OO Jobs in England

Object-Oriented (OO)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring OO skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited OO over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 183 204 123
Rank change year-on-year +21 -81 -28
Permanent jobs citing OO 927 1,247 2,466
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.89% 1.39% 2.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.01% 1.66% 2.99%
Number of salaries quoted 366 707 1,307
10th Percentile £30,125 £35,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -19.23% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,625 £86,250
90th Percentile £82,751 £95,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -16.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

OO 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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46,039 75,199 82,570
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.03% 84.05% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 22,875 54,702 49,146
10th Percentile £29,500 £29,000 £34,452
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,528 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing OO as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for OO in England

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Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing OO in England.

Salary trend for OO in England

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Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing OO in England over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for OO in England

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Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OO within the England region over the 6 months to 30 May 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
North of England +94 504 £47,500 - 338
North West +71 450 £41,000 -8.89% 152
London -9 154 £75,000 -13.04% 223
South East -31 122 £62,500 +19.05% 424
East of England +27 57 £55,000 +15.79% 218
Yorkshire +26 44 £70,000 +27.27% 136
Midlands -41 42 £40,050 -15.68% 247
South West +49 32 £48,918 +2.99% 178
West Midlands +11 26 £50,000 +5.26% 128
East Midlands -48 13 £40,000 -11.11% 102
North East +41 10 £50,000 +17.65% 52
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 32 (3.45%) Apache
2 12 (1.29%) Kinematics
3 11 (1.19%) CMS
3 11 (1.19%) Drupal
4 10 (1.08%) WordPress
5 8 (0.86%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.65%) Confluence
7 5 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.54%) Appian
7 5 (0.54%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.43%) GemFire
8 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.43%) nginx
9 3 (0.32%) Cloud Foundry
9 3 (0.32%) IIS
9 3 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.11%) Camunda
10 1 (0.11%) NServiceBus
10 1 (0.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.22%) Simulink
4 1 (0.11%) GNU Octave
4 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (1.29%) Oracle EBS
2 11 (1.19%) JDE OneWorld
2 11 (1.19%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.11%) iTrent
4 1 (0.11%) Magento
4 1 (0.11%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 183 (19.74%) Azure
2 133 (14.35%) AWS
3 52 (5.61%) AWS CloudFormation
4 49 (5.29%) Amazon EKS
5 37 (3.99%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (2.37%) GCP
7 17 (1.83%) GitHub
8 13 (1.40%) Serverless
9 12 (1.29%) Amazon S3
9 12 (1.29%) SaaS
10 11 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (1.19%) Boomi
11 10 (1.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 10 (1.08%) dbt
11 10 (1.08%) Power Platform
12 9 (0.97%) Apigee
12 9 (0.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 8 (0.86%) Snowflake
14 7 (0.76%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (0.76%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 397 (42.83%) DNS
1 397 (42.83%) VPN
2 23 (2.48%) Wireshark
3 9 (0.97%) HTTP
4 2 (0.22%) Ethernet
4 2 (0.22%) Modbus
4 2 (0.22%) Profibus
4 2 (0.22%) RTP
4 2 (0.22%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.11%) Broadband
5 1 (0.11%) Internet
5 1 (0.11%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (9.92%) SQL Server
2 58 (6.26%) MySQL
3 55 (5.93%) Elasticsearch
4 49 (5.29%) NoSQL
5 34 (3.67%) Relational Database
6 24 (2.59%) MongoDB
6 24 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
7 20 (2.16%) Big Data
8 13 (1.40%) RDBMS
9 11 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (0.97%) Amazon Athena
10 9 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
10 9 (0.97%) Redis
11 8 (0.86%) Data Lake
11 8 (0.86%) NonStop SQL
12 6 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (0.65%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.54%) Amazon Aurora
13 5 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (0.43%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 96 (10.36%) Git
2 29 (3.13%) JUnit
3 25 (2.70%) Jenkins
4 21 (2.27%) Eclipse
5 19 (2.05%) Eclipse RCP
6 16 (1.73%) Maven
6 16 (1.73%) Selenium
7 14 (1.51%) NUnit
8 13 (1.40%) Visual Studio
9 12 (1.29%) JIRA
9 12 (1.29%) SonarQube
10 10 (1.08%) GitLab
11 9 (0.97%) Postman
11 9 (0.97%) Sonatype Nexus
12 8 (0.86%) TeamCity
13 7 (0.76%) Subversion
13 7 (0.76%) TestNG
14 6 (0.65%) Bitbucket
14 6 (0.65%) Cypress.io
14 6 (0.65%) SpecFlow
General
1 567 (61.17%) Finance
2 495 (53.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 479 (51.67%) Analytical Skills
4 99 (10.68%) Social Skills
5 46 (4.96%) Banking
6 40 (4.31%) Law
7 34 (3.67%) Front Office
8 27 (2.91%) Electronics
9 13 (1.40%) Aerospace
10 11 (1.19%) Public Sector
11 10 (1.08%) Manufacturing
12 8 (0.86%) Marketing
13 7 (0.76%) Aviation
13 7 (0.76%) Retail
14 6 (0.65%) Advertising
14 6 (0.65%) Legal
15 5 (0.54%) Investment Banking
15 5 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.43%) Back Office
16 4 (0.43%) Games
Job Titles
1 682 (73.57%) Developer
2 480 (51.78%) Software Developer
3 91 (9.82%) Senior
4 87 (9.39%) Software Engineer
5 58 (6.26%) Lead
6 45 (4.85%) .NET Developer
7 41 (4.42%) C# Developer
8 36 (3.88%) Graduate
9 35 (3.78%) Graduate Developer
10 34 (3.67%) IT Graduate
10 34 (3.67%) PHP Developer
11 31 (3.34%) Senior Developer
12 30 (3.24%) Senior Software Engineer
13 25 (2.70%) Systems Engineer
14 24 (2.59%) Principal Engineer
15 23 (2.48%) Java Engineer
15 23 (2.48%) Principal Systems Engineer
16 21 (2.27%) Data Engineer
16 21 (2.27%) Junior
17 20 (2.16%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (20.50%) .NET
2 148 (15.97%) CSS
3 124 (13.38%) HTML
4 67 (7.23%) React
5 66 (7.12%) jQuery
6 64 (6.90%) Node.js
7 61 (6.58%) ASP.NET
8 55 (5.93%) REST
9 49 (5.29%) Pandas
10 45 (4.85%) RESTful
11 43 (4.64%) Middleware
12 37 (3.99%) .NET Core
12 37 (3.99%) Spring
13 36 (3.88%) Web Services
14 34 (3.67%) XML
15 33 (3.56%) Kafka
16 32 (3.45%) AngularJS
16 32 (3.45%) HTML5
17 31 (3.34%) CSS3
18 26 (2.80%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 446 (48.11%) Cyberattack
2 53 (5.72%) Management Information System
3 43 (4.64%) Algorithms
4 35 (3.78%) Data Structures
5 29 (3.13%) Cloud Native
6 26 (2.80%) Equities
7 21 (2.27%) Product Ownership
8 20 (2.16%) Hedge funds
9 17 (1.83%) Mobile App
9 17 (1.83%) Robotics
10 15 (1.62%) Derivative
11 12 (1.29%) Embedded Systems
12 9 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
12 9 (0.97%) Virtual Team
13 7 (0.76%) Fixed Income
13 7 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (0.65%) Credit Derivative
14 6 (0.65%) Distributed Systems
14 6 (0.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 5 (0.54%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 540 (58.25%) Linux
2 456 (49.19%) Android
3 64 (6.90%) Windows
4 16 (1.73%) Unix
5 8 (0.86%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.54%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 714 (77.02%) OOP
2 653 (70.44%) Agile
3 515 (55.56%) Design Patterns
4 475 (51.24%) Mathematics
5 450 (48.54%) Android Development
6 448 (48.33%) Line Management
7 234 (25.24%) Software Engineering
8 161 (17.37%) CI/CD
9 141 (15.21%) Problem-Solving
10 94 (10.14%) Containerisation
11 89 (9.60%) Test Automation
12 87 (9.39%) Continuous Improvement
13 83 (8.95%) Computer Science
13 83 (8.95%) OOD
14 82 (8.85%) SDLC
15 77 (8.31%) DevOps
16 67 (7.23%) Microservices
17 66 (7.12%) MVC
18 65 (7.01%) Collaborative Working
19 60 (6.47%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 628 (67.75%) Java
2 584 (63.00%) Python
3 538 (58.04%) C++
4 462 (49.84%) Go
5 200 (21.57%) C#
6 184 (19.85%) JavaScript
7 180 (19.42%) SQL
8 71 (7.66%) Rust
9 69 (7.44%) PHP
10 42 (4.53%) C
11 35 (3.78%) TypeScript
12 29 (3.13%) Ada
13 17 (1.83%) Scala
14 6 (0.65%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.65%) PowerShell
15 5 (0.54%) Bash
16 4 (0.43%) Perl
16 4 (0.43%) Shell Script
17 3 (0.32%) MATLAB
17 3 (0.32%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 472 (50.92%) Security Cleared
2 453 (48.87%) DV Cleared
3 183 (19.74%) Degree
4 69 (7.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 61 (6.58%) BPSS Clearance
6 23 (2.48%) Chartered Engineer
7 16 (1.73%) SC Cleared
8 14 (1.51%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.76%) PhD
10 5 (0.54%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.43%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.22%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.22%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.22%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.11%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (2.59%) Accessibility
2 23 (2.48%) QA
3 3 (0.32%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.32%) Def Stans
3 3 (0.32%) IEC 61508
4 2 (0.22%) IEC 61131
4 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.22%) NCSC
5 1 (0.11%) ISO 15022
5 1 (0.11%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.11%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 487 (52.54%) Docker
2 4 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.11%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 456 (49.19%) Ansible
2 92 (9.92%) Kubernetes
3 81 (8.74%) Terraform
4 9 (0.97%) Istio
5 4 (0.43%) Grafana
6 3 (0.32%) Kustomize
6 3 (0.32%) Packer
6 3 (0.32%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 59 (6.36%) Oracle
2 46 (4.96%) Microsoft
3 14 (1.51%) Salesforce
4 11 (1.19%) Dell
5 10 (1.08%) Databricks
6 8 (0.86%) Okta
7 6 (0.65%) Red Hat
8 5 (0.54%) BiZZdesign
8 5 (0.54%) Black Duck
8 5 (0.54%) TIBCO
8 5 (0.54%) UiPath
8 5 (0.54%) VMware
9 4 (0.43%) Agilent
9 4 (0.43%) F5
9 4 (0.43%) SAP
9 4 (0.43%) Solace
10 2 (0.22%) Apple
10 2 (0.22%) Splunk
10 2 (0.22%) Vertica
10 2 (0.22%) Xamarin