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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 62 62
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +46
Permanent jobs citing OOP 31 16 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 4.11% 1.42% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.60% 1.98% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 3 9 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £35,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -53.33% +50.00%
75th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% -4.17%

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 674 809 469
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 89.27% 71.85% 94.18%
Number of salaries quoted 316 502 333
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,550 £23,850
25th Percentile £35,750 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,720 £47,500 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.57% -1.04% +6.67%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £66,778
90th Percentile £77,500 £68,484 £80,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £50,055 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.11% -8.99% +4.76%

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing OOP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for OOP 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 18 September 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 +15 16 £35,000 - 1
Widnes - 1 - -
Frodsham - 1 - -
Lymm - 1 - -
Runcorn - 1 - -
OOP
North West

OOP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (3.23%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (87.10%) DNS
1 27 (87.10%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.23%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Git
General
1 27 (87.10%) Analytical Skills
1 27 (87.10%) Finance
1 27 (87.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (12.90%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (96.77%) Developer
2 27 (87.10%) Software Developer
3 3 (9.68%) .NET Developer
3 3 (9.68%) WinForms Developer
4 1 (3.23%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.68%) .NET
1 3 (9.68%) WinForms
2 1 (3.23%) CakePHP
2 1 (3.23%) CSS
2 1 (3.23%) HTML
2 1 (3.23%) JSON
2 1 (3.23%) Laravel
2 1 (3.23%) RESTful
2 1 (3.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (87.10%) Cyberattack
2 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 27 (87.10%) Android
1 27 (87.10%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (96.77%) Design Patterns
1 30 (96.77%) OO
2 28 (90.32%) Agile
3 27 (87.10%) Android Development
3 27 (87.10%) Line Management
3 27 (87.10%) Mathematics
4 4 (12.90%) Code Quality
4 4 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (9.68%) Computer Science
5 3 (9.68%) E-Commerce
6 1 (3.23%) Data Protection
6 1 (3.23%) Full-Stack Development
6 1 (3.23%) Incident Response
6 1 (3.23%) Process Improvement
6 1 (3.23%) Scrum
6 1 (3.23%) Strategic Thinking
6 1 (3.23%) Technical Debt
6 1 (3.23%) User Stories
6 1 (3.23%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 27 (87.10%) C++
1 27 (87.10%) Go
1 27 (87.10%) Java
1 27 (87.10%) Python
2 3 (9.68%) C#
2 3 (9.68%) SQL
3 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.23%) PHP
Qualifications
1 27 (87.10%) DV Cleared
1 27 (87.10%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.68%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (9.68%) Degree
System Software
1 27 (87.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (87.10%) Ansible