The first table below looks at the demand for OOP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Luton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited OOP 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 Programming (OOP)
Rank 40 45 37
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -8
Permanent jobs citing OOP 4 1 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Luton 1.081% 0.267% 0.778%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.320% 0.459% 0.877%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 2
Average salary £35,000 £47,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-26.31% +26.66%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £33,500
% change year-on-year
- +4.47%
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%
OOP
Bedfordshire

OOP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Luton 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 Luton region.

Luton OOP Salary Trend

OOP
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Luton 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 4 (80.00%) Telecoms
1 4 (80.00%) Apple
1 4 (80.00%) Cocoa
1 4 (80.00%) Xcode
1 4 (80.00%) Objective-C
1 4 (80.00%) Agile Software Development
1 4 (80.00%) TDD
1 4 (80.00%) iPhone
1 4 (80.00%) iPad
1 4 (80.00%) Apple iOS
1 4 (80.00%) iOS SDK
1 4 (80.00%) Digital Media
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (20.00%) CMS
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) XML
2 1 (20.00%) Linux

OOP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Luton 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 4 (80.00%) Cocoa
1 4 (80.00%) iOS SDK
2 1 (20.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (20.00%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) CMS
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Xcode
General
1 4 (80.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (80.00%) iOS Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Junior Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) iPhone
1 4 (80.00%) iPad
1 4 (80.00%) Digital Media
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile Software Development
1 4 (80.00%) TDD
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Objective-C
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Apple
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle