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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
Rank - 22 8
Permanent jobs citing OOP 0 5 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Herefordshire - 6.579% 11.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 8.772% 16.67%
Number of salaries quoted 0 5 3
Average salary - £34,000 £22,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +51.11%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £33,500
% change year-on-year
- +4.47%
All Processes & Methodologies
Herefordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
24 57 18
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Herefordshire 77.42% 75.00% 69.23%
Number of salaries quoted 22 49 15
Average salary £30,000 £28,750 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.34% -4.16%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £22,500 £21,600
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £40,000 £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
OOP
West Midlands

OOP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Herefordshire 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 Herefordshire region.

Herefordshire OOP Salary Trend

OOP
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Herefordshire 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 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) QA
1 2 (100.00%) Product Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) .NET

OOP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Herefordshire 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 1 (50.00%) .NET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Software Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) Product Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA