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

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 693 728 502
Rank change year-on-year +35 -226 -38
Permanent jobs citing OOD 213 268 1,063
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.26% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.27% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 148 178 429
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,775 £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 £83,438 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,750 £105,625 £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 84,746 99,225 149,638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.94% 95.61% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 59,834 58,281 83,297
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,750 £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 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for OOD in the UK

OOD
Top 16 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 3 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 +41 188 £65,000 - 54
UK excluding London +27 145 £60,000 +14.29% 36
Work from Home +26 78 £60,000 -4.00% 24
London +66 68 £78,750 +1.61% 18
South East +17 58 £65,500 +19.09% 16
North of England +52 25 £60,000 +25.86% 6
Midlands +25 20 £47,500 -24.00% 7
Scotland -53 19 £60,000 -7.69%
West Midlands +26 15 £54,500 -9.17% 3
Yorkshire +82 12 - - 3
North West +8 12 £60,000 +84.62% 1
South West -24 11 £47,500 -9.52% 4
East of England +8 7 £80,000 +99.72% 1
Wales +6 6 £34,000 -60.00% 3
East Midlands -3 5 £45,000 -30.77% 4
North East -7 1 £55,000 +17.02% 2

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 (3.76%) Apache Pig
1 8 (3.76%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.29%) IIS
3 2 (0.94%) IBM Domino
4 1 (0.47%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (3.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 61 (28.64%) Azure
2 55 (25.82%) AWS
3 29 (13.62%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (9.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 20 (9.39%) Azure Monitor
5 19 (8.92%) SaaS
6 18 (8.45%) Azure Service Bus
7 12 (5.63%) Serverless
8 11 (5.16%) GitHub
9 8 (3.76%) IBM Cloud
10 7 (3.29%) Google Analytics
11 6 (2.82%) GCP
12 5 (2.35%) PaaS
13 4 (1.88%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (1.88%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (1.88%) Amazon S3
13 4 (1.88%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (1.88%) Power Platform
14 2 (0.94%) Dynamics 365
14 2 (0.94%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (12.68%) Wi-Fi
1 27 (12.68%) Wireless
2 19 (8.92%) RS-232
3 15 (7.04%) Ethernet
4 12 (5.63%) 3G
4 12 (5.63%) 4G
4 12 (5.63%) MQTT
4 12 (5.63%) RS-485
5 7 (3.29%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.94%) Modbus
7 1 (0.47%) FTP
7 1 (0.47%) HTTP
7 1 (0.47%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (18.78%) SQL Server
2 16 (7.51%) Relational Database
2 16 (7.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 8 (3.76%) Apache Hive
3 8 (3.76%) Big Data
3 8 (3.76%) Hadoop
4 7 (3.29%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.35%) MySQL
6 2 (0.94%) 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 (16.90%) Git
2 25 (11.74%) JUnit
3 17 (7.98%) Visual Studio
4 15 (7.04%) Maven
5 14 (6.57%) JIRA
6 8 (3.76%) Checkstyle
6 8 (3.76%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.35%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.35%) Jenkins
8 4 (1.88%) Sourcetree
8 4 (1.88%) Subversion
8 4 (1.88%) Zephyr
9 3 (1.41%) Mockito
10 2 (0.94%) Appium
10 2 (0.94%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.94%) Selenium
10 2 (0.94%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.94%) WebDriver
10 2 (0.94%) Xcode
11 1 (0.47%) NUnit
General
1 70 (32.86%) Social Skills
2 36 (16.90%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (8.92%) Finance
3 19 (8.92%) Manufacturing
4 17 (7.98%) Back Office
5 16 (7.51%) Local Government
6 12 (5.63%) Electronics
6 12 (5.63%) Mandarin Language
7 11 (5.16%) Front Office
8 9 (4.23%) Banking
8 9 (4.23%) Investment Banking
9 8 (3.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (3.76%) Public Sector
10 7 (3.29%) Law
11 6 (2.82%) Legal
11 6 (2.82%) Publishing
12 5 (2.35%) Automotive
12 5 (2.35%) Games
13 4 (1.88%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.94%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 95 (44.60%) Senior
2 82 (38.50%) Developer
3 68 (31.92%) Software Engineer
4 46 (21.60%) Embedded Engineer
5 42 (19.72%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 39 (18.31%) Senior Developer
7 35 (16.43%) Senior Software Engineer
8 29 (13.62%) Lead
8 29 (13.62%) Senior Embedded Engineer
9 25 (11.74%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
10 24 (11.27%) Java Developer
11 19 (8.92%) Software Developer
12 17 (7.98%) .NET Developer
13 16 (7.51%) Senior Java Developer
14 15 (7.04%) Senior .NET Developer
15 14 (6.57%) Java Engineer
16 10 (4.69%) Lead Developer
16 10 (4.69%) Technical Leader
17 9 (4.23%) C# Developer
17 9 (4.23%) C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (27.70%) .NET
2 30 (14.08%) Spring
3 28 (13.15%) CSS
3 28 (13.15%) HTML
4 26 (12.21%) REST
5 25 (11.74%) AngularJS
6 23 (10.80%) .NET Core
7 21 (9.86%) Yocto
8 19 (8.92%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 17 (7.98%) jQuery
10 16 (7.51%) Web Services
11 15 (7.04%) ASP.NET
11 15 (7.04%) Hibernate
11 15 (7.04%) React
11 15 (7.04%) Spring Boot
11 15 (7.04%) XML
12 10 (4.69%) Entity Framework
12 10 (4.69%) SOAP
13 9 (4.23%) .NET Framework
13 9 (4.23%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 23 (10.80%) Algorithms
2 22 (10.33%) Self-Motivation
3 21 (9.86%) Device Driver
4 20 (9.39%) Data Structures
4 20 (9.39%) Enterprise Software
5 18 (8.45%) Product Ownership
6 17 (7.98%) Analytical Mindset
6 17 (7.98%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (3.76%) Blockchain
7 8 (3.76%) Client/Server
7 8 (3.76%) e-Learning
7 8 (3.76%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (3.76%) IoT
8 7 (3.29%) Cloud Native
8 7 (3.29%) Fixed Income
9 6 (2.82%) Onboarding
10 5 (2.35%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.88%) Credit Risk
11 4 (1.88%) Market Risk
12 3 (1.41%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 52 (24.41%) Linux
2 37 (17.37%) Embedded Linux
3 14 (6.57%) Windows
4 5 (2.35%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.88%) FreeRTOS
6 3 (1.41%) Android
7 2 (0.94%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (75.59%) OO
2 105 (49.30%) Software Engineering
3 98 (46.01%) Agile
4 78 (36.62%) Computer Science
5 64 (30.05%) DevOps
6 56 (26.29%) Design Patterns
7 55 (25.82%) SDLC
8 48 (22.54%) Problem-Solving
9 35 (16.43%) TDD
10 30 (14.08%) CI/CD
11 29 (13.62%) SOLID
12 28 (13.15%) Scrum
13 26 (12.21%) Microservices
14 25 (11.74%) Mathematics
15 23 (10.80%) Clean Code
15 23 (10.80%) Mentoring
16 22 (10.33%) Full Stack Development
16 22 (10.33%) User Experience
17 21 (9.86%) Continuous Improvement
17 21 (9.86%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 80 (37.56%) C#
2 65 (30.52%) Java
3 59 (27.70%) C
4 49 (23.00%) JavaScript
5 47 (22.07%) C++
6 45 (21.13%) SQL
7 42 (19.72%) Python
8 19 (8.92%) Bicep
9 17 (7.98%) Embedded C
9 17 (7.98%) Fortran
10 11 (5.16%) TypeScript
11 8 (3.76%) T-SQL
12 7 (3.29%) XPath
13 5 (2.35%) Bash
13 5 (2.35%) Groovy
14 3 (1.41%) PHP
14 3 (1.41%) Ruby
15 2 (0.94%) Objective-C
15 2 (0.94%) PowerShell
16 1 (0.47%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 70 (32.86%) Degree
2 37 (17.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (9.86%) Master's Degree
4 17 (7.98%) PhD
5 5 (2.35%) Numerate Degree
6 2 (0.94%) SC Cleared
6 2 (0.94%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.47%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.47%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.45%) QA
2 12 (5.63%) GDPR
3 6 (2.82%) ISO 9000
4 4 (1.88%) MISRA
4 4 (1.88%) MISRA C
5 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.47%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.47%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (15.02%) Docker
2 18 (8.45%) Active Directory
3 8 (3.76%) HDFS
4 4 (1.88%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (1.88%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 23 (10.80%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 46 (21.60%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.10%) Google
3 8 (3.76%) IBM
3 8 (3.76%) Red Hat
4 4 (1.88%) Oracle
5 3 (1.41%) Xamarin
6 2 (0.94%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.94%) Siemens
7 1 (0.47%) Apple
7 1 (0.47%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.47%) SAP