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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 143 119
Rank change year-on-year +18 -24 +46
Permanent jobs citing OOP 8 23 68
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.47% 0.81% 1.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.87% 2.06%
Number of salaries quoted 4 16 67
10th Percentile £63,250 £58,750 £54,750
25th Percentile £64,375 £78,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £95,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.74% +35.71% -22.22%
75th Percentile £92,813 £150,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £104,625 £187,500 £108,000
Central London median annual salary £76,250 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -4.69% +3.23% -13.89%

All Process and 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 1,646 2,653 3,308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 95.92% 93.19% 95.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,302 1,822 2,972
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £112,500 £116,250
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £73,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -0.68% +0.69%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing OOP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for OOP 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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Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing OOP in the City of London over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Salary histogram for OOP in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 4 (50.00%) AWS
3 3 (37.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 1 (12.50%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (12.50%) Big Data
2 1 (12.50%) Delta Lake
2 1 (12.50%) DynamoDB
2 1 (12.50%) Hadoop
2 1 (12.50%) Metadata
2 1 (12.50%) Spark SQL
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (12.50%) JMeter
1 1 (12.50%) JUnit
1 1 (12.50%) MLflow
1 1 (12.50%) Selenium
1 1 (12.50%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (37.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Advertising
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Software Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365 Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) .NET
2 4 (50.00%) Pandas
3 3 (37.50%) Node.js
4 2 (25.00%) .NET Framework
4 2 (25.00%) CSS
4 2 (25.00%) HTML
4 2 (25.00%) JSON
5 1 (12.50%) Apache Thrift
5 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (12.50%) Entity Framework
5 1 (12.50%) HTML5
5 1 (12.50%) Kafka
5 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
5 1 (12.50%) NumPy
5 1 (12.50%) Razor View Engine
5 1 (12.50%) REST
5 1 (12.50%) scikit-learn
5 1 (12.50%) WCF
5 1 (12.50%) XML
5 1 (12.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cyberattack
2 2 (25.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Android
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 5 (62.50%) OO
3 4 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
3 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 4 (50.00%) Design Patterns
3 4 (50.00%) OWASP
4 3 (37.50%) Android Development
4 3 (37.50%) Kanban
4 3 (37.50%) Line Management
4 3 (37.50%) Mathematics
4 3 (37.50%) Secure Coding
4 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
4 3 (37.50%) Statistics
5 2 (25.00%) MVC
5 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (25.00%) Unit Testing
6 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (12.50%) Test Strategy
6 1 (12.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Java
1 5 (62.50%) JavaScript
2 4 (50.00%) C++
2 4 (50.00%) Python
3 3 (37.50%) C#
3 3 (37.50%) Go
3 3 (37.50%) Rust
4 2 (25.00%) SQL
5 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
2 3 (37.50%) Ansible
3 1 (12.50%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Databricks
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft