Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for OO skills in IT jobs advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited OO over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Manchester region.

 Object-Oriented (OO)
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank233531
Rank change year-on-year
Up+12Down-4
Matching permanent IT job ads223152313
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester8.272 %5.607 %5.497 %
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category12.95 %9.548 %9.772 %
Salaries quoted208145269
Average salary£30,000£29,500£30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.690 %-1.660 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,000£22,500£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£41,500£40,000£50,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£35,000£35,000
Manchester IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryAll Processes & Methodologies
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
172215923203
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester63.87 %58.72 %56.25 %
Salaries quoted155613562742
Average salary£34,000£35,000£38,980
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.850 %-10.21 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£24,500£24,500£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£55,000£70,000£70,000
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000
OO North WestOO
North West

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing OO across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Manchester OO Demand Trend

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing OO across the Manchester region.

Manchester OO Salary Trend

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing OO across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

Manchester OO Salary Histogram

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Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OO within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
StockportUp+1016£27,500-
SalfordNew entry-9£30,000-
CheadleUp+72£27,500-8.33 %
OldhamDown-32£28,750+27.77 %
RochdaleNew entry-2--
OO North WestOO
North West

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Manchester 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.

1213 (47.65 %).NET
2204 (45.64 %)SQL Server
3183 (40.94 %)JavaScript
4171 (38.26 %)XML
5139 (31.10 %)ASP.NET
6132 (29.53 %)VB.NET
7131 (29.31 %)C#
8129 (28.86 %)MySQL
9119 (26.62 %)CSS
10114 (25.50 %)SQL
11106 (23.71 %)PHP
1298 (21.92 %)Java
1396 (21.48 %)HTML
1479 (17.67 %)AJAX
1578 (17.45 %).NET Framework
1673 (16.33 %)UML
1770 (15.66 %)Web Development
1867 (14.99 %)SQL Server 2005
1966 (14.77 %)Web Services
1966 (14.77 %)Windows
2064 (14.32 %)Marketing
2160 (13.42 %)E-Commerce
2160 (13.42 %)OOP
2255 (12.30 %)Linux
2353 (11.86 %)XHTML
2452 (11.63 %)PHP5
2549 (10.96 %)VB
2648 (10.74 %)jQuery
2746 (10.29 %)J2EE
2746 (10.29 %)Degree

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Manchester 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.

