The first table below looks at the demand for OOD skills in IT jobs advertised for the Liverpool region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited OOD over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Liverpool region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
Rank 51 56 46
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -10
Permanent jobs citing OOD 9 8 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Liverpool 2.206% 1.563% 0.898%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.624% 2.067% 1.255%
Number of salaries quoted 8 8 3
Average salary £28,250 £32,500 £31,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.07% +4.83%
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%
All Processes & Methodologies
Liverpool
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
343 387 239
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Liverpool 84.07% 75.59% 71.56%
Number of salaries quoted 310 341 199
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £28,500 £31,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £68,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
OOD
Merseyside

OOD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Liverpool 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 Liverpool region.

Liverpool OOD Salary Trend

OOD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Liverpool 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 12 (85.71%) SQL
2 11 (78.57%) .NET
3 10 (71.43%) Web Services
3 10 (71.43%) JavaScript
3 10 (71.43%) VB.NET
3 10 (71.43%) ASP.NET
3 10 (71.43%) CSS
4 9 (64.29%) OO
5 8 (57.14%) Finance
5 8 (57.14%) VB6
5 8 (57.14%) T-SQL
5 8 (57.14%) VB
5 8 (57.14%) HTML
5 8 (57.14%) XML
5 8 (57.14%) Windows
5 8 (57.14%) ADO.NET
5 8 (57.14%) ASP
5 8 (57.14%) .NET Framework
5 8 (57.14%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
5 8 (57.14%) LINQ
5 8 (57.14%) jQuery
5 8 (57.14%) Multithreading
6 5 (35.71%) SQL Server
7 3 (21.43%) C++
7 3 (21.43%) SQL Server 2005
7 3 (21.43%) Unit Testing
8 2 (14.29%) QA
8 2 (14.29%) SharePoint Server
8 2 (14.29%) CAML
8 2 (14.29%) SOAP

OOD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Liverpool 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 11 (78.57%) .NET
2 10 (71.43%) Web Services
2 10 (71.43%) ASP.NET
2 10 (71.43%) CSS
3 8 (57.14%) HTML
3 8 (57.14%) XML
3 8 (57.14%) ADO.NET
3 8 (57.14%) ASP
3 8 (57.14%) .NET Framework
3 8 (57.14%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
3 8 (57.14%) LINQ
3 8 (57.14%) jQuery
4 2 (14.29%) CAML
4 2 (14.29%) SOAP
4 2 (14.29%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (14.29%) SharePoint Server
1 2 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) SQL Server
2 3 (21.43%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 8 (57.14%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (92.86%) Developer
2 7 (50.00%) Systems Developer
3 3 (21.43%) C++ Developer
4 2 (14.29%) SharePoint Developer
5 1 (7.143%) Software Developer
5 1 (7.143%) Architect
5 1 (7.143%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 8 (57.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) OO
2 8 (57.14%) Multithreading
3 3 (21.43%) Unit Testing
4 2 (14.29%) OOP
5 1 (7.143%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) SQL
2 10 (71.43%) JavaScript
2 10 (71.43%) VB.NET
3 8 (57.14%) VB6
3 8 (57.14%) T-SQL
3 8 (57.14%) VB
4 3 (21.43%) C++
5 2 (14.29%) C#
6 1 (7.143%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft