West Midlands OLE Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) skills within the West Midlands region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited OLE over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Object Linking and Embedding (OLE)
Location Berkshire Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire City of London Dorset East Midlands East of England England Hampshire Leicestershire London Manchester North West Reading South East South West Stockport UK West Midlands	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	224
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching permanent IT job ads	0	2
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.075 %
Salaries quoted	0	2
Average minimum salary	-	£31,500
Average salary	-	£33,250
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	-	£35,000
UK excluding London average salary	£33,692	£37,714
% change on same period last year	-10.66 %
Application Development West Midlands
Matching permanent IT job ads	2849	2657
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.504 %	1.088 %
Salaries quoted	2556	2364
Average minimum salary	£30,484	£29,548
Average salary	£33,164	£32,371
% change on same period last year	+2.44 %
Average maximum salary	£35,844	£35,194
UK excluding London average salary	£35,873	£36,830
% change on same period last year	-2.59 %
OLE England

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing OLE across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing OLE across the West Midlands region.

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Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing OLE 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 OLE.

1 3 (100.00 %) C# 1 3 (100.00 %) .NET 2 2 (66.67 %) SQL Server 2 2 (66.67 %) E-Commerce 2 2 (66.67 %) SQL 2 2 (66.67 %) Transact-SQL 2 2 (66.67 %) ADO 2 2 (66.67 %) Internet 3 1 (33.33 %) OLE DB 3 1 (33.33 %) ADO.NET 3 1 (33.33 %) ODBC 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows 3 1 (33.33 %) VB 3 1 (33.33 %) C++ 3 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft

3 1 (33.33 %) Visual Studio 3 1 (33.33 %) VB6 3 1 (33.33 %) DAO 3 1 (33.33 %) SCADA

OLE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing OLE 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 OLE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (100.00 %) .NET 2 2 (66.67 %) ADO 3 1 (33.33 %) ADO.NET 3 1 (33.33 %) ODBC 3 1 (33.33 %) OLE DB 3 1 (33.33 %) DAO	Communications & Networking 1 2 (66.67 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (66.67 %) SQL Server	Development Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) Visual Studio
Job Titles 1 3 (100.00 %) Software Developer 1 3 (100.00 %) Developer 2 2 (66.67 %) .NET Developer 2 2 (66.67 %) C# Developer 2 2 (66.67 %) CSharp Software Developer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) SCADA
Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) E-Commerce
Programming Languages 1 3 (100.00 %) C# 2 2 (66.67 %) SQL 2 2 (66.67 %) Transact-SQL 3 1 (33.33 %) VB 3 1 (33.33 %) VB6 3 1 (33.33 %) C++	Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft