Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for OOD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited OOD over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 686 696 511
Rank change year-on-year +10 -185 -57
Permanent jobs citing OOD 211 281 1,047
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.27% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.28% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 146 181 425
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,000 £38,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £103,750 £100,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% +15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

OOD 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 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £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%

OOD
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for OOD in the UK

OOD
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for OOD in the UK

OOD
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing OOD over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for OOD in the UK

OOD
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OOD within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +55 187 £65,000 - 58
UK excluding London +10 142 £60,000 +14.29% 34
Work from Home +19 77 £60,000 - 23
London +77 68 £78,750 +1.61% 26
South East +33 56 £65,500 +19.09% 14
North of England +49 24 £60,000 +20.00% 6
Midlands +18 20 £47,500 -20.83% 6
Scotland -56 18 £60,000 -5.88%
West Midlands +35 15 £54,500 -9.17% 3
Yorkshire +94 12 - - 2
North West +13 12 £60,000 +84.62% 1
South West -4 12 £47,500 -9.52% 4
East of England +4 7 £80,000 +99.72% 1
Wales +11 6 £34,000 -60.00% 3
East Midlands -13 5 £45,000 -26.53% 3

OOD
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 8 (3.79%) Apache Pig
1 8 (3.79%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.32%) IIS
3 2 (0.95%) IBM Domino
4 1 (0.47%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (3.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 62 (29.38%) Azure
2 56 (26.54%) AWS
3 29 (13.74%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (9.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 20 (9.48%) Azure Monitor
5 18 (8.53%) Azure Service Bus
5 18 (8.53%) SaaS
6 12 (5.69%) Serverless
7 11 (5.21%) GitHub
8 8 (3.79%) IBM Cloud
9 7 (3.32%) GCP
9 7 (3.32%) Google Analytics
10 5 (2.37%) PaaS
11 4 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (1.90%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (1.90%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (1.90%) Power Platform
12 2 (0.95%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (0.95%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (12.32%) Wi-Fi
1 26 (12.32%) Wireless
2 18 (8.53%) RS-232
3 14 (6.64%) Ethernet
4 12 (5.69%) 3G
4 12 (5.69%) 4G
4 12 (5.69%) MQTT
4 12 (5.69%) RS-485
5 7 (3.32%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.95%) Modbus
7 1 (0.47%) FTP
7 1 (0.47%) HTTP
7 1 (0.47%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (18.96%) SQL Server
2 16 (7.58%) Relational Database
2 16 (7.58%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 8 (3.79%) Apache Hive
3 8 (3.79%) Big Data
3 8 (3.79%) Hadoop
4 7 (3.32%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.84%) MySQL
6 2 (0.95%) Power BI
7 1 (0.47%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (0.47%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.47%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.47%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.47%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 36 (17.06%) Git
2 24 (11.37%) JUnit
3 17 (8.06%) Visual Studio
4 15 (7.11%) Maven
5 14 (6.64%) JIRA
6 8 (3.79%) Checkstyle
6 8 (3.79%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.37%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.37%) Jenkins
8 4 (1.90%) Sourcetree
8 4 (1.90%) Subversion
8 4 (1.90%) Zephyr
9 3 (1.42%) Mockito
10 2 (0.95%) Appium
10 2 (0.95%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.95%) Selenium
10 2 (0.95%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.95%) WebDriver
10 2 (0.95%) Xcode
11 1 (0.47%) Crashlytics
General
1 69 (32.70%) Social Skills
2 36 (17.06%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (9.48%) Finance
4 18 (8.53%) Manufacturing
5 17 (8.06%) Back Office
6 16 (7.58%) Local Government
7 12 (5.69%) Electronics
7 12 (5.69%) Mandarin Language
8 11 (5.21%) Front Office
9 9 (4.27%) Banking
9 9 (4.27%) Investment Banking
10 8 (3.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (3.79%) Public Sector
