The first table below looks at the demand for OO skills in IT jobs advertised for the Blackburn region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited OO over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Blackburn region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented (OO)
Rank 23 15 22
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +7
Permanent jobs citing OO 1 11 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Blackburn 1.613% 15.94% 3.540%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.125% 22.45% 4.444%
Number of salaries quoted 1 11 4
Average salary £27,500 £27,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -26.66%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
All Processes & Methodologies
Blackburn
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
32 49 90
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Blackburn 51.61% 71.01% 79.65%
Number of salaries quoted 32 48 89
Average salary £31,500 £32,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.07% -13.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £47,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
OO
Lancashire

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Jobs Demand Trend

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

Blackburn OO Jobs Demand Trend

OO
Salary Trend

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

Blackburn OO Salary Trend

OO
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Blackburn 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 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) XSLT
1 2 (100.00%) XHTML
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) Umbraco
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) Photoshop
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET 2.0
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) CSS3
2 1 (50.00%) SEO
2 1 (50.00%) VB.NET

OO
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Blackburn 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 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) XSLT
1 2 (100.00%) XHTML
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET 2.0
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Web Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# Software Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Junior Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Junior .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Junior Software Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Software Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Junior ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Junior
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (50.00%) VB.NET