The first table below looks at the demand for OOD skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bedford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited OOD 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 Bedford region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
Rank 38 36 27
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -9
Permanent jobs citing OOD 11 7 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedford 4.382% 3.398% 4.908%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.392% 4.094% 6.202%
Number of salaries quoted 11 6 8
Average salary £30,000 £42,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-29.41% +30.76%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+3.89% +2.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Bedford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
204 171 129
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedford 81.27% 83.01% 79.14%
Number of salaries quoted 198 162 127
Average salary £40,000 £41,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.43% +9.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £25,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £55,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
OOD
Bedfordshire

OOD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedford OOD Jobs Demand Trend

OOD
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing OOD across the Bedford region.

Bedford OOD Salary Trend

OOD
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing OOD across the Bedford region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Bedford OOD Salary Histogram

OOD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedford 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 IT job ads sampled that cited OOD.

1 12 (100.00%) Windows
1 12 (100.00%) OO
2 8 (66.67%) Linux
2 8 (66.67%) C++
2 8 (66.67%) Degree
2 8 (66.67%) Mathematics
2 8 (66.67%) Physics
2 8 (66.67%) Qt
3 4 (33.33%) Moq
3 4 (33.33%) Multithreading
3 4 (33.33%) Stochastic Modelling
3 4 (33.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 4 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 4 (33.33%) WCF
3 4 (33.33%) WPF
3 4 (33.33%) LINQ
3 4 (33.33%) Scrum
3 4 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (33.33%) TDD
3 4 (33.33%) .NET
3 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 4 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 4 (33.33%) MS Excel
3 4 (33.33%) C#
3 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 3 (25.00%) N-Tier
4 3 (25.00%) WinForms
4 3 (25.00%) MVC
5 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (16.67%) SQL

OOD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedford 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 IT job ads sampled that cited OOD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (66.67%) Qt
2 4 (33.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 4 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 4 (33.33%) WCF
2 4 (33.33%) WPF
2 4 (33.33%) LINQ
2 4 (33.33%) .NET
2 4 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 3 (25.00%) WinForms
4 1 (8.333%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 2 (16.67%) Windows Azure
2 1 (8.333%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (8.333%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (33.33%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (8.333%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Moq
2 2 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (8.333%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Programmer
1 4 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Lead Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Lead Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Technical Leader
2 2 (16.67%) Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Lead Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Mathematics
1 8 (66.67%) Physics
2 3 (25.00%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Windows
2 8 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) OO
2 4 (33.33%) Multithreading
2 4 (33.33%) Stochastic Modelling
2 4 (33.33%) Scrum
2 4 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (33.33%) TDD
3 3 (25.00%) MVC
4 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (8.333%) Product Management
5 1 (8.333%) Project Management
5 1 (8.333%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) C++
2 4 (33.33%) C#
3 2 (16.67%) SQL
3 2 (16.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) Degree
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
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