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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for OO skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited OO over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Cambridge region.

 Object-Oriented (OO)
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank231316
Rank change year-on-year
Down-10Up+3
Matching permanent IT job ads119158261
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge6.903 %10.46 %9.031 %
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category13.81 %18.81 %18.39 %
Salaries quoted116150223
Average salary£37,000£37,500£38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.330 %-2.590 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£27,500£29,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£44,000£62,500£55,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£35,000£35,000
Cambridge IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryAll Processes & Methodologies
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
8628401419
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge50.00 %55.59 %49.10 %
Salaries quoted7927201198
Average salary£37,500£35,000£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.140 %-12.50 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£26,000£25,000£28,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£55,000£55,000£55,000
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000
OO CambridgeshireOO
Cambridgeshire

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge OO Salary Trend

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing OO across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

Cambridge OO Salary Histogram

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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.

1145 (60.42 %)C#
1145 (60.42 %).NET
2103 (42.92 %)C++
389 (37.08 %)Java
488 (36.67 %)SQL Server
587 (36.25 %)SQL
685 (35.42 %)Degree
761 (25.42 %)JavaScript
857 (23.75 %)Web Services
955 (22.92 %)PHP
1051 (21.25 %)ASP.NET
1051 (21.25 %)Windows
1150 (20.83 %)Visual Studio
1249 (20.42 %)Unit Testing
1348 (20.00 %)Agile Software Development
1446 (19.17 %)MySQL
1545 (18.75 %)C
1644 (18.33 %)Client/Server
1644 (18.33 %)AJAX
1740 (16.67 %)Software Engineering
1839 (16.25 %)WCF
1936 (15.00 %)Linux
2034 (14.17 %)IIS
2133 (13.75 %)OOD
2227 (11.25 %)OOP
2227 (11.25 %)CSS
2325 (10.42 %)Computer Science
2325 (10.42 %)UNIX
2325 (10.42 %)Internet
2423 (9.583 %)HTML

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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.

