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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented (OO)
Rank 41 24 17
Rank change year-on-year
-17 -7
Permanent jobs citing OO 3 22 22
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Luton 0.811% 5.867% 8.560%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.990% 10.09% 9.649%
Number of salaries quoted 3 18 22
Average salary £35,000 £41,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-14.63% +26.15%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
All Processes & Methodologies
Luton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
303 218 228
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Luton 81.89% 58.13% 88.72%
Number of salaries quoted 266 180 194
Average salary £47,500 £47,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +11.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,250 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £57,500 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
OO
Bedfordshire

OO
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Luton 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 Luton region.

Luton OO Salary Trend

OO
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Luton 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 20 (86.96%) C#
2 19 (82.61%) .NET
3 16 (69.57%) Windows
4 13 (56.52%) N-Tier
5 12 (52.17%) XML
6 11 (47.83%) SQL Server
6 11 (47.83%) ETL
6 11 (47.83%) Microsoft
6 11 (47.83%) Change Management
6 11 (47.83%) SQL Server 2005
6 11 (47.83%) .NET Framework
7 10 (43.48%) Internet
7 10 (43.48%) Web Services
8 9 (39.13%) Degree
8 9 (39.13%) Unit Testing
8 9 (39.13%) Team Foundation Server
9 8 (34.78%) SharePoint Server
9 8 (34.78%) Continuous Integration
9 8 (34.78%) Refactoring
9 8 (34.78%) TDD
9 8 (34.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 8 (34.78%) SharePoint
9 8 (34.78%) GIS
9 8 (34.78%) Workflow
10 7 (30.43%) UML
10 7 (30.43%) C++
10 7 (30.43%) Software Engineering
10 7 (30.43%) DOC1
10 7 (30.43%) Computer Science
10 7 (30.43%) XMPie

OO
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Luton 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 19 (82.61%) .NET
2 12 (52.17%) XML
3 11 (47.83%) .NET Framework
4 10 (43.48%) Web Services
5 6 (26.09%) MFC
6 1 (4.348%) CSS3
6 1 (4.348%) HTML5
6 1 (4.348%) CSS
6 1 (4.348%) Ajax
6 1 (4.348%) WCF
6 1 (4.348%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 8 (34.78%) SharePoint Server
1 8 (34.78%) SharePoint
2 5 (21.74%) BizTalk Server
3 3 (13.04%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 7 (30.43%) DOC1
2 5 (21.74%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (43.48%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (47.83%) SQL Server
1 11 (47.83%) SQL Server 2005
2 8 (34.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 8 (34.78%) GIS
3 6 (26.09%) SQL Server 2000
4 5 (21.74%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (21.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (21.74%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 9 (39.13%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 6 (26.09%) Games
2 4 (17.39%) Finance
3 2 (8.696%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Architect
2 7 (30.43%) Software Engineer
2 7 (30.43%) Developer
2 7 (30.43%) Solutions Architect
3 6 (26.09%) Graduate Software Engineer
3 6 (26.09%) Graduate
4 5 (21.74%) .NET Developer
4 5 (21.74%) C# Developer
4 5 (21.74%) C# .NET Developer
5 4 (17.39%) Technical Architect
6 2 (8.696%) Team Leader
6 2 (8.696%) Ada Developer
7 1 (4.348%) .NET Team Leader
7 1 (4.348%) Software Development Team Leader
7 1 (4.348%) Development Team Leader
7 1 (4.348%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 1 (4.348%) Software Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 13 (56.52%) N-Tier
2 7 (30.43%) Computer Science
3 6 (26.09%) Mathematics
3 6 (26.09%) Physics
3 6 (26.09%) Artificial Intelligence
Operating Systems
1 16 (69.57%) Windows
2 1 (4.348%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) ETL
1 11 (47.83%) Change Management
2 9 (39.13%) Unit Testing
3 8 (34.78%) Continuous Integration
3 8 (34.78%) Refactoring
3 8 (34.78%) TDD
3 8 (34.78%) Workflow
4 7 (30.43%) UML
4 7 (30.43%) Software Engineering
5 6 (26.09%) Image Processing
5 6 (26.09%) Multithreading
6 5 (21.74%) SOA
6 5 (21.74%) AOP
6 5 (21.74%) Supplier Management
6 5 (21.74%) Data Transformation
7 2 (8.696%) Information Management
7 2 (8.696%) Validation
8 1 (4.348%) Agile Software Development
8 1 (4.348%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 20 (86.96%) C#
2 7 (30.43%) C++
3 6 (26.09%) SQL
4 2 (8.696%) Ada
5 1 (4.348%) C
Qualifications
1 9 (39.13%) Degree
Vendors
1 11 (47.83%) Microsoft
2 7 (30.43%) XMPie
3 6 (26.09%) Oracle
3 6 (26.09%) Sybase