England OO Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Object-Oriented (OO) skills within the England region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited OO over the 3 months to 8 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Object-Oriented (OO)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Aldershot Altrincham Argyll and Bute Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Banbury Bargoed Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bradford-on-Avon Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Cirencester City of London Conwy Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Diss Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dundee Dunstable Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Evesham Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Fife Flintshire Folkestone Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Glastonbury Gloucester Gloucestershire Goole Gravesend Great Yarmouth Greenock Guildford Gwent Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Haslemere Havant Helensburgh Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Horley Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Hungerford Huntingdon Inverclyde Inverness Inverurie Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kendal Kent Kidderminster Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Ledbury Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Malvern Manchester Mansfield Marlow Matlock Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Perth and Kinross Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Powys Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Rickmansworth Rochdale Rotherham Royston Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swansea Swindon Tamworth Taunton Telford Tewkesbury Thames Valley Thetford Tiverton Towcester Tring Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wells Welshpool Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Wetherby Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Witham Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	27	29
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching permanent IT job ads	5843	9295
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	5.050 %	4.744 %
As % of the category below	9.251 %	9.213 %
Salaries quoted	5099	7853
Average minimum salary	£38,762	£39,825
Average salary	£42,735	£44,392
% change on same period last year	-3.73 %
Average maximum salary	£46,708	£48,960
UK excluding London average salary	£36,853	£37,186
% change on same period last year	-0.89 %
Processes & Methodologies England
Matching permanent IT job ads	63158	100886
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	54.59 %	51.49 %
Salaries quoted	53364	81702
Average minimum salary	£42,483	£43,959
Average salary	£46,388	£48,118
% change on same period last year	-3.59 %
Average maximum salary	£50,293	£52,276
UK excluding London average salary	£42,727	£44,666
% change on same period last year	-4.34 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing OO across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing OO across the England region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing OO across the England region over the 3 months to 8 January 2009.

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Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OO within the England region over the 3 months to 8 January 2009. 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	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
London	+4	2608	£51,263	-3.77 %
South East	+6	1138	£40,134	+0.63 %
