The first table below looks at the demand for OO skills in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited OO over the 3 months to 24 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 Scotland region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented (OO)
Rank 29 40 26
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -14
Permanent jobs citing OO 197 153 235
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 6.260% 4.428% 6.745%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.444% 6.258% 8.835%
Number of salaries quoted 120 116 181
Average salary £40,000 £33,750 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.51% -12.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,700 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £42,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
All Processes & Methodologies
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
2333 2445 2660
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 74.13% 70.77% 76.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1403 1740 1920
Average salary £41,000 £40,000 £42,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.50% -4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,500 £27,500 £29,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
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UK

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Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland OO Jobs Demand Trend

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Salary Trend

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

Scotland OO Salary Trend

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Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing OO across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 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
Glasgow +4 127 £40,000 +26.98%
Edinburgh -9 45 £40,000 +14.28%
Aberdeen +8 13 £40,000 +18.51%
Dundee -8 7 £35,000 -
Moray +2 3 £40,000 +33.33%
West Lothian -4 1 £32,500 -
Renfrewshire - 1 - -
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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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.

1 210 (64.62%) Java
2 159 (48.92%) C#
3 138 (42.46%) SQL
4 112 (34.46%) .NET
5 87 (26.77%) OOD
6 85 (26.15%) XML
7 83 (25.54%) CSS
8 79 (24.31%) Finance
8 79 (24.31%) Linux
8 79 (24.31%) JavaScript
8 79 (24.31%) Degree
9 75 (23.08%) Agile Software Development
10 71 (21.85%) Spring
11 70 (21.54%) Oracle
12 68 (20.92%) C++
13 66 (20.31%) Computer Science
14 61 (18.77%) HTML
15 60 (18.46%) SQL Server
16 59 (18.15%) UNIX
17 58 (17.85%) Hibernate
18 53 (16.31%) Web Services
18 53 (16.31%) RDBMS
18 53 (16.31%) Microsoft
19 51 (15.69%) jQuery
20 50 (15.38%) J2EE
21 47 (14.46%) TDD
22 44 (13.54%) Sybase
23 42 (12.92%) Python
23 42 (12.92%) JMS
24 41 (12.62%) Ajax

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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
1 112 (34.46%) .NET
2 85 (26.15%) XML
3 83 (25.54%) CSS
4 71 (21.85%) Spring
5 61 (18.77%) HTML
6 58 (17.85%) Hibernate
7 53 (16.31%) Web Services
8 51 (15.69%) jQuery
9 50 (15.38%) J2EE
10 42 (12.92%) JMS
11 41 (12.62%) Ajax
12 39 (12.00%) ASP.NET
13 37 (11.38%) SOAP
14 36 (11.08%) JSP
15 35 (10.77%) .NET Framework
16 33 (10.15%) Servlets
17 30 (9.231%) HTML5
18 26 (8.000%) JDBC
19 23 (7.077%) WCF
19 23 (7.077%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 16 (4.923%) Tomcat
2 13 (4.000%) CMS
3 10 (3.077%) Apache
4 8 (2.462%) SharePoint
4 8 (2.462%) IIS
5 5 (1.538%) Umbraco
5 5 (1.538%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.923%) Apache Qpid
6 3 (0.923%) GemFire
6 3 (0.923%) TeamSite
7 2 (0.615%) MQSeries
7 2 (0.615%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.615%) Adobe CQ
7 2 (0.615%) SharePoint 2010
7 2 (0.615%) Mule
7 2 (0.615%) Drupal
7 2 (0.615%) ESB
8 1 (0.308%) GlassFish
8 1 (0.308%) Immediacy CMS
8 1 (0.308%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 12 (3.692%) MS Excel
2 2 (0.615%) MS Office
2 2 (0.615%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 7 (2.154%) BusinessWorks
2 5 (1.538%) Dynamics AX
2 5 (1.538%) Endur
3 3 (0.923%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 2 (0.615%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.308%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.308%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.615%) Internet
2 11 (3.385%) HTTP
3 4 (1.231%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.923%) SNMP
5 2 (0.615%) DNS
5 2 (0.615%) DHCP
5 2 (0.615%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.615%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (18.46%) SQL Server
2 53 (16.31%) RDBMS
3 23 (7.077%) MySQL
4 18 (5.538%) DB2
5 15 (4.615%) SQL Server 2008
6 13 (4.000%) Oracle 8/8i
7 11 (3.385%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (2.769%) MS Access
9 7 (2.154%) SQL Server 2005
10 6 (1.846%) Crystal Reports
10 6 (1.846%) Sybase IQ
10 6 (1.846%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (1.538%) Oracle 11g
12 3 (0.923%) NoSQL
12 3 (0.923%) SQL Server 2012
12 3 (0.923%) Oracle 10g
13 2 (0.615%) TOAD
13 2 (0.615%) Oracle Reports
13 2 (0.615%) SQLPlus
13 2 (0.615%) BigTable
Development Applications
1 23 (7.077%) Subversion
2 20 (6.154%) JUnit
3 19 (5.846%) Maven
4 18 (5.538%) Visual Studio
5 14 (4.308%) Ant
6 12 (3.692%) Eclipse
7 10 (3.077%) CruiseControl
8 7 (2.154%) JIRA
8 7 (2.154%) Git (software)
9 5 (1.538%) LSMW
10 3 (0.923%) Jenkins
11 2 (0.615%) CodeWarrior
11 2 (0.615%) NUnit
11 2 (0.615%) Jasmine
11 2 (0.615%) Flash Builder
11 2 (0.615%) Talend Open Studio
11 2 (0.615%) Selenium
12 1 (0.308%) Oracle APEX
12 1 (0.308%) Firebug
12 1 (0.308%) Fiddler
General
1 79 (24.31%) Finance
2 39 (12.00%) Banking
3 17 (5.231%) Front Office
4 14 (4.308%) Telecoms
5 12 (3.692%) Investment Banking
6 9 (2.769%) Financial Institution
7 8 (2.462%) Games
7 8 (2.462%) French Language
7 8 (2.462%) German Language
8 5 (1.538%) Back Office
8 5 (1.538%) Advertising
9 3 (0.923%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.923%) Retail
10 2 (0.615%) Legal
10 2 (0.615%) Marketing
11 1 (0.308%) Publishing
11 1 (0.308%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.308%) Law
Job Titles
1 216 (66.46%) Developer
2 82 (25.23%) Java Developer
3 57 (17.54%) Software Engineer
4 49 (15.08%) .NET Developer
5 41 (12.62%) Senior Developer
6 36 (11.08%) Software Developer
7 31 (9.538%) C# Developer
8 23 (7.077%) Senior Software Engineer
9 19 (5.846%) Analyst
9 19 (5.846%) Senior Java Developer
10 17 (5.231%) Senior C# Developer
11 16 (4.923%) Consultant
12 15 (4.615%) C# .NET Developer
13 13 (4.000%) Graduate
14 11 (3.385%) Web Developer
15 10 (3.077%) Lead Developer
15 10 (3.077%) Senior Software Developer
16 9 (2.769%) Senior .NET Developer
17 8 (2.462%) C++ Developer
17 8 (2.462%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 66 (20.31%) Computer Science
2 24 (7.385%) Enterprise Software
3 23 (7.077%) Fixed Income
4 16 (4.923%) Derivative
5 13 (4.000%) Mathematics
6 12 (3.692%) Credit Derivative
6 12 (3.692%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 12 (3.692%) Mobile App
7 10 (3.077%) Open Source
8 9 (2.769%) Grid Computing
9 8 (2.462%) Equity Derivative
9 8 (2.462%) Web 2.0
10 7 (2.154%) Market Risk
10 7 (2.154%) N-Tier
11 5 (1.538%) SWIFT
11 5 (1.538%) New Media
12 4 (1.231%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 4 (1.231%) Physics
13 3 (0.923%) iPhone
13 3 (0.923%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 79 (24.31%) Linux
2 59 (18.15%) UNIX
3 35 (10.77%) Windows
4 26 (8.000%) Android
5 23 (7.077%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.231%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.231%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (0.923%) HPUX
7 3 (0.923%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (0.615%) Windows Phone
9 1 (0.308%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (26.77%) OOD
2 75 (23.08%) Agile Software Development
3 47 (14.46%) TDD
4 39 (12.00%) OOP
5 37 (11.38%) Web Development
6 36 (11.08%) Software Engineering
7 28 (8.615%) UML
8 27 (8.308%) Business Intelligence
9 25 (7.692%) Continuous Integration
10 24 (7.385%) Data Modelling
11 23 (7.077%) MVC
12 21 (6.462%) Project Management
13 20 (6.154%) Multithreading
14 18 (5.538%) SOA
15 17 (5.231%) Business Analysis
16 16 (4.923%) Scrum
16 16 (4.923%) OOA/OOD
17 13 (4.000%) Unit Testing
18 12 (3.692%) Workflow
18 12 (3.692%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 210 (64.62%) Java
2 159 (48.92%) C#
3 138 (42.46%) SQL
4 79 (24.31%) JavaScript
5 68 (20.92%) C++
6 42 (12.92%) Python
7 34 (10.46%) PL/SQL
8 25 (7.692%) Perl
9 20 (6.154%) PHP
9 20 (6.154%) VB.NET
10 15 (4.615%) Korn
10 15 (4.615%) C
11 12 (3.692%) T-SQL
11 12 (3.692%) Ruby
11 12 (3.692%) Bash shell
12 8 (2.462%) Shell Script
13 7 (2.154%) XPath
13 7 (2.154%) Groovy
13 7 (2.154%) Scala
13 7 (2.154%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 79 (24.31%) Degree
2 10 (3.077%) PhD
3 6 (1.846%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.538%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.538%) DV Cleared
4 5 (1.538%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.615%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (0.615%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.615%) JTAG
2 1 (0.308%) WCAG
2 1 (0.308%) QA
2 1 (0.308%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (0.615%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.308%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 70 (21.54%) Oracle
2 53 (16.31%) Microsoft
3 44 (13.54%) Sybase
4 30 (9.231%) JBoss
5 8 (2.462%) TIBCO
6 6 (1.846%) Adobe
6 6 (1.846%) SAP
6 6 (1.846%) Razor Risk
7 5 (1.538%) Infragistics
7 5 (1.538%) Business Objects
7 5 (1.538%) OpenLink
8 4 (1.231%) IBM
9 2 (0.615%) HP
9 2 (0.615%) webMethods
9 2 (0.615%) Talend
9 2 (0.615%) Pega
9 2 (0.615%) Wall Street Systems
9 2 (0.615%) Zend
9 2 (0.615%) Google
10 1 (0.308%) EPiServer
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