Manchester IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1213 (47.65 %).NET
2171 (38.26 %)XML
3139 (31.10 %)ASP.NET
4119 (26.62 %)CSS
596 (21.48 %)HTML
679 (17.67 %)AJAX
778 (17.45 %).NET Framework
866 (14.77 %)Web Services
953 (11.86 %)XHTML
1048 (10.74 %)jQuery
1146 (10.29 %)J2EE
1241 (9.172 %)XSLT
1334 (7.606 %)JMS
1428 (6.264 %)Adobe Flex
1527 (6.040 %)Flash
1626 (5.817 %)LAMP
1724 (5.369 %)JSP
1822 (4.922 %)Java EE
1921 (4.698 %)LINQ
1921 (4.698 %)ASP
Manchester IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
133 (7.383 %)Apache
213 (2.908 %)IIS
311 (2.461 %)CMS
45 (1.119 %)Mule
45 (1.119 %)SharePoint
53 (0.671 %)WebLogic
62 (0.447 %)SharePoint Server 2007
71 (0.224 %)Drupal
71 (0.224 %)GlassFish
71 (0.224 %)WebSphere Application Server
71 (0.224 %)Tomcat
71 (0.224 %)JRun
71 (0.224 %)MS Exchange
Manchester IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
125 (5.593 %)MS Excel
224 (5.369 %)Adobe Illustrator
224 (5.369 %)Photoshop
37 (1.566 %)MS Visio
42 (0.447 %)CA Clarity
Manchester IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
120 (4.474 %)Internet
212 (2.685 %)SMPP
212 (2.685 %)HTTP
34 (0.895 %)Intranet
41 (0.224 %)TCP/IP
Manchester IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1204 (45.64 %)SQL Server
2129 (28.86 %)MySQL
367 (14.99 %)SQL Server 2005
429 (6.488 %)RDBMS
520 (4.474 %)PostgreSQL
619 (4.251 %)SQL Server 2008
713 (2.908 %)Datawarehouse
810 (2.237 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
810 (2.237 %)SQL Server 2000
97 (1.566 %)DB2
105 (1.119 %)Crystal Reports
114 (0.895 %)SQL Server Integration Services
121 (0.224 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
121 (0.224 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
121 (0.224 %)Oracle 8/8i
121 (0.224 %)DTS
121 (0.224 %)Oracle 10g
Manchester IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
128 (6.264 %)VSS/SourceSafe
227 (6.040 %)JUnit
315 (3.356 %)Subversion
411 (2.461 %)Visual Studio
411 (2.461 %)NUnit
55 (1.119 %)InstallShield
55 (1.119 %)Zend Studio
62 (0.447 %)Git (software)
71 (0.224 %)Team Foundation Server
71 (0.224 %)WatiN
71 (0.224 %)NCover
71 (0.224 %)NDepend
71 (0.224 %)csUnit
71 (0.224 %)TeamCity
71 (0.224 %)Ant
71 (0.224 %)Eclipse
71 (0.224 %)ReSharper
71 (0.224 %)WATIR
71 (0.224 %)Selenium
71 (0.224 %)FitNesse
Manchester IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
164 (14.32 %)Marketing
224 (5.369 %)Animation
224 (5.369 %)Publishing
224 (5.369 %)Multimedia
322 (4.922 %)Games
420 (4.474 %)Retail
420 (4.474 %)Finance
519 (4.251 %)Pensions
616 (3.579 %)Health
79 (2.013 %)Advertising
88 (1.790 %)Education
96 (1.342 %)Legal
103 (0.671 %)Insurance
103 (0.671 %)Online Games
112 (0.447 %)Auditing
112 (0.447 %)Back Office
121 (0.224 %)Telecoms
121 (0.224 %)Automotive
121 (0.224 %)Pharmaceutical
121 (0.224 %)Music
Manchester IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1335 (74.94 %)Developer
2140 (31.32 %).NET Developer
382 (18.34 %)PHP Developer
466 (14.77 %)VB.NET Developer
466 (14.77 %)Web Developer
550 (11.19 %)C# Developer
639 (8.725 %)Senior Developer
738 (8.501 %)Software Engineer
832 (7.159 %)Analyst
927 (6.040 %)PHP Web Developer
1023 (5.145 %)Senior VB.NET Developer
1023 (5.145 %)Junior VB.NET Developer
1023 (5.145 %)Architect
1023 (5.145 %)Senior .NET Developer
1121 (4.698 %).NET Web Developer
1121 (4.698 %)J2EE Software Engineer
1220 (4.474 %)Flash Developer
1220 (4.474 %)Applications Developer
1319 (4.251 %)ASP.NET Developer
1319 (4.251 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
Manchester IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
131 (6.935 %)N-Tier
224 (5.369 %)Handset
312 (2.685 %)Smartphone
49 (2.013 %)Client/Server
56 (1.342 %)Mathematics
65 (1.119 %)Computer Science
65 (1.119 %)iPhone
74 (0.895 %)Open Source
74 (0.895 %)Data Integration
83 (0.671 %)RIA
83 (0.671 %)W3C
92 (0.447 %)Blackberry
101 (0.224 %)Device Driver
Manchester IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
166 (14.77 %)Windows
255 (12.30 %)Linux
39 (2.013 %)UNIX
47 (1.566 %)Windows Server 2003
54 (0.895 %)Android
62 (0.447 %)Windows Mobile
62 (0.447 %)Windows XP
71 (0.224 %)VxWorks
71 (0.224 %)Windows Vista
71 (0.224 %)Windows 2000 Server
71 (0.224 %)Windows 7
Manchester IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
173 (16.33 %)UML
270 (15.66 %)Web Development
360 (13.42 %)OOP
360 (13.42 %)E-Commerce
445 (10.07 %)Unit Testing
544 (9.843 %)Project Management
643 (9.620 %)MVC
734 (7.606 %)CRM
833 (7.383 %)Requirements Analysis
931 (6.935 %)Content Management
1030 (6.711 %)Scrum
1030 (6.711 %)Agile Software Development
1128 (6.264 %)OOA/OOD
1226 (5.817 %)Online Marketing
1325 (5.593 %)SOA
1413 (2.908 %)OOD
1413 (2.908 %)Pair Programming
1511 (2.461 %)Systems Analysis
1511 (2.461 %)Data Modelling
167 (1.566 %)Software Architecture
Manchester IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1183 (40.94 %)JavaScript
2132 (29.53 %)VB.NET
3131 (29.31 %)C#
4114 (25.50 %)SQL
5106 (23.71 %)PHP
698 (21.92 %)Java
752 (11.63 %)PHP5
849 (10.96 %)VB
945 (10.07 %)T-SQL
1044 (9.843 %)C++
1133 (7.383 %)PHP4
1229 (6.488 %)VB6
1325 (5.593 %)XPath
1424 (5.369 %)ActionScript
1522 (4.922 %)ActionScript 3.0
1620 (4.474 %)Ruby
1716 (3.579 %)C
188 (1.790 %)Perl
193 (0.671 %)VC++
193 (0.671 %)XAML
Manchester IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
146 (10.29 %)Degree
26 (1.342 %)Security Cleared
31 (0.224 %)MCTS
31 (0.224 %)SC Cleared
Manchester IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
13 (0.671 %)QA
Manchester IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
11 (0.224 %)MSMQ
11 (0.224 %)NFS
11 (0.224 %)Active Directory
Manchester IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
140 (8.949 %)Microsoft
231 (6.935 %)Oracle
319 (4.251 %)JBoss
48 (1.790 %)Zend
57 (1.566 %)Apple
66 (1.342 %)Intel
73 (0.671 %)Interwoven
82 (0.447 %)Symbian
82 (0.447 %)FatWire
82 (0.447 %)Google
91 (0.224 %)Open Text
91 (0.224 %)SAP
91 (0.224 %)Retek