The first table below looks at the demand for OO skills in IT jobs advertised for the Sussex region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited OO over the 3 months to 22 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 Sussex region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented (OO)
Rank 8 12 7
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -5
Permanent jobs citing OO 11 11 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sussex 15.28% 9.821% 13.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.91% 12.64% 20.00%
Number of salaries quoted 3 6 6
Average salary £32,500 £35,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.14% -22.22%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
All Processes & Methodologies
Sussex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
46 87 30
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sussex 63.89% 77.68% 65.22%
Number of salaries quoted 31 80 28
Average salary £48,750 £50,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.50% +11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,250 £34,000 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
OO
South East

OO
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sussex 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 Sussex region.

Sussex OO Salary Trend

OO
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sussex 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 11 (73.33%) Java
2 9 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 9 (60.00%) MySQL
2 9 (60.00%) Agile Software Development
3 7 (46.67%) TDD
3 7 (46.67%) Web Development
3 7 (46.67%) JPA
3 7 (46.67%) Scala
3 7 (46.67%) Open Source
3 7 (46.67%) Hibernate
3 7 (46.67%) BDD
4 5 (33.33%) SQL
4 5 (33.33%) C#
5 4 (26.67%) SQL Server
5 4 (26.67%) .NET
6 3 (20.00%) WCF
6 3 (20.00%) WPF
6 3 (20.00%) C++
6 3 (20.00%) Manufacturing
7 2 (13.33%) Cocoa
7 2 (13.33%) Objective-C
7 2 (13.33%) LAMP
7 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (13.33%) MVC
7 2 (13.33%) Finance
7 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
7 2 (13.33%) B2B
7 2 (13.33%) Adobe
7 2 (13.33%) Oracle 10g
7 2 (13.33%) Internet

OO
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sussex 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 7 (46.67%) JPA
1 7 (46.67%) Hibernate
2 4 (26.67%) .NET
3 3 (20.00%) WCF
3 3 (20.00%) WPF
4 2 (13.33%) Cocoa
4 2 (13.33%) LAMP
4 2 (13.33%) HTML
4 2 (13.33%) ASP.NET
4 2 (13.33%) CSS
4 2 (13.33%) XML
4 2 (13.33%) CodeIgniter
4 2 (13.33%) CakePHP
4 2 (13.33%) jQuery
4 2 (13.33%) Google Maps API
4 2 (13.33%) HTML5
4 2 (13.33%) Ajax
4 2 (13.33%) iOS SDK
4 2 (13.33%) CSS3
4 2 (13.33%) Semantic HTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (60.00%) MySQL
2 4 (26.67%) SQL Server
3 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Git (software)
General
1 3 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 14 (93.33%) Developer
2 7 (46.67%) Java Developer
2 7 (46.67%) Scala Developer
3 5 (33.33%) Software Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Software Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Software Developer
4 2 (13.33%) PHP Developer
5 1 (6.667%) C++ Software Developer
5 1 (6.667%) C++ Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) Open Source
2 2 (13.33%) iPhone
2 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (6.667%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) UNIX
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
1 2 (13.33%) Android
1 2 (13.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (46.67%) TDD
2 7 (46.67%) Web Development
2 7 (46.67%) BDD
3 2 (13.33%) MVC
3 2 (13.33%) B2B
3 2 (13.33%) UML
3 2 (13.33%) Multithreading
4 1 (6.667%) Software Engineering
4 1 (6.667%) System Testing
4 1 (6.667%) OOP
4 1 (6.667%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 11 (73.33%) Java
2 9 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (46.67%) Scala
4 5 (33.33%) SQL
4 5 (33.33%) C#
5 3 (20.00%) C++
6 2 (13.33%) Objective-C
6 2 (13.33%) PHP
7 1 (6.667%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (6.667%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Adobe
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle
1 2 (13.33%) Google
1 2 (13.33%) Facebook
1 2 (13.33%) Twitter
2 1 (6.667%) Wonderware