North East OO Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Object-Oriented (OO) skills within the North East region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited OO over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alcester Aldershot Altrincham Amersham Ashton-under-Lyne Avon Aylesbury Ayrshire Banbury Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Caerphilly Calne Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Carmarthenshire Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham Clevedon Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Dereham Devizes Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorking Dorset Dover Dundee Dunfermline Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Kilbride East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Faversham Feltham Fife Folkestone Frome Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Horsham Hove Huddersfield Hull Hungerford Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Kendal Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston Llanelli London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Maldon Malmesbury Manchester Mansfield Margate Marlow Matlock Mayfield Melksham Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Nantwich New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Newry Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paignton Penicuik Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Rickmansworth Ripon Rochester Rotherham Rugby Ruislip Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Selby Sheffield Skipton Slough Smethwick Solihull Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark St Albans St Neots Staffordshire Staines Stansted Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Studley Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Tamworth Thame Thames Valley Torquay Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Weymouth Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	28	18
Rank change on same period last year	-10
Matching permanent IT job ads	74	99
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.039 %	0.041 %
As % of the category below	9.648 %	13.04 %
Salaries quoted	53	88
Average minimum salary	£27,782	£28,461
Average salary	£31,655	£31,303
% change on same period last year	+1.12 %
Average maximum salary	£35,527	£34,146
UK excluding London average salary	£36,865	£37,120
% change on same period last year	-0.68 %
Processes & Methodologies North East
Matching permanent IT job ads	767	759
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.405 %	0.311 %
Salaries quoted	608	583
Average minimum salary	£35,583	£34,695
Average salary	£39,476	£37,586
% change on same period last year	+5.02 %
Average maximum salary	£43,369	£40,478
UK excluding London average salary	£42,567	£44,524
% change on same period last year	-4.39 %
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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 North East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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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 North East region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing OO across the North East region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OO within the North East region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Tyne and Wear	-2	51	£31,649	+2.82 %
Durham	-13	5	£31,200	+0.21 %
Northumberland	-	1	£30,000	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the North East 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.

1 171 (85.93 %) C# 2 170 (85.43 %) .NET 3 157 (78.89 %) XML 4 133 (66.83 %) C++ 5 109 (54.77 %) Java 6 97 (48.74 %) JavaScript 7 88 (44.22 %) Degree 8 78 (39.20 %) J2EE 9 62 (31.16 %) Windows 10 60 (30.15 %) SQL Server 11 51 (25.63 %) UML 12 48 (24.12 %) Mathematics 13 47 (23.62 %) Finance 14 37 (18.59 %) Microsoft 14 37 (18.59 %) SQL

14 37 (18.59 %) ASP.NET 15 31 (15.58 %) Banking 15 31 (15.58 %) Investment Banking 16 30 (15.08 %) Linux 17 28 (14.07 %) UNIX 18 24 (12.06 %) NUnit 18 24 (12.06 %) HTML 19 23 (11.56 %) ASP 19 23 (11.56 %) Pensions 20 21 (10.55 %) Visual Studio 21 20 (10.05 %) C 21 20 (10.05 %) MySQL 21 20 (10.05 %) Data Modelling 22 19 (9.548 %) VC++ 22 19 (9.548 %) TDD

