commerce
7 5 (31.25%) PRINCE2
7 5 (31.25%) Web Development
7 5 (31.25%) CMS
7 5 (31.25%) Content Management
8 4 (25.00%) Web Analytics
8 4 (25.00%) jQuery
8 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (25.00%) Analytics
8 4 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
8 4 (25.00%) CSS
8 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
8 4 (25.00%) PHP
8 4 (25.00%) MVC
8 4 (25.00%) SEO
8 4 (25.00%) Internet
9 3 (18.75%) Disaster Recovery
9 3 (18.75%) XML
9 3 (18.75%) .NET Framework

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Worcestershire 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 14 (87.50%) .NET
1 14 (87.50%) ASP.NET
2 10 (62.50%) Web Services
3 8 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 8 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 2
4 4 (25.00%) jQuery
4 4 (25.00%) CSS
5 3 (18.75%) XML
5 3 (18.75%) .NET Framework
6 2 (12.50%) Django
6 2 (12.50%) HTML
6 2 (12.50%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 5 (31.25%) CMS
2 1 (6.250%) DotNetNuke
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) MS Excel
2 1 (6.250%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (56.25%) SQL Server
2 7 (43.75%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (12.50%) MySQL
General
1 1 (6.250%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 14 (87.50%) Developer
2 9 (56.25%) .NET Developer
3 5 (31.25%) Web Developer
4 3 (18.75%) ASP.NET Developer
4 3 (18.75%) .NET Web Developer
4 3 (18.75%) C# Developer
5 2 (12.50%) C# .NET Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Front-End Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Analyst Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Analyst Programmer
5 2 (12.50%) Programmer
5 2 (12.50%) Software Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Analyst
6 1 (6.250%) Front-End Web Developer
6 1 (6.250%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (6.250%) CMS Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (50.00%) N-Tier
2 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (12.50%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) UML
2 6 (37.50%) E-Commerce
3 5 (31.25%) PRINCE2
3 5 (31.25%) Web Development
3 5 (31.25%) Content Management
4 4 (25.00%) Web Analytics
4 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (25.00%) Analytics
4 4 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (25.00%) MVC
4 4 (25.00%) SEO
5 3 (18.75%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (18.75%) Incident Management
5 3 (18.75%) Requirements Analysis
5 3 (18.75%) Unit Testing
5 3 (18.75%) Data Protection
6 2 (12.50%) Information Architecture
6 2 (12.50%) Workflow
7 1 (6.250%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (87.50%) C#
2 7 (43.75%) SQL
3 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (25.00%) PHP
4 2 (12.50%) Python
5 1 (6.250%) VB
5 1 (6.250%) VB6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.250%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (6.250%) VMware