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 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 276 188 152
Rank change year-on-year -88 -36 0
Permanent jobs citing OOP 1,033 2,105 4,228
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.05% 2.01% 2.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 2.10% 2.87%
Number of salaries quoted 672 1,235 1,509
10th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £35,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £43,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £71,563 £86,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,375 £106,250 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,650
% change year-on-year -13.04% +13.52% +6.63%

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 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%

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 27 April 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 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 -66 952 £55,000 -12.00% 197
UK excluding London -96 811 £50,000 -13.04% 136
Work from Home -27 470 £55,000 -15.38% 151
North of England -66 217 £52,500 -8.70% 35
London -76 215 £76,250 -15.28% 72
South East -40 212 £57,500 +4.55% 36
North West -10 178 £52,500 -12.50% 17
Midlands -43 139 £50,000 -13.04% 26
South West +14 105 £45,000 -14.29% 5
East Midlands -4 99 £52,500 -8.70% 11
East of England -20 62 £62,500 +4.17% 22
Scotland -114 49 £47,500 -17.39% 11
West Midlands -53 39 £50,000 -13.04% 15
Yorkshire -59 27 £45,000 -21.74% 14
Northern Ireland +8 16 £35,000 -39.13% 5
North East -35 12 £71,500 +24.35% 4
Wales +3 11 £60,000 +9.09%

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 21 (2.03%) Apache
2 12 (1.16%) nginx
3 10 (0.97%) Confluence
4 9 (0.87%) Apache Spark
4 9 (0.87%) NServiceBus
4 9 (0.87%) WordPress
5 7 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.68%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.58%) Mendix
6 6 (0.58%) Tomcat
7 5 (0.48%) CMS
7 5 (0.48%) IIS
7 5 (0.48%) K2 blackpearl
8 4 (0.39%) Apache Solr
8 4 (0.39%) ColdFusion
9 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.097%) Drupal
10 1 (0.097%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.097%) PrestaShop
10 1 (0.097%) Umbraco
Applications
1 17 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.87%) Trello
3 7 (0.68%) InfoPath
3 7 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.48%) Doxygen
5 4 (0.39%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (0.39%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.19%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 10 (0.97%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.19%) Magento
3 2 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.097%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.097%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 366 (35.43%) Azure
2 259 (25.07%) AWS
3 223 (21.59%) IBM Cloud
4 172 (16.65%) Serverless
5 145 (14.04%) Azure DevOps
6 121 (11.71%) Azure Service Bus
7 120 (11.62%) Azure Functions
8 117 (11.33%) Azure API Management
8 117 (11.33%) Azure Logic Apps
9 77 (7.45%) SaaS
10 51 (4.94%) GitHub
11 43 (4.16%) AWS Lambda
12 36 (3.48%) GCP
13 25 (2.42%) Cloud Computing
14 16 (1.55%) Amazon SQS
15 11 (1.06%) Amazon S3
16 7 (0.68%) GitHub Actions
16 7 (0.68%) Heroku
16 7 (0.68%) Microsoft 365
16 7 (0.68%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 26 (2.52%) TCP/IP
2 16 (1.55%) HTTP
3 15 (1.45%) SSH
4 13 (1.26%) SNMP
5 10 (0.97%) Internet
