OOD Job Trends in Edinburgh

Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring OOD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 89 105
Rank change year-on-year -11 +16 +47
Permanent jobs citing OOD 1 3 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.085% 0.29% 0.087%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.29% 0.095%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £60,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +33.33% -28.00%
75th Percentile £31,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median annual salary £30,000 £50,050 £60,000
% change year-on-year -40.06% -16.58% +9.09%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

OOD 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 Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 961 1,019 1,052
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 82.00% 97.61% 91.40%
Number of salaries quoted 481 412 831
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,700 £30,842
25th Percentile £30,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - -2.37%
75th Percentile £72,250 £77,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,474 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +7.84% -11.30%

OOD
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing OOD relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

OOD job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

OOD
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing OOD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing OOD

OOD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (100.00%) WildFly
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (100.00%) jMock
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Junior
1 1 (100.00%) Junior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Junior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Java EE
1 1 (100.00%) Java SE
1 1 (100.00%) Quarkus
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Swing
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker