Edinburgh OOP Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) skills within the Edinburgh region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT job ads that have cited OOP over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
Location Abingdon Altrincham Ashton-under-Lyne Ayrshire Banbury Barking Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Carmarthenshire Chatham Cheadle Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Clapham Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devizes Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Droitwich Dundee Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Exmouth Farnborough Farnham Folkestone Frome Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horsham Hull Isle of Wight Kenilworth Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Lichfield Liverpool Llanelli London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Matlock Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Preston Reading Reigate Rochester Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Smethwick Solihull Somerset South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Sunderland Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Wallingford Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Whyteleafe Wiltshire Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	77	82
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching permanent IT job ads	10	19
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	1.174 %	1.639 %
Salaries quoted	8	11
Average minimum salary	£24,625	£40,091
Average salary	£27,500	£41,409
% change on same period last year	-33.58 %
Average maximum salary	£30,375	£42,727
UK excluding London average salary	£32,748	£34,607
% change on same period last year	-5.37 %
Processes & Methodologies Edinburgh
Matching permanent IT job ads	852	1159
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.445 %	0.478 %
Salaries quoted	604	767
Average minimum salary	£34,113	£36,761
Average salary	£37,396	£39,611
% change on same period last year	-5.59 %
Average maximum salary	£40,679	£42,461
UK excluding London average salary	£42,583	£44,532
% change on same period last year	-4.37 %
OOP Scotland

OOP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing OOP across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

OOP
Salary Trend

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

OOP
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing OOP across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008.

OOP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 18 (81.82 %) OO 2 15 (68.18 %) SQL 3 14 (63.64 %) Microsoft 4 10 (45.45 %) .NET 5 9 (40.91 %) SQL Server 5 9 (40.91 %) C++ 5 9 (40.91 %) HTML 6 8 (36.36 %) C 6 8 (36.36 %) C# 6 8 (36.36 %) UNIX 6 8 (36.36 %) Linux 7 7 (31.82 %) MS Excel 7 7 (31.82 %) Perl 8 6 (27.27 %) Sybase 9 5 (22.73 %) Java

9 5 (22.73 %) Solaris 9 5 (22.73 %) CSS 9 5 (22.73 %) Finance 9 5 (22.73 %) Education 9 5 (22.73 %) Computer Science 9 5 (22.73 %) CGI 10 4 (18.18 %) Agile Software Development 11 3 (13.64 %) Shell Script 11 3 (13.64 %) Degree 11 3 (13.64 %) SQL Server 2005 11 3 (13.64 %) XML 11 3 (13.64 %) OOA/OOD 11 3 (13.64 %) OOD 11 3 (13.64 %) Visual Studio 11 3 (13.64 %) ASP.NET

OOP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 (45.45 %) .NET 2 9 (40.91 %) HTML 3 5 (22.73 %) CSS 3 5 (22.73 %) CGI 4 3 (13.64 %) XML 4 3 (13.64 %) ASP.NET 5 2 (9.091 %) J2EE 5 2 (9.091 %) SGML 5 2 (9.091 %) ASP.NET 2.0 6 1 (4.545 %) XHTML	Application Platforms 1 2 (9.091 %) SharePoint 1 2 (9.091 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 7 (31.82 %) MS Excel 2 2 (9.091 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 2 (9.091 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (40.91 %) SQL Server 2 3 (13.64 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (9.091 %) SQL Server 7 3 2 (9.091 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (4.545 %) PostgreSQL 4 1 (4.545 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 1 (4.545 %) Datawarehouse 4 1 (4.545 %) DTS 4 1 (4.545 %) ETL 4 1 (4.545 %) MySQL	Development Applications 1 3 (13.64 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (4.545 %) Flash
General 1 5 (22.73 %) Finance 1 5 (22.73 %) Education 2 2 (9.091 %) Legal 2 2 (9.091 %) Publishing	Job Titles 1 11 (50.00 %) Developer 2 5 (22.73 %) Analyst 2 5 (22.73 %) Analyst Developer 3 3 (13.64 %) Software Engineer 4 2 (9.091 %) Graduate 4 2 (9.091 %) Embedded Software Engineer 4 2 (9.091 %) Web Developer 4 2 (9.091 %) Systems Engineer 5 1 (4.545 %) Senior Developer 5 1 (4.545 %) Programmer 5 1 (4.545 %) Lead Developer 5 1 (4.545 %) C++ Developer 5 1 (4.545 %) SQL Developer 5 1 (4.545 %) PHP Developer 5 1 (4.545 %) Graduate Developer 5 1 (4.545 %) Technical Lead 5 1 (4.545 %) Web Programmer
Miscellaneous 1 5 (22.73 %) Computer Science 2 2 (9.091 %) Firmware 2 2 (9.091 %) CCTV 3 1 (4.545 %) Mathematics 3 1 (4.545 %) Physics 3 1 (4.545 %) Polish Language	Operating Systems 1 8 (36.36 %) UNIX 1 8 (36.36 %) Linux 2 5 (22.73 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 18 (81.82 %) OO 2 4 (18.18 %) Agile Software Development 3 3 (13.64 %) OOA/OOD 3 3 (13.64 %) OOD 4 2 (9.091 %) UML 5 1 (4.545 %) Software Engineering 5 1 (4.545 %) Business Intelligence 5 1 (4.545 %) Project Management 5 1 (4.545 %) Scrum 5 1 (4.545 %) Extreme Programming	Programming Languages 1 15 (68.18 %) SQL 2 9 (40.91 %) C++ 3 8 (36.36 %) C 3 8 (36.36 %) C# 4 7 (31.82 %) Perl 5 5 (22.73 %) Java 6 3 (13.64 %) Shell Script 7 2 (9.091 %) Embedded C 7 2 (9.091 %) JavaScript 7 2 (9.091 %) PHP 7 2 (9.091 %) Delphi 8 1 (4.545 %) PHP5
Qualifications 1 3 (13.64 %) Degree	Vendors 1 14 (63.64 %) Microsoft 2 6 (27.27 %) Sybase 3 2 (9.091 %) Oracle