The first table below looks at the demand for OO skills in IT jobs advertised for the St Albans region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited OO over the 3 months to 18 June 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 St Albans region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented (OO)
Rank 33 14 38
Rank change year-on-year
-19 +24
Permanent jobs citing OO 3 17 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Albans 1.639% 10.30% 2.893%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.083% 17.71% 4.070%
Number of salaries quoted 3 16 7
Average salary £45,000 £65,000 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-30.76% +18.18%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
All Processes & Methodologies
St Albans
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
144 96 172
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Albans 78.69% 58.18% 71.07%
Number of salaries quoted 60 68 63
Average salary £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-14.28% +5.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £35,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
OO
Hertfordshire

OO
Jobs Demand Trend

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

St Albans OO Jobs Demand Trend

OO
Salary Trend

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

St Albans OO Salary Trend

OO
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the St Albans 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 23 (74.19%) MVC
2 21 (67.74%) Finance
2 21 (67.74%) TDD
3 20 (64.52%) C#
4 19 (61.29%) .NET
4 19 (61.29%) SQL Server
4 19 (61.29%) ASP.NET
4 19 (61.29%) ASP.NET MVC
5 18 (58.06%) SQL Server 2008
6 13 (41.94%) WCF
7 12 (38.71%) NUnit
7 12 (38.71%) Lucene
7 12 (38.71%) MCTS
7 12 (38.71%) NHibernate
7 12 (38.71%) Silverlight
7 12 (38.71%) LINQ
7 12 (38.71%) Selenium
7 12 (38.71%) Kanban
7 12 (38.71%) MCP
7 12 (38.71%) MCAD
7 12 (38.71%) MCSD
7 12 (38.71%) Scrum
7 12 (38.71%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (38.71%) Web Application Development
7 12 (38.71%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (38.71%) Rhino Mocks
7 12 (38.71%) Cucumber
7 12 (38.71%) BDD
7 12 (38.71%) Castle Windsor
7 12 (38.71%) Scrum-ban

OO
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the St Albans 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 19 (61.29%) .NET
1 19 (61.29%) ASP.NET
1 19 (61.29%) ASP.NET MVC
2 13 (41.94%) WCF
3 12 (38.71%) Silverlight
3 12 (38.71%) LINQ
3 12 (38.71%) Lucene
3 12 (38.71%) NHibernate
3 12 (38.71%) Castle Windsor
4 9 (29.03%) REST
4 9 (29.03%) Spring MVC
4 9 (29.03%) Spring
4 9 (29.03%) Web Services
5 7 (22.58%) .NET Framework
5 7 (22.58%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 6 (19.35%) ASP.NET MVC 4
7 3 (9.677%) jQuery
7 3 (9.677%) CSS
8 2 (6.452%) Ajax
8 2 (6.452%) HTML
Applications
1 1 (3.226%) Fireworks
Communications & Networking
1 10 (32.26%) Internet
2 1 (3.226%) LDAP
2 1 (3.226%) FTP
2 1 (3.226%) DNS
2 1 (3.226%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (61.29%) SQL Server
2 18 (58.06%) SQL Server 2008
3 9 (29.03%) Apache Cassandra
3 9 (29.03%) NoSQL
3 9 (29.03%) Big Data
4 6 (19.35%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 12 (38.71%) NUnit
1 12 (38.71%) Selenium
1 12 (38.71%) Rhino Mocks
1 12 (38.71%) Cucumber
2 9 (29.03%) Jenkins
2 9 (29.03%) Maven
3 1 (3.226%) Dreamweaver
3 1 (3.226%) Subversion
3 1 (3.226%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 21 (67.74%) Finance
2 9 (29.03%) Games
2 9 (29.03%) Online Betting
2 9 (29.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (93.55%) Developer
2 13 (41.94%) .NET Developer
3 8 (25.81%) Java Developer
3 8 (25.81%) Agile Java Developer
4 7 (22.58%) Senior Developer
5 1 (3.226%) Software Engineer
5 1 (3.226%) Web Developer
5 1 (3.226%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (3.226%) Team Leader
5 1 (3.226%) Development Team Leader
5 1 (3.226%) Senior .NET Developer
5 1 (3.226%) Software Development Team Leader
5 1 (3.226%) JavaScript Developer
5 1 (3.226%) Software Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 12 (38.71%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (29.03%) Online Games
3 1 (3.226%) Client/Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (74.19%) MVC
2 21 (67.74%) TDD
3 12 (38.71%) Kanban
3 12 (38.71%) Scrum
3 12 (38.71%) BDD
3 12 (38.71%) Scrum-ban
3 12 (38.71%) Web Application Development
4 10 (32.26%) Agile Software Development
5 9 (29.03%) Test Automation
5 9 (29.03%) Continuous Integration
6 7 (22.58%) OOD
7 1 (3.226%) E-Commerce
7 1 (3.226%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (64.52%) C#
2 9 (29.03%) Java
3 2 (6.452%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.226%) PHP
4 1 (3.226%) SQL
4 1 (3.226%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 12 (38.71%) MCP
1 12 (38.71%) MCAD
1 12 (38.71%) MCSD
1 12 (38.71%) Microsoft Certification
1 12 (38.71%) MCTS
Vendors
1 1 (3.226%) Macromedia