North West	-8	451	£31,883	-7.62 %
South West	-2	444	£35,221	-1.98 %
East of England	-2	442	£40,432	+5.77 %
Yorkshire	-4	348	£34,621	-2.67 %
West Midlands	+2	263	£34,865	-4.03 %
East Midlands	-10	148	£35,777	+12.51 %
North East	-18	34	£34,578	+7.06 %
Midlands	+22	6	£53,300	+84.66 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT jobs across the England 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 IT job ads sampled that cited OO.

1 6263 (42.52 %) C# 2 6184 (41.98 %) .NET 3 5021 (34.09 %) Java 4 4362 (29.61 %) SQL 5 4289 (29.12 %) XML 6 4220 (28.65 %) SQL Server 7 4157 (28.22 %) C++ 8 3447 (23.40 %) Finance 9 3181 (21.60 %) ASP.NET 10 3077 (20.89 %) JavaScript 11 2747 (18.65 %) HTML 12 2635 (17.89 %) Degree 13 2363 (16.04 %) Oracle 14 2326 (15.79 %) CSS 15 2143 (14.55 %) UML

16 2008 (13.63 %) J2EE 17 1996 (13.55 %) Windows 18 1841 (12.50 %) Microsoft 19 1789 (12.15 %) WebServices 20 1728 (11.73 %) PHP 21 1665 (11.30 %) UNIX 22 1631 (11.07 %) Linux 23 1526 (10.36 %) AJAX 24 1474 (10.01 %) MySQL 25 1459 (9.905 %) OOD 26 1401 (9.511 %) Banking 27 1397 (9.484 %) Agile Software Development 28 1366 (9.274 %) OOP 29 1320 (8.961 %) VB.NET 30 1230 (8.350 %) VB

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT jobs across the England 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 IT job ads sampled that cited OO. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 6184 (41.98 %) .NET 2 4289 (29.12 %) XML 3 3181 (21.60 %) ASP.NET 4 2747 (18.65 %) HTML 5 2326 (15.79 %) CSS 6 2008 (13.63 %) J2EE 7 1789 (12.15 %) WebServices 8 1526 (10.36 %) AJAX 9 1133 (7.692 %) .NET Framework 10 1038 (7.047 %) XHTML 11 1025 (6.959 %) Spring 12 920 (6.246 %) XSLT 13 798 (5.418 %) WinForms 14 775 (5.261 %) Hibernate 15 749 (5.085 %) JSP 16 742 (5.037 %) ASP 17 688 (4.671 %) Flash 18 568 (3.856 %) SOAP 19 552 (3.747 %) WebSphere 20 528 (3.585 %) STL	Application Platforms 1 662 (4.494 %) Apache 2 460 (3.123 %) WebLogic 3 381 (2.587 %) SharePoint 4 355 (2.410 %) Tomcat 5 303 (2.057 %) IIS 6 276 (1.874 %) JBoss 7 257 (1.745 %) CMS 8 236 (1.602 %) BizTalk Server 9 124 (0.842 %) SharePoint Server 2007 10 122 (0.828 %) WebSphere Application Server 11 85 (0.577 %) MQSeries 12 50 (0.339 %) ATG Dynamo 13 47 (0.319 %) ColdFusion 14 38 (0.258 %) WebSphere MQ 15 32 (0.217 %) WebLogic Portal 15 32 (0.217 %) Rendezvous 16 29 (0.197 %) Commerce Server 17 19 (0.129 %) Lightstreamer 18 18 (0.122 %) Commerce Server 2007 18 18 (0.122 %) ESB
Applications 1 798 (5.418 %) MS Excel 2 237 (1.609 %) Photoshop 3 187 (1.270 %) MS Visio 4 160 (1.086 %) MS Office 5 72 (0.489 %) MATLAB 6 65 (0.441 %) Adobe Illustrator 7 48 (0.326 %) Spreadsheet 8 33 (0.224 %) MS Project 9 20 (0.136 %) Fireworks 10 11 (0.075 %) 3ds Max 11 8 (0.054 %) LightWave 3D 11 8 (0.054 %) Maya 12 7 (0.048 %) Doxygen 13 6 (0.041 %) InfoPath 13 6 (0.041 %) FrameMaker 14 5 (0.034 %) Acrobat 14 5 (0.034 %) CA Clarity 14 5 (0.034 %) MS PowerPoint 15 4 (0.027 %) Quicktime 16 3 (0.020 %) Adobe Director	Business Applications 1 43 (0.292 %) SAP CRM 2 27 (0.183 %) Endur 3 24 (0.163 %) Summit 4 15 (0.102 %) Oracle Financials 5 11 (0.075 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 6 9 (0.061 %) Dynamics AX 7 8 (0.054 %) RMDS 8 7 (0.048 %) Axapta 8 7 (0.048 %) Navision 9 6 (0.041 %) Capstone 9 6 (0.041 %) SAP IS-U 10 5 (0.034 %) Google Analytics 10 5 (0.034 %) BASE24 11 4 (0.027 %) SunGard Panorama 11 4 (0.027 %) FRONT ARENA 11 4 (0.027 %) Kondor+ 11 4 (0.027 %) SAP HR 11 4 (0.027 %) Monis 12 3 (0.020 %) MAXIMO 12 3 (0.020 %) WebTrends