11 7 (3.32%) Law
12 6 (2.84%) Legal
12 6 (2.84%) Publishing
13 5 (2.37%) Automotive
13 5 (2.37%) Games
14 4 (1.90%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.95%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 93 (44.08%) Senior
2 82 (38.86%) Developer
3 66 (31.28%) Software Engineer
4 44 (20.85%) Embedded Engineer
5 40 (18.96%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 38 (18.01%) Senior Developer
7 34 (16.11%) Senior Software Engineer
8 29 (13.74%) Lead
9 28 (13.27%) Senior Embedded Engineer
10 24 (11.37%) Java Developer
10 24 (11.37%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
11 18 (8.53%) Software Developer
12 17 (8.06%) .NET Developer
13 16 (7.58%) Senior Java Developer
14 15 (7.11%) Senior .NET Developer
15 14 (6.64%) Java Engineer
16 10 (4.74%) Lead Developer
16 10 (4.74%) Technical Leader
17 9 (4.27%) C# Developer
17 9 (4.27%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (27.49%) .NET
2 29 (13.74%) Spring
3 28 (13.27%) CSS
3 28 (13.27%) HTML
4 26 (12.32%) AngularJS
4 26 (12.32%) REST
5 23 (10.90%) .NET Core
6 19 (9.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 19 (9.00%) Yocto
7 17 (8.06%) jQuery
7 17 (8.06%) Web Services
8 15 (7.11%) ASP.NET
8 15 (7.11%) React
8 15 (7.11%) Spring Boot
8 15 (7.11%) XML
9 14 (6.64%) Hibernate
10 11 (5.21%) SOAP
11 10 (4.74%) Entity Framework
12 9 (4.27%) .NET Framework
12 9 (4.27%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.43%) Algorithms
1 22 (10.43%) Self-Motivation
2 19 (9.00%) Data Structures
2 19 (9.00%) Device Driver
2 19 (9.00%) Enterprise Software
3 18 (8.53%) Product Ownership
4 17 (8.06%) Analytical Mindset
5 15 (7.11%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (3.79%) Blockchain
6 8 (3.79%) Client/Server
6 8 (3.79%) e-Learning
6 8 (3.79%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (3.79%) IoT
7 7 (3.32%) Cloud Native
7 7 (3.32%) Fixed Income
8 6 (2.84%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.37%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.90%) Credit Risk
10 4 (1.90%) Market Risk
11 3 (1.42%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 51 (24.17%) Linux
2 36 (17.06%) Embedded Linux
3 14 (6.64%) Windows
4 4 (1.90%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.90%) FreeRTOS
5 2 (0.95%) Android
5 2 (0.95%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.47%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (76.30%) OO
2 102 (48.34%) Software Engineering
3 97 (45.97%) Agile
4 77 (36.49%) Computer Science
5 63 (29.86%) DevOps
6 56 (26.54%) Design Patterns
7 53 (25.12%) SDLC
8 49 (23.22%) Problem-Solving
9 34 (16.11%) TDD
10 29 (13.74%) SOLID
11 28 (13.27%) CI/CD
11 28 (13.27%) Scrum
12 26 (12.32%) Microservices
13 25 (11.85%) Mathematics
14 23 (10.90%) Mentoring
15 22 (10.43%) Clean Code
15 22 (10.43%) Full Stack Development
15 22 (10.43%) User Experience
16 21 (9.95%) Continuous Improvement
16 21 (9.95%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 79 (37.44%) C#
2 65 (30.81%) Java
3 58 (27.49%) C
4 49 (23.22%) JavaScript
5 46 (21.80%) C++
6 45 (21.33%) SQL
7 42 (19.91%) Python
8 19 (9.00%) Bicep
9 17 (8.06%) Fortran
10 16 (7.58%) Embedded C
11 11 (5.21%) TypeScript
12 8 (3.79%) T-SQL
13 7 (3.32%) XPath
14 5 (2.37%) Bash
14 5 (2.37%) Groovy
15 4 (1.90%) PHP
16 3 (1.42%) Ruby
17 2 (0.95%) Objective-C
17 2 (0.95%) PowerShell
18 1 (0.47%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 69 (32.70%) Degree
2 36 (17.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (9.95%) Master's Degree
4 17 (8.06%) PhD
5 5 (2.37%) Numerate Degree
6 2 (0.95%) SC Cleared
6 2 (0.95%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.47%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.47%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.53%) QA
2 12 (5.69%) GDPR
3 6 (2.84%) ISO 9000
4 4 (1.90%) MISRA
4 4 (1.90%) MISRA C
5 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.47%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.47%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (14.69%) Docker
2 18 (8.53%) Active Directory
3 8 (3.79%) HDFS
4 4 (1.90%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (1.90%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 22 (10.43%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 46 (21.80%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.64%) Google
3 8 (3.79%) IBM
3 8 (3.79%) Red Hat
4 4 (1.90%) Oracle
5 3 (1.42%) Xamarin
6 2 (0.95%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.95%) Siemens
7 1 (0.47%) Apple
7 1 (0.47%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.47%) SAP