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 5 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 41 151
Rank change year-on-year -224 +110 -47
Permanent jobs citing OO 56 487 281
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.30% 6.77% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 7.16% 2.03%
Number of salaries quoted 49 81 160
10th Percentile - £27,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £38,583
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +15.79% -17.39%
75th Percentile £57,500 £73,886 £61,563
90th Percentile £65,498 £82,751 £71,375
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -15.38%

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 13,420 6,803 13,838
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 72.46% 94.59% 83.11%
Number of salaries quoted 8,304 3,797 11,027
10th Percentile £29,500 £27,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £36,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 5 May 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 5 May 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 -170 28 £37,500 -25.00% 19
Yorkshire -81 22 £37,500 -46.43% 11
North East -37 6 £37,500 -28.57% 5
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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 (50.00%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.79%) CICS
2 1 (1.79%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 28 (50.00%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 41 (73.21%) AWS
2 28 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
3 10 (17.86%) Azure
4 8 (14.29%) GitHub
5 7 (12.50%) Serverless
6 5 (8.93%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (7.14%) Azure AI
8 2 (3.57%) GCP
9 1 (1.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (1.79%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.79%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (7.14%) MySQL
3 3 (5.36%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.79%) DB2
4 1 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.79%) Hazelcast
4 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (50.00%) Visual Studio Code
2 4 (7.14%) Git
3 3 (5.36%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.57%) Eclipse
4 2 (3.57%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.79%) GitLab
5 1 (1.79%) SonarQube
General
1 31 (55.36%) Finance
2 28 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 28 (50.00%) Retail
3 3 (5.36%) Avionics
3 3 (5.36%) Social Skills
4 2 (3.57%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.79%) Advertising
5 1 (1.79%) Games
5 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.79%) Law
5 1 (1.79%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 28 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
1 28 (50.00%) Programmer
1 28 (50.00%) Trainee
1 28 (50.00%) Trainee Programmer
2 23 (41.07%) Developer
3 6 (10.71%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (8.93%) Python Developer
5 4 (7.14%) .NET Developer
5 4 (7.14%) PHP Developer
6 3 (5.36%) Graduate
6 3 (5.36%) Graduate Developer
6 3 (5.36%) Graduate Software Developer
6 3 (5.36%) Software Developer
6 3 (5.36%) Systems Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) C# Developer
7 2 (3.57%) C# Software Developer
7 2 (3.57%) Graduate C# Developer
7 2 (3.57%) Java Developer
7 2 (3.57%) Salesforce Developer
7 2 (3.57%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (50.00%) Hugging Face
1 28 (50.00%) Matplotlib
1 28 (50.00%) NumPy
1 28 (50.00%) Pandas
1 28 (50.00%) scikit-learn
1 28 (50.00%) Streamlit
2 17 (30.36%) CSS
3 15 (26.79%) HTML
4 10 (17.86%) React
5 7 (12.50%) Flask
5 7 (12.50%) Vue
6 6 (10.71%) .NET
6 6 (10.71%) RESTful
7 5 (8.93%) .NET Core
8 4 (7.14%) ASP.NET Core
8 4 (7.14%) CSS3
8 4 (7.14%) Django
8 4 (7.14%) HTML5
8 4 (7.14%) Laravel
8 4 (7.14%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 28 (50.00%) Algorithms
2 7 (12.50%) Data Structures
3 3 (5.36%) PKI
4 2 (3.57%) Social Network
4 2 (3.57%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.79%) BBC
5 1 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.79%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.79%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.79%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.79%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (73.21%) OOP
2 33 (58.93%) AI
3 32 (57.14%) Machine Learning
4 31 (55.36%) Visualisation
5 28 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
5 28 (50.00%) Conversational UI
5 28 (50.00%) Customer Service
5 28 (50.00%) Data Privacy
5 28 (50.00%) LLM
5 28 (50.00%) Neural Network
5 28 (50.00%) Prompt Engineering
5 28 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 28 (50.00%) Sentiment Analysis
5 28 (50.00%) Workflow
6 21 (37.50%) Agile
7 12 (21.43%) Full-Stack Development
8 11 (19.64%) CI/CD
8 11 (19.64%) Mentoring
9 8 (14.29%) Design Patterns
9 8 (14.29%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 39 (69.64%) Python
2 17 (30.36%) JavaScript
2 17 (30.36%) SQL
3 8 (14.29%) C#
3 8 (14.29%) PHP
4 6 (10.71%) Java
5 2 (3.57%) C++
5 2 (3.57%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.79%) Apex Code
6 1 (1.79%) SOQL
6 1 (1.79%) SOSL
6 1 (1.79%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 28 (50.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 8 (14.29%) Degree
3 4 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (5.36%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (5.36%) HNC
4 3 (5.36%) HND
5 2 (3.57%) CEH
6 1 (1.79%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.79%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.79%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (12.50%) Terraform
2 1 (1.79%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 35 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.36%) Salesforce
3 2 (3.57%) Pega
4 1 (1.79%) Apple
4 1 (1.79%) Facebook
4 1 (1.79%) Google
4 1 (1.79%) Oracle
4 1 (1.79%) Sony
4 1 (1.79%) Splunk
4 1 (1.79%) Yahoo!