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the North East 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 1 170 (85.43 %) .NET 2 157 (78.89 %) XML 3 78 (39.20 %) J2EE 4 37 (18.59 %) ASP.NET 5 24 (12.06 %) HTML 6 23 (11.56 %) ASP 7 18 (9.045 %) WebServices 7 18 (9.045 %) Java EE 8 17 (8.543 %) .NET Framework 9 16 (8.040 %) STL 10 15 (7.538 %) CSS 11 12 (6.030 %) XSLT 12 9 (4.523 %) WinForms 13 8 (4.020 %) AJAX 14 4 (2.010 %) JSP 15 3 (1.508 %) ADO.NET 15 3 (1.508 %) XSL 16 2 (1.005 %) Middleware 16 2 (1.005 %) XSD 17 1 (0.503 %) LAMP	Application Platforms 1 14 (7.035 %) IIS 2 5 (2.513 %) Apache 3 2 (1.005 %) TeamSite 3 2 (1.005 %) WebLogic Portal 3 2 (1.005 %) CMS 4 1 (0.503 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 16 (8.040 %) MS Excel 2 4 (2.010 %) MATLAB	Communications & Networking 1 2 (1.005 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 60 (30.15 %) SQL Server 2 20 (10.05 %) MySQL 3 16 (8.040 %) RDBMS 3 16 (8.040 %) SQL Server 2000 4 8 (4.020 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 24 (12.06 %) NUnit 2 21 (10.55 %) Visual Studio 3 4 (2.010 %) Flash
General 1 47 (23.62 %) Finance 2 31 (15.58 %) Banking 2 31 (15.58 %) Investment Banking 3 23 (11.56 %) Pensions 4 4 (2.010 %) Marketing 5 3 (1.508 %) Education 6 1 (0.503 %) Health	Job Titles 1 134 (67.34 %) Developer 2 70 (35.18 %) Software Developer 3 56 (28.14 %) .NET Developer 4 40 (20.10 %) C# Developer 5 25 (12.56 %) Senior Developer 6 19 (9.548 %) Senior .NET Developer 6 19 (9.548 %) Senior C# Developer 7 18 (9.045 %) Senior Software Developer 7 18 (9.045 %) Project Leader 8 16 (8.040 %) Software Project Leader 9 14 (7.035 %) Web Developer 10 13 (6.533 %) Graduate 10 13 (6.533 %) Software Engineer 10 13 (6.533 %) CSharp Software Developer 11 12 (6.030 %) C++ Developer 12 10 (5.025 %) Applications Developer 12 10 (5.025 %) C# Application Developer 12 10 (5.025 %) .NET Applications Developer 13 7 (3.518 %) Java Developer 14 5 (2.513 %) Java Team Leader
Miscellaneous 1 48 (24.12 %) Mathematics 2 6 (3.015 %) Applied Mathematics 2 6 (3.015 %) Physics 3 4 (2.010 %) Computer Science 4 1 (0.503 %) N-Tier 4 1 (0.503 %) Data Protection Act	Operating Systems 1 62 (31.16 %) Windows 2 30 (15.08 %) Linux 3 28 (14.07 %) UNIX 4 14 (7.035 %) Windows 2000 5 1 (0.503 %) Mac OS X 5 1 (0.503 %) Windows Mobile 5 1 (0.503 %) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 51 (25.63 %) UML 2 20 (10.05 %) Data Modelling 3 19 (9.548 %) TDD 4 17 (8.543 %) CRM 5 15 (7.538 %) ERP 6 14 (7.035 %) Business Intelligence 6 14 (7.035 %) OOA/OOD 7 9 (4.523 %) OOD 7 9 (4.523 %) OOP 8 7 (3.518 %) Requirements Analysis 8 7 (3.518 %) Web Development 9 6 (3.015 %) Refactoring 10 5 (2.513 %) Scrum 11 4 (2.010 %) Software Engineering 11 4 (2.010 %) EAI 11 4 (2.010 %) SOA 12 3 (1.508 %) Project Management 13 2 (1.005 %) Agile Software Development 13 2 (1.005 %) Integration Testing 14 1 (0.503 %) Data Protection	Programming Languages 1 171 (85.93 %) C# 2 133 (66.83 %) C++ 3 109 (54.77 %) Java 4 97 (48.74 %) JavaScript 5 37 (18.59 %) SQL 6 20 (10.05 %) C 7 19 (9.548 %) VC++ 8 8 (4.020 %) PHP 9 7 (3.518 %) VB.NET 10 5 (2.513 %) Transact-SQL 11 4 (2.010 %) Shell Script 11 4 (2.010 %) AWK 12 2 (1.005 %) VB 13 1 (0.503 %) Delphi 13 1 (0.503 %) DHTML 13 1 (0.503 %) VB6 13 1 (0.503 %) Python 13 1 (0.503 %) Embedded C
Qualifications 1 88 (44.22 %) Degree 2 5 (2.513 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1 (0.503 %) MCAD	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (1.508 %) ISO9000
Vendors 1 37 (18.59 %) Microsoft 2 2 (1.005 %) BEA 2 2 (1.005 %) Google 3 1 (0.503 %) Interwoven 3 1 (0.503 %) Oracle 3 1 (0.503 %) Symbian