The first table below looks at the demand for OOP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Chester 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 Chester region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
Rank 48 35 47
Rank change year-on-year
-13 +12
Permanent jobs citing OOP 2 1 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 0.559% 0.617% 0.424%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.662% 0.862% 0.585%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 1
Average salary £41,250 £35,000 £19,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+17.85% +79.48%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £33,500
% change year-on-year
- +4.47%
All Processes & Methodologies
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
302 116 171
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 84.36% 71.60% 72.46%
Number of salaries quoted 161 96 166
Average salary £38,000 £35,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.57% -12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £25,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
OOP
Cheshire

OOP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester OOP Salary Trend

OOP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 10 (100.00%) C#
1 10 (100.00%) .NET
1 10 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 10 (100.00%) OO
2 6 (60.00%) SOAP
2 6 (60.00%) Web Services
2 6 (60.00%) XML
3 5 (50.00%) UNIX
3 5 (50.00%) Linux
3 5 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 5 (50.00%) ASP.NET
3 5 (50.00%) Finance
4 4 (40.00%) MVC
4 4 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (40.00%) .NET Framework
4 4 (40.00%) WPF
4 4 (40.00%) Unit Testing
4 4 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 4 (40.00%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (40.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 4 (40.00%) MVVM
4 4 (40.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
6 1 (10.00%) N-Tier
6 1 (10.00%) SQL
6 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
6 1 (10.00%) Change Management
6 1 (10.00%) TDD
6 1 (10.00%) Spring
6 1 (10.00%) jQuery

OOP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 10 (100.00%) .NET
2 6 (60.00%) SOAP
2 6 (60.00%) Web Services
2 6 (60.00%) XML
3 5 (50.00%) ASP.NET
4 4 (40.00%) .NET Framework
4 4 (40.00%) WPF
4 4 (40.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 4 (40.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
5 1 (10.00%) jQuery
5 1 (10.00%) Spring
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 10 (100.00%) Visual Studio
2 4 (40.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Developer
2 9 (90.00%) .NET Developer
3 3 (30.00%) C# Developer
3 3 (30.00%) Lead C# Developer
3 3 (30.00%) Lead Developer
3 3 (30.00%) Lead .NET Developer
3 3 (30.00%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Programmer
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) UNIX
1 5 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) OO
2 4 (40.00%) MVC
2 4 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (40.00%) Unit Testing
2 4 (40.00%) MVVM
3 1 (10.00%) Web Application Development
3 1 (10.00%) TDD
3 1 (10.00%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
Chester, North West
Due to sustained growth they are now looking to bring in a .Net developer with good C#, XML and Object-Oriented skills... Skills Required- Excellent understanding of XML,...
Salary: £30000.00 - £45000.00 per annum + bens
Posted: 24 April 2013
Chester, North West
C#.Net Web Services Automated Testing including Unit, Integration and Acceptance Tests Understanding of usability issues and experience on user interface design WinForms SQL SSRS Object Oriented Programming...
Computer Futures
Salary: £38000 - £43000 per annum + Pension
Posted: 15 May 2013