OOP Job Trends in the East Midlands

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring OOP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 116 91
Rank change year-on-year -36 -25 -18
Permanent jobs citing OOP 9 13 112
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.19% 0.67% 2.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.75% 2.83%
Number of salaries quoted 8 11 29
10th Percentile - £25,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £25,000 £35,625 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,750 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.13% -20.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £53,750
90th Percentile £46,625 £43,750 -
England median annual salary £51,359 £56,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.27% -8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,338 1,739 3,953
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 70.71% 89.55% 76.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,126 887 2,750
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,575 £25,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £32,035
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.94% -5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £69,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -12.00%

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

OOP job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

OOP
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing OOP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing OOP

OOP
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing OOP in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

Salary histogram for OOP in the East Midlands

OOP
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OOP within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 June 2026. 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
Nottinghamshire -11 5 £25,000 -35.48% 4
Derbyshire +3 2 £36,250 - 3
Leicestershire - 1 £30,000 - 5
Northamptonshire - 1 - -
OOP
England

OOP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Apache
1 1 (11.11%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) ChatGPT
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) MySQL
2 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (22.22%) JIRA
2 2 (22.22%) Visual Studio
3 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Aerospace
2 1 (11.11%) Automotive
2 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
2 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Developer
2 5 (55.56%) Graduate
3 4 (44.44%) Software Developer
4 3 (33.33%) C# Developer
4 3 (33.33%) C# Software Developer
4 3 (33.33%) Graduate C# Developer
4 3 (33.33%) Graduate C# Software Developer
4 3 (33.33%) Graduate Developer
4 3 (33.33%) Graduate Software Developer
4 3 (33.33%) Graduate SQL Developer
4 3 (33.33%) Software Engineer
4 3 (33.33%) SQL Developer
5 2 (22.22%) Graduate Software Engineer
5 2 (22.22%) PHP Developer
6 1 (11.11%) C++ Software Engineer
6 1 (11.11%) Graduate PHP Developer
6 1 (11.11%) Junior
6 1 (11.11%) Junior Developer
6 1 (11.11%) PHP Laravel Developer
6 1 (11.11%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) CSS
1 4 (44.44%) jQuery
2 2 (22.22%) React
3 1 (11.11%) HTML
3 1 (11.11%) Hugging Face
3 1 (11.11%) Kafka
3 1 (11.11%) Laravel
3 1 (11.11%) Matplotlib
3 1 (11.11%) NumPy
3 1 (11.11%) Pandas
3 1 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (11.11%) RESTful
3 1 (11.11%) scikit-learn
3 1 (11.11%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Virtual Team
2 1 (11.11%) Algorithms
2 1 (11.11%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Agile
2 6 (66.67%) OO
3 5 (55.56%) Computer Science
4 4 (44.44%) MVC
5 3 (33.33%) Mathematics
5 3 (33.33%) Physics
5 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
6 2 (22.22%) AI
6 2 (22.22%) Clean Code
6 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
7 1 (11.11%) API Integration
7 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
7 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
7 1 (11.11%) Customer Service
7 1 (11.11%) Machine Learning
7 1 (11.11%) Microservices
7 1 (11.11%) Prompt Engineering
7 1 (11.11%) SDLC
7 1 (11.11%) Secure Coding
7 1 (11.11%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) C++
2 5 (55.56%) C#
2 5 (55.56%) SQL
3 4 (44.44%) PHP
3 4 (44.44%) Python
4 3 (33.33%) Java
4 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (11.11%) Rust
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Degree
2 4 (44.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) OpenAI
2 1 (11.11%) SAP