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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 274 188 151
Rank change year-on-year -86 -37 +8
Permanent jobs citing OOP 1,075 1,927 4,618
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.05% 1.98% 2.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 2.07% 2.88%
Number of salaries quoted 668 1,113 1,448
10th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,375 £50,000 £43,438
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 £92,725 £105,000 £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 86,445 93,025 160,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.24% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,550 54,985 83,280
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% +9.38%

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 28 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 28 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 -69 998 £55,000 -8.33% 188
UK excluding London -86 826 £50,000 -13.04% 117
Work from Home -24 465 £52,500 -19.23% 129
London -34 241 £77,500 -13.89% 92
North of England -68 218 £52,500 -8.70% 25
South East -57 217 £57,500 - 22
North West -18 174 £52,500 -12.50% 12
Midlands -36 157 £50,000 -13.04% 27
East Midlands 0 110 £51,250 -10.87% 7
South West -24 98 £45,000 -14.29% 10
East of England -16 63 £62,500 +13.64% 13
West Midlands -63 46 £50,000 -13.04% 20
Scotland -99 46 £44,750 -22.17% 13
Yorkshire -63 33 £45,000 -21.74% 11
Northern Ireland -6 16 £35,000 -39.13% 6
Wales -7 11 £60,000 +9.09% 3
North East -39 11 £71,500 +24.35% 2

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 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (0.93%) Confluence
5 10 (0.93%) WordPress
6 8 (0.74%) 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 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 9 (0.84%) Trello
3 8 (0.74%) 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
1 411 (38.23%) Azure
2 284 (26.42%) AWS
3 240 (22.33%) IBM Cloud
4 182 (16.93%) Serverless
5 160 (14.88%) Azure DevOps
6 130 (12.09%) Azure Service Bus
7 128 (11.91%) Azure Functions
8 125 (11.63%) Azure API Management
8 125 (11.63%) Azure Logic Apps
9 73 (6.79%) SaaS
10 54 (5.02%) GCP
11 50 (4.65%) GitHub
12 47 (4.37%) AWS Lambda
13 26 (2.42%) Cloud Computing
14 20 (1.86%) Amazon SQS
15 18 (1.67%) Amazon S3
16 11 (1.02%) AWS Step Functions
17 8 (0.74%) Microsoft 365
17 8 (0.74%) OneDrive
18 7 (0.65%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 26 (2.42%) TCP/IP
2 17 (1.58%) HTTP
3 16 (1.49%) SSH
4 13 (1.21%) SNMP
5 9 (0.84%) FTP
6 8 (0.74%) 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 (24.65%) PostgreSQL
2 263 (24.47%) NoSQL
3 247 (22.98%) MongoDB
4 238 (22.14%) DB2
5 231 (21.49%) MySQL
6 208 (19.35%) Relational Database
7 72 (6.70%) SQL Server
8 30 (2.79%) Redis
9 20 (1.86%) MariaDB
10 15 (1.40%) GIS
11 14 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
12 11 (1.02%) Apache Hive
12 11 (1.02%) Presto
13 10 (0.93%) RDBMS
14 8 (0.74%) Big Data
15 7 (0.65%) Amazon Aurora
16 6 (0.56%) Geospatial Data
17 5 (0.47%) DynamoDB
17 5 (0.47%) Metadata
17 5 (0.47%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 185 (17.21%) Git
2 66 (6.14%) JIRA
3 29 (2.70%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.95%) GitLab
4 21 (1.95%) Maven
5 19 (1.77%) Eclipse
6 16 (1.49%) Visual Studio
7 13 (1.21%) Selenium
8 12 (1.12%) PHPUnit
8 12 (1.12%) TeamCity
9 11 (1.02%) 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%) Subversion
11 6 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
12 5 (0.47%) InstallShield
12 5 (0.47%) JUnit
General
1 265 (24.65%) Public Sector
2 191 (17.77%) Social Skills
3 150 (13.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 130 (12.09%) Finance
5 55 (5.12%) Law
6 39 (3.63%) Analytical Skills
7 38 (3.53%) Banking
8 36 (3.35%) Games
9 33 (3.07%) Electronics
9 33 (3.07%) Retail
10 25 (2.33%) Tech for Good
11 24 (2.23%) Investment Banking
12 21 (1.95%) Front Office
12 21 (1.95%) Publishing
13 19 (1.77%) Legal
14 16 (1.49%) Marketing
15 15 (1.40%) Health Technology
15 15 (1.40%) Telecoms
16 14 (1.30%) Manufacturing
17 12 (1.12%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 606 (56.37%) Developer
2 222 (20.65%) Software Engineer
3 213 (19.81%) Senior
