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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 178 197
Rank change year-on-year +119 +19 -67
Permanent jobs citing OO 447 172 120
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.78% 1.22% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.47% 1.56% 1.38%
Number of salaries quoted 49 76 98
10th Percentile £25,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £27,875 £37,625 £45,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% -16.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £82,550 £80,625 £68,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% -

All Process and 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 8,175 11,007 8,700
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 87.46% 78.34% 95.42%
Number of salaries quoted 4,051 6,056 6,290
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £32,750 £39,372 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -7.26% +3.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing OO as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for OO 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 16 September 2025.

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 16 September 2025. 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 +103 403 £65,000 +44.44% 33
Yorkshire -4 35 £40,000 -23.81% 15
North East +15 9 £25,000 -48.72% 5
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (2.01%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.67%) Apache
3 2 (0.45%) Confluence
4 1 (0.22%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 20 (4.47%) Azure
2 16 (3.58%) AWS
3 7 (1.57%) SaaS
3 7 (1.57%) Serverless
4 6 (1.34%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (1.34%) Amazon ELB
4 6 (1.34%) Amazon S3
4 6 (1.34%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (1.34%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (0.89%) GCP
6 3 (0.67%) Amazon Cognito
6 3 (0.67%) Amazon EMR
6 3 (0.67%) Apigee
6 3 (0.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (0.67%) CloudFront
6 3 (0.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (0.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (0.22%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.22%) GitHub
7 1 (0.22%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 388 (86.80%) DNS
1 388 (86.80%) VPN
2 1 (0.22%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.03%) MySQL
2 15 (3.36%) SQL Server
3 6 (1.34%) Delta Lake
3 6 (1.34%) DynamoDB
3 6 (1.34%) Metadata
3 6 (1.34%) Relational Database
3 6 (1.34%) Spark SQL
4 5 (1.12%) RDBMS
5 4 (0.89%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.67%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (0.67%) Big Data
7 2 (0.45%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.22%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.22%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 12 (2.68%) Git
2 6 (1.34%) MLflow
3 4 (0.89%) JUnit
4 3 (0.67%) Jasmine
4 3 (0.67%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.67%) Karma Test Runner
4 3 (0.67%) Maven
4 3 (0.67%) SonarQube
4 3 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.45%) JIRA
6 1 (0.22%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.22%) NUnit
6 1 (0.22%) Selenium
6 1 (0.22%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 405 (90.60%) Finance
2 389 (87.02%) Analytical Skills
3 388 (86.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 22 (4.92%) Social Skills
5 6 (1.34%) Law
6 3 (0.67%) Banking
7 2 (0.45%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.22%) Advertising
8 1 (0.22%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.22%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.22%) Legal
Job Titles
1 426 (95.30%) Developer
2 391 (87.47%) Software Developer
3 11 (2.46%) Graduate
3 11 (2.46%) Graduate Developer
3 11 (2.46%) IT Graduate
4 10 (2.24%) PHP Developer
5 9 (2.01%) Senior
6 6 (1.34%) .NET Developer
6 6 (1.34%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 6 (1.34%) Operations Engineer
7 4 (0.89%) C# Developer
7 4 (0.89%) Graduate C# Developer
7 4 (0.89%) Graduate PHP Developer
7 4 (0.89%) Graduate SQL Developer
7 4 (0.89%) Junior
7 4 (0.89%) Junior Developer
7 4 (0.89%) Software Engineer
7 4 (0.89%) SQL Developer
8 3 (0.67%) Data Engineer
8 3 (0.67%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (5.37%) CSS
2 23 (5.15%) .NET
3 19 (4.25%) ASP.NET
4 14 (3.13%) jQuery
5 13 (2.91%) HTML
6 8 (1.79%) REST
6 8 (1.79%) WinForms
7 7 (1.57%) Laravel
8 6 (1.34%) Keras
8 6 (1.34%) Lambda Expressions
8 6 (1.34%) Metaflow
8 6 (1.34%) NumPy
8 6 (1.34%) Pandas
8 6 (1.34%) PySpark
8 6 (1.34%) PyTorch
8 6 (1.34%) scikit-learn
8 6 (1.34%) Symfony
8 6 (1.34%) TensorFlow
8 6 (1.34%) YAML
9 5 (1.12%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 388 (86.80%) Cyberattack
2 7 (1.57%) Product Ownership
3 6 (1.34%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (0.45%) Mobile App
4 2 (0.45%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.22%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.22%) Derivative
5 1 (0.22%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (0.22%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.22%) Equities
5 1 (0.22%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.22%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 393 (87.92%) Linux
2 389 (87.02%) Android
3 9 (2.01%) Unix
4 6 (1.34%) Windows
5 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 431 (96.42%) OOP
2 413 (92.39%) Agile
3 399 (89.26%) Design Patterns
4 389 (87.02%) Android Development
4 389 (87.02%) Mathematics
5 388 (86.80%) Line Management
6 22 (4.92%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (4.25%) Computer Science
8 17 (3.80%) MVC
9 15 (3.36%) CI/CD
9 15 (3.36%) Microservices
9 15 (3.36%) TDD
10 12 (2.68%) Artificial Intelligence
10 12 (2.68%) Software Engineering
10 12 (2.68%) Test Automation
11 11 (2.46%) DevOps
12 10 (2.24%) Continuous Improvement
13 9 (2.01%) Front End Development
13 9 (2.01%) Machine Learning
13 9 (2.01%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 413 (92.39%) Java
2 404 (90.38%) Python
3 400 (89.49%) C++
4 391 (87.47%) Go
5 31 (6.94%) SQL
6 28 (6.26%) C#
7 22 (4.92%) PHP
8 18 (4.03%) JavaScript
9 8 (1.79%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.67%) Delphi
10 3 (0.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 388 (86.80%) DV Cleared
1 388 (86.80%) Security Cleared
2 20 (4.47%) Degree
3 19 (4.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.22%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.22%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.22%) Accessibility
1 1 (0.22%) QA
System Software
1 399 (89.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 389 (87.02%) Ansible
2 12 (2.68%) Terraform
3 10 (2.24%) Kubernetes
4 6 (1.34%) Kubeflow
5 3 (0.67%) Istio
Vendors
1 6 (1.34%) Databricks
2 4 (0.89%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.22%) Capita