The first table below looks at the demand for OOD skills in IT jobs advertised for the Middlesex region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited OOD over the 3 months to 21 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 Middlesex region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
Rank 52 53 74
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +21
Permanent jobs citing OOD 7 3 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Middlesex 1.336% 0.600% 0.424%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.828% 0.758% 0.540%
Number of salaries quoted 7 2 1
Average salary £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+3.89% +2.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Middlesex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
383 396 556
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Middlesex 73.09% 79.20% 78.64%
Number of salaries quoted 296 318 411
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £67,350 £70,000
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 Middlesex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex OOD Salary Trend

OOD
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing OOD across the Middlesex region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Middlesex OOD Salary Histogram

OOD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Middlesex 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 (100.00%) OO
2 11 (91.67%) XML
2 11 (91.67%) Scrum
3 10 (83.33%) JSON
4 8 (66.67%) Unit Testing
4 8 (66.67%) HTTP
5 7 (58.33%) XSD
5 7 (58.33%) C++
5 7 (58.33%) Objective-C
5 7 (58.33%) Agile Software Development
5 7 (58.33%) Apple iOS
5 7 (58.33%) Mobile App
6 6 (50.00%) OpenGL ES
6 6 (50.00%) OpenGL
7 5 (41.67%) JavaScript
7 5 (41.67%) QA
7 5 (41.67%) Ajax
7 5 (41.67%) iPad
8 4 (33.33%) HTML5
8 4 (33.33%) Digital Media
8 4 (33.33%) Web Development
8 4 (33.33%) JSTL
8 4 (33.33%) FreeMarker
8 4 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (33.33%) MVC
8 4 (33.33%) Streaming Video
8 4 (33.33%) HTML
8 4 (33.33%) Java
8 4 (33.33%) CSS
8 4 (33.33%) JSP

OOD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Middlesex 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 (91.67%) XML
2 10 (83.33%) JSON
3 7 (58.33%) XSD
4 6 (50.00%) OpenGL ES
4 6 (50.00%) OpenGL
5 5 (41.67%) Ajax
6 4 (33.33%) HTML5
6 4 (33.33%) JSTL
6 4 (33.33%) FreeMarker
6 4 (33.33%) HTML
6 4 (33.33%) CSS
6 4 (33.33%) JSP
6 4 (33.33%) XSLT
7 3 (25.00%) XHTML
7 3 (25.00%) Web Services
7 3 (25.00%) Velocity
7 3 (25.00%) CSS3
8 2 (16.67%) Ehcache
8 2 (16.67%) GWT
8 2 (16.67%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 1 (8.333%) Apache
1 1 (8.333%) nginx
1 1 (8.333%) Amazon AWS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (66.67%) HTTP
2 2 (16.67%) Internet
3 1 (8.333%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.333%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Hudson
1 2 (16.67%) Maven
1 2 (16.67%) Ant
2 1 (8.333%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 11 (91.67%) Developer
2 10 (83.33%) Senior Developer
3 6 (50.00%) iOS Developer
4 5 (41.67%) Senior iOS Developer
5 3 (25.00%) Web Developer
5 3 (25.00%) Senior Web Developer
6 2 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (16.67%) Team Leader
6 2 (16.67%) Java Developer
7 1 (8.333%) .NET Team Leader
7 1 (8.333%) J2EE Team Leader
7 1 (8.333%) Technical Team Leader
7 1 (8.333%) Java Team Leader
7 1 (8.333%) Java/J2EE Developer
7 1 (8.333%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
7 1 (8.333%) iPhone Developer
7 1 (8.333%) Mobile Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) Mobile App
2 5 (41.67%) iPad
3 4 (33.33%) Digital Media
3 4 (33.33%) Streaming Video
4 2 (16.67%) iPhone
5 1 (8.333%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 7 (58.33%) Apple iOS
2 2 (16.67%) Windows
3 1 (8.333%) Solaris
3 1 (8.333%) Android
3 1 (8.333%) Windows Phone 7
3 1 (8.333%) Windows Phone 8
3 1 (8.333%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) OO
2 11 (91.67%) Scrum
3 8 (66.67%) Unit Testing
4 7 (58.33%) Agile Software Development
5 4 (33.33%) Web Development
5 4 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (33.33%) MVC
6 2 (16.67%) Multithreading
6 2 (16.67%) Load Testing
7 1 (8.333%) OOP
7 1 (8.333%) OOA/OOD
7 1 (8.333%) E-Commerce
7 1 (8.333%) TDD
7 1 (8.333%) Kanban
7 1 (8.333%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) C++
1 7 (58.33%) Objective-C
2 5 (41.67%) JavaScript
3 4 (33.33%) Java
4 1 (8.333%) C
4 1 (8.333%) C#
4 1 (8.333%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (8.333%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (8.333%) Ericsson
2 1 (8.333%) Red Hat
2 1 (8.333%) Sony