OOD Job Trends in Merseyside

Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring OOD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 - 63
Rank change year-on-year - - +26
Permanent jobs citing OOD 1 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Merseyside 0.15% - 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% - 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,500 - £25,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - £26,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -72.11%
75th Percentile £57,500 - £46,125
90th Percentile - - £57,450
North West median annual salary £60,000 £50,055 £47,500
% change year-on-year +19.87% +5.38% -29.63%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 495 482 653
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 73.99% 90.77% 83.18%
Number of salaries quoted 291 198 521
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £33,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,585 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.30% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £53,000 £65,938 £58,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £75,775 £75,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%

OOD
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

OOD job vacancy trend in Merseyside

OOD
Salary Trend in Merseyside

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing OOD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing OOD

OOD
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OOD within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 26 January 2026. 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
Liverpool - 1 £55,000 -
OOD
North West

OOD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Laravel
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Sass
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility