OOP Jobs in Kent

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Kent 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 60 97 78
Rank change year-on-year +37 -19 +10
Permanent jobs citing OOP 15 9 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 1.80% 0.59% 2.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.18% 0.73% 2.17%
Number of salaries quoted 9 9 13
10th Percentile - - £54,500
25th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £32,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -45.83% +26.32%
75th Percentile £44,500 £45,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £44,600 - £67,250
South East median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% +4.55% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 689 1,229 1,058
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 82.81% 81.18% 95.66%
Number of salaries quoted 323 893 506
10th Percentile £25,250 £25,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £42,500 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% -8.60% +3.33%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £70,600
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for OOP in Kent

OOP
Salary Trend in Kent

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

Salary trend for OOP in Kent

OOP
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OOP within the Kent 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
Snodland - 8 £31,750 - 1
Canterbury +10 3 - - 1
OOP
South East

OOP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (20.00%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (73.33%) MySQL
2 3 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 11 (73.33%) Git
2 5 (33.33%) PHPUnit
General
1 6 (40.00%) Retail
2 4 (26.67%) Finance
3 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 12 (80.00%) Developer
2 6 (40.00%) Junior
2 6 (40.00%) Junior Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Junior PHP Developer
3 4 (26.67%) PHP Developer
4 3 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (20.00%) SaaS Developer
4 3 (20.00%) Senior
4 3 (20.00%) Senior Developer
4 3 (20.00%) Senior PHP Developer
4 3 (20.00%) Software Developer
5 2 (13.33%) QA Tester
5 2 (13.33%) Tester
6 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (80.00%) CSS
1 12 (80.00%) HTML
2 11 (73.33%) LAMP
3 9 (60.00%) RESTful
4 6 (40.00%) Web Services
5 5 (33.33%) Laravel
6 3 (20.00%) .NET
6 3 (20.00%) Jest
6 3 (20.00%) jQuery
6 3 (20.00%) Node.js
6 3 (20.00%) Pandas
6 3 (20.00%) React
6 3 (20.00%) REST
7 2 (13.33%) CakePHP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Cyberattack
1 3 (20.00%) Distributed Architecture
1 3 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Android
1 3 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) E-Commerce
2 6 (40.00%) Design Patterns
2 6 (40.00%) MVC
2 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (26.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (26.67%) OO
3 4 (26.67%) Software Engineering
4 3 (20.00%) Agile
4 3 (20.00%) Android Development
4 3 (20.00%) B2B
4 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (20.00%) Data Privacy
4 3 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 3 (20.00%) Kanban
4 3 (20.00%) Mathematics
4 3 (20.00%) OWASP
4 3 (20.00%) Refactoring
4 3 (20.00%) Responsive Web Design
4 3 (20.00%) Statistics
4 3 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 14 (93.33%) JavaScript
2 11 (73.33%) PHP
3 4 (26.67%) Java
4 3 (20.00%) C++
4 3 (20.00%) Go
4 3 (20.00%) Python
4 3 (20.00%) Rust
5 1 (6.67%) C#
5 1 (6.67%) SQL
5 1 (6.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) QA
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Ansible
1 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Twitter