Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for OO skills in IT jobs advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited OO over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the South West region.

 Object-Oriented (OO)
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank473533
Rank change year-on-year
Down-12Down-2
Matching permanent IT job ads193281539
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West3.850 %4.543 %4.639 %
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category6.295 %7.922 %8.286 %
Salaries quoted174248452
Average salary£35,000£32,500£36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.690 %-9.720 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,900£26,500£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£41,000£40,000£50,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£35,000£35,000
South West IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryAll Processes & Methodologies
South West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
306635476505
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West61.16 %57.34 %55.99 %
Salaries quoted270730505116
Average salary£35,000£37,500£37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.660 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,000£26,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£50,000£55,000£52,500
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000
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England

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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 South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

South West OO Demand Trend

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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 South West region.

South West OO Salary Trend

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing OO across the South West region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

South West 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 South West region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
BristolDown-1061£32,500-4.41 %
DevonDown-229£35,000+2.94 %
DorsetUp+728£35,000+22.80 %
GloucestershireDown-427£40,000+33.33 %
WiltshireUp+320£35,000-5.40 %
SomersetDown-1811£31,500-5.97 %
AvonNew entry-6£32,500-
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England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the South West 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.

1262 (59.82 %)C#
2218 (49.77 %)SQL Server
3200 (45.66 %).NET
4150 (34.25 %)ASP.NET
5103 (23.52 %)MySQL
698 (22.37 %)JavaScript
698 (22.37 %)SQL
791 (20.78 %)HTML
791 (20.78 %)XML
890 (20.55 %)Java
987 (19.86 %)PHP
1086 (19.63 %)Windows
1182 (18.72 %)Degree
1281 (18.49 %)CSS
1281 (18.49 %)C++
1377 (17.58 %)Microsoft
1474 (16.89 %)IIS
1573 (16.67 %)Web Services
1573 (16.67 %)OOD
1661 (13.93 %)OOP
1755 (12.56 %)MS Excel
1851 (11.64 %)Linux
1949 (11.19 %)C
2045 (10.27 %)Visual Studio
2143 (9.817 %)VB
2242 (9.589 %).NET Framework
2341 (9.361 %)UML
2440 (9.132 %)Oracle
2539 (8.904 %)Web Development
2638 (8.676 %)VB6

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the South West 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.