Cambridge IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1145 (60.42 %).NET
257 (23.75 %)Web Services
351 (21.25 %)ASP.NET
444 (18.33 %)AJAX
539 (16.25 %)WCF
627 (11.25 %)CSS
723 (9.583 %)HTML
820 (8.333 %)ODBC
917 (7.083 %)JSP
1016 (6.667 %)ASP
1016 (6.667 %)jQuery
1115 (6.250 %)LAMP
1212 (5.000 %).NET Framework
1311 (4.583 %)Silverlight
1311 (4.583 %)J2EE
1311 (4.583 %)XML
1410 (4.167 %)NHibernate
1410 (4.167 %)Hibernate
157 (2.917 %)XHTML
166 (2.500 %)STL
Cambridge IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
134 (14.17 %)IIS
29 (3.750 %)ColdFusion
38 (3.333 %)Apache
45 (2.083 %)Tomcat
54 (1.667 %)Smallworld
62 (0.833 %)BizTalk Server
71 (0.417 %)CMS
71 (0.417 %)Drupal
71 (0.417 %)ExpressionEngine
Cambridge IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
114 (5.833 %)MS Excel
21 (0.417 %)MATLAB
21 (0.417 %)FrameMaker
Cambridge IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
125 (10.42 %)Internet
220 (8.333 %)SMTP
220 (8.333 %)HTTP
33 (1.250 %)Intranet
33 (1.250 %)3G
33 (1.250 %)2G
33 (1.250 %)LTE
33 (1.250 %)3GPP
41 (0.417 %)Wireless
Cambridge IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
188 (36.67 %)SQL Server
246 (19.17 %)MySQL
321 (8.750 %)SQL Server 2000
420 (8.333 %)SQL Server 2008
519 (7.917 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
66 (2.500 %)SQL Server Integration Services
66 (2.500 %)DTS
74 (1.667 %)GIS
83 (1.250 %)PostgreSQL
92 (0.833 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
92 (0.833 %)SQL Server 2005
92 (0.833 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
101 (0.417 %)Text Mining
101 (0.417 %)Data Mining
101 (0.417 %)DB2
Cambridge IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
150 (20.83 %)Visual Studio
28 (3.333 %)Subversion
37 (2.917 %)TestComplete
46 (2.500 %)Selenium
46 (2.500 %)Eclipse
54 (1.667 %)LabVIEW
54 (1.667 %)Ant
54 (1.667 %)JUnit
63 (1.250 %)ClearCase
63 (1.250 %)Maven
71 (0.417 %)NUnit
71 (0.417 %)EasyMock
Cambridge IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
121 (8.750 %)Education
219 (7.917 %)Finance
219 (7.917 %)Pensions
314 (5.833 %)Insurance
410 (4.167 %)Online Games
410 (4.167 %)Marketing
410 (4.167 %)Games
59 (3.750 %)Health
59 (3.750 %)Electronics
65 (2.083 %)Billing
72 (0.833 %)Banking
81 (0.417 %)Interactive Media
81 (0.417 %)Telecoms
81 (0.417 %)Pharmaceutical
81 (0.417 %)Financial Institution
81 (0.417 %)Manufacturing
81 (0.417 %)Electric
Cambridge IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1176 (73.33 %)Developer
253 (22.08 %)Software Engineer
253 (22.08 %)C# Developer
350 (20.83 %)Software Developer
434 (14.17 %)Graduate
532 (13.33 %).NET Developer
627 (11.25 %)Graduate Developer
716 (6.667 %)PHP Developer
716 (6.667 %)C# Software Developer
815 (6.250 %)Web Developer
815 (6.250 %)SQL Developer
914 (5.833 %)SQL Server Developer
914 (5.833 %)C# Software Engineer
1012 (5.000 %)C++ Developer
1012 (5.000 %)Java Developer
1111 (4.583 %)Junior
1111 (4.583 %)VB.NET Developer
1111 (4.583 %)Junior Developer
1210 (4.167 %)Games Developer
1210 (4.167 %).NET Software Engineer
Cambridge IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
144 (18.33 %)Client/Server
225 (10.42 %)Computer Science
323 (9.583 %)Mathematics
413 (5.417 %)Open Source
55 (2.083 %)Physics
64 (1.667 %)Grid Computing
72 (0.833 %)W3C
81 (0.417 %)E-Learning
81 (0.417 %)SCORM
81 (0.417 %)Statistics
81 (0.417 %)Robotics
81 (0.417 %)Cybernetics
81 (0.417 %)Visualisation
Cambridge IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
151 (21.25 %)Windows
236 (15.00 %)Linux
325 (10.42 %)UNIX
421 (8.750 %)Solaris
520 (8.333 %)AIX
68 (3.333 %)Windows CE
74 (1.667 %)ThreadX
81 (0.417 %)Windows XP
Cambridge IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
149 (20.42 %)Unit Testing
248 (20.00 %)Agile Software Development
340 (16.67 %)Software Engineering
433 (13.75 %)OOD
527 (11.25 %)OOP
616 (6.667 %)Web Development
714 (5.833 %)MVC
812 (5.000 %)Software Architecture
911 (4.583 %)Project Management
1010 (4.167 %)SOA
1010 (4.167 %)Time Management
118 (3.333 %)E-Commerce
127 (2.917 %)UML
127 (2.917 %)DSDM
127 (2.917 %)Requirements Analysis
136 (2.500 %)Validation
145 (2.083 %)Configuration Management
145 (2.083 %)RAD
145 (2.083 %)Software Testing
145 (2.083 %)Automated Testing
Cambridge IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1145 (60.42 %)C#
2103 (42.92 %)C++
389 (37.08 %)Java
487 (36.25 %)SQL
561 (25.42 %)JavaScript
655 (22.92 %)PHP
745 (18.75 %)C
820 (8.333 %)VC++
919 (7.917 %)PHP5
1016 (6.667 %)VB.NET
1115 (6.250 %)T-SQL
127 (2.917 %)Delphi
135 (2.083 %)Embedded C
144 (1.667 %)Embedded C++
153 (1.250 %)Magik
153 (1.250 %)Perl
162 (0.833 %)Python
171 (0.417 %)ActionScript
171 (0.417 %)Ruby
171 (0.417 %)Shell Script
Cambridge IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
185 (35.42 %)Degree
24 (1.667 %)PhD
32 (0.833 %)OCP
32 (0.833 %)Oracle Certification
Cambridge IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
112 (5.000 %)QA
Cambridge IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
121 (8.750 %)Microsoft
211 (4.583 %)Oracle
37 (2.917 %)Sybase
41 (0.417 %)Adobe
41 (0.417 %)Zend