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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 276 183 149
Rank change year-on-year -93 -34 +6
Permanent jobs citing OOP 1,037 2,102 4,294
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.05% 2.02% 2.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 2.11% 2.88%
Number of salaries quoted 672 1,234 1,503
10th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £43,519
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £86,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,375 £106,250 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% +10.53%

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 84,571 99,456 148,990
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.62% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 59,798 58,396 83,204
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 £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 29 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 29 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 -68 956 £55,000 -12.00% 222
UK excluding London -94 812 £50,000 -13.04% 150
Work from Home -29 469 £55,000 -15.38% 163
London -64 217 £76,250 -15.28% 83
North of England -79 217 £52,500 -8.70% 37
South East -57 213 £57,500 +4.55% 40
North West -18 178 £52,500 -12.50% 17
Midlands -37 139 £50,000 -13.04% 29
South West 0 105 £45,000 -14.29% 6
East Midlands -7 99 £52,500 -8.70% 13
East of England -17 62 £62,500 +6.38% 24
Scotland -104 49 £47,500 -17.39% 12
West Midlands -46 39 £50,000 -13.04% 16
Yorkshire -58 27 £45,000 -21.74% 15
Northern Ireland +7 16 £35,000 -39.13% 5
North East -37 12 £71,500 +24.35% 5
Wales +1 11 £60,000 +9.09% 1

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 11 (1.06%) 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 (0.096%) Drupal
10 1 (0.096%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.096%) SAS
10 1 (0.096%) Umbraco
Applications
1 17 (1.64%) 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 (0.96%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.19%) Magento
3 2 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.096%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.096%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 369 (35.58%) Azure
2 261 (25.17%) AWS
3 225 (21.70%) IBM Cloud
4 176 (16.97%) Serverless
5 147 (14.18%) Azure DevOps
6 123 (11.86%) Azure Service Bus
7 122 (11.76%) Azure Functions
8 119 (11.48%) Azure API Management
8 119 (11.48%) Azure Logic Apps
9 77 (7.43%) SaaS
10 52 (5.01%) GitHub
11 45 (4.34%) AWS Lambda
12 37 (3.57%) GCP
13 25 (2.41%) Cloud Computing
14 18 (1.74%) Amazon SQS
15 13 (1.25%) 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 (2.51%) TCP/IP
2 16 (1.54%) HTTP
3 15 (1.45%) SSH
4 13 (1.25%) SNMP
5 10 (0.96%) Internet
6 8 (0.77%) FTP
7 2 (0.19%) Multicast
7 2 (0.19%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.096%) Firewall
8 1 (0.096%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 251 (24.20%) PostgreSQL
2 250 (24.11%) NoSQL
3 231 (22.28%) MongoDB
4 223 (21.50%) DB2
4 223 (21.50%) MySQL
5 192 (18.51%) Relational Database
6 79 (7.62%) SQL Server
7 28 (2.70%) Redis
8 24 (2.31%) MariaDB
9 15 (1.45%) GIS
10 12 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (0.87%) Big Data
12 8 (0.77%) RDBMS
13 7 (0.68%) Amazon Aurora
13 7 (0.68%) Apache Hive
13 7 (0.68%) DynamoDB
13 7 (0.68%) Presto
14 6 (0.58%) Geospatial Data
14 6 (0.58%) Metadata
15 5 (0.48%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 176 (16.97%) Git
2 67 (6.46%) JIRA
3 30 (2.89%) Jenkins
4 23 (2.22%) Maven
5 20 (1.93%) GitLab
5 20 (1.93%) Visual Studio
6 19 (1.83%) 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%) Spinnaker
11 6 (0.58%) Subversion
12 5 (0.48%) InstallShield
12 5 (0.48%) JUnit
General
1 247 (23.82%) Public Sector
2 192 (18.51%) Social Skills
3 137 (13.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 111 (10.70%) Finance
5 46 (4.44%) Law
6 45 (4.34%) Analytical Skills
7 40 (3.86%) Banking
8 34 (3.28%) Games
8 34 (3.28%) Retail
9 29 (2.80%) Electronics
10 24 (2.31%) Investment Banking
10 24 (2.31%) Tech for Good
11 21 (2.03%) Publishing
12 16 (1.54%) Legal
13 15 (1.45%) Automotive
13 15 (1.45%) Front Office
14 14 (1.35%) Health Technology
14 14 (1.35%) Manufacturing
15 13 (1.25%) Marketing
15 13 (1.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 596 (57.47%) Developer
2 205 (19.77%) Senior
3 203 (19.58%) Software Engineer
4 191 (18.42%) Full Stack Developer