South West IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1200 (45.66 %).NET
2150 (34.25 %)ASP.NET
391 (20.78 %)HTML
391 (20.78 %)XML
481 (18.49 %)CSS
573 (16.67 %)Web Services
642 (9.589 %).NET Framework
730 (6.849 %)ASP
827 (6.164 %)AJAX
924 (5.479 %)XSLT
1023 (5.251 %)jQuery
1122 (5.023 %)Zend Framework
1122 (5.023 %)Spring
1220 (4.566 %)XHTML
1220 (4.566 %)Silverlight
1318 (4.110 %)WinForms
1417 (3.881 %)MFC
1515 (3.425 %)DHTML
1612 (2.740 %)SOAP
1612 (2.740 %)LAMP
South West IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
174 (16.89 %)IIS
225 (5.708 %)Apache
314 (3.196 %)CMS
413 (2.968 %)Tomcat
511 (2.511 %)SharePoint
610 (2.283 %)BizTalk Server
610 (2.283 %)WebSphere MQ
75 (1.142 %)WordPress
84 (0.913 %)GlassFish
93 (0.685 %)ArcGIS
102 (0.457 %)OpenROAD
102 (0.457 %)EPiServer
111 (0.228 %)WebLogic
111 (0.228 %)Oracle Spatial
111 (0.228 %)Joomla!
South West IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
155 (12.56 %)MS Excel
28 (1.826 %)MATLAB
36 (1.370 %)Photoshop
45 (1.142 %)Fireworks
52 (0.457 %)MS Office
52 (0.457 %)MS Visio
South West IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
14 (0.913 %)Summit
23 (0.685 %)Maximo
South West IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
128 (6.393 %)Internet
211 (2.511 %)DNS
310 (2.283 %)FTP
310 (2.283 %)HTTP
49 (2.055 %)SMTP
56 (1.370 %)TCP/IP
64 (0.913 %)Intranet
64 (0.913 %)SNMP
73 (0.685 %)WAN
82 (0.457 %)Extranet
82 (0.457 %)Wireless
82 (0.457 %)SSH
South West IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1218 (49.77 %)SQL Server
2103 (23.52 %)MySQL
312 (2.740 %)RDBMS
48 (1.826 %)SQL Server 2005
57 (1.598 %)PostgreSQL
65 (1.142 %)GIS
74 (0.913 %)Oracle 10g
82 (0.457 %)Ingres
82 (0.457 %)SQL Server 2008
91 (0.228 %)Crystal Reports
91 (0.228 %)Oracle 8/8i
91 (0.228 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
South West IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
145 (10.27 %)Visual Studio
214 (3.196 %)Subversion
32 (0.457 %)MagicDraw
32 (0.457 %)Expression Blend
32 (0.457 %)TestNG
32 (0.457 %)Ant
41 (0.228 %)Git (software)
41 (0.228 %)WATIR
41 (0.228 %)Eclipse
41 (0.228 %)QuickTest Pro
41 (0.228 %)ARTiSAN
41 (0.228 %)PowerBuilder
41 (0.228 %)NUnit
South West IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
133 (7.534 %)Back Office
133 (7.534 %)Finance
226 (5.936 %)Pensions
322 (5.023 %)Insurance
49 (2.055 %)Marketing
49 (2.055 %)Telecoms
49 (2.055 %)Health
49 (2.055 %)Banking
56 (1.370 %)Education
56 (1.370 %)Graphic Design
65 (1.142 %)Government
73 (0.685 %)Construction
73 (0.685 %)Electronics
82 (0.457 %)Electric
82 (0.457 %)Aerospace
82 (0.457 %)Advertising
82 (0.457 %)Military
91 (0.228 %)Retail Banking
91 (0.228 %)Avionics
91 (0.228 %)Police
South West IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1354 (80.82 %)Developer
2137 (31.28 %)C# Developer
380 (18.26 %).NET Developer
468 (15.53 %)Web Developer
555 (12.56 %)PHP Developer
653 (12.10 %)Software Developer
743 (9.817 %)ASP.NET Developer
840 (9.132 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
936 (8.219 %)Software Engineer
1031 (7.078 %)Senior Developer
1128 (6.393 %)Java Developer
1225 (5.708 %)C++ Developer
1322 (5.023 %)Applications Developer
1420 (4.566 %)Programmer
1514 (3.196 %)Analyst
1514 (3.196 %)Web Applications Developer
1612 (2.740 %)C# Software Developer
1711 (2.511 %)PHP Web Developer
1711 (2.511 %)C# Web Developer
1810 (2.283 %)WinForms Developer
South West IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
132 (7.306 %)W3C
132 (7.306 %)Mathematics
220 (4.566 %)Computer Science
315 (3.425 %)Client/Server
412 (2.740 %)Open Source
511 (2.511 %)Physics
66 (1.370 %)SCADA
66 (1.370 %)N-Tier
75 (1.142 %)SaaS
84 (0.913 %)RIA
84 (0.913 %)Visualisation
92 (0.457 %)NHS
101 (0.228 %)EPoS
101 (0.228 %)Field-Programmable Gate Array
South West IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
186 (19.63 %)Windows
251 (11.64 %)Linux
324 (5.479 %)UNIX
45 (1.142 %)Red Hat Linux
45 (1.142 %)AIX
45 (1.142 %)Solaris
52 (0.457 %)VMS
52 (0.457 %)Windows Server 2003
52 (0.457 %)Windows Vista
52 (0.457 %)Windows Server 2008
61 (0.228 %)Android
61 (0.228 %)Mac OS X
61 (0.228 %)FreeBSD
South West IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
173 (16.67 %)OOD
261 (13.93 %)OOP
341 (9.361 %)UML
439 (8.904 %)Web Development
526 (5.936 %)SOA
625 (5.708 %)Agile Software Development
721 (4.795 %)Software Engineering
818 (4.110 %)Software Architecture
917 (3.881 %)E-Commerce
1016 (3.653 %)OOA/OOD
1113 (2.968 %)Configuration Management
1210 (2.283 %)Six Sigma
1210 (2.283 %)Requirements Management
1210 (2.283 %)Requirements Analysis
139 (2.055 %)RAD
139 (2.055 %)TDD
147 (1.598 %)Scrum
147 (1.598 %)RUP
156 (1.370 %)CRM
156 (1.370 %)Service Delivery
South West IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1262 (59.82 %)C#
298 (22.37 %)JavaScript
298 (22.37 %)SQL
390 (20.55 %)Java
487 (19.86 %)PHP
581 (18.49 %)C++
649 (11.19 %)C
743 (9.817 %)VB
838 (8.676 %)VB6
929 (6.621 %)VC++
1024 (5.479 %)VB.NET
1123 (5.251 %)Delphi
1216 (3.653 %)Python
1312 (2.740 %)PHP5
1410 (2.283 %)Embedded C
157 (1.598 %)Embedded C++
166 (1.370 %)Ruby
166 (1.370 %)T-SQL
175 (1.142 %)Perl
184 (0.913 %)ActionScript
South West IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
182 (18.72 %)Degree
29 (2.055 %)HND
37 (1.598 %)Security Cleared
45 (1.142 %)Microsoft Certification
53 (0.685 %)SC Cleared
53 (0.685 %)MCTS
53 (0.685 %)MCPD
61 (0.228 %)Sun Certification
61 (0.228 %)PhD
South West IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
110 (2.283 %)SLA
24 (0.913 %)QA
31 (0.228 %)WCAG
South West IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
12 (0.457 %)Active Directory
South West IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
177 (17.58 %)Microsoft
240 (9.132 %)Oracle
326 (5.936 %)Zend
410 (2.283 %)JBoss
56 (1.370 %)Sun
65 (1.142 %)Red Hat
73 (0.685 %)Sybase
73 (0.685 %)SAP
73 (0.685 %)ESRI
82 (0.457 %)Infragistics
82 (0.457 %)telerik
82 (0.457 %)ComponentOne
82 (0.457 %)Axiom
91 (0.228 %)Apple
91 (0.228 %)Adobe
91 (0.228 %)Google