OOP Job Trends in Cheshire

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring OOP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 61 57
Rank change year-on-year -33 -4 +64
Permanent jobs citing OOP 1 10 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheshire 0.13% 1.09% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 1.45% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 0 10 3
10th Percentile - - £56,000
25th Percentile - £32,500 £63,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £35,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -53.33% +50.00%
75th Percentile - £37,500 -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% -14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

OOP 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 Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 659 688 450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 85.03% 75.19% 93.17%
Number of salaries quoted 368 376 335
10th Percentile £27,675 £32,500 £23,850
25th Percentile £34,250 £40,000 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,850 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.84% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,588 £67,070
90th Percentile £75,000 £68,484 £78,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +4.76%

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

OOP job vacancy trend in Cheshire

OOP
Salary Trend in Cheshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing OOP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing OOP

OOP
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OOP within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 28 October 2025. 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
Warrington +8 1 - - 2
OOP
North West

OOP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CakePHP
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) Laravel
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP