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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 145 158 130
Rank change year-on-year +13 -28 +59
Permanent jobs citing OOP 13 20 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.41% 0.48% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.61% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 11 7 4
10th Percentile - - £44,375
25th Percentile - £62,500 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,000 £65,000 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -61.54% +1.96% +27.50%
75th Percentile - £68,750 £74,688
90th Percentile - £85,000 £80,875
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -11.11%

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 2,665 3,257 1,961
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 83.15% 77.49% 92.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,660 1,415 1,327
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £43,750 £37,616
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +1.85% +2.86%
75th Percentile £60,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

OOP job vacancy trend 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
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 3 November 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 +3 9 £25,000 -76.19%
Norfolk +14 1 £33,000 -
Hertfordshire +10 1 £25,000 -61.54% 2
Cambridgeshire +7 1 - - 2
Suffolk - 1 - -
OOP
England

OOP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 2 (15.38%) Apache Spark
2 1 (7.69%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 10 (76.92%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon ELB
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon S3
2 2 (15.38%) AWS
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (84.62%) MySQL
2 10 (76.92%) SQL Server
3 2 (15.38%) Delta Lake
3 2 (15.38%) DynamoDB
3 2 (15.38%) Metadata
3 2 (15.38%) Spark SQL
4 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) MLflow
General
1 12 (92.31%) Social Skills
2 8 (61.54%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (84.62%) Developer
2 10 (76.92%) Graduate
2 10 (76.92%) Graduate Developer
2 10 (76.92%) IT Graduate
3 3 (23.08%) PHP Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Developer
4 2 (15.38%) C# Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Graduate C# Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Graduate PHP Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Graduate SQL Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Operations Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (76.92%) .NET
1 10 (76.92%) ASP.NET
1 10 (76.92%) CSS
1 10 (76.92%) jQuery
2 2 (15.38%) Keras
2 2 (15.38%) Lambda Expressions
2 2 (15.38%) Metaflow
2 2 (15.38%) NumPy
2 2 (15.38%) Pandas
2 2 (15.38%) PySpark
2 2 (15.38%) PyTorch
2 2 (15.38%) scikit-learn
2 2 (15.38%) TensorFlow
2 2 (15.38%) YAML
3 1 (7.69%) Laravel
3 1 (7.69%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Virtual Team
2 2 (15.38%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) OO
2 10 (76.92%) Agile
2 10 (76.92%) Computer Science
2 10 (76.92%) MVC
2 10 (76.92%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (53.85%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (15.38%) AI
4 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
4 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
4 2 (15.38%) Data Science
4 2 (15.38%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (15.38%) Information Security
4 2 (15.38%) Machine Learning
4 2 (15.38%) Metadata Management
4 2 (15.38%) MLOps
4 2 (15.38%) OWASP
4 2 (15.38%) Time Management
4 2 (15.38%) Unit Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (84.62%) PHP
2 10 (76.92%) C#
2 10 (76.92%) C++
2 10 (76.92%) Java
3 7 (53.85%) SQL
4 2 (15.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (76.92%) Computer Science Degree
1 10 (76.92%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubeflow
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
1 2 (15.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Databricks