Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Object-Oriented (OO) skills within the London 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.

LinkObject-Oriented (OO)
Location
3 months to
8 Jan 2009
Same period last year
Rank2731
Rank change on same period last yearUp+4
Matching permanent IT job ads26084464
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled2.254 %2.278 %
As % of the category below9.755 %9.359 %
Salaries quoted22253664
Average minimum salary£46,438£47,313
Average salary£51,263£53,275
% change on same period last year-3.77 %
Average maximum salary£56,088£59,236
UK excluding London average salary£36,853£37,186
% change on same period last year-0.89 %
London IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
London
Matching permanent IT job ads2673647697
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled23.11 %24.34 %
Salaries quoted2226237868
Average minimum salary£48,591£49,106
Average salary£52,952£53,883
% change on same period last year-1.72 %
Average maximum salary£57,312£58,660
UK excluding London average salary£42,727£44,666
% change on same period last year-4.34 %
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England

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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 London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

London OO Demand Trend

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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 London region.

London OO Salary Trend

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Salary Histogram

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

London OO Salary Histogram

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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 London 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.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of LondonUp+2717£57,680-4.00 %
Docklands, LondonDown-738£59,500-1.66 %
Canary WharfDown-1519£56,107-8.05 %
HammersmithDown-616£46,250+12.12 %
BrentfordUp+2414£40,536+44.77 %
CroydonDown-712£34,833+0.46 %
Kingston Upon ThamesUp+159£41,389+2.19 %
LutonUp+19£34,167-15.42 %
New MaldenUp+113£40,000+17.64 %
WembleyUp+73£40,000-15.78 %
BarnetNew entry-3£40,833-
HounslowNew entry-2£33,500-
EalingNew entry-2£42,500-
WestminsterNew entry-2£38,000-
LewishamNew entry-1£42,500-
WimbledonUp+131£35,000-28.57 %
UxbridgeNew entry-1£44,000-
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England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT jobs across the London 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.

12977 (41.78 %)C#
22813 (39.48 %).NET
32732 (38.34 %)Java
42339 (32.83 %)Finance
52205 (30.95 %)SQL
62067 (29.01 %)XML
71981 (27.80 %)C++
81687 (23.68 %)SQL Server
91523 (21.38 %)JavaScript
101423 (19.97 %)ASP.NET
111293 (18.15 %)Banking
121267 (17.78 %)HTML
131249 (17.53 %)Oracle
141198 (16.81 %)Degree
151169 (16.41 %)UNIX
161133 (15.90 %)CSS
171035 (14.53 %)J2EE
18965 (13.54 %)Front Office
19958 (13.45 %)WebServices
20928 (13.02 %)Derivative
21867 (12.17 %)UML
22841 (11.80 %)Windows
23813 (11.41 %)Agile Software Development
24806 (11.31 %)AJAX
25788 (11.06 %)Linux
26750 (10.53 %)PHP
27709 (9.951 %)Microsoft
28686 (9.628 %)TDD
29675 (9.474 %)Spring
30662 (9.291 %)MySQL

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT jobs across the London 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.

London IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
12813 (39.48 %).NET
22067 (29.01 %)XML
31423 (19.97 %)ASP.NET
41267 (17.78 %)HTML
51133 (15.90 %)CSS
61035 (14.53 %)J2EE
7958 (13.45 %)WebServices
8806 (11.31 %)AJAX
9675 (9.474 %)Spring
10565 (7.930 %)XHTML
11451 (6.330 %)Hibernate
12422 (5.923 %).NET Framework
13420 (5.895 %)JSP
14417 (5.853 %)WinForms
15375 (5.263 %)Flash
16358 (5.025 %)XSLT
16358 (5.025 %)STL
17289 (4.056 %)WCF
18258 (3.621 %)MVC
19254 (3.565 %)SOAP
London IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
1330 (4.632 %)Apache
2303 (4.253 %)WebLogic
3192 (2.695 %)Tomcat
4163 (2.288 %)SharePoint
5147 (2.063 %)IIS
6116 (1.628 %)CMS
794 (1.319 %)BizTalk Server
885 (1.193 %)JBoss
949 (0.688 %)MQSeries
1048 (0.674 %)ATG Dynamo
1147 (0.660 %)SharePoint Server 2007
1236 (0.505 %)WebSphere MQ
1333 (0.463 %)WebSphere Application Server
1432 (0.449 %)Rendezvous
1523 (0.323 %)WebLogic Portal
1621 (0.295 %)ColdFusion
1719 (0.267 %)Lightstreamer
1816 (0.225 %)Resin
1816 (0.225 %)SonicMQ
1915 (0.211 %)Jetty
London IT Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
1321 (4.505 %)MS Excel
2142 (1.993 %)Photoshop
374 (1.039 %)MS Visio
455 (0.772 %)MATLAB
554 (0.758 %)MS Office
651 (0.716 %)Adobe Illustrator
748 (0.674 %)Spreadsheet
812 (0.168 %)MS Project
96 (0.084 %)Fireworks
96 (0.084 %)Doxygen
105 (0.070 %)Acrobat
113 (0.042 %)MS PowerPoint
121 (0.014 %)InfoPath
121 (0.014 %)Adobe Director
121 (0.014 %)Shockwave
London IT Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
127 (0.379 %)Endur
217 (0.239 %)SAP CRM
315 (0.211 %)Oracle Financials
48 (0.112 %)RMDS
56 (0.084 %)Capstone
56 (0.084 %)Summit
65 (0.070 %)Google Analytics
74 (0.056 %)SunGard Panorama
74 (0.056 %)FRONT ARENA
74 (0.056 %)Monis
74 (0.056 %)Kondor+
83 (0.042 %)SAP HR
91 (0.014 %)SAP SD
91 (0.014 %)WebTrends
91 (0.014 %)SAP R/3
91 (0.014 %)Decalog
91 (0.014 %)Pivotal CRM
91 (0.014 %)Staffware
91 (0.014 %)Bond Adapt
91 (0.014 %)Minerva
London IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
1295 (4.140 %)Internet
2114 (1.600 %)TCP/IP
387 (1.221 %)Intranet
469 (0.968 %)HTTP
518 (0.253 %)SMTP
617 (0.239 %)Wireless
716 (0.225 %)Broadband
814 (0.196 %)FTP
913 (0.182 %)SMS
1011 (0.154 %)Extranet
119 (0.126 %)GSM
119 (0.126 %)Reverse Proxy
128 (0.112 %)UPnP
128 (0.112 %)DVB
128 (0.112 %)RTP
137 (0.098 %)LDAP
137 (0.098 %)SSH
146 (0.084 %)2G
146 (0.084 %)2.5G
146 (0.084 %)WCDMA
London IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
11687 (23.68 %)SQL Server
2662 (9.291 %)MySQL
3461 (6.470 %)SQL Server 2005
4343 (4.814 %)RDBMS
5172 (2.414 %)SQL Server 2000
6163 (2.288 %)Oracle 10g
781 (1.137 %)Datawarehouse
877 (1.081 %)ETL
966 (0.926 %)GIS
1051 (0.716 %)DB2
1149 (0.688 %)Oracle 9i
1241 (0.575 %)Oracle 8/8i
1340 (0.561 %)PostgreSQL
1438 (0.533 %)SQL Server 2008
1536 (0.505 %)Crystal Reports
1635 (0.491 %)Reference Data
1734 (0.477 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1831 (0.435 %)OLAP
1930 (0.421 %)Oracle Reports
2029 (0.407 %)DTS
London IT Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
1298 (4.182 %)Visual Studio
2273 (3.832 %)JUnit
3191 (2.681 %)Eclipse
4183 (2.568 %)Subversion
5155 (2.175 %)NUnit
6144 (2.021 %)Ant
767 (0.940 %)ClearCase
842 (0.589 %)Log4j
941 (0.575 %)Selenium
1038 (0.533 %)VSS/SourceSafe
1132 (0.449 %)TeamCity
1229 (0.407 %)ClearQuest
1328 (0.393 %)Rational Rose
1427 (0.379 %)LSMW
1524 (0.337 %)FitNesse
1621 (0.295 %)RequisitePro
1720 (0.281 %)IntelliJ
1720 (0.281 %)csUnit
1818 (0.253 %)MyEclipse
1818 (0.253 %)Flex Builder
London IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
12339 (32.83 %)Finance
21293 (18.15 %)Banking
3965 (13.54 %)Front Office
4599 (8.407 %)Investment Banking
5311 (4.365 %)Education
6294 (4.126 %)Insurance
7267 (3.747 %)Games
8219 (3.074 %)Marketing
9149 (2.091 %)Back Office
10148 (2.077 %)Health
11127 (1.782 %)Telecoms
12109 (1.530 %)Pensions
12109 (1.530 %)Retail
1391 (1.277 %)Advertising
1391 (1.277 %)Publishing
1481 (1.137 %)Music
1571 (0.996 %)Financial Institution
1659 (0.828 %)Animation
1757 (0.800 %)Online Games
1854 (0.758 %)Music Industry
London IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
15330 (74.81 %)Developer
21378 (19.34 %)C# Developer
31078 (15.13 %)Java Developer
41013 (14.22 %).NET Developer
51010 (14.18 %)Senior Developer
6582 (8.168 %)C++ Developer
7527 (7.396 %)Analyst
8469 (6.582 %)Web Developer
9396 (5.558 %)Architect
10344 (4.828 %)PHP Developer
11271 (3.804 %)Senior Java Developer
12266 (3.733 %)Software Developer
13265 (3.719 %)Java/J2EE Developer
14263 (3.691 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
15257 (3.607 %)Team Leader
16251 (3.523 %)ASP.NET Developer
17241 (3.382 %)Software Engineer
18206 (2.891 %)Senior C# Developer
19204 (2.863 %)Programmer
20197 (2.765 %)Flash Developer
London IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
1928 (13.02 %)Derivative
2420 (5.895 %)Equities
3413 (5.796 %)N-Tier
4399 (5.600 %)Computer Science
5380 (5.333 %)Fixed Income
6349 (4.898 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
7318 (4.463 %)Multithreading
8258 (3.621 %)Mathematics
9249 (3.495 %)Equity Derivative
10165 (2.316 %)Client/Server
11135 (1.895 %)Web 2.0
12128 (1.796 %)Credit Derivative
13107 (1.502 %)Market Risk
14103 (1.446 %)Grid Computing
1588 (1.235 %)Credit Risk
1677 (1.081 %)Physics
1766 (0.926 %)W3C
1858 (0.814 %)Statistical Arbitrage
1954 (0.758 %)Social Network
2052 (0.730 %)Spread Betting
London IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
11169 (16.41 %)UNIX
2841 (11.80 %)Windows
3788 (11.06 %)Linux
4158 (2.218 %)Solaris
554 (0.758 %)Windows NT
645 (0.632 %)VMS
744 (0.618 %)Red Hat Linux
835 (0.491 %)Windows XP
835 (0.491 %)Windows 2000
930 (0.421 %)Windows Server 2003
1022 (0.309 %)Symbian OS
1115 (0.211 %)Windows Vista
1212 (0.168 %)Ubuntu
1311 (0.154 %)Windows Mobile
149 (0.126 %)Mac OS X
158 (0.112 %)Windows 2000 Server
166 (0.084 %)Android
166 (0.084 %)AIX
175 (0.070 %)Fedora
175 (0.070 %)CentOS
London IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
1867 (12.17 %)UML
2813 (11.41 %)Agile Software Development
3686 (9.628 %)TDD
4590 (8.281 %)OOD
5529 (7.425 %)OOP
6518 (7.270 %)E-Commerce
7459 (6.442 %)SOA
8405 (5.684 %)Web Development
9337 (4.730 %)Scrum
10307 (4.309 %)Unit Testing
11304 (4.267 %)Risk Management
12277 (3.888 %)Project Management
13193 (2.709 %)Continuous Integration
14189 (2.653 %)Software Engineering
15185 (2.596 %)OOA/OOD
16170 (2.386 %)Refactoring
17155 (2.175 %)Algorithmic Trading
18142 (1.993 %)Electronic Trading
19139 (1.951 %)Investment Management
20136 (1.909 %)Business Analysis
London IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
12977 (41.78 %)C#
22732 (38.34 %)Java
32205 (30.95 %)SQL
41981 (27.80 %)C++
51523 (21.38 %)JavaScript
6750 (10.53 %)PHP
7422 (5.923 %)VB.NET
8394 (5.530 %)Perl
9369 (5.179 %)VB
10333 (4.674 %)C
11297 (4.168 %)Python
12288 (4.042 %)Transact-SQL
13283 (3.972 %)ActionScript
14241 (3.382 %)VBA
15237 (3.326 %)PHP5
16208 (2.919 %)Ruby
16208 (2.919 %)PL/SQL
17150 (2.105 %)Delphi
18136 (1.909 %)VB6
19121 (1.698 %)VC++
London IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
11198 (16.81 %)Degree
2149 (2.091 %)Microsoft Certification
3108 (1.516 %)MCP
492 (1.291 %)MCSD
577 (1.081 %)MCAD
658 (0.814 %)PhD
731 (0.435 %)MCTS
811 (0.154 %)MBA
99 (0.126 %)ISEB
108 (0.112 %)Security Cleared
117 (0.098 %)Sun Certification
125 (0.070 %)MCSE
125 (0.070 %)HND
134 (0.056 %)MCDST
134 (0.056 %)MCPD
143 (0.042 %)DV Cleared
143 (0.042 %)PRINCE2 Certification
143 (0.042 %)PMP
143 (0.042 %)PMI Certification
143 (0.042 %)SCEA
London IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
1122 (1.712 %)QA
221 (0.295 %)WAI
315 (0.211 %)WCAG
48 (0.112 %)ISO9001
55 (0.070 %)TickIT
64 (0.056 %)HL7
73 (0.042 %)MiFID
82 (0.028 %)Basel II
91 (0.014 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
London IT Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
129 (0.407 %)MSMQ
215 (0.211 %)Active Directory
36 (0.084 %)Cronacle
42 (0.028 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
42 (0.028 %)AquaLogic
51 (0.014 %)NetBackup
51 (0.014 %)Oracle RMAN
51 (0.014 %)Oracle RAC
51 (0.014 %)NFS
London IT Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
110 (0.140 %)MOM
22 (0.028 %)Netcool
22 (0.028 %)AutoSys
22 (0.028 %)Tivoli
22 (0.028 %)Tivoli Monitoring
22 (0.028 %)Netcool/Webtop
31 (0.014 %)SCOM
31 (0.014 %)BMC PATROL
31 (0.014 %)AllFusion Endevor
31 (0.014 %)OpenView
London IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
11249 (17.53 %)Oracle
2709 (9.951 %)Microsoft
3346 (4.856 %)Sybase
4139 (1.951 %)TIBCO
5108 (1.516 %)Zend
6106 (1.488 %)Adobe
782 (1.151 %)Red Hat
877 (1.081 %)BEA
950 (0.702 %)ATG
1047 (0.660 %)Yahoo!
1141 (0.575 %)SAP
1141 (0.575 %)IBM
1240 (0.561 %)Symbian
1240 (0.561 %)Perforce
1339 (0.547 %)Reuters
1425 (0.351 %)OpenLink
1425 (0.351 %)Business Objects
1524 (0.337 %)Sun
1622 (0.309 %)Bloomberg
1719 (0.267 %)Hummingbird