4 204 (18.98%) Full Stack Developer
5 136 (12.65%) PHP Developer
6 129 (12.00%) Full Stack Engineer
7 126 (11.72%) Azure Developer
8 122 (11.35%) Azure Engineer
9 117 (10.88%) Senior Developer
10 82 (7.63%) .NET Developer
11 67 (6.23%) Software Developer
12 64 (5.95%) Lead
13 54 (5.02%) C# Developer
14 45 (4.19%) Senior Software Engineer
15 40 (3.72%) Web Developer
16 37 (3.44%) Java Developer
16 37 (3.44%) PHP Software Engineer
17 36 (3.35%) .NET Software Engineer
17 36 (3.35%) Lead Developer
18 31 (2.88%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 497 (46.23%) .NET
2 485 (45.12%) HTML
3 477 (44.37%) CSS
4 409 (38.05%) React
5 374 (34.79%) AngularJS
6 355 (33.02%) Vue
7 348 (32.37%) Web Services
8 343 (31.91%) jQuery
9 330 (30.70%) REST
10 303 (28.19%) ASP.NET
11 256 (23.81%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 248 (23.07%) ASP.NET Core
13 238 (22.14%) Backbone.js
13 238 (22.14%) Ember.js
14 183 (17.02%) Laravel
15 172 (16.00%) Node.js
16 113 (10.51%) LAMP
17 98 (9.12%) .NET Core
18 78 (7.26%) RESTful
19 59 (5.49%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 329 (30.60%) Data Structures
2 317 (29.49%) Algorithms
3 241 (22.42%) Blockchain
4 240 (22.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 114 (10.60%) e-Learning
6 86 (8.00%) Client/Server
7 38 (3.53%) Greenfield Project
8 35 (3.26%) Product Ownership
9 29 (2.70%) Cloud Native
10 27 (2.51%) Hedge funds
11 25 (2.33%) Video\Live Streaming
12 17 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
12 17 (1.58%) Management Information System
13 15 (1.40%) Distributed Applications
13 15 (1.40%) IoT
14 13 (1.21%) CMDB
15 12 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
16 11 (1.02%) Private Cloud
16 11 (1.02%) PropTech
16 11 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 335 (31.16%) Linux
2 301 (28.00%) Windows
3 259 (24.09%) Android
4 254 (23.63%) 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
1 612 (56.93%) OO
2 485 (45.12%) Agile
3 440 (40.93%) Design Patterns
4 413 (38.42%) MVC
5 406 (37.77%) Full Stack Development
6 347 (32.28%) Software Engineering
7 328 (30.51%) SOLID
7 328 (30.51%) Web Development
8 286 (26.60%) User Experience
9 262 (24.37%) MVVM
10 259 (24.09%) Artificial Intelligence
11 244 (22.70%) Responsive Web Design
12 239 (22.23%) DevOps
13 238 (22.14%) Co-Creation
13 238 (22.14%) Design Thinking
14 224 (20.84%) Mentoring
15 219 (20.37%) Computer Science
16 195 (18.14%) Problem-Solving
17 165 (15.35%) TDD
18 152 (14.14%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 599 (55.72%) JavaScript
2 542 (50.42%) C#
3 460 (42.79%) SQL
4 307 (28.56%) Java
5 270 (25.12%) Python
6 256 (23.81%) PHP
7 118 (10.98%) TypeScript
8 44 (4.09%) C++
9 39 (3.63%) C
10 33 (3.07%) T-SQL
11 29 (2.70%) PowerShell
12 22 (2.05%) Kotlin
13 21 (1.95%) Scala
14 20 (1.86%) Groovy
15 16 (1.49%) Perl
16 15 (1.40%) Go
17 13 (1.21%) Apex Code
18 12 (1.12%) Ada
18 12 (1.12%) Shell Script
19 10 (0.93%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 195 (18.14%) Degree
2 99 (9.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 32 (2.98%) Security Cleared
4 16 (1.49%) Master's Degree
5 9 (0.84%) DBS Check
6 8 (0.74%) AWS Certification
6 8 (0.74%) Azure Certification
6 8 (0.74%) PhD
7 6 (0.56%) Numerate Degree
8 5 (0.47%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.47%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
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 65 (6.05%) QA
2 5 (0.47%) Accessibility
2 5 (0.47%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.37%) DICOM
3 4 (0.37%) HL7
3 4 (0.37%) ISO 13485
4 1 (0.093%) GDPR
4 1 (0.093%) SLA
System Software
1 112 (10.42%) Docker
2 18 (1.67%) 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 63 (5.86%) Kubernetes
1 63 (5.86%) Terraform
2 13 (1.21%) WMI
3 10 (0.93%) Ansible
4 4 (0.37%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.093%) Argo
5 1 (0.093%) CASB
5 1 (0.093%) Grafana
5 1 (0.093%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.093%) Podman
5 1 (0.093%) SCCM
Vendors
1 240 (22.33%) IBM
1 240 (22.33%) Red Hat
2 98 (9.12%) Microsoft
3 38 (3.53%) Google
4 24 (2.23%) Oracle
5 18 (1.67%) Salesforce
6 13 (1.21%) Splunk
7 12 (1.12%) SAP
8 11 (1.02%) Databricks
8 11 (1.02%) 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