6 8 (0.77%) FTP
7 2 (0.19%) Multicast
7 2 (0.19%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.097%) Firewall
8 1 (0.097%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 249 (24.10%) PostgreSQL
2 246 (23.81%) NoSQL
3 229 (22.17%) MongoDB
4 223 (21.59%) MySQL
5 221 (21.39%) DB2
6 191 (18.49%) Relational Database
7 80 (7.74%) SQL Server
8 28 (2.71%) Redis
9 24 (2.32%) MariaDB
10 15 (1.45%) GIS
11 12 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (0.87%) Big Data
13 8 (0.77%) RDBMS
14 7 (0.68%) Amazon Aurora
14 7 (0.68%) Apache Hive
14 7 (0.68%) DynamoDB
14 7 (0.68%) Presto
15 6 (0.58%) Geospatial Data
16 5 (0.48%) Metadata
16 5 (0.48%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 174 (16.84%) Git
2 66 (6.39%) JIRA
3 29 (2.81%) Jenkins
4 23 (2.23%) Maven
5 20 (1.94%) GitLab
5 20 (1.94%) Visual Studio
6 19 (1.84%) Eclipse
7 12 (1.16%) TeamCity
8 11 (1.06%) CircleCI
9 9 (0.87%) Postman
9 9 (0.87%) Selenium
10 8 (0.77%) PHPUnit
11 6 (0.58%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.58%) JMeter
11 6 (0.58%) Newman
11 6 (0.58%) REST Assured
11 6 (0.58%) Subversion
12 5 (0.48%) Karma Test Runner
12 5 (0.48%) Spinnaker
12 5 (0.48%) webpack
General
1 245 (23.72%) Public Sector
2 191 (18.49%) Social Skills
3 135 (13.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 112 (10.84%) Finance
5 46 (4.45%) Analytical Skills
6 44 (4.26%) Law
7 40 (3.87%) Banking
8 34 (3.29%) Games
8 34 (3.29%) Retail
9 29 (2.81%) Electronics
10 24 (2.32%) Investment Banking
10 24 (2.32%) Tech for Good
11 21 (2.03%) Publishing
12 16 (1.55%) Legal
13 15 (1.45%) Automotive
14 14 (1.36%) Health Technology
14 14 (1.36%) Manufacturing
15 13 (1.26%) Front Office
15 13 (1.26%) Marketing
15 13 (1.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 594 (57.50%) Developer
2 202 (19.55%) Senior
2 202 (19.55%) Software Engineer
3 189 (18.30%) Full Stack Developer
4 139 (13.46%) PHP Developer
5 121 (11.71%) Senior Developer
6 120 (11.62%) Full Stack Engineer
7 118 (11.42%) Azure Developer
8 110 (10.65%) Azure Engineer
9 83 (8.03%) .NET Developer
10 68 (6.58%) Software Developer
11 59 (5.71%) Lead
12 53 (5.13%) C# Developer
13 41 (3.97%) Senior Software Engineer
14 37 (3.58%) Java Developer
15 36 (3.48%) .NET Software Engineer
15 36 (3.48%) Junior
16 35 (3.39%) PHP Software Engineer
16 35 (3.39%) Web Developer
17 33 (3.19%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 465 (45.01%) .NET
2 457 (44.24%) HTML
3 451 (43.66%) CSS
4 376 (36.40%) React
5 339 (32.82%) AngularJS
6 336 (32.53%) Vue
6 336 (32.53%) Web Services
7 328 (31.75%) jQuery
8 308 (29.82%) REST
9 282 (27.30%) ASP.NET
10 239 (23.14%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 228 (22.07%) ASP.NET Core
12 221 (21.39%) Backbone.js
12 221 (21.39%) Ember.js
13 186 (18.01%) Laravel
14 167 (16.17%) Node.js
15 108 (10.45%) LAMP
16 90 (8.71%) .NET Core
17 72 (6.97%) RESTful
18 57 (5.52%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 310 (30.01%) Data Structures
2 300 (29.04%) Algorithms
3 224 (21.68%) Blockchain
4 223 (21.59%) Hybrid Cloud
5 105 (10.16%) e-Learning
6 83 (8.03%) Client/Server
7 36 (3.48%) Greenfield Project
7 36 (3.48%) Product Ownership
8 28 (2.71%) Video\Live Streaming
9 26 (2.52%) Cloud Native
10 16 (1.55%) IoT
11 15 (1.45%) Distributed Applications
11 15 (1.45%) Hedge funds
11 15 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
12 14 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
13 13 (1.26%) CMDB
13 13 (1.26%) Management Information System
