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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 60 151
Rank change year-on-year -208 +91 +1
Permanent jobs citing OO 85 464 224
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.38% 4.83% 1.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 5.42% 1.88%
Number of salaries quoted 70 61 103
10th Percentile - £25,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £38,075
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £63,125
90th Percentile £75,500 £82,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -11.54%

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 15,549 8,564 11,946
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.26% 89.16% 78.67%
Number of salaries quoted 11,640 4,272 7,838
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -4.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £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 11 August 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 11 August 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 -171 41 £42,500 -29.17% 25
Yorkshire -37 31 £51,250 +7.89% 15
North East -57 13 £60,250 +95.93% 12
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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 18 (21.18%) Jupyter
2 2 (2.35%) nginx
3 1 (1.18%) CICS
3 1 (1.18%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 18 (21.18%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 37 (43.53%) Azure
2 33 (38.82%) AWS
3 25 (29.41%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (27.06%) Azure AI
5 18 (21.18%) Cloud Computing
6 12 (14.12%) GitHub
7 9 (10.59%) Serverless
8 8 (9.41%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (3.53%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (3.53%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (3.53%) Slack
10 2 (2.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (2.35%) GCP
10 2 (2.35%) npm
11 1 (1.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (1.18%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (1.18%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (1.18%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (1.18%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.71%) Internet
2 1 (1.18%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (32.94%) MongoDB
2 25 (29.41%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (9.41%) MySQL
4 6 (7.06%) NonStop SQL
4 6 (7.06%) Relational Database
5 5 (5.88%) SQL Server
6 3 (3.53%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.18%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.18%) Db2
7 1 (1.18%) Hazelcast
7 1 (1.18%) Redis
Development Applications
1 20 (23.53%) Visual Studio Code
2 7 (8.24%) Git
3 5 (5.88%) Jenkins
4 4 (4.71%) Eclipse
5 2 (2.35%) IntelliJ
5 2 (2.35%) JUnit
6 1 (1.18%) GitLab
6 1 (1.18%) SonarQube
General
1 30 (35.29%) Finance
2 18 (21.18%) Manufacturing
2 18 (21.18%) Retail
3 8 (9.41%) Advertising
4 7 (8.24%) Social Skills
5 4 (4.71%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.53%) Legal
6 3 (3.53%) Local Government
6 3 (3.53%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.18%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.18%) Automotive
8 1 (1.18%) Electronics
8 1 (1.18%) Games
8 1 (1.18%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 55 (64.71%) Developer
2 31 (36.47%) .NET Developer
3 18 (21.18%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
3 18 (21.18%) Programmer
3 18 (21.18%) Trainee
3 18 (21.18%) Trainee Programmer
4 10 (11.76%) Software Developer
5 6 (7.06%) Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (7.06%) Software Engineer
6 5 (5.88%) Consultant
6 5 (5.88%) Senior
6 5 (5.88%) Software Consultant
7 4 (4.71%) C# Developer
7 4 (4.71%) Delphi Developer
8 3 (3.53%) Graduate
8 3 (3.53%) Graduate Developer
8 3 (3.53%) Graduate Software Developer
8 3 (3.53%) Senior Software Engineer
9 2 (2.35%) Architect
9 2 (2.35%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (45.88%) .NET
2 29 (34.12%) .NET Core
2 29 (34.12%) ASP.NET
2 29 (34.12%) ASP.NET Core
3 28 (32.94%) CSS
4 25 (29.41%) React
5 23 (27.06%) HTML
5 23 (27.06%) ML.NET
6 19 (22.35%) NumPy
6 19 (22.35%) Pandas
6 19 (22.35%) RESTful
6 19 (22.35%) scikit-learn
7 18 (21.18%) Hugging Face
7 18 (21.18%) Matplotlib
7 18 (21.18%) Streamlit
8 15 (17.65%) Blazor
9 7 (8.24%) Entity Framework
9 7 (8.24%) Vue
10 6 (7.06%) LINQ
11 5 (5.88%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 19 (22.35%) Algorithms
2 12 (14.12%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (8.24%) Data Structures
4 6 (7.06%) BBC
4 6 (7.06%) Social Media
5 5 (5.88%) Social Network
6 3 (3.53%) Blog
6 3 (3.53%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.53%) PKI
6 3 (3.53%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.35%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.35%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.35%) NHS
7 2 (2.35%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.18%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.18%) IoT
8 1 (1.18%) Mainframe
8 1 (1.18%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (61.18%) Agile
2 45 (52.94%) AI
3 43 (50.59%) Machine Learning
3 43 (50.59%) OOP
4 39 (45.88%) Full-Stack Development
5 31 (36.47%) DevOps
6 30 (35.29%) CI/CD
7 21 (24.71%) Visualisation
8 20 (23.53%) LLM
8 20 (23.53%) Prompt Engineering
8 20 (23.53%) TDD
9 18 (21.18%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
9 18 (21.18%) Conversational UI
9 18 (21.18%) Customer Service
9 18 (21.18%) Data Privacy
9 18 (21.18%) Neural Network
9 18 (21.18%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
9 18 (21.18%) Sentiment Analysis
9 18 (21.18%) Workflow
10 15 (17.65%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 42 (49.41%) C#
2 40 (47.06%) SQL
3 31 (36.47%) Python
4 25 (29.41%) JavaScript
5 15 (17.65%) Java
6 8 (9.41%) PHP
7 5 (5.88%) Scala
8 4 (4.71%) Delphi
9 3 (3.53%) Ruby
10 2 (2.35%) C++
10 2 (2.35%) PL/SQL
10 2 (2.35%) TypeScript
11 1 (1.18%) Apex Code
11 1 (1.18%) SOQL
11 1 (1.18%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 18 (21.18%) AWS Certification
1 18 (21.18%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 10 (11.76%) SC Cleared
2 10 (11.76%) Security Cleared
3 9 (10.59%) Degree
4 8 (9.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.18%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.18%) QA
System Software
1 13 (15.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 7 (8.24%) Terraform
Vendors
1 51 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.06%) Apple
2 6 (7.06%) Facebook
2 6 (7.06%) Google
2 6 (7.06%) Sony
2 6 (7.06%) Yahoo!
3 2 (2.35%) Pega
4 1 (1.18%) Oracle
4 1 (1.18%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.18%) Splunk