OOP Job Trends in the Midlands

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring OOP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 196 184
Rank change year-on-year -30 -12 -58
Permanent jobs citing OOP 19 31 164
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.15% 0.62% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.70% 1.50%
Number of salaries quoted 18 25 69
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £25,313 £33,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -20.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £41,250 £62,500 £53,750
90th Percentile £42,750 £64,000 £57,500
England median annual salary £50,680 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.86% - -8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,574 4,454 10,964
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.43% 88.90% 78.98%
Number of salaries quoted 6,000 2,526 7,655
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,300 £49,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.69% +3.16% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,625 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -12.00%

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

OOP job vacancy trend in the Midlands

OOP
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing OOP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing OOP

OOP
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing OOP in the Midlands over the 6 months to 13 June 2026.

Salary histogram for OOP in the Midlands

OOP
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OOP within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 June 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
West Midlands -30 10 £37,500 -31.82% 7
East Midlands -25 9 £28,750 -28.13% 12
OOP
England

OOP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (47.37%) Jupyter
2 1 (5.26%) Apache
Applications
1 9 (47.37%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 14 (73.68%) AWS
2 9 (47.37%) Cloud Computing
3 6 (31.58%) Azure
4 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.26%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (36.84%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.53%) MySQL
3 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (47.37%) Visual Studio Code
2 3 (15.79%) Git
3 2 (10.53%) JIRA
3 2 (10.53%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (73.68%) Finance
2 9 (47.37%) Manufacturing
2 9 (47.37%) Retail
3 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Aerospace
4 1 (5.26%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Developer
2 7 (36.84%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
2 7 (36.84%) Graduate
2 7 (36.84%) Programmer
2 7 (36.84%) Trainee
2 7 (36.84%) Trainee Programmer
3 6 (31.58%) Software Developer
4 5 (26.32%) C# Developer
4 5 (26.32%) C# Software Developer
4 5 (26.32%) Graduate C# Developer
4 5 (26.32%) Graduate C# Software Developer
4 5 (26.32%) Graduate Developer
4 5 (26.32%) Graduate Software Developer
4 5 (26.32%) Graduate SQL Developer
4 5 (26.32%) SQL Developer
5 4 (21.05%) PHP Developer
6 3 (15.79%) Azure Developer
6 3 (15.79%) Graduate PHP Developer
6 3 (15.79%) Software Engineer
7 2 (10.53%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (47.37%) Hugging Face
1 9 (47.37%) Matplotlib
1 9 (47.37%) NumPy
1 9 (47.37%) Pandas
1 9 (47.37%) scikit-learn
1 9 (47.37%) Streamlit
2 6 (31.58%) CSS
2 6 (31.58%) jQuery
3 2 (10.53%) React
4 1 (5.26%) HTML
4 1 (5.26%) Kafka
4 1 (5.26%) Laravel
4 1 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (5.26%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (47.37%) Algorithms
2 3 (15.79%) Virtual Team
3 1 (5.26%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
2 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (78.95%) OO
2 10 (52.63%) Agile
2 10 (52.63%) AI
3 9 (47.37%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
3 9 (47.37%) Conversational UI
3 9 (47.37%) Customer Service
3 9 (47.37%) Data Privacy
3 9 (47.37%) LLM
3 9 (47.37%) Machine Learning
3 9 (47.37%) Neural Network
3 9 (47.37%) Prompt Engineering
3 9 (47.37%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 9 (47.37%) Sentiment Analysis
3 9 (47.37%) Visualisation
3 9 (47.37%) Workflow
4 7 (36.84%) Computer Science
5 6 (31.58%) MVC
6 3 (15.79%) Mathematics
6 3 (15.79%) Physics
6 3 (15.79%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (68.42%) Python
2 8 (42.11%) C++
3 7 (36.84%) C#
3 7 (36.84%) SQL
4 6 (31.58%) PHP
5 5 (26.32%) Java
6 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
7 1 (5.26%) Rust
Qualifications
1 9 (47.37%) AWS Certification
1 9 (47.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 7 (36.84%) Degree
3 6 (31.58%) Computer Science Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (63.16%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) OpenAI
2 1 (5.26%) SAP