The first table below looks at the demand for OO skills in IT jobs advertised for the Herefordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited OO over the 3 months to 23 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 Herefordshire region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented (OO)
Rank - 14 7
Permanent jobs citing OO 0 13 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Herefordshire - 17.11% 17.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 22.03% 27.78%
Number of salaries quoted 0 13 5
Average salary - £30,000 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +20.00%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
All Processes & Methodologies
Herefordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
21 59 18
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Herefordshire 77.78% 77.63% 64.29%
Number of salaries quoted 21 50 16
Average salary £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% -5.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £23,700 £21,450
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £34,000 £34,700
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
OO
West Midlands

OO
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Herefordshire OO Jobs Demand Trend

OO
Salary Trend

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

Herefordshire OO Salary Trend

OO
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Herefordshire 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 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Product Management
2 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 2 (66.67%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) OOP
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) IIS
3 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services

OO
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Herefordshire 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 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Software Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Product Management
1 2 (66.67%) OOP
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA