North East OOD Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Object-Oriented Design (OOD) 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 OOD over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
Location Abingdon Altrincham Avon Aylesbury Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Dereham Devon Docklands, London Dorchester Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunfermline East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Fife Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Hove Huddersfield Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Kenilworth Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lymington Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northumberland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Penicuik Peterborough Petersfield Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Rugby Scotland Selby Sheffield Slough Smethwick Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans St Helens Stevenage Stirling Stockport Strathclyde Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swindon Thame Tring Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Wallingford Warwick Warwickshire Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Weymouth Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Worcester Worcestershire Wotton-under-Edge York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	84	61
Rank change on same period last year	-23
Matching permanent IT job ads	5	25
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	0.652 %	3.294 %
Salaries quoted	4	23
Average minimum salary	£30,800	£28,043
Average salary	£32,000	£33,109
% change on same period last year	-3.34 %
Average maximum salary	£33,200	£38,174
UK excluding London average salary	£37,741	£36,921
% change on same period last year	+2.22 %
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 %
OOD England

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Demand Trend

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

OOD
Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing OOD 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 OOD 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	-19	4	£32,500	-2.10 %
Northumberland	-	1	£30,000	-

OOD England

OOD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 13 (81.25 %) XML 2 10 (62.50 %) UNIX 2 10 (62.50 %) Linux 2 10 (62.50 %) UML 2 10 (62.50 %) Java 3 9 (56.25 %) JavaScript 3 9 (56.25 %) JSP 3 9 (56.25 %) OO 3 9 (56.25 %) WebServices 4 7 (43.75 %) Finance 4 7 (43.75 %) XSLT 4 7 (43.75 %) C# 4 7 (43.75 %) .NET 5 6 (37.50 %) J2EE 5 6 (37.50 %) SQL

5 6 (37.50 %) C++ 5 6 (37.50 %) Servlets 5 6 (37.50 %) EJB 5 6 (37.50 %) MySQL 5 6 (37.50 %) Oracle 5 6 (37.50 %) ASP 5 6 (37.50 %) JBoss 5 6 (37.50 %) Apache 5 6 (37.50 %) Tomcat 5 6 (37.50 %) Datawarehouse 5 6 (37.50 %) LAN 5 6 (37.50 %) WAN 5 6 (37.50 %) Business Intelligence 5 6 (37.50 %) RDBMS 5 6 (37.50 %) JSF

OOD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 13 (81.25 %) XML 2 9 (56.25 %) WebServices 2 9 (56.25 %) JSP 3 7 (43.75 %) .NET 3 7 (43.75 %) XSLT 4 6 (37.50 %) JSF 4 6 (37.50 %) AJAX 4 6 (37.50 %) JBoss Seam 4 6 (37.50 %) EJB 3.0 4 6 (37.50 %) J2EE 4 6 (37.50 %) ASP 4 6 (37.50 %) Servlets 4 6 (37.50 %) EJB 5 4 (25.00 %) HTML 6 3 (18.75 %) CSS 6 3 (18.75 %) ASP.NET 7 2 (12.50 %) STL 8 1 (6.250 %) MFC 8 1 (6.250 %) J2ME	Application Platforms 1 6 (37.50 %) JBoss 1 6 (37.50 %) Apache 1 6 (37.50 %) Tomcat 2 2 (12.50 %) TeamSite
Applications 1 3 (18.75 %) MATLAB	Communications & Networking 1 6 (37.50 %) LAN 1 6 (37.50 %) WAN 2 1 (6.250 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (37.50 %) MySQL 1 6 (37.50 %) Datawarehouse 1 6 (37.50 %) RDBMS	Development Applications 1 3 (18.75 %) Flash 1 3 (18.75 %) NUnit
General 1 7 (43.75 %) Finance 2 3 (18.75 %) Education 3 1 (6.250 %) Government 3 1 (6.250 %) Police	Job Titles 1 8 (50.00 %) Developer 2 5 (31.25 %) Software Engineer 3 4 (25.00 %) C++ Software Engineer 4 3 (18.75 %) C Software Engineer 4 3 (18.75 %) J2EE Developer 4 3 (18.75 %) Web Developer 4 3 (18.75 %) Development Manager 5 1 (6.250 %) Java Developer 5 1 (6.250 %) C++ Developer
Miscellaneous 1 4 (25.00 %) Mathematics 2 3 (18.75 %) Computer Science 3 1 (6.250 %) Multithreading	Operating Systems 1 10 (62.50 %) UNIX 1 10 (62.50 %) Linux 2 1 (6.250 %) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (62.50 %) UML 2 9 (56.25 %) OO 3 6 (37.50 %) Business Intelligence 4 3 (18.75 %) Project Management 4 3 (18.75 %) Process Management 4 3 (18.75 %) Software Testing 4 3 (18.75 %) Web Development 5 1 (6.250 %) Requirements Analysis 5 1 (6.250 %) OOA/OOD 5 1 (6.250 %) Quality Management	Programming Languages 1 10 (62.50 %) Java 2 9 (56.25 %) JavaScript 3 7 (43.75 %) C# 4 6 (37.50 %) C++ 4 6 (37.50 %) SQL 5 3 (18.75 %) Shell Script 5 3 (18.75 %) AWK 5 3 (18.75 %) C 6 1 (6.250 %) VC++ 6 1 (6.250 %) PHP
Qualifications 1 5 (31.25 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (18.75 %) ISO9000
Vendors 1 6 (37.50 %) Oracle 2 3 (18.75 %) Microsoft 3 1 (6.250 %) Interwoven