OO Job Trends in Bedford

Object-Oriented (OO)
Bedfordshire > Bedford

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bedford requiring OO skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 - 20
Rank change year-on-year - - -3
Permanent jobs citing OO 2 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Bedford 0.62% - 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% - 1.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £38,750 - £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 - £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +31.82%
75th Percentile £46,250 - £76,250
90th Percentile - - -
Bedfordshire median annual salary £51,359 - £72,500
% change year-on-year - - +26.09%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bedford

OO falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bedford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 259 43 53
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bedford 80.69% 74.14% 55.21%
Number of salaries quoted 208 13 51
10th Percentile £29,400 £27,900 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,313 £34,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £58,750 £66,500 £50,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £76,300 -
Bedfordshire median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -13.04%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Bedford

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing OO relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Bedford.

OO job vacancy trend in Bedford

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Salary Trend in Bedford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bedford citing OO.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bedford citing OO

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

General
1 2 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Middleware
1 2 (100.00%) React
1 2 (100.00%) Redux
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker