OOP Job Trends in Manchester

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring OOP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 117 98
Rank change year-on-year -7 -19 +12
Permanent jobs citing OOP 14 37 47
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.50% 1.36% 2.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 1.46% 2.20%
Number of salaries quoted 9 32 34
10th Percentile £59,500 £46,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £48,750 £56,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -12.50% -17.24%
75th Percentile £72,500 £62,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £72,750 £68,375 £96,539
North West median annual salary £65,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +23.81% -12.50% -15.79%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,243 2,532 2,141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 80.51% 93.23% 92.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,320 1,181 1,706
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £33,858
25th Percentile £35,486 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,325
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £84,858
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -1.82%

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

OOP job vacancy trend in Manchester

OOP
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing OOP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing OOP

OOP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (64.29%) NoSQL
2 5 (35.71%) MongoDB
3 4 (28.57%) MySQL
4 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (50.00%) Git
2 4 (28.57%) JIRA
2 4 (28.57%) JUnit
General
1 4 (28.57%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Back Office
2 1 (7.14%) Games
2 1 (7.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Delphi Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Lead
3 3 (21.43%) Lead Software Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Software Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) .NET Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior
5 1 (7.14%) Associate Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Games Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Lead .NET Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Lead Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior .NET Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (57.14%) CSS
1 8 (57.14%) HTML
2 5 (35.71%) .NET
2 5 (35.71%) AngularJS
2 5 (35.71%) Kafka
2 5 (35.71%) Spring
2 5 (35.71%) Spring Boot
3 4 (28.57%) .NET Framework
3 4 (28.57%) gRPC
3 4 (28.57%) REST
3 4 (28.57%) RESTful
3 4 (28.57%) Spring Batch
3 4 (28.57%) Web Services
4 1 (7.14%) .NET Core
4 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (7.14%) Blazor
4 1 (7.14%) Hibernate
4 1 (7.14%) React
4 1 (7.14%) WinForms
4 1 (7.14%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (28.57%) Product Ownership
3 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
3 3 (21.43%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Agile
1 9 (64.29%) Microservices
2 7 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 7 (50.00%) User Experience
3 6 (42.86%) Design Patterns
3 6 (42.86%) OO
4 5 (35.71%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (28.57%) AI
5 4 (28.57%) Code Quality
5 4 (28.57%) Computer Science
5 4 (28.57%) Data Modelling
5 4 (28.57%) Mentoring
5 4 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
5 4 (28.57%) Scrum
5 4 (28.57%) Software Architecture
5 4 (28.57%) TDD
5 4 (28.57%) Unit Testing
6 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
6 3 (21.43%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) JavaScript
1 8 (57.14%) TypeScript
2 5 (35.71%) C#
2 5 (35.71%) Java
2 5 (35.71%) SQL
3 4 (28.57%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (28.57%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes