The first table below looks at the demand for OO skills in IT jobs advertised for the Essex region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited OO over the 3 months to 24 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 Essex region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented (OO)
Rank 29 22 30
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +8
Permanent jobs citing OO 64 126 86
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 6.362% 9.164% 6.869%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.001% 13.59% 9.430%
Number of salaries quoted 61 105 76
Average salary £45,000 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% -
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £24,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,250 £72,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
All Processes & Methodologies
Essex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
711 927 912
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 70.68% 67.42% 72.84%
Number of salaries quoted 593 802 765
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £29,750 £26,900 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £63,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
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East of England

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Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex OO Jobs Demand Trend

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Salary Trend

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

Essex OO Salary Trend

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Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing OO across the Essex region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Essex OO Salary Histogram

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Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OO within the Essex region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Basildon +5 25 £46,250 -33.92%
Chelmsford +20 9 £40,000 +66.66%
Witham -5 5 £45,000 +100.00%
Maldon - 1 £45,000 -
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East of England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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 97 (69.29%) .NET
2 93 (66.43%) C#
2 93 (66.43%) SQL Server
3 67 (47.86%) WCF
4 62 (44.29%) Finance
5 55 (39.29%) WPF
6 54 (38.57%) Silverlight
7 39 (27.86%) Enterprise Software
8 36 (25.71%) Microsoft
9 33 (23.57%) ASP.NET
9 33 (23.57%) HTML
10 30 (21.43%) CSS
10 30 (21.43%) XML
10 30 (21.43%) Ajax
11 29 (20.71%) MVC
12 28 (20.00%) JavaScript
12 28 (20.00%) MS Excel
13 26 (18.57%) SQL Server 2008
14 25 (17.86%) OOP
14 25 (17.86%) Java
14 25 (17.86%) VB.NET
14 25 (17.86%) SQL
15 24 (17.14%) SQL Server 2005
16 22 (15.71%) Subversion
16 22 (15.71%) .NET Framework
17 19 (13.57%) XSLT
17 19 (13.57%) jQuery
18 18 (12.86%) XSD
19 17 (12.14%) Oracle
19 17 (12.14%) PHP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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 97 (69.29%) .NET
2 67 (47.86%) WCF
3 55 (39.29%) WPF
4 54 (38.57%) Silverlight
5 33 (23.57%) ASP.NET
5 33 (23.57%) HTML
6 30 (21.43%) CSS
6 30 (21.43%) XML
6 30 (21.43%) Ajax
7 22 (15.71%) .NET Framework
8 19 (13.57%) XSLT
8 19 (13.57%) jQuery
9 18 (12.86%) XSD
10 11 (7.857%) Zend Framework
10 11 (7.857%) ASP.NET MVC
11 8 (5.714%) Qt
12 7 (5.000%) J2ME
13 6 (4.286%) ADO.NET
14 5 (3.571%) HTML5
14 5 (3.571%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 11 (7.857%) Apache
2 8 (5.714%) IIS
3 4 (2.857%) Force.com
4 2 (1.429%) WebLogic
4 2 (1.429%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.429%) GlassFish
4 2 (1.429%) SharePoint 2010
4 2 (1.429%) Magento
5 1 (0.714%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.714%) Rendezvous
Applications
1 28 (20.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.714%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 1 (0.714%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.714%) Google Analytics
1 1 (0.714%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.857%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.714%) Internet
2 1 (0.714%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (66.43%) SQL Server
2 26 (18.57%) SQL Server 2008
3 24 (17.14%) SQL Server 2005
4 13 (9.286%) Oracle 11g
4 13 (9.286%) Oracle 10g
4 13 (9.286%) MySQL
5 2 (1.429%) Oracle 8/8i
5 2 (1.429%) Data Mining
5 2 (1.429%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.429%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.714%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
6 1 (0.714%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.714%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 22 (15.71%) Subversion
2 13 (9.286%) Oracle Forms
3 11 (7.857%) Firebug
3 11 (7.857%) Eclipse
4 9 (6.429%) NUnit
5 4 (2.857%) Rhino Mocks
5 4 (2.857%) Git (software)
6 2 (1.429%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.429%) Ant
6 2 (1.429%) Maven
7 1 (0.714%) MSTest
7 1 (0.714%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.714%) JIRA
7 1 (0.714%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.714%) Mercurial
General
1 62 (44.29%) Finance
2 12 (8.571%) Marketing
3 7 (5.000%) Automotive
4 6 (4.286%) Retail
5 2 (1.429%) Back Office
6 1 (0.714%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.714%) Front Office
6 1 (0.714%) Billing
Job Titles
1 102 (72.86%) Developer
2 31 (22.14%) Analyst
3 27 (19.29%) Technical Analyst
4 23 (16.43%) Software Developer
5 21 (15.00%) .NET Developer
6 20 (14.29%) C# Developer
7 15 (10.71%) Programmer
8 14 (10.00%) WPF Developer
8 14 (10.00%) Silverlight Developer
9 10 (7.143%) Senior Developer
10 9 (6.429%) Oracle Developer
11 7 (5.000%) Systems Developer
12 6 (4.286%) Oracle Forms Developer
12 6 (4.286%) Software Engineer
12 6 (4.286%) Applications Developer
13 5 (3.571%) Web Developer
13 5 (3.571%) Analyst Developer
14 4 (2.857%) Oracle Analyst
14 4 (2.857%) Software Consultant
14 4 (2.857%) Senior .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 39 (27.86%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (5.714%) Data Protection Act
2 8 (5.714%) Mobile App
3 7 (5.000%) SaaS
4 4 (2.857%) Computer Science
4 4 (2.857%) Telematics
5 3 (2.143%) iPhone
6 2 (1.429%) Open Source
7 1 (0.714%) Social Media
7 1 (0.714%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.714%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.714%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.14%) Windows
2 11 (7.857%) CentOS
3 10 (7.143%) Linux
3 10 (7.143%) Android
4 9 (6.429%) Embedded Linux
4 9 (6.429%) Windows Mobile
5 6 (4.286%) Windows CE
6 1 (0.714%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (20.71%) MVC
2 25 (17.86%) OOP
3 13 (9.286%) Project Management
4 12 (8.571%) TDD
5 11 (7.857%) Load Balancing
5 11 (7.857%) Video Processing
6 8 (5.714%) Configuration Management
6 8 (5.714%) Wealth Management
6 8 (5.714%) Data Protection
7 7 (5.000%) Mobile Application Development
8 6 (4.286%) SOA
8 6 (4.286%) Workflow
8 6 (4.286%) Multithreading
9 5 (3.571%) E-Commerce
9 5 (3.571%) OOD
10 4 (2.857%) Agile Software Development
10 4 (2.857%) Service Management
10 4 (2.857%) CMMI
10 4 (2.857%) Validation
10 4 (2.857%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 93 (66.43%) C#
2 28 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 25 (17.86%) Java
3 25 (17.86%) VB.NET
3 25 (17.86%) SQL
4 17 (12.14%) PHP
5 11 (7.857%) PHP5
5 11 (7.857%) Bash shell
6 10 (7.143%) C++
6 10 (7.143%) VB
7 9 (6.429%) Objective-C
7 9 (6.429%) C
8 6 (4.286%) T-SQL
8 6 (4.286%) Delphi
9 5 (3.571%) VB6
10 4 (2.857%) Apex Code
11 3 (2.143%) XAML
11 3 (2.143%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.429%) Perl
13 1 (0.714%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (10.71%) Degree
2 5 (3.571%) MCTS
2 5 (3.571%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (2.857%) MCP
3 4 (2.857%) MCAD
3 4 (2.857%) MCSD
4 1 (0.714%) MCITP
Systems Management
1 1 (0.714%) Nagios
Vendors
1 36 (25.71%) Microsoft
2 17 (12.14%) Oracle
3 11 (7.857%) Zend
4 4 (2.857%) Salesforce.com
5 2 (1.429%) JBoss
6 1 (0.714%) Northgate
6 1 (0.714%) Google
6 1 (0.714%) DevExpress
6 1 (0.714%) TIBCO
Colchester, South East
Working on a range of development projects you will input key web skills (PHP (Object Oriented), HTML(5), CSS(3) and JavaScript (jQuery) within a friendly IT team.....
greywood
Salary: £20000 - £30000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 18 May 2013
Canvey Island, Essex
Lamp Developer... You should be able to demonstrate a thorough working knowledge of Perl 5 and MySQL within Linux/Unix/Apache CGI environment... (OO not important) - MySQL (+5...
TechnoRecruit
Salary: From £35,000 to £40,000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Basildon, Essex
We have a state-of-the-art software suite built in the latest Microsoft technologies... Desirable: - OO Analysis and Design skills Personal competencies: The Values Our corporate culture...
Xuber
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 24 May 2013