Thames Valley OO Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Object-Oriented (OO) skills within the Thames Valley region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited OO over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alcester Aldershot Altrincham Amersham Ashton-under-Lyne Avon Aylesbury Ayrshire Banbury Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bradford-on-Avon Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Castleford Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham Clevedon Colchester Coulsdon County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devizes Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorking Dorset Dover Dundee Dunstable Durham Ealing East Grinstead East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Evesham Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Faversham Feltham Fife Folkestone Frome Gateshead Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Goole Gosport Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Wight Kendal Kenilworth Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Maldon Malvern Manchester Mansfield Margate Marlow Matlock Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Newry Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northwich Northwood Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penicuik Penrith Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Rickmansworth Ripon Rochester Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Rutland Salford Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Selby Sheffield Shropshire Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Albans St Neots Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Studley Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tamworth Taunton Thames Valley Tonbridge Torquay Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Weymouth Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Wimborne Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Wrexham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	29	40
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching permanent IT job ads	3	27
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	2.158 %	5.947 %
Salaries quoted	3	27
Average minimum salary	£45,000	£37,593
Average salary	£50,000	£41,667
% change on same period last year	+20.00 %
Average maximum salary	£55,000	£45,741
UK excluding London average salary	£36,983	£37,318
% change on same period last year	-0.89 %
Processes & Methodologies Thames Valley
Matching permanent IT job ads	139	454
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.076 %	0.191 %
Salaries quoted	124	398
Average minimum salary	£43,238	£54,092
Average salary	£48,177	£56,685
% change on same period last year	-15.00 %
Average maximum salary	£53,116	£59,279
UK excluding London average salary	£42,478	£44,432
% change on same period last year	-4.39 %
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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 Thames Valley region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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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 Thames Valley region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing OO across the Thames Valley region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Thames Valley 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 4 (50.00 %) C++ 1 4 (50.00 %) .NET 1 4 (50.00 %) UML 1 4 (50.00 %) SOA 1 4 (50.00 %) Finance 2 2 (25.00 %) VB 2 2 (25.00 %) Windows 2 2 (25.00 %) C# 3 1 (12.50 %) French Language 3 1 (12.50 %) German Language 3 1 (12.50 %) Spanish Language 3 1 (12.50 %) VB6 3 1 (12.50 %) C 3 1 (12.50 %) Java 3 1 (12.50 %) J2EE

3 1 (12.50 %) Oracle 3 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 3 1 (12.50 %) Python 3 1 (12.50 %) Business Intelligence 3 1 (12.50 %) Embedded C

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Thames Valley 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 4 (50.00 %) .NET 2 1 (12.50 %) J2EE	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server
General 1 4 (50.00 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 4 (50.00 %) Technical Architect 1 4 (50.00 %) Architect 2 3 (37.50 %) Software Engineer 2 3 (37.50 %) SOA Architect 3 2 (25.00 %) Senior Software Engineer 3 2 (25.00 %) .NET Architect 3 2 (25.00 %) .NET Technical Architect 4 1 (12.50 %) Training Manager
Miscellaneous 1 1 (12.50 %) French Language 1 1 (12.50 %) German Language 1 1 (12.50 %) Spanish Language	Operating Systems 1 2 (25.00 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (50.00 %) UML 1 4 (50.00 %) SOA 2 1 (12.50 %) Business Intelligence	Programming Languages 1 4 (50.00 %) C++ 2 2 (25.00 %) C# 2 2 (25.00 %) VB 3 1 (12.50 %) Python 3 1 (12.50 %) Embedded C 3 1 (12.50 %) VB6 3 1 (12.50 %) C 3 1 (12.50 %) Java
Vendors 1 1 (12.50 %) Oracle