The first table below looks at the demand for OOP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Watford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited OOP over the 3 months to 20 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 Watford region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
Rank 41 45 66
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +21
Permanent jobs citing OOP 3 12 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 1.064% 3.448% 0.236%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.376% 4.211% 0.287%
Number of salaries quoted 3 6 1
Average salary £50,000 £39,250 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+27.38% +30.83%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £33,500
% change year-on-year
- +4.47%
All Processes & Methodologies
Watford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
218 285 349
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 77.30% 81.90% 82.31%
Number of salaries quoted 175 189 251
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £30,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
OOP
Hertfordshire

OOP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Watford OOP Jobs Demand Trend

OOP
Salary Trend

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

Watford OOP Salary Trend

OOP
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Watford region citing OOP 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 OOP.

1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 4 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (75.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (75.00%) QA
2 3 (75.00%) WPF
2 3 (75.00%) OOD
2 3 (75.00%) WinForms
3 2 (50.00%) FoxPro (VFP)
4 1 (25.00%) MVC
4 1 (25.00%) Finance
4 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (25.00%) HTML
4 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (25.00%) jQuery
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (25.00%) HTTP
4 1 (25.00%) CSS
4 1 (25.00%) Web Services
4 1 (25.00%) XML
4 1 (25.00%) OO
4 1 (25.00%) TDD

OOP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Watford region citing OOP 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 OOP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (75.00%) WinForms
2 3 (75.00%) WPF
3 1 (25.00%) jQuery
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) Web Services
3 1 (25.00%) XML
3 1 (25.00%) HTML
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Lead Developer
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Junior Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Junior .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Lead C# Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Junior ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) OOD
1 3 (75.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) OO
2 1 (25.00%) MVC
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) FoxPro (VFP)
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA