OO Job Trends in the North East

Object-Oriented (OO)
England > North East

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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 78 60
Rank change year-on-year -1 -18 -7
Permanent jobs citing OO 3 8 12
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.29% 0.86% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.97% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 3 7 11
10th Percentile £25,575 £30,750 -
25th Percentile £26,438 £41,625 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,750 £55,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -44.09% +29.41% -9.57%
75th Percentile £64,313 £88,125 £48,750
90th Percentile £82,725 £118,250 £50,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -14.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

OO 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 North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 803 827 674
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 78.80% 88.83% 89.51%
Number of salaries quoted 541 337 579
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,750 £29,700
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,897 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.21% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £61,973
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing OO relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North East.

OO job vacancy trend in the North East

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Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing OO.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing OO

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Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing OO in the North East over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for OO in the North East

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Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OO within the North East region over the 6 months to 13 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
Tyne and Wear +3 2 £57,500 +4.55% 9
Durham - 1 £30,750 -
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) MySQL
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Team Leader
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Graduate
2 1 (33.33%) Graduate C# Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Graduate Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Graduate SQL Developer
2 1 (33.33%) IT Graduate
2 1 (33.33%) Java Team Leader
2 1 (33.33%) Junior
2 1 (33.33%) Junior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Junior Software Developer
2 1 (33.33%) PHP Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Python Team Leader
2 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering Team Leader
2 1 (33.33%) Software Team Leader
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
2 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET
3 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 1 (33.33%) Blazor
3 1 (33.33%) CSS
3 1 (33.33%) Entity Framework
3 1 (33.33%) jQuery
3 1 (33.33%) React
3 1 (33.33%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
1 2 (66.67%) OOP
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) MVC
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) SOLID
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) C++
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) PHP
3 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft