OO Job Trends in the North of England

Object-Oriented (OO)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring OO skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 221 141 163
Rank change year-on-year -80 +22 -55
Permanent jobs citing OO 65 117 212
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.45% 1.73% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 1.81% 1.68%
Number of salaries quoted 57 78 145
10th Percentile - £29,525 £35,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £41,063 £38,084
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £60,000 £71,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £83,425 £74,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -18.52%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,888 6,448 12,642
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 75.74% 95.09% 85.21%
Number of salaries quoted 6,319 3,637 10,159
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £65,688
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

OO job vacancy trend in the North of England

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Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing OO.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing OO

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Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing OO in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 March 2026.

Salary histogram for OO in the North of England

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Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OO within the North of England region over the 6 months to 17 March 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
North West -51 31 £47,683 -4.63% 32
Yorkshire -47 28 £38,500 -42.96% 26
North East -28 6 £37,500 -31.82% 9
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 28 (43.08%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.54%) Apache Solr
2 1 (1.54%) CICS
2 1 (1.54%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 28 (43.08%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 48 (73.85%) AWS
2 28 (43.08%) Cloud Computing
3 9 (13.85%) GitHub
3 9 (13.85%) Serverless
4 8 (12.31%) Azure
5 5 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (7.69%) SaaS
6 3 (4.62%) GCP
7 2 (3.08%) Azure AI
8 1 (1.54%) Azure API Management
8 1 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.54%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.15%) MySQL
3 3 (4.62%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (3.08%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (3.08%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.08%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.54%) DB2
5 1 (1.54%) Hazelcast
5 1 (1.54%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.54%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (43.08%) Visual Studio Code
2 4 (6.15%) Git
3 3 (4.62%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.08%) Eclipse
4 2 (3.08%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.54%) GitLab
5 1 (1.54%) SonarQube
General
1 34 (52.31%) Finance
2 28 (43.08%) Manufacturing
2 28 (43.08%) Retail
3 5 (7.69%) Avionics
3 5 (7.69%) Financial Institution
4 4 (6.15%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.62%) Social Skills
6 2 (3.08%) Law
7 1 (1.54%) Games
7 1 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.54%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 28 (43.08%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
1 28 (43.08%) Developer
1 28 (43.08%) Programmer
1 28 (43.08%) Trainee
1 28 (43.08%) Trainee Programmer
2 9 (13.85%) Python Developer
3 6 (9.23%) Java Developer
4 5 (7.69%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (4.62%) Delphi Developer
5 3 (4.62%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (4.62%) Lead
5 3 (4.62%) PHP Developer
5 3 (4.62%) Senior
5 3 (4.62%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 2 (3.08%) .NET Developer
6 2 (3.08%) Java Software Developer
6 2 (3.08%) Junior Developer
6 2 (3.08%) Junior Java Developer
6 2 (3.08%) Lead Python Developer
6 2 (3.08%) Pega Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (43.08%) Hugging Face
1 28 (43.08%) Matplotlib
1 28 (43.08%) NumPy
1 28 (43.08%) Pandas
1 28 (43.08%) scikit-learn
1 28 (43.08%) Streamlit
2 15 (23.08%) React
3 13 (20.00%) CSS
3 13 (20.00%) HTML
4 9 (13.85%) Django
4 9 (13.85%) Flask
4 9 (13.85%) Vue
5 8 (12.31%) FastAPI
6 6 (9.23%) RESTful
7 5 (7.69%) Micronaut
8 4 (6.15%) Kafka
9 3 (4.62%) .NET
9 3 (4.62%) AngularJS
9 3 (4.62%) Laravel
9 3 (4.62%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 28 (43.08%) Algorithms
2 8 (12.31%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.08%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.08%) Social Network
4 1 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.54%) IoT
4 1 (1.54%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.54%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.54%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.54%) Android
1 1 (1.54%) Linux
1 1 (1.54%) Windows
1 1 (1.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (72.31%) OOP
2 32 (49.23%) AI
3 31 (47.69%) Machine Learning
4 28 (43.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
4 28 (43.08%) Conversational UI
4 28 (43.08%) Customer Service
4 28 (43.08%) Data Privacy
4 28 (43.08%) LLM
4 28 (43.08%) Neural Network
4 28 (43.08%) Prompt Engineering
4 28 (43.08%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 28 (43.08%) Sentiment Analysis
4 28 (43.08%) Visualisation
4 28 (43.08%) Workflow
5 20 (30.77%) Agile
6 18 (27.69%) CI/CD
7 14 (21.54%) Front End Development
7 14 (21.54%) Infrastructure as Code
8 12 (18.46%) DevOps
9 10 (15.38%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 40 (61.54%) Python
2 16 (24.62%) JavaScript
3 11 (16.92%) SQL
4 10 (15.38%) Java
5 5 (7.69%) C#
6 4 (6.15%) PHP
7 3 (4.62%) Delphi
8 2 (3.08%) PL/SQL
8 2 (3.08%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.54%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.54%) SOQL
9 1 (1.54%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 28 (43.08%) AWS Certification
1 28 (43.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 12 (18.46%) Degree
3 6 (9.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (7.69%) HNC
4 5 (7.69%) HND
5 2 (3.08%) CEH
6 1 (1.54%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.54%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (16.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (13.85%) Terraform
2 1 (1.54%) Ansible
2 1 (1.54%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 31 (47.69%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.62%) Salesforce
3 2 (3.08%) Pega
4 1 (1.54%) Oracle
4 1 (1.54%) Splunk