14 11 (1.06%) Online Games
14 11 (1.06%) Virtual Team
15 9 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 318 (30.78%) Linux
2 279 (27.01%) Windows
3 238 (23.04%) Android
4 233 (22.56%) Apple iOS
5 34 (3.29%) Unix
6 9 (0.87%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.58%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.097%) Solaris
8 1 (0.097%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.097%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.097%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 562 (54.40%) OO
2 457 (44.24%) Agile
3 429 (41.53%) Design Patterns
4 397 (38.43%) MVC
5 382 (36.98%) Full Stack Development
6 321 (31.07%) Software Engineering
7 309 (29.91%) Web Development
8 301 (29.14%) SOLID
9 268 (25.94%) User Experience
10 246 (23.81%) MVVM
11 241 (23.33%) Artificial Intelligence
12 227 (21.97%) Responsive Web Design
13 224 (21.68%) DevOps
14 221 (21.39%) Co-Creation
14 221 (21.39%) Design Thinking
15 219 (21.20%) Mentoring
16 216 (20.91%) Computer Science
17 185 (17.91%) Problem-Solving
18 150 (14.52%) TDD
19 138 (13.36%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 569 (55.08%) JavaScript
2 522 (50.53%) C#
3 428 (41.43%) SQL
4 280 (27.11%) Java
5 256 (24.78%) Python
6 250 (24.20%) PHP
7 107 (10.36%) TypeScript
8 49 (4.74%) C++
9 41 (3.97%) C
10 33 (3.19%) T-SQL
11 21 (2.03%) PowerShell
12 20 (1.94%) Groovy
13 17 (1.65%) Perl
14 13 (1.26%) Kotlin
15 12 (1.16%) Ada
15 12 (1.16%) Scala
15 12 (1.16%) Shell Script
16 11 (1.06%) Apex Code
16 11 (1.06%) Go
16 11 (1.06%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 190 (18.39%) Degree
2 90 (8.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 31 (3.00%) Security Cleared
4 19 (1.84%) Master's Degree
5 13 (1.26%) PhD
6 9 (0.87%) DBS Check
7 7 (0.68%) AWS Certification
7 7 (0.68%) Azure Certification
8 6 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (0.58%) Numerate Degree
9 5 (0.48%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.19%) SC Cleared
12 1 (0.097%) MCP
12 1 (0.097%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (4.65%) QA
2 5 (0.48%) Accessibility
2 5 (0.48%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.39%) DICOM
3 4 (0.39%) HL7
3 4 (0.39%) ISO 13485
4 1 (0.097%) GDPR
4 1 (0.097%) SLA
System Software
1 106 (10.26%) Docker
2 11 (1.06%) Firmware
3 9 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.48%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.19%) HDFS
6 1 (0.097%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.097%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.097%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.097%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.097%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 52 (5.03%) Terraform
2 51 (4.94%) Kubernetes
3 13 (1.26%) WMI
4 4 (0.39%) Ansible
4 4 (0.39%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.097%) Argo
5 1 (0.097%) Grafana
5 1 (0.097%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.097%) Podman
5 1 (0.097%) SCCM
Vendors
1 223 (21.59%) IBM
1 223 (21.59%) Red Hat
2 86 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 25 (2.42%) Google
4 24 (2.32%) Oracle
5 15 (1.45%) Salesforce
6 13 (1.26%) Splunk
7 10 (0.97%) SAP
8 8 (0.77%) Xamarin
9 7 (0.68%) Databricks
10 5 (0.48%) Automation Anywhere
10 5 (0.48%) Blue Prism
10 5 (0.48%) F5
10 5 (0.48%) Twitter
11 4 (0.39%) Adobe
11 4 (0.39%) MuleSoft
11 4 (0.39%) Peregrine
12 3 (0.29%) Murex
13 2 (0.19%) Apple
13 2 (0.19%) Intel