OOP Jobs in the UK excluding London

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 237 153 141
Rank change year-on-year -84 -12 -21
Permanent jobs citing OOP 831 1,371 1,814
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.17% 2.28% 2.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 2.38% 2.72%
Number of salaries quoted 498 727 763
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £86,250 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,550 57,521 66,624
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.98% 95.64% 94.06%
Number of salaries quoted 41,216 29,548 40,995
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing OOP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for OOP in the UK excluding London

OOP
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing OOP in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for OOP in the UK excluding London

OOP
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing OOP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for OOP in the UK excluding London

OOP
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OOP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
South East -60 223 £57,500 +4.55% 27
North of England -63 219 £52,500 -8.70% 30
North West -21 178 £52,500 -12.50% 13
Midlands -47 150 £50,000 -13.04% 33
East Midlands -3 108 £51,250 -10.87% 14
South West -12 103 £45,000 -14.29% 6
East of England -12 62 £62,500 +8.70% 15
Scotland -112 47 £47,500 -17.39% 11
West Midlands -62 41 £50,000 -13.04% 19
Yorkshire -52 30 £45,000 -21.74% 14
Northern Ireland +2 16 £35,000 -39.13% 6
Wales -6 11 £60,000 +9.09% 2
North East -37 11 £71,500 +24.35% 3
OOP
UK

OOP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 14 (1.68%) Apache
2 12 (1.44%) nginx
3 11 (1.32%) NServiceBus
4 10 (1.20%) Confluence
5 9 (1.08%) WordPress
6 8 (0.96%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.72%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.60%) IIS
9 4 (0.48%) Apache Solr
9 4 (0.48%) ColdFusion
10 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.24%) CMS
12 1 (0.12%) Drupal
12 1 (0.12%) PrestaShop
12 1 (0.12%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.12%) WildFly
Applications
1 18 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 9 (1.08%) Trello
3 8 (0.96%) InfoPath
4 5 (0.60%) Doxygen
5 4 (0.48%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (0.48%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.24%) Simulink
7 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (1.20%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.24%) Magento
3 2 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 341 (41.03%) Azure
2 230 (27.68%) IBM Cloud
3 185 (22.26%) AWS
4 151 (18.17%) Serverless
5 140 (16.85%) Azure DevOps
6 120 (14.44%) Azure Service Bus
7 118 (14.20%) Azure Functions
8 115 (13.84%) Azure API Management
8 115 (13.84%) Azure Logic Apps
9 64 (7.70%) SaaS
10 50 (6.02%) GitHub
11 29 (3.49%) GCP
12 25 (3.01%) AWS Lambda
13 20 (2.41%) Cloud Computing
14 10 (1.20%) Amazon SQS
15 8 (0.96%) Microsoft 365
15 8 (0.96%) OneDrive
16 7 (0.84%) GitHub Actions
17 6 (0.72%) Amazon S3
18 5 (0.60%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 26 (3.13%) TCP/IP
2 17 (2.05%) HTTP
3 13 (1.56%) SNMP
3 13 (1.56%) SSH
4 10 (1.20%) Internet
5 9 (1.08%) FTP
6 2 (0.24%) Multicast
6 2 (0.24%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.12%) Firewall
7 1 (0.12%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 242 (29.12%) NoSQL
1 242 (29.12%) PostgreSQL
2 233 (28.04%) MongoDB
3 228 (27.44%) DB2
4 209 (25.15%) MySQL
5 172 (20.70%) Relational Database
6 60 (7.22%) SQL Server
7 26 (3.13%) Redis
8 21 (2.53%) MariaDB
9 15 (1.81%) GIS
10 9 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (0.72%) Big Data
11 6 (0.72%) DynamoDB
11 6 (0.72%) Geospatial Data
12 5 (0.60%) Metadata
12 5 (0.60%) MS Access
12 5 (0.60%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.36%) Amazon Aurora
14 2 (0.24%) Azure SQL Database
14 2 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 129 (15.52%) Git
2 59 (7.10%) JIRA
3 29 (3.49%) Jenkins
4 22 (2.65%) Maven
5 20 (2.41%) GitLab
6 18 (2.17%) Eclipse
7 15 (1.81%) Visual Studio
8 12 (1.44%) TeamCity
9 11 (1.32%) CircleCI
10 10 (1.20%) PHPUnit
10 10 (1.20%) Selenium
11 7 (0.84%) Postman
12 6 (0.72%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.72%) JMeter
12 6 (0.72%) Newman
12 6 (0.72%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.72%) Subversion
13 5 (0.60%) InstallShield
13 5 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
13 5 (0.60%) webpack
General
1 253 (30.45%) Public Sector
2 142 (17.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 108 (13.00%) Social Skills
4 71 (8.54%) Finance
5 45 (5.42%) Law
6 32 (3.85%) Banking
7 28 (3.37%) Retail
8 24 (2.89%) Analytical Skills
8 24 (2.89%) Games
9 23 (2.77%) Electronics
10 21 (2.53%) Publishing
11 17 (2.05%) Investment Banking
12 14 (1.68%) Telecoms
13 13 (1.56%) Manufacturing
13 13 (1.56%) Marketing
14 12 (1.44%) Automotive
15 10 (1.20%) Retail Banking
16 8 (0.96%) Legal
16 8 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (0.96%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 480 (57.76%) Developer
2 174 (20.94%) Full Stack Developer
3 162 (19.49%) Senior
4 145 (17.45%) Software Engineer
5 125 (15.04%) Full Stack Engineer
6 121 (14.56%) PHP Developer
7 117 (14.08%) Azure Engineer
8 116 (13.96%) Azure Developer
9 96 (11.55%) Senior Developer
10 70 (8.42%) .NET Developer
11 63 (7.58%) Software Developer
12 38 (4.57%) Web Developer
13 34 (4.09%) Lead
14 33 (3.97%) C# Developer
14 33 (3.97%) Senior Software Engineer
15 28 (3.37%) Java Developer
16 26 (3.13%) .NET Software Engineer
17 25 (3.01%) Senior .NET Developer
18 24 (2.89%) Senior PHP Developer
19 23 (2.77%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 458 (55.11%) HTML
2 444 (53.43%) CSS
3 414 (49.82%) .NET
4 356 (42.84%) React
5 341 (41.03%) Vue
6 333 (40.07%) jQuery
7 329 (39.59%) AngularJS
8 328 (39.47%) Web Services
9 310 (37.30%) REST
10 286 (34.42%) ASP.NET
11 245 (29.48%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 235 (28.28%) ASP.NET Core
13 228 (27.44%) Backbone.js
13 228 (27.44%) Ember.js
14 151 (18.17%) Node.js
15 147 (17.69%) Laravel
16 98 (11.79%) LAMP
17 58 (6.98%) RESTful
18 56 (6.74%) .NET Core
19 49 (5.90%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 271 (32.61%) Algorithms
2 264 (31.77%) Data Structures
3 230 (27.68%) Blockchain
3 230 (27.68%) Hybrid Cloud
4 113 (13.60%) e-Learning
5 42 (5.05%) Client/Server
6 30 (3.61%) Product Ownership
7 29 (3.49%) Video\Live Streaming
8 26 (3.13%) Cloud Native
9 22 (2.65%) Greenfield Project
10 16 (1.93%) IoT
11 15 (1.81%) Distributed Applications
12 13 (1.56%) CMDB
13 11 (1.32%) Online Games
14 10 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
14 10 (1.20%) PropTech
15 9 (1.08%) Life Science
16 6 (0.72%) Arduino
16 6 (0.72%) Management Information System
16 6 (0.72%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 317 (38.15%) Linux
2 288 (34.66%) Windows
3 242 (29.12%) Android
4 239 (28.76%) Apple iOS
5 29 (3.49%) Unix
6 9 (1.08%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.72%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 493 (59.33%) OO
2 382 (45.97%) MVC
3 373 (44.89%) Design Patterns
4 362 (43.56%) Agile
5 354 (42.60%) Full Stack Development
6 313 (37.67%) Web Development
7 298 (35.86%) SOLID
8 272 (32.73%) User Experience
9 251 (30.20%) MVVM
10 244 (29.36%) Artificial Intelligence
11 234 (28.16%) Responsive Web Design
12 228 (27.44%) Co-Creation
12 228 (27.44%) Design Thinking
13 204 (24.55%) DevOps
14 203 (24.43%) Software Engineering
15 199 (23.95%) Mentoring
16 142 (17.09%) Code Quality
17 140 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
18 124 (14.92%) TDD
19 120 (14.44%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 541 (65.10%) JavaScript
2 445 (53.55%) C#
3 385 (46.33%) SQL
4 233 (28.04%) Java
5 211 (25.39%) PHP
6 184 (22.14%) Python
7 72 (8.66%) TypeScript
8 37 (4.45%) C++
9 36 (4.33%) C
10 30 (3.61%) T-SQL
11 22 (2.65%) PowerShell
12 20 (2.41%) Groovy
13 13 (1.56%) Apex Code
13 13 (1.56%) Perl
14 12 (1.44%) Ada
15 11 (1.32%) Shell Script
16 9 (1.08%) VB.NET
17 8 (0.96%) MATLAB
17 8 (0.96%) VB
18 6 (0.72%) Bash
Qualifications
1 127 (15.28%) Degree
2 56 (6.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 29 (3.49%) Security Cleared
4 10 (1.20%) Master's Degree
5 9 (1.08%) DBS Check
6 8 (0.96%) AWS Certification
6 8 (0.96%) Azure Certification
7 6 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (0.72%) Numerate Degree
7 6 (0.72%) PhD
8 4 (0.48%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.24%) SC Cleared
11 1 (0.12%) MCP
11 1 (0.12%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (3.13%) QA
2 5 (0.60%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.48%) DICOM
3 4 (0.48%) HL7
3 4 (0.48%) ISO 13485
4 3 (0.36%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.12%) GDPR
5 1 (0.12%) SLA
System Software
1 81 (9.75%) Docker
2 11 (1.32%) Firmware
3 5 (0.60%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 44 (5.29%) Kubernetes
2 40 (4.81%) Terraform
3 13 (1.56%) WMI
4 4 (0.48%) Ansible
4 4 (0.48%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.12%) Argo
5 1 (0.12%) Grafana
5 1 (0.12%) SCCM
Vendors
1 230 (27.68%) IBM
1 230 (27.68%) Red Hat
2 69 (8.30%) Microsoft
3 19 (2.29%) Oracle
4 17 (2.05%) Salesforce
5 14 (1.68%) Google
6 13 (1.56%) Splunk
7 11 (1.32%) SAP
8 10 (1.20%) Xamarin
9 5 (0.60%) F5
9 5 (0.60%) MuleSoft
9 5 (0.60%) Twitter
10 4 (0.48%) Adobe
11 3 (0.36%) Peregrine
12 1 (0.12%) Ivanti
12 1 (0.12%) Rollbar
12 1 (0.12%) Sitecore