Communications & Networking 1 696 (4.725 %) Internet 2 317 (2.152 %) TCP/IP 3 212 (1.439 %) HTTP 4 192 (1.303 %) Intranet 5 63 (0.428 %) GSM 6 62 (0.421 %) SMTP 7 57 (0.387 %) Extranet 8 55 (0.373 %) SMS 9 50 (0.339 %) FTP 10 48 (0.326 %) GPRS 11 46 (0.312 %) Wireless 12 43 (0.292 %) DNS 13 27 (0.183 %) VoIP 14 26 (0.177 %) UMTS 15 24 (0.163 %) SMPP 15 24 (0.163 %) SNMP 16 23 (0.156 %) Firewall 16 23 (0.156 %) SSL 16 23 (0.156 %) SAN 17 22 (0.149 %) Broadband	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4220 (28.65 %) SQL Server 2 1474 (10.01 %) MySQL 3 1112 (7.549 %) SQL Server 2005 4 591 (4.012 %) RDBMS 5 571 (3.876 %) SQL Server 2000 6 271 (1.840 %) Oracle 10g 7 191 (1.297 %) DB2 8 151 (1.025 %) SQL Server 2008 9 134 (0.910 %) Oracle 9i 10 121 (0.821 %) Datawarehouse 11 106 (0.720 %) GIS 12 105 (0.713 %) PostgreSQL 13 100 (0.679 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 14 97 (0.659 %) DTS 15 89 (0.604 %) ETL 16 86 (0.584 %) Crystal Reports 17 85 (0.577 %) SQL Server Integration Services 18 70 (0.475 %) Oracle 8/8i 19 69 (0.468 %) Oracle Reports 20 56 (0.380 %) MS Access
Development Applications 1 924 (6.273 %) Visual Studio 2 570 (3.870 %) JUnit 3 487 (3.306 %) Eclipse 4 379 (2.573 %) Subversion 5 265 (1.799 %) Ant 6 231 (1.568 %) NUnit 7 103 (0.699 %) ClearCase 8 90 (0.611 %) VSS/SourceSafe 9 82 (0.557 %) Log4j 10 69 (0.468 %) Rational Rose 11 52 (0.353 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 12 50 (0.339 %) Selenium 13 44 (0.299 %) ClearQuest 14 42 (0.285 %) JDeveloper 14 42 (0.285 %) JBuilder 15 41 (0.278 %) Oracle Forms 16 38 (0.258 %) PowerBuilder 17 32 (0.217 %) CruiseControl 17 32 (0.217 %) TeamCity 18 29 (0.197 %) RequisitePro	General 1 3447 (23.40 %) Finance 2 1401 (9.511 %) Banking 3 983 (6.673 %) Front Office 4 776 (5.268 %) Insurance 5 769 (5.221 %) Pensions 6 618 (4.196 %) Investment Banking 7 574 (3.897 %) Health 8 573 (3.890 %) Games 9 488 (3.313 %) Education 10 389 (2.641 %) Marketing 11 331 (2.247 %) Telecoms 12 279 (1.894 %) Retail 13 252 (1.711 %) Back Office 14 159 (1.079 %) Online Games 15 148 (1.005 %) Government 16 138 (0.937 %) Publishing 17 120 (0.815 %) Advertising 18 115 (0.781 %) Electronics 19 108 (0.733 %) Financial Institution 20 97 (0.659 %) 3D Graphics
Job Titles 1 10311 (70.00 %) Developer 2 2472 (16.78 %) C# Developer 3 2336 (15.86 %) .NET Developer 4 1860 (12.63 %) Java Developer 5 1797 (12.20 %) Senior Developer 6 1358 (9.219 %) Software Engineer 7 1132 (7.685 %) Web Developer 8 1093 (7.420 %) Software Developer 9 970 (6.585 %) Analyst 10 875 (5.940 %) C++ Developer 11 829 (5.628 %) PHP Developer 12 688 (4.671 %) Architect 13 634 (4.304 %) ASP.NET Developer 14 607 (4.121 %) Programmer 15 581 (3.944 %) C# ASP.NET Developer 16 493 (3.347 %) Graduate 17 454 (3.082 %) Java/J2EE Developer 18 417 (2.831 %) Senior Java Developer 19 398 (2.702 %) Team Leader 20 391 (2.654 %) Senior C# Developer	Miscellaneous 1 948 (6.436 %) Derivative 2 839 (5.696 %) Computer Science 3 721 (4.895 %) N-Tier 4 577 (3.917 %) Mathematics 5 426 (2.892 %) Equities 6 412 (2.797 %) Multithreading 7 387 (2.627 %) Fixed Income 8 352 (2.390 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 9 296 (2.010 %) Client/Server 10 251 (1.704 %) Equity Derivative 11 224 (1.521 %) Web 2.0 12 159 (1.079 %) Physics 13 128 (0.869 %) Credit Derivative 14 111 (0.754 %) W3C 15 107 (0.726 %) Market Risk 16 103 (0.699 %) Social Network 16 103 (0.699 %) Grid Computing 17 88 (0.597 %) Credit Risk 18 69 (0.468 %) Streaming Video 19 58 (0.394 %) Statistical Arbitrage
