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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
Rank 55 45 57
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +12
Permanent jobs citing OOD 11 18 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset 1.746% 3.930% 0.407%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.245% 5.172% 0.623%
Number of salaries quoted 10 18 2
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -6.66%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+3.89% +2.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Somerset
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
490 348 321
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset 77.78% 75.98% 65.38%
Number of salaries quoted 451 330 297
Average salary £38,000 £39,160 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.96% +4.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £62,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
OOD
South West

OOD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset 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 Somerset 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
Bath -15 8 £40,000 +14.28%
Bridgwater - 3 £33,500 -
OOD
South West

OOD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Somerset 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 39 (88.64%) OOP
2 37 (84.09%) CSS
2 37 (84.09%) HTML
3 36 (81.82%) PHP
4 35 (79.55%) JavaScript
5 34 (77.27%) MySQL
6 28 (63.64%) PHP5
7 27 (61.36%) SQL
8 26 (59.09%) PostgreSQL
9 24 (54.55%) RESTful
10 21 (47.73%) WordPress
11 18 (40.91%) Software Engineering
11 18 (40.91%) JIRA
11 18 (40.91%) Digital Media
11 18 (40.91%) Telecoms
11 18 (40.91%) SOAP
12 15 (34.09%) Degree
13 11 (25.00%) Publishing
13 11 (25.00%) Bash shell
14 6 (13.64%) CMS
14 6 (13.64%) Subversion
15 5 (11.36%) Java
16 4 (9.091%) C
16 4 (9.091%) C#
16 4 (9.091%) C++
16 4 (9.091%) XML
16 4 (9.091%) Windows
16 4 (9.091%) Linux
16 4 (9.091%) UML
16 4 (9.091%) OO

OOD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Somerset 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 37 (84.09%) CSS
1 37 (84.09%) HTML
2 24 (54.55%) RESTful
3 18 (40.91%) SOAP
4 4 (9.091%) XML
5 3 (6.818%) Java EE
5 3 (6.818%) .NET
6 2 (4.545%) Spring
7 1 (2.273%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 21 (47.73%) WordPress
2 6 (13.64%) CMS
3 3 (6.818%) Drupal
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.091%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.273%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (77.27%) MySQL
2 26 (59.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (40.91%) JIRA
2 6 (13.64%) Subversion
3 3 (6.818%) Selenium
3 3 (6.818%) FitNesse
3 3 (6.818%) JUnit
General
1 18 (40.91%) Telecoms
2 11 (25.00%) Publishing
3 4 (9.091%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 39 (88.64%) Developer
2 13 (29.55%) PHP Developer
3 9 (20.45%) Web Developer
4 8 (18.18%) Systems Developer
5 7 (15.91%) Software Engineer
6 4 (9.091%) Linux Engineer
7 3 (6.818%) Drupal Developer
8 2 (4.545%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 18 (40.91%) Digital Media
2 4 (9.091%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.091%) Windows
1 4 (9.091%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (88.64%) OOP
2 18 (40.91%) Software Engineering
3 4 (9.091%) UML
3 4 (9.091%) OO
4 3 (6.818%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (6.818%) TDD
4 3 (6.818%) Scrum
4 3 (6.818%) E-Commerce
5 1 (2.273%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 36 (81.82%) PHP
2 35 (79.55%) JavaScript
3 28 (63.64%) PHP5
4 27 (61.36%) SQL
5 11 (25.00%) Bash shell
6 5 (11.36%) Java
7 4 (9.091%) C
7 4 (9.091%) C#
7 4 (9.091%) C++
7 4 (9.091%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (34.09%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (9.091%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (9.091%) VMware
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Knowledge of OO Design (OOD) and Service Orientated Architectures (SOA)... - Experience using XAML / Expression... This successful C# Software Developer ( Programmer, Software Engineer, .NET, UI, Silverlight, WPF, SQL Server )...
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Salary: £35-42,000 + Bens
Posted: 13 May 2013
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Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum
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