Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for OOP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited OOP over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 270 184 151
Rank change year-on-year -86 -33 +4
Permanent jobs citing OOP 1,072 1,957 4,559
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.06% 1.99% 2.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 2.08% 2.90%
Number of salaries quoted 673 1,138 1,459
10th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £85,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £93,250 £106,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

OOP is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,549 94,155 156,986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.76% 95.59% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 60,063 55,401 82,663
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing OOP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for OOP in the UK

OOP
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing OOP.

Salary trend for OOP in the UK

OOP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing OOP over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for OOP in the UK

OOP
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OOP within the UK over the 6 months to 23 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -63 995 £55,000 -12.00% 195
UK excluding London -84 827 £50,000 -13.04% 120
Work from Home -36 465 £52,500 -19.23% 145
London -49 237 £77,500 -13.89% 90
North of England -63 219 £52,500 -8.70% 26
South East -53 218 £57,500 +4.55% 23
North West -18 176 £52,500 -8.70% 11
Midlands -50 156 £50,000 -13.04% 31
East Midlands +9 110 £51,250 -10.87% 10
South West -8 100 £45,000 -12.20% 10
East of England -13 61 £62,500 +11.11% 13
Scotland -99 46 £44,750 -22.17% 12
West Midlands -62 45 £50,000 -13.04% 21
Yorkshire -57 32 £45,000 -21.74% 12
Northern Ireland +2 16 £35,000 -39.13% 6
Wales -2 11 £60,000 +9.09% 1
North East -39 11 £71,500 +24.35% 3

OOP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 25 (2.33%) Apache
2 13 (1.21%) Apache Spark
2 13 (1.21%) NServiceBus
3 12 (1.12%) nginx
4 11 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (1.03%) Confluence
5 9 (0.84%) WordPress
6 8 (0.75%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.56%) Mendix
8 5 (0.47%) IIS
8 5 (0.47%) K2 blackpearl
9 4 (0.37%) Apache Solr
9 4 (0.37%) CMS
9 4 (0.37%) ColdFusion
9 4 (0.37%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.19%) SAS
12 1 (0.093%) Drupal
12 1 (0.093%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.093%) Umbraco
Applications
1 18 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 9 (0.84%) Trello
3 8 (0.75%) InfoPath
4 5 (0.47%) Doxygen
5 4 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (0.37%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.19%) Simulink
7 1 (0.093%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (0.93%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.19%) Magento
3 2 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.093%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.093%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 409 (38.15%) Azure
2 283 (26.40%) AWS
3 240 (22.39%) IBM Cloud
4 184 (17.16%) Serverless
5 158 (14.74%) Azure DevOps
6 130 (12.13%) Azure Service Bus
7 128 (11.94%) Azure Functions
8 125 (11.66%) Azure API Management
8 125 (11.66%) Azure Logic Apps
9 73 (6.81%) SaaS
10 55 (5.13%) GCP
11 51 (4.76%) GitHub
12 47 (4.38%) AWS Lambda
13 26 (2.43%) Cloud Computing
14 20 (1.87%) Amazon SQS
15 18 (1.68%) Amazon S3
16 11 (1.03%) AWS Step Functions
17 8 (0.75%) Microsoft 365
17 8 (0.75%) OneDrive
18 7 (0.65%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 26 (2.43%) TCP/IP
2 17 (1.59%) HTTP
3 16 (1.49%) SSH
4 13 (1.21%) SNMP
5 9 (0.84%) FTP
6 8 (0.75%) Internet
7 4 (0.37%) Multicast
8 2 (0.19%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.093%) Firewall
9 1 (0.093%) Network Security
9 1 (0.093%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.093%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 265 (24.72%) NoSQL
2 264 (24.63%) PostgreSQL
3 246 (22.95%) MongoDB
4 238 (22.20%) DB2
5 229 (21.36%) MySQL
6 206 (19.22%) Relational Database
7 73 (6.81%) SQL Server
8 29 (2.71%) Redis
9 19 (1.77%) MariaDB
10 15 (1.40%) GIS
11 14 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
12 11 (1.03%) Apache Hive
12 11 (1.03%) Presto
13 9 (0.84%) RDBMS
14 8 (0.75%) Big Data
15 7 (0.65%) Amazon Aurora
16 6 (0.56%) Geospatial Data
16 6 (0.56%) Metadata
17 5 (0.47%) DynamoDB
17 5 (0.47%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 185 (17.26%) Git
2 67 (6.25%) JIRA
3 30 (2.80%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.96%) GitLab
4 21 (1.96%) Maven
5 19 (1.77%) Eclipse
6 17 (1.59%) Visual Studio
7 13 (1.21%) Selenium
8 12 (1.12%) PHPUnit
8 12 (1.12%) TeamCity
9 11 (1.03%) CircleCI
10 9 (0.84%) Postman
11 6 (0.56%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.56%) JMeter
11 6 (0.56%) Newman
11 6 (0.56%) REST Assured
11 6 (0.56%) Spinnaker
11 6 (0.56%) Subversion
11 6 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
12 5 (0.47%) JUnit
General
1 265 (24.72%) Public Sector
2 193 (18.00%) Social Skills
3 150 (13.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 127 (11.85%) Finance
5 54 (5.04%) Law
6 42 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
7 39 (3.64%) Banking
8 34 (3.17%) Games
8 34 (3.17%) Retail
9 33 (3.08%) Electronics
10 25 (2.33%) Tech for Good
11 24 (2.24%) Investment Banking
12 21 (1.96%) Front Office
12 21 (1.96%) Publishing
13 18 (1.68%) Legal
14 15 (1.40%) Health Technology
14 15 (1.40%) Marketing
14 15 (1.40%) Telecoms
15 14 (1.31%) Manufacturing
16 13 (1.21%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 605 (56.44%) Developer
2 217 (20.24%) Software Engineer
3 214 (19.96%) Senior
4 205 (19.12%) Full Stack Developer
5 137 (12.78%) PHP Developer
6 129 (12.03%) Full Stack Engineer
7 126 (11.75%) Azure Developer
8 120 (11.19%) Azure Engineer
9 119 (11.10%) Senior Developer
10 80 (7.46%) .NET Developer
11 69 (6.44%) Software Developer
12 64 (5.97%) Lead
13 54 (5.04%) C# Developer
14 44 (4.10%) Senior Software Engineer
15 39 (3.64%) Web Developer
16 37 (3.45%) Java Developer
17 36 (3.36%) Lead Developer
17 36 (3.36%) PHP Software Engineer
18 35 (3.26%) .NET Software Engineer
19 31 (2.89%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 496 (46.27%) .NET
2 484 (45.15%) HTML
3 477 (44.50%) CSS
4 408 (38.06%) React
5 372 (34.70%) AngularJS
6 356 (33.21%) Vue
7 350 (32.65%) Web Services
8 343 (32.00%) jQuery
9 330 (30.78%) REST
10 301 (28.08%) ASP.NET
11 256 (23.88%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 247 (23.04%) ASP.NET Core
13 238 (22.20%) Backbone.js
13 238 (22.20%) Ember.js
14 184 (17.16%) Laravel
15 173 (16.14%) Node.js
16 114 (10.63%) LAMP
17 98 (9.14%) .NET Core
18 76 (7.09%) RESTful
19 58 (5.41%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 329 (30.69%) Data Structures
2 317 (29.57%) Algorithms
3 241 (22.48%) Blockchain
4 240 (22.39%) Hybrid Cloud
5 114 (10.63%) e-Learning
6 85 (7.93%) Client/Server
7 38 (3.54%) Greenfield Project
8 36 (3.36%) Product Ownership
9 29 (2.71%) Cloud Native
10 26 (2.43%) Hedge funds
10 26 (2.43%) Video\Live Streaming
11 17 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
11 17 (1.59%) Management Information System
12 15 (1.40%) Distributed Applications
12 15 (1.40%) IoT
13 13 (1.21%) CMDB
14 12 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
15 11 (1.03%) Blog
15 11 (1.03%) Online Games
15 11 (1.03%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 336 (31.34%) Linux
2 301 (28.08%) Windows
3 259 (24.16%) Android
4 254 (23.69%) Apple iOS
5 35 (3.26%) Unix
6 9 (0.84%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.47%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.28%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.093%) Solaris
9 1 (0.093%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.093%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 604 (56.34%) OO
2 483 (45.06%) Agile
3 439 (40.95%) Design Patterns
4 413 (38.53%) MVC
5 405 (37.78%) Full Stack Development
6 341 (31.81%) Software Engineering
7 328 (30.60%) SOLID
7 328 (30.60%) Web Development
8 285 (26.59%) User Experience
9 262 (24.44%) MVVM
10 259 (24.16%) Artificial Intelligence
11 244 (22.76%) Responsive Web Design
12 238 (22.20%) Co-Creation
12 238 (22.20%) Design Thinking
12 238 (22.20%) DevOps
13 225 (20.99%) Mentoring
14 219 (20.43%) Computer Science
15 193 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
16 165 (15.39%) TDD
17 150 (13.99%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 598 (55.78%) JavaScript
2 541 (50.47%) C#
3 460 (42.91%) SQL
4 306 (28.54%) Java
5 272 (25.37%) Python
6 255 (23.79%) PHP
7 119 (11.10%) TypeScript
8 45 (4.20%) C++
9 39 (3.64%) C
10 34 (3.17%) T-SQL
11 27 (2.52%) PowerShell
12 21 (1.96%) Kotlin
13 20 (1.87%) Groovy
13 20 (1.87%) Scala
14 16 (1.49%) Go
14 16 (1.49%) Perl
15 13 (1.21%) Apex Code
16 12 (1.12%) Ada
16 12 (1.12%) Shell Script
17 10 (0.93%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 195 (18.19%) Degree
2 98 (9.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 31 (2.89%) Security Cleared
4 17 (1.59%) Master's Degree
5 9 (0.84%) DBS Check
5 9 (0.84%) PhD
6 8 (0.75%) AWS Certification
6 8 (0.75%) Azure Certification
7 6 (0.56%) Numerate Degree
8 5 (0.47%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.37%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.093%) MCP
11 1 (0.093%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.093%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (5.97%) QA
2 6 (0.56%) Data Quality
3 5 (0.47%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.37%) DICOM
4 4 (0.37%) HL7
4 4 (0.37%) ISO 13485
5 1 (0.093%) GDPR
5 1 (0.093%) SLA
System Software
1 112 (10.45%) Docker
2 17 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (0.93%) Firmware
4 5 (0.47%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.19%) HDFS
6 1 (0.093%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.093%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.093%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.093%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.093%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 61 (5.69%) Kubernetes
2 60 (5.60%) Terraform
3 13 (1.21%) WMI
4 8 (0.75%) Ansible
5 4 (0.37%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.093%) Argo
6 1 (0.093%) CASB
6 1 (0.093%) Grafana
6 1 (0.093%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.093%) Podman
6 1 (0.093%) SCCM
Vendors
1 240 (22.39%) IBM
1 240 (22.39%) Red Hat
2 96 (8.96%) Microsoft
3 38 (3.54%) Google
4 24 (2.24%) Oracle
5 18 (1.68%) Salesforce
6 13 (1.21%) Splunk
7 12 (1.12%) SAP
8 11 (1.03%) Databricks
8 11 (1.03%) Xamarin
9 7 (0.65%) Bloomberg
10 5 (0.47%) Automation Anywhere
10 5 (0.47%) Blue Prism
10 5 (0.47%) F5
10 5 (0.47%) MuleSoft
10 5 (0.47%) Twitter
11 4 (0.37%) Adobe
11 4 (0.37%) Peregrine
12 3 (0.28%) Murex
13 2 (0.19%) Intel