OOP Job Trends in the City of London

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring OOP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 115 158
Rank change year-on-year -37 +43 -14
Permanent jobs citing OOP 2 24 17
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.051% 1.15% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.063% 1.20% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 2 21 17
10th Percentile - £55,000 -
25th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +33.33% -37.66%
75th Percentile £72,500 £130,000 £90,000
90th Percentile - £140,000 £112,000
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -27.27%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,179 1,995 2,935
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 81.12% 96.01% 91.95%
Number of salaries quoted 2,270 1,498 2,472
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile - £122,500 £113,750
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -3.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

OOP job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing OOP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing OOP

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Python Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Python Software Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 2 (100.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform