The first table below looks at the demand for OOA/OOD skills in IT jobs advertised for the Wales region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited OOA/OOD over the 3 months to 21 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 Wales region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (OOA/OOD)
Rank 95 91 85
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -6
Permanent jobs citing OOA/OOD 2 5 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wales 0.160% 0.432% 0.293%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.231% 0.620% 0.405%
Number of salaries quoted 2 5 3
Average salary £24,500 £27,500 £42,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.90% -34.52%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Processes & Methodologies
Wales
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
865 806 740
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wales 69.14% 69.66% 72.34%
Number of salaries quoted 765 721 694
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £25,500 £25,500 £25,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
OOA/OOD
UK

OOA/OOD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wales OOA/OOD Jobs Demand Trend

OOA/OOD
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing OOA/OOD across the Wales region.

Wales OOA/OOD Salary Trend

OOA/OOD
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OOA/OOD within the Wales region over the 3 months to 21 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
South Wales -6 2 £24,500 -10.90%
OOA/OOD
UK

OOA/OOD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wales region citing OOA/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 OOA/OOD.

1 4 (100.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) J2EE
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (50.00%) CSS
2 2 (50.00%) XML
2 2 (50.00%) UML
2 2 (50.00%) OO
2 2 (50.00%) OOD
2 2 (50.00%) TestDirector
2 2 (50.00%) AS400
2 2 (50.00%) MVC
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Web Design
2 2 (50.00%) Systems Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Ajax
2 2 (50.00%) WCF
2 2 (50.00%) LINQ
2 2 (50.00%) jQuery
2 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (50.00%) HTML5
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) T-SQL
2 2 (50.00%) VB
2 2 (50.00%) VB.NET

OOA/OOD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wales region citing OOA/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 OOA/OOD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) J2EE
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (50.00%) CSS
2 2 (50.00%) XML
2 2 (50.00%) Ajax
2 2 (50.00%) WCF
2 2 (50.00%) LINQ
2 2 (50.00%) jQuery
2 2 (50.00%) HTML5
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Visual Studio
1 2 (50.00%) TestDirector
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Software Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Financial Business Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Financial Services Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) AS400
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) UML
1 2 (50.00%) OO
1 2 (50.00%) OOD
1 2 (50.00%) MVC
1 2 (50.00%) Web Design
1 2 (50.00%) Systems Analysis
1 2 (50.00%) Business Analysis
1 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) T-SQL
1 2 (50.00%) VB
1 2 (50.00%) VB.NET