5 139 (13.40%) PHP Developer
6 121 (11.67%) Senior Developer
7 120 (11.57%) Azure Developer
7 120 (11.57%) Full Stack Engineer
8 110 (10.61%) Azure Engineer
9 83 (8.00%) .NET Developer
10 68 (6.56%) Software Developer
11 59 (5.69%) Lead
12 53 (5.11%) C# Developer
13 42 (4.05%) Senior Software Engineer
14 37 (3.57%) Java Developer
15 36 (3.47%) .NET Software Engineer
15 36 (3.47%) Junior
16 35 (3.38%) PHP Software Engineer
16 35 (3.38%) Web Developer
17 33 (3.18%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 468 (45.13%) .NET
2 459 (44.26%) HTML
3 453 (43.68%) CSS
4 380 (36.64%) React
5 341 (32.88%) AngularJS
6 338 (32.59%) Vue
7 337 (32.50%) Web Services
8 330 (31.82%) jQuery
9 310 (29.89%) REST
10 283 (27.29%) ASP.NET
11 241 (23.24%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 230 (22.18%) ASP.NET Core
13 223 (21.50%) Backbone.js
13 223 (21.50%) Ember.js
14 186 (17.94%) Laravel
15 169 (16.30%) Node.js
16 108 (10.41%) LAMP
17 92 (8.87%) .NET Core
18 72 (6.94%) RESTful
19 57 (5.50%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 312 (30.09%) Data Structures
2 302 (29.12%) Algorithms
3 226 (21.79%) Blockchain
4 225 (21.70%) Hybrid Cloud
5 105 (10.13%) e-Learning
6 83 (8.00%) Client/Server
7 37 (3.57%) Product Ownership
8 36 (3.47%) Greenfield Project
9 28 (2.70%) Video\Live Streaming
10 27 (2.60%) Cloud Native
11 17 (1.64%) Hedge funds
12 16 (1.54%) IoT
13 15 (1.45%) Distributed Applications
13 15 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
14 13 (1.25%) CMDB
14 13 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
14 13 (1.25%) Management Information System
15 11 (1.06%) Online Games
15 11 (1.06%) Virtual Team
16 9 (0.87%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 320 (30.86%) Linux
2 280 (27.00%) Windows
3 240 (23.14%) Android
4 235 (22.66%) Apple iOS
5 34 (3.28%) Unix
6 9 (0.87%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.58%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.096%) Solaris
8 1 (0.096%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.096%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.096%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 566 (54.58%) OO
2 460 (44.36%) Agile
3 431 (41.56%) Design Patterns
4 399 (38.48%) MVC
5 383 (36.93%) Full Stack Development
6 323 (31.15%) Software Engineering
7 311 (29.99%) Web Development
8 305 (29.41%) SOLID
9 270 (26.04%) User Experience
10 248 (23.92%) MVVM
11 243 (23.43%) Artificial Intelligence
12 229 (22.08%) Responsive Web Design
13 227 (21.89%) DevOps
14 223 (21.50%) Co-Creation
14 223 (21.50%) Design Thinking
15 219 (21.12%) Mentoring
16 216 (20.83%) Computer Science
17 185 (17.84%) Problem-Solving
18 152 (14.66%) TDD
19 138 (13.31%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 573 (55.26%) JavaScript
2 525 (50.63%) C#
3 432 (41.66%) SQL
4 285 (27.48%) Java
5 261 (25.17%) Python
6 250 (24.11%) PHP
7 109 (10.51%) TypeScript
8 49 (4.73%) C++
9 41 (3.95%) C
10 32 (3.09%) T-SQL
11 21 (2.03%) PowerShell
12 20 (1.93%) Groovy
13 17 (1.64%) Perl
14 13 (1.25%) 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 (18.32%) Degree
2 90 (8.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 31 (2.99%) Security Cleared
4 19 (1.83%) Master's Degree
5 13 (1.25%) 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 (0.096%) MCP
12 1 (0.096%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (4.82%) QA
2 6 (0.58%) Data Quality
3 5 (0.48%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.39%) DICOM
4 4 (0.39%) HL7
4 4 (0.39%) ISO 13485
5 1 (0.096%) GDPR
5 1 (0.096%) SLA
System Software
1 106 (10.22%) 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 (0.096%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.096%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.096%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.096%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.096%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 52 (5.01%) Terraform
2 51 (4.92%) Kubernetes
3 13 (1.25%) WMI
4 4 (0.39%) Ansible
4 4 (0.39%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.096%) Argo
5 1 (0.096%) Grafana
5 1 (0.096%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.096%) Podman
5 1 (0.096%) SCCM
Vendors
1 225 (21.70%) IBM
1 225 (21.70%) Red Hat
2 85 (8.20%) Microsoft
3 26 (2.51%) Google
4 24 (2.31%) Oracle
5 15 (1.45%) Salesforce
6 13 (1.25%) Splunk
7 10 (0.96%) 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%) Intel
13 2 (0.19%) Rollbar