The first table below looks at the demand for OOD skills in IT jobs advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited OOD over the 3 months to 22 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 Kent region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
Rank 67 55 97
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +42
Permanent jobs citing OOD 25 19 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 2.159% 2.610% 0.673%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.030% 3.571% 0.915%
Number of salaries quoted 23 14 5
Average salary £40,500 £35,250 £33,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.89% +5.22%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £17,250 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £40,052 £41,900
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+3.89% +2.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Kent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
825 532 765
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 71.24% 73.08% 73.56%
Number of salaries quoted 694 473 690
Average salary £42,500 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.33% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £25,000 £27,400
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £50,120 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
OOD
South East

OOD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent OOD Jobs Demand Trend

OOD
Salary Trend

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

Kent OOD Salary Trend

OOD
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing OOD across the Kent region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Kent OOD Salary Histogram

OOD
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OOD within the Kent region over the 3 months to 22 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
Rochester - 4 £50,000 -
West Malling - 1 £40,000 -
Chatham - 1 £30,000 -
Dartford - 1 £50,000 -
OOD
South East

OOD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent region citing OOD 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 OOD.

1 44 (75.86%) OO
2 29 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 28 (48.28%) .NET
3 28 (48.28%) Java
3 28 (48.28%) Spring
4 25 (43.10%) Finance
4 25 (43.10%) Legal
4 25 (43.10%) C#
5 22 (37.93%) Intranet
5 22 (37.93%) Internet
6 21 (36.21%) Multimedia
7 20 (34.48%) ASP.NET
8 19 (32.76%) Management Information System
9 18 (31.03%) Risk Management
10 17 (29.31%) MVC
11 15 (25.86%) ASP.NET MVC
12 13 (22.41%) Dojo
12 13 (22.41%) SQL
13 12 (20.69%) SQL Server
14 10 (17.24%) Degree
15 9 (15.52%) E-Commerce
15 9 (15.52%) Video Processing
16 8 (13.79%) Microsoft
16 8 (13.79%) C++
16 8 (13.79%) UML
16 8 (13.79%) Computer Science
16 8 (13.79%) WPF
16 8 (13.79%) Agile Software Development
16 8 (13.79%) WinForms
17 7 (12.07%) ATL

OOD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent region citing OOD 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 OOD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 28 (48.28%) .NET
1 28 (48.28%) Spring
2 20 (34.48%) ASP.NET
3 15 (25.86%) ASP.NET MVC
4 13 (22.41%) Dojo
5 8 (13.79%) WPF
5 8 (13.79%) WinForms
6 7 (12.07%) ATL
6 7 (12.07%) SOAP
6 7 (12.07%) MFC
7 5 (8.621%) Silverlight
7 5 (8.621%) WCF
7 5 (8.621%) Web Services
8 4 (6.897%) Ajax
9 3 (5.172%) jQuery
9 3 (5.172%) XML
9 3 (5.172%) CSS
10 2 (3.448%) HTML5
10 2 (3.448%) REST
10 2 (3.448%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 2 (3.448%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (8.621%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 22 (37.93%) Intranet
1 22 (37.93%) Internet
2 2 (3.448%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (20.69%) SQL Server
2 5 (8.621%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (5.172%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (8.621%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 25 (43.10%) Finance
1 25 (43.10%) Legal
2 21 (36.21%) Multimedia
3 1 (1.724%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 48 (82.76%) Developer
2 28 (48.28%) Java Developer
3 15 (25.86%) .NET Developer
4 13 (22.41%) C# .NET Developer
4 13 (22.41%) C# Developer
4 13 (22.41%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 13 (22.41%) Software Engineer
5 8 (13.79%) Agile C# Developer
5 8 (13.79%) ASP.NET Developer
6 7 (12.07%) Agile .NET Developer
7 5 (8.621%) Graduate Developer
7 5 (8.621%) Graduate
7 5 (8.621%) Graduate Java Developer
8 4 (6.897%) Junior
8 4 (6.897%) Lead Developer
8 4 (6.897%) Junior Developer
8 4 (6.897%) Junior Java Developer
8 4 (6.897%) Lead Java Developer
9 3 (5.172%) Senior Java Developer
9 3 (5.172%) .NET Architect
Miscellaneous
1 19 (32.76%) Management Information System
2 8 (13.79%) Computer Science
3 5 (8.621%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.448%) Streaming Media
5 1 (1.724%) SaaS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (75.86%) OO
2 18 (31.03%) Risk Management
3 17 (29.31%) MVC
4 9 (15.52%) E-Commerce
4 9 (15.52%) Video Processing
5 8 (13.79%) UML
5 8 (13.79%) Agile Software Development
6 6 (10.34%) Web Development
7 5 (8.621%) TDD
7 5 (8.621%) SOA
8 3 (5.172%) Software Architecture
9 1 (1.724%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 29 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 28 (48.28%) Java
3 25 (43.10%) C#
4 13 (22.41%) SQL
5 8 (13.79%) C++
6 3 (5.172%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 10 (17.24%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.448%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 8 (13.79%) Microsoft
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