OOP Jobs in England

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring OOP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited OOP over the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 188 256 188
Rank change year-on-year +68 -68 -25
Permanent jobs citing OOP 851 989 1,763
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.72% 1.14% 1.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.83% 1.34% 2.08%
Number of salaries quoted 332 630 1,039
10th Percentile £31,375 £33,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £93,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £56,250 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.27% -8.33% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46,624 73,570 84,581
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.18% 85.07% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 23,570 53,896 50,325
10th Percentile £29,991 £29,000 £34,324
25th Percentile £41,750 £40,000 £46,125
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 £73,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for OOP in England

OOP
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for OOP in England

OOP
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing OOP in England over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Salary histogram for OOP in England

OOP
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OOP within the England region over the 6 months to 21 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 +119 512 £50,000 -4.76% 108
North West +82 462 £41,000 -21.90% 58
London +37 128 £69,500 -10.32% 267
South East -21 93 £62,500 +8.70% 119
East of England +19 39 £37,000 -40.80% 22
Yorkshire +66 32 £70,000 +55.56% 21
Midlands -50 31 £41,250 -17.50% 25
South West +54 28 £60,000 +33.33% 42
North East +46 18 £55,000 -23.08% 30
West Midlands +32 18 £60,000 +20.00% 18
East Midlands -55 13 £40,000 -21.95% 7
OOP
UK

OOP
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 12 (1.41%) WordPress
2 10 (1.18%) CMS
2 10 (1.18%) Drupal
3 6 (0.71%) Apache
4 4 (0.47%) Cloud Foundry
4 4 (0.47%) Confluence
4 4 (0.47%) GemFire
4 4 (0.47%) nginx
4 4 (0.47%) Tomcat
5 3 (0.35%) IIS
6 2 (0.24%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.12%) Camunda
Applications
1 11 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.24%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 12 (1.41%) Oracle EBS
2 11 (1.29%) JDE OneWorld
2 11 (1.29%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.12%) iTrent
3 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 152 (17.86%) Azure
2 145 (17.04%) AWS
3 49 (5.76%) Amazon EKS
3 49 (5.76%) AWS CloudFormation
4 48 (5.64%) GCP
5 32 (3.76%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (1.76%) SaaS
7 13 (1.53%) GitHub
8 11 (1.29%) Boomi
9 10 (1.18%) Serverless
10 8 (0.94%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (0.82%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (0.82%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (0.47%) Amazon Cognito
12 4 (0.47%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (0.47%) Azure Pipelines
12 4 (0.47%) CloudFront
12 4 (0.47%) Power Platform
13 3 (0.35%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 3 (0.35%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 397 (46.65%) DNS
1 397 (46.65%) VPN
2 23 (2.70%) Wireshark
3 12 (1.41%) HTTP
4 9 (1.06%) Multicast
5 2 (0.24%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.24%) Modbus
5 2 (0.24%) Profibus
5 2 (0.24%) RTP
5 2 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.12%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (11.40%) MySQL
2 96 (11.28%) SQL Server
3 55 (6.46%) Elasticsearch
4 32 (3.76%) NoSQL
5 24 (2.82%) MongoDB
6 23 (2.70%) Relational Database
7 17 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (0.94%) Big Data
9 8 (0.94%) Data Lake
9 8 (0.94%) RDBMS
10 7 (0.82%) Redis
11 4 (0.47%) Apache Ignite
11 4 (0.47%) InterSystems Cache
11 4 (0.47%) SQLite
12 3 (0.35%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (0.24%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (0.24%) DynamoDB
13 2 (0.24%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 121 (14.22%) Git
2 22 (2.59%) JIRA
2 22 (2.59%) JUnit
3 17 (2.00%) Visual Studio
4 15 (1.76%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.76%) NUnit
5 11 (1.29%) Selenium
6 10 (1.18%) Postman
7 9 (1.06%) TestNG
8 7 (0.82%) Cypress.io
8 7 (0.82%) Maven
8 7 (0.82%) PHPUnit
9 6 (0.71%) GitLab
9 6 (0.71%) SpecFlow
9 6 (0.71%) webpack
10 5 (0.59%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.59%) JMeter
10 5 (0.59%) TeamCity
11 4 (0.47%) Mocha
11 4 (0.47%) Mockito
General
1 534 (62.75%) Finance
2 476 (55.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 474 (55.70%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (10.11%) Social Skills
5 39 (4.58%) Games
6 32 (3.76%) Retail
7 23 (2.70%) Banking
7 23 (2.70%) Front Office
8 19 (2.23%) Law
9 13 (1.53%) Marketing
10 11 (1.29%) Public Sector
11 10 (1.18%) Manufacturing
12 6 (0.71%) Back Office
13 5 (0.59%) Automotive
13 5 (0.59%) Electronics
13 5 (0.59%) iGaming
14 3 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.24%) Aviation
15 2 (0.24%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.24%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 696 (81.79%) Developer
2 490 (57.58%) Software Developer
3 107 (12.57%) Senior
4 64 (7.52%) Senior Developer
5 50 (5.88%) PHP Developer
6 44 (5.17%) Software Engineer
7 38 (4.47%) .NET Developer
8 36 (4.23%) Lead
9 30 (3.53%) C# Developer
10 26 (3.06%) Principal Engineer
11 25 (2.94%) Systems Engineer
12 23 (2.70%) Principal Systems Engineer
13 22 (2.59%) Graduate
14 21 (2.47%) Graduate Developer
15 20 (2.35%) IT Graduate
16 19 (2.23%) C++ Developer
16 19 (2.23%) Quantitative Developer
17 18 (2.12%) Python Developer
17 18 (2.12%) Senior C++ Developer
17 18 (2.12%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (20.09%) CSS
2 169 (19.86%) .NET
3 149 (17.51%) HTML
4 80 (9.40%) React
5 73 (8.58%) Node.js
6 55 (6.46%) LAMP
7 53 (6.23%) jQuery
8 52 (6.11%) REST
9 50 (5.88%) Laravel
10 49 (5.76%) Pandas
11 42 (4.94%) RESTful
12 41 (4.82%) AngularJS
13 39 (4.58%) ASP.NET
14 37 (4.35%) Web Services
15 35 (4.11%) .NET Core
16 26 (3.06%) .NET Framework
16 26 (3.06%) JSON
16 26 (3.06%) Vue
17 24 (2.82%) Boost C++ Libraries
17 24 (2.82%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 446 (52.41%) Cyberattack
2 51 (5.99%) Algorithms
3 50 (5.88%) Management Information System
4 45 (5.29%) Data Structures
5 43 (5.05%) Mobile App
6 28 (3.29%) Equities
7 23 (2.70%) Hedge funds
8 18 (2.12%) Derivative
9 16 (1.88%) Product Ownership
10 15 (1.76%) Fixed Income
11 14 (1.65%) Cloud Native
12 13 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
13 12 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
14 11 (1.29%) Virtual Team
15 8 (0.94%) Client/Server
16 7 (0.82%) Public Cloud
17 6 (0.71%) Credit Derivative
17 6 (0.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 5 (0.59%) Legacy Systems
19 4 (0.47%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 511 (60.05%) Linux
2 450 (52.88%) Android
3 33 (3.88%) Windows
4 8 (0.94%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.47%) Unix
6 1 (0.12%) Solaris
6 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 721 (84.72%) OO
2 621 (72.97%) Agile
3 535 (62.87%) Design Patterns
4 476 (55.93%) Mathematics
5 448 (52.64%) Android Development
5 448 (52.64%) Line Management
6 164 (19.27%) Software Engineering
7 134 (15.75%) Problem-Solving
8 128 (15.04%) CI/CD
9 90 (10.58%) Containerisation
10 85 (9.99%) MVC
11 75 (8.81%) Computer Science
12 66 (7.76%) Collaborative Working
12 66 (7.76%) Web Development
13 65 (7.64%) Test Automation
14 64 (7.52%) Kanban
15 62 (7.29%) E-Commerce
16 61 (7.17%) DevOps
17 57 (6.70%) Secure Coding
18 53 (6.23%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 553 (64.98%) Java
2 537 (63.10%) Python
3 496 (58.28%) C++
4 454 (53.35%) Go
5 218 (25.62%) JavaScript
6 142 (16.69%) C#
7 105 (12.34%) PHP
8 83 (9.75%) SQL
9 50 (5.88%) Rust
10 42 (4.94%) TypeScript
11 11 (1.29%) Scala
12 5 (0.59%) Swift
13 4 (0.47%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.35%) Objective-C
14 3 (0.35%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.24%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.24%) Ruby
15 2 (0.24%) XAML
16 1 (0.12%) ABAP
16 1 (0.12%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 462 (54.29%) Security Cleared
2 449 (52.76%) DV Cleared
3 147 (17.27%) Degree
4 41 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 23 (2.70%) Chartered Engineer
6 13 (1.53%) Master's Degree
6 13 (1.53%) SC Cleared
7 8 (0.94%) Numerate Degree
8 5 (0.59%) ISTQB
8 5 (0.59%) PhD
9 3 (0.35%) HND
10 2 (0.24%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.24%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.12%) MCSE
11 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.12%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.12%) VCAP
11 1 (0.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (3.17%) QA
2 23 (2.70%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.24%) IEC 61131
3 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.24%) NCSC
4 1 (0.12%) SLA
4 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 482 (56.64%) Docker
2 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 452 (53.11%) Ansible
2 77 (9.05%) Kubernetes
3 57 (6.70%) Terraform
4 3 (0.35%) Kustomize
4 3 (0.35%) Packer
4 3 (0.35%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.24%) Grafana
6 1 (0.12%) Puppet
6 1 (0.12%) vRealize
Vendors
1 48 (5.64%) Oracle
2 44 (5.17%) Microsoft
3 15 (1.76%) Twitter
4 12 (1.41%) Salesforce
5 11 (1.29%) Dell
6 8 (0.94%) Okta
7 5 (0.59%) Google
7 5 (0.59%) Solace
8 4 (0.47%) ANSYS
8 4 (0.47%) Bloomberg
8 4 (0.47%) Red Hat
8 4 (0.47%) TIBCO
9 3 (0.35%) EMC
9 3 (0.35%) Splunk
10 2 (0.24%) Apple
10 2 (0.24%) SAP
11 1 (0.12%) Adobe
11 1 (0.12%) Capita
11 1 (0.12%) Intel
11 1 (0.12%) VMware