The first table below looks at the demand for OO skills in IT jobs advertised for the Belfast region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited OO over the 3 months to 20 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 Belfast region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented (OO)
Rank 13 26 17
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -9
Permanent jobs citing OO 29 14 17
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Belfast 11.60% 6.763% 9.605%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.73% 8.696% 12.69%
Number of salaries quoted 18 4 9
Average salary £35,750 £33,750 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.92% -15.62%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,450 £30,750 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £44,000 £36,750 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
All Processes & Methodologies
Belfast
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
147 161 134
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Belfast 58.80% 77.78% 75.71%
Number of salaries quoted 97 82 75
Average salary £40,000 £34,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+17.64% -9.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £15,390 £28,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £45,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
OO
County Antrim

OO
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Belfast OO Jobs Demand Trend

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Salary Trend

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

Belfast OO Salary Trend

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Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing OO across the Belfast region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Belfast OO Salary Histogram

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Belfast 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 15 (40.54%) Java
1 15 (40.54%) JavaScript
1 15 (40.54%) CSS
2 12 (32.43%) SQL
2 12 (32.43%) HTML
2 12 (32.43%) Degree
3 11 (29.73%) Agile Software Development
3 11 (29.73%) XML
3 11 (29.73%) Linux
3 11 (29.73%) HTML5
4 10 (27.03%) Unit Testing
5 9 (24.32%) QA
5 9 (24.32%) jQuery
5 9 (24.32%) Finance
6 8 (21.62%) UNIX
6 8 (21.62%) C#
6 8 (21.62%) C++
6 8 (21.62%) .NET
7 7 (18.92%) SQL Server
7 7 (18.92%) Microsoft
8 6 (16.22%) Ajax
8 6 (16.22%) ASP.NET
8 6 (16.22%) Open Source
8 6 (16.22%) CSS3
9 5 (13.51%) Computer Architecture
9 5 (13.51%) Web Services
9 5 (13.51%) MS Excel
9 5 (13.51%) MVC
10 4 (10.81%) Ruby
10 4 (10.81%) Silverlight

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Belfast 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 15 (40.54%) CSS
2 12 (32.43%) HTML
3 11 (29.73%) XML
3 11 (29.73%) HTML5
4 9 (24.32%) jQuery
5 8 (21.62%) .NET
6 6 (16.22%) ASP.NET
6 6 (16.22%) Ajax
6 6 (16.22%) CSS3
7 5 (13.51%) Web Services
8 4 (10.81%) JSP
8 4 (10.81%) Middleware
8 4 (10.81%) WebSphere
8 4 (10.81%) Silverlight
9 3 (8.108%) .NET Framework
9 3 (8.108%) Hibernate
9 3 (8.108%) Spring
9 3 (8.108%) J2EE
10 2 (5.405%) Servlets
10 2 (5.405%) Struts
Application Platforms
1 3 (8.108%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.405%) WebLogic
2 2 (5.405%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.703%) Apache
3 1 (2.703%) Rendezvous
Applications
1 5 (13.51%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.703%) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.108%) Broadband
2 2 (5.405%) Internet
3 1 (2.703%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (18.92%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.405%) OLAP
2 2 (5.405%) RDBMS
2 2 (5.405%) GIS
2 2 (5.405%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (5.405%) KDB
2 2 (5.405%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (2.703%) CouchDB
3 1 (2.703%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.703%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (8.108%) Visual Studio
2 2 (5.405%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (5.405%) Gradle
3 1 (2.703%) JUnit
3 1 (2.703%) Maven
3 1 (2.703%) WATIR
3 1 (2.703%) Selenium
3 1 (2.703%) Git (software)
General
1 9 (24.32%) Finance
2 3 (8.108%) Banking
3 2 (5.405%) Games
4 1 (2.703%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.703%) Retail
4 1 (2.703%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.703%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 26 (70.27%) Developer
2 9 (24.32%) Senior Developer
3 7 (18.92%) Java Developer
4 5 (13.51%) Junior
4 5 (13.51%) JavaScript Developer
5 4 (10.81%) Tester
5 4 (10.81%) C# Developer
6 3 (8.108%) Senior Java Developer
6 3 (8.108%) Senior Microsoft Developer
6 3 (8.108%) Junior Tester
6 3 (8.108%) Software Tester
6 3 (8.108%) Microsoft Developer
7 2 (5.405%) Senior C# Developer
7 2 (5.405%) iPhone Developer
7 2 (5.405%) Android Developer
7 2 (5.405%) iPad Developer
7 2 (5.405%) Junior Software Tester
7 2 (5.405%) iOS Developer
7 2 (5.405%) Java Engineer
7 2 (5.405%) Junior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Open Source
2 4 (10.81%) Social Media
2 4 (10.81%) Mobile Computing
2 4 (10.81%) Mobile App
2 4 (10.81%) Computer Science
3 3 (8.108%) STB
3 3 (8.108%) IPTV
4 2 (5.405%) Life Science
4 2 (5.405%) RIA
4 2 (5.405%) iPhone
4 2 (5.405%) iPad
5 1 (2.703%) Video on Demand
5 1 (2.703%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.703%) Social Network
5 1 (2.703%) N-Tier
5 1 (2.703%) E-Learning
5 1 (2.703%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 11 (29.73%) Linux
2 8 (21.62%) UNIX
3 2 (5.405%) Android
3 2 (5.405%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.703%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (29.73%) Agile Software Development
2 10 (27.03%) Unit Testing
3 5 (13.51%) MVC
3 5 (13.51%) Computer Architecture
4 4 (10.81%) Multithreading
4 4 (10.81%) Mobile Application Development
5 3 (8.108%) SOA
5 3 (8.108%) OOP
5 3 (8.108%) E-Commerce
5 3 (8.108%) Test Management
5 3 (8.108%) Software Testing
6 2 (5.405%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (2.703%) Project Management
7 1 (2.703%) Workflow
7 1 (2.703%) OOD
7 1 (2.703%) OOA/OOD
7 1 (2.703%) Stress Testing
7 1 (2.703%) Data Management
7 1 (2.703%) Content Management
7 1 (2.703%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 15 (40.54%) Java
1 15 (40.54%) JavaScript
2 12 (32.43%) SQL
3 8 (21.62%) C#
3 8 (21.62%) C++
4 4 (10.81%) Ruby
5 3 (8.108%) Shell Script
6 2 (5.405%) Groovy
6 2 (5.405%) Objective-C
7 1 (2.703%) C
7 1 (2.703%) Scala
7 1 (2.703%) XAML
7 1 (2.703%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.703%) Python
7 1 (2.703%) PHP
Qualifications
1 12 (32.43%) Degree
2 3 (8.108%) Postgraduate
3 2 (5.405%) BC Cleared
3 2 (5.405%) CTC Cleared
3 2 (5.405%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (24.32%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (18.92%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.108%) Oracle
3 2 (5.405%) ESRI
3 2 (5.405%) Infragistics
4 1 (2.703%) DevExpress
4 1 (2.703%) JBoss
4 1 (2.703%) IBM
4 1 (2.703%) BEA
4 1 (2.703%) TIBCO