OOP Job Trends in the East of England

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring OOP skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 146 144
Rank change year-on-year -2 -2 +47
Permanent jobs citing OOP 32 21 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 0.94% 0.47% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 0.63% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 15 9 5
10th Percentile - £36,650 £38,000
25th Percentile - £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,000 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -61.54% +23.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile - £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £31,600 £75,500 £67,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,932 3,343 2,342
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 86.46% 74.27% 92.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,558 1,777 1,367
10th Percentile £26,500 £29,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £53,312 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.59% -1.27% +3.85%
75th Percentile £61,250 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £80,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +4.17%

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing OOP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for OOP in the East of England

OOP
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing OOP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing OOP

OOP
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing OOP in the East of England over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Salary histogram for OOP in the East of England

OOP
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OOP within the East of England region over the 6 months to 19 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
Essex +7 19 £25,000 -37.50% 10
Hertfordshire +16 9 £40,000 -38.46% 6
Cambridgeshire +18 2 £25,000 -27.54% 2
Norfolk +19 1 £33,000 -
Suffolk - 1 - - 1
OOP
England

OOP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 2 (6.25%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.13%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 29 (90.63%) Azure
2 17 (53.13%) Amazon EKS
2 17 (53.13%) AWS
3 15 (46.88%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (6.25%) Amazon ELB
4 2 (6.25%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.13%) BrowserStack
5 1 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.13%) GitHub
5 1 (3.13%) Sauce Labs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (46.88%) Elasticsearch
2 13 (40.63%) SQL Server
3 12 (37.50%) MySQL
4 2 (6.25%) Delta Lake
4 2 (6.25%) DynamoDB
4 2 (6.25%) Metadata
4 2 (6.25%) Spark SQL
5 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) MLflow
2 1 (3.13%) Cypress.io
2 1 (3.13%) JMeter
2 1 (3.13%) Postman
2 1 (3.13%) Selenium
General
1 16 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (46.88%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (46.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 11 (34.38%) Finance
Job Titles
1 29 (90.63%) Developer
2 15 (46.88%) Software Developer
3 13 (40.63%) Graduate
3 13 (40.63%) Graduate Developer
3 13 (40.63%) IT Graduate
4 5 (15.63%) PHP Developer
5 4 (12.50%) C# Developer
5 4 (12.50%) Graduate C# Developer
5 4 (12.50%) Graduate PHP Developer
5 4 (12.50%) Graduate SQL Developer
5 4 (12.50%) SQL Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Agile C# Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Agile Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Azure Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Operations Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) QA Automation Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (87.50%) .NET
2 17 (53.13%) Pandas
3 15 (46.88%) Node.js
4 13 (40.63%) ASP.NET
4 13 (40.63%) CSS
4 13 (40.63%) jQuery
5 2 (6.25%) Keras
5 2 (6.25%) Lambda Expressions
5 2 (6.25%) Metaflow
5 2 (6.25%) NumPy
5 2 (6.25%) PySpark
5 2 (6.25%) PyTorch
5 2 (6.25%) scikit-learn
5 2 (6.25%) TensorFlow
5 2 (6.25%) YAML
6 1 (3.13%) Laravel
6 1 (3.13%) Playwright
6 1 (3.13%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 15 (46.88%) Cyberattack
2 3 (9.38%) Virtual Team
3 2 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 15 (46.88%) Android
1 15 (46.88%) Linux
2 2 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (96.88%) OO
2 28 (87.50%) Agile
3 18 (56.25%) CI/CD
4 17 (53.13%) Containerisation
4 17 (53.13%) OWASP
5 15 (46.88%) Android Development
5 15 (46.88%) Collaborative Working
5 15 (46.88%) Design Patterns
5 15 (46.88%) Kanban
5 15 (46.88%) Line Management
5 15 (46.88%) Mathematics
5 15 (46.88%) Secure Coding
5 15 (46.88%) Software Engineering
5 15 (46.88%) Statistics
6 13 (40.63%) Computer Science
6 13 (40.63%) MVC
6 13 (40.63%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (31.25%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (6.25%) Machine Learning
8 2 (6.25%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 28 (87.50%) C++
1 28 (87.50%) Java
2 19 (59.38%) Python
3 16 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 15 (46.88%) Go
4 15 (46.88%) Rust
5 14 (43.75%) PHP
6 13 (40.63%) C#
7 9 (28.13%) SQL
8 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (46.88%) DV Cleared
1 15 (46.88%) Security Cleared
2 13 (40.63%) Computer Science Degree
2 13 (40.63%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 17 (53.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (53.13%) Kubernetes
1 17 (53.13%) Terraform
2 15 (46.88%) Ansible
3 2 (6.25%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 2 (6.25%) Databricks