The first table below looks at the demand for OOP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cardiff region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited OOP over the 3 months to 17 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 Cardiff region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
Rank 53 44 67
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +23
Permanent jobs citing OOP 11 3 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cardiff 1.923% 0.718% 0.867%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.683% 1.083% 1.080%
Number of salaries quoted 10 3 5
Average salary £25,000 £32,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-23.07% -7.14%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £33,500
% change year-on-year
- +4.47%
All Processes & Methodologies
Cardiff
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
410 277 463
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cardiff 71.68% 66.27% 80.24%
Number of salaries quoted 361 258 432
Average salary £35,000 £34,000 £36,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.94% -6.84%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,500 £25,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
OOP
South Wales

OOP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cardiff OOP Jobs Demand Trend

OOP
Salary Trend

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

Cardiff OOP Salary Trend

OOP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cardiff region citing OOP 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 OOP.

1 21 (84.00%) HTML
2 20 (80.00%) JavaScript
3 19 (76.00%) CSS
4 17 (68.00%) OO
5 14 (56.00%) jQuery
6 12 (48.00%) MVC
7 11 (44.00%) ASP.NET
7 11 (44.00%) .NET
7 11 (44.00%) Web Development
8 10 (40.00%) MySQL
8 10 (40.00%) PHP
8 10 (40.00%) C#
9 9 (36.00%) Project Management
10 8 (32.00%) SOAP
10 8 (32.00%) NHibernate
10 8 (32.00%) Razor View Engine
11 7 (28.00%) Digital Media
11 7 (28.00%) RESTful
11 7 (28.00%) JIRA
11 7 (28.00%) Telecoms
11 7 (28.00%) OOD
11 7 (28.00%) PostgreSQL
12 6 (24.00%) SQL
13 5 (20.00%) Subversion
13 5 (20.00%) PHP5
14 3 (12.00%) JSON
14 3 (12.00%) WordPress
14 3 (12.00%) Agile Software Development
14 3 (12.00%) HTML5
14 3 (12.00%) VB.NET

OOP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cardiff region citing OOP 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 OOP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 21 (84.00%) HTML
2 19 (76.00%) CSS
3 14 (56.00%) jQuery
4 11 (44.00%) .NET
4 11 (44.00%) ASP.NET
5 8 (32.00%) SOAP
5 8 (32.00%) NHibernate
5 8 (32.00%) Razor View Engine
6 7 (28.00%) RESTful
7 3 (12.00%) HTML5
7 3 (12.00%) JSON
7 3 (12.00%) XML
8 2 (8.000%) Flash
8 2 (8.000%) XHTML
8 2 (8.000%) Ajax
8 2 (8.000%) WinForms
9 1 (4.000%) Spring
9 1 (4.000%) Web Services
9 1 (4.000%) BREW
9 1 (4.000%) Java ME
Application Platforms
1 3 (12.00%) Apache
1 3 (12.00%) WordPress
2 2 (8.000%) Tuxedo
2 2 (8.000%) CMS
3 1 (4.000%) Tomcat
3 1 (4.000%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (4.000%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.000%) SSH
1 1 (4.000%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (40.00%) MySQL
2 7 (28.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (8.000%) MongoDB
4 1 (4.000%) TOAD
4 1 (4.000%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (4.000%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (4.000%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 7 (28.00%) JIRA
2 5 (20.00%) Subversion
3 3 (12.00%) Visual Studio
4 2 (8.000%) Eclipse
4 2 (8.000%) Ant
4 2 (8.000%) JUnit
4 2 (8.000%) Git (software)
4 2 (8.000%) Maven
4 2 (8.000%) Concordion
5 1 (4.000%) Jenkins
5 1 (4.000%) Mercurial
5 1 (4.000%) Hudson
5 1 (4.000%) Xcode
General
1 7 (28.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (96.00%) Developer
2 15 (60.00%) Web Developer
3 6 (24.00%) PHP Developer
4 2 (8.000%) Senior Developer
4 2 (8.000%) Programmer
4 2 (8.000%) Systems Developer
5 1 (4.000%) Java Developer
5 1 (4.000%) Analyst Programmer
5 1 (4.000%) Analyst
5 1 (4.000%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (4.000%) PHP Programmer
5 1 (4.000%) ActionScript Developer
5 1 (4.000%) Blackberry Developer
5 1 (4.000%) JavaScript Developer
5 1 (4.000%) Android Developer
5 1 (4.000%) PHP MySQL Developer
5 1 (4.000%) iOS Developer
5 1 (4.000%) Senior iOS Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Digital Media
2 2 (8.000%) iPhone
2 2 (8.000%) SCORM
3 1 (4.000%) Statistics
3 1 (4.000%) Animation
3 1 (4.000%) Mathematics
3 1 (4.000%) Computer Science
3 1 (4.000%) Flash Lite
3 1 (4.000%) Java Card
3 1 (4.000%) N-Tier
3 1 (4.000%) W3C
3 1 (4.000%) Blackberry
3 1 (4.000%) E-Learning
3 1 (4.000%) Social Media
3 1 (4.000%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Windows
2 2 (8.000%) Linux
2 2 (8.000%) Android
3 1 (4.000%) Apple iOS
3 1 (4.000%) Windows Mobile
3 1 (4.000%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (68.00%) OO
2 12 (48.00%) MVC
3 11 (44.00%) Web Development
4 9 (36.00%) Project Management
5 7 (28.00%) OOD
6 3 (12.00%) Agile Software Development
7 2 (8.000%) Content Management
7 2 (8.000%) Software Engineering
7 2 (8.000%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (8.000%) E-Commerce
8 1 (4.000%) Data Modelling
8 1 (4.000%) CRM
8 1 (4.000%) Migration
8 1 (4.000%) Scrum
8 1 (4.000%) Multithreading
8 1 (4.000%) Memory Management
8 1 (4.000%) BDD
8 1 (4.000%) TDD
8 1 (4.000%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 10 (40.00%) PHP
2 10 (40.00%) C#
3 6 (24.00%) SQL
4 5 (20.00%) PHP5
5 3 (12.00%) VB.NET
6 2 (8.000%) Java
6 2 (8.000%) Perl
7 1 (4.000%) PL/SQL
7 1 (4.000%) C
7 1 (4.000%) C++
7 1 (4.000%) ActionScript
7 1 (4.000%) Shell Script
7 1 (4.000%) Objective-C
7 1 (4.000%) ActionScript 3.0
7 1 (4.000%) ActionScript 2.0
Vendors
1 2 (8.000%) Oracle
1 2 (8.000%) Zend
2 1 (4.000%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.000%) BEA
2 1 (4.000%) Open Text
2 1 (4.000%) RedDot
2 1 (4.000%) Google