The first table below looks at the demand for OOD skills in IT jobs advertised for the North East region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited OOD over the 3 months to 17 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 North East region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
Rank 45 62 55
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -7
Permanent jobs citing OOD 19 8 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North East 2.766% 0.913% 1.803%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.934% 1.333% 2.720%
Number of salaries quoted 12 6 8
Average salary £42,500 £38,500 £20,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.38% +92.50%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+3.89% +2.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
North East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
483 600 478
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North East 70.31% 68.49% 66.30%
Number of salaries quoted 430 486 390
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £24,500 £22,100
10% offered a salary of more than £54,000 £60,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
OOD
England

OOD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North East 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 North East region.

North East OOD Salary Trend

OOD
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OOD within the North East region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Tyne and Wear +6 19 £42,500 +10.38%
OOD
England

OOD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the North East 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 22 (68.75%) Unit Testing
2 19 (59.38%) Java
3 18 (56.25%) XML
4 14 (43.75%) C++
4 14 (43.75%) PhD
4 14 (43.75%) Multithreading
4 14 (43.75%) Degree
5 13 (40.63%) C#
5 13 (40.63%) MVC
5 13 (40.63%) .NET
6 12 (37.50%) ASP.NET
6 12 (37.50%) Agile Software Development
6 12 (37.50%) TDD
7 11 (34.38%) Scrum
7 11 (34.38%) OO
8 10 (31.25%) UML
8 10 (31.25%) 3D Graphics
9 9 (28.13%) Physics
9 9 (28.13%) Computer Science
9 9 (28.13%) Visualisation
10 8 (25.00%) Games
11 7 (21.88%) CSS
11 7 (21.88%) SQL Server
12 6 (18.75%) Windows
12 6 (18.75%) HTML
12 6 (18.75%) JavaScript
12 6 (18.75%) Finance
12 6 (18.75%) JSON
12 6 (18.75%) ISO 8583
12 6 (18.75%) .NET Framework

OOD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the North East 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 18 (56.25%) XML
2 13 (40.63%) .NET
3 12 (37.50%) ASP.NET
4 7 (21.88%) CSS
5 6 (18.75%) .NET Framework
5 6 (18.75%) JSON
5 6 (18.75%) HTML
6 5 (15.63%) Flash
6 5 (15.63%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (6.250%) Robotlegs
7 2 (6.250%) PureMVC
7 2 (6.250%) XSD
8 1 (3.125%) XSLT
8 1 (3.125%) WCF
8 1 (3.125%) LINQ
8 1 (3.125%) jQuery
8 1 (3.125%) Ajax
Applications
1 5 (15.63%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.88%) SQL Server
2 6 (18.75%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (3.125%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (3.125%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 2 (6.250%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (3.125%) MSTest
2 1 (3.125%) Visual Studio
2 1 (3.125%) NUnit
General
1 8 (25.00%) Games
2 6 (18.75%) Finance
Job Titles
1 32 (100.00%) Developer
2 10 (31.25%) Senior Developer
2 10 (31.25%) Software Developer
3 9 (28.13%) Java Developer
4 8 (25.00%) .NET Developer
5 5 (15.63%) Java Software Developer
6 4 (12.50%) C++/Java Developer
6 4 (12.50%) Software Engineer
6 4 (12.50%) C++ Developer
6 4 (12.50%) C++ Software Engineer
6 4 (12.50%) Java Software Engineer
7 2 (6.250%) Flash Developer
7 2 (6.250%) Senior .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (31.25%) 3D Graphics
2 9 (28.13%) Physics
2 9 (28.13%) Computer Science
2 9 (28.13%) Visualisation
3 5 (15.63%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.75%) Windows
2 5 (15.63%) Linux
3 1 (3.125%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (68.75%) Unit Testing
2 14 (43.75%) Multithreading
3 13 (40.63%) MVC
4 12 (37.50%) Agile Software Development
4 12 (37.50%) TDD
5 11 (34.38%) Scrum
5 11 (34.38%) OO
6 10 (31.25%) UML
7 6 (18.75%) BDD
8 5 (15.63%) Game Development
8 5 (15.63%) Parallel Programming
9 4 (12.50%) Software Engineering
10 1 (3.125%) Build Automation
10 1 (3.125%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 19 (59.38%) Java
2 14 (43.75%) C++
3 13 (40.63%) C#
4 6 (18.75%) JavaScript
5 5 (15.63%) SQL
5 5 (15.63%) ActionScript
5 5 (15.63%) Objective-C
5 5 (15.63%) ActionScript 3.0
Qualifications
1 14 (43.75%) PhD
1 14 (43.75%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.75%) ISO 8583
Vendors
1 5 (15.63%) Microsoft
1 5 (15.63%) Adobe
2 1 (3.125%) Oracle
Sunderland, Tyne and Wear
Ability to code in Visual Basic .NET and/or C# using Object Oriented techniques. C#, XML, AJAX, OOD, UML, ASP.NET, JavaScript/JQuery, SQL. Experience with Visual Studio...
Catalyst
Salary: From £27,000 to £34,000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
Durham, County Durham
You should have strong object oriented design and coding skills, and a good understanding of at least some of the following UML, GUI development, unit testing, agile development,...
IT Connections
Salary: £40,000 to £45,000
Posted: 17 May 2013
Durham, County Durham
Java or C++ Software Developer - Oil and Gas - Durham... Java / C++ Software Developer skills / experience; - Good C++ or Java desktop development experience. - Knowledge of OOD. - Scientific, Physics or...
Softweb Resourcing Limited
Salary: From £30,000 to £45,000 per annum pension + bupa + bonus + 25 days hol
Posted: 13 May 2013
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
As a PHP Web Developer, you will have the following technical skills: * PHP * MySQL * XML * JavaScript * XHTML * Web and accessibility standards (W3C) * Developed across Windows, Mac browsing environments...
Inspire People
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013