Operating Systems 1 1996 (13.55 %) Windows 2 1665 (11.30 %) UNIX 3 1631 (11.07 %) Linux 4 251 (1.704 %) Solaris 5 109 (0.740 %) Windows XP 6 105 (0.713 %) Windows NT 7 103 (0.699 %) Windows 2000 8 65 (0.441 %) Windows Mobile 9 60 (0.407 %) Windows Server 2003 10 48 (0.326 %) Red Hat Linux 11 46 (0.312 %) VMS 12 41 (0.278 %) AIX 13 37 (0.251 %) VxWorks 14 32 (0.217 %) Symbian OS 15 31 (0.210 %) Windows CE 16 30 (0.204 %) Mac OS X 17 23 (0.156 %) Windows Vista 18 16 (0.109 %) CentOS 19 12 (0.081 %) Ubuntu 19 12 (0.081 %) Windows Server 2008	Processes & Methodologies 1 2143 (14.55 %) UML 2 1459 (9.905 %) OOD 3 1397 (9.484 %) Agile Software Development 4 1366 (9.274 %) OOP 5 1006 (6.830 %) Web Development 6 871 (5.913 %) TDD 7 828 (5.621 %) E-Commerce 8 777 (5.275 %) Unit Testing 9 749 (5.085 %) SOA 10 618 (4.196 %) Software Engineering 11 604 (4.100 %) Scrum 12 534 (3.625 %) Project Management 13 392 (2.661 %) OOA/OOD 14 326 (2.213 %) Risk Management 15 299 (2.030 %) RUP 16 287 (1.948 %) Data Modelling 17 260 (1.765 %) Content Management 18 222 (1.507 %) Continuous Integration 19 202 (1.371 %) Business Analysis 20 201 (1.365 %) Refactoring
Programming Languages 1 6263 (42.52 %) C# 2 5021 (34.09 %) Java 3 4362 (29.61 %) SQL 4 4157 (28.22 %) C++ 5 3077 (20.89 %) JavaScript 6 1728 (11.73 %) PHP 7 1320 (8.961 %) VB.NET 8 1230 (8.350 %) VB 9 963 (6.538 %) C 10 665 (4.515 %) Transact-SQL 11 658 (4.467 %) Perl 12 554 (3.761 %) VB6 12 554 (3.761 %) PHP5 13 541 (3.673 %) ActionScript 14 494 (3.354 %) PL/SQL 15 417 (2.831 %) VC++ 16 410 (2.783 %) Python 17 389 (2.641 %) Delphi 18 325 (2.206 %) VBA 19 313 (2.125 %) Ruby	Qualifications 1 2635 (17.89 %) Degree 2 342 (2.322 %) Microsoft Certification 3 143 (0.971 %) Security Cleared 4 138 (0.937 %) PhD 5 134 (0.910 %) MCSD 6 128 (0.869 %) MCP 7 108 (0.733 %) MCAD 8 69 (0.468 %) Sun Certification 9 45 (0.305 %) ISEB 10 40 (0.272 %) MCTS 11 39 (0.265 %) HND 12 32 (0.217 %) SC Cleared 13 26 (0.177 %) HNC 14 15 (0.102 %) DV Cleared 15 14 (0.095 %) MBA 16 12 (0.081 %) PRINCE2 Certification 17 9 (0.061 %) MCPD 18 7 (0.048 %) ICAEW 18 7 (0.048 %) Postgraduate 18 7 (0.048 %) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 230 (1.561 %) QA 2 36 (0.244 %) WAI 3 26 (0.177 %) ISO9001 4 22 (0.149 %) WCAG 5 12 (0.081 %) BS7799 6 10 (0.068 %) HL7 7 9 (0.061 %) ISO9000 8 5 (0.034 %) TickIT 9 4 (0.027 %) ISO14001 9 4 (0.027 %) SLA 10 3 (0.020 %) MiFID 11 2 (0.014 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 11 2 (0.014 %) Basel II 12 1 (0.007 %) JTAG	System Software 1 34 (0.231 %) Active Directory 2 30 (0.204 %) MSMQ 3 6 (0.041 %) AquaLogic 3 6 (0.041 %) Cronacle 3 6 (0.041 %) Oracle RAC 4 4 (0.027 %) NDS 5 3 (0.020 %) Xen 6 2 (0.014 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 7 1 (0.007 %) NetBackup 7 1 (0.007 %) Oracle RMAN 7 1 (0.007 %) NFS 7 1 (0.007 %) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management 1 11 (0.075 %) MOM 2 9 (0.061 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 3 2 (0.014 %) Tivoli 3 2 (0.014 %) Tivoli Monitoring 3 2 (0.014 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 2 (0.014 %) Netcool 3 2 (0.014 %) AutoSys 3 2 (0.014 %) Netcool/Webtop 4 1 (0.007 %) SCOM 4 1 (0.007 %) BMC PATROL 4 1 (0.007 %) AllFusion Endevor 4 1 (0.007 %) OpenView	Vendors 1 2363 (16.04 %) Oracle 2 1841 (12.50 %) Microsoft 3 472 (3.204 %) Sybase 4 237 (1.609 %) Zend 5 203 (1.378 %) Adobe 6 160 (1.086 %) BEA 7 146 (0.991 %) IBM 8 145 (0.984 %) TIBCO 9 100 (0.679 %) Symbian 10 93 (0.631 %) Sun 11 87 (0.591 %) SAP 12 86 (0.584 %) Red Hat 13 52 (0.353 %) ATG 13 52 (0.353 %) Yahoo! 14 48 (0.326 %) Business Objects 15 40 (0.272 %) Perforce 16 39 (0.265 %) Reuters 17 28 (0.190 %) Interwoven 18 27 (0.183 %) Vignette 18 27 (0.183 %) Google