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 23 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 166 165
Rank change year-on-year -58 -1 -62
Permanent jobs citing OO 63 105 189
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.49% 1.36% 1.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 1.46% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 56 66 131
10th Percentile - £31,625 £35,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £56,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +12.50% -16.67%
75th Percentile £60,000 £73,886 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% -16.45%

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 9,984 7,179 10,919
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 76.95% 93.28% 86.48%
Number of salaries quoted 5,677 3,413 8,877
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -8.42%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £80,761
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -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 23 February 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 23 February 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 -21 30 £42,592 -12.63% 19
Yorkshire -39 27 £39,750 -41.11% 23
North East -18 6 £37,500 -37.50% 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 26 (41.27%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.59%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 26 (41.27%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 46 (73.02%) AWS
2 26 (41.27%) Cloud Computing
3 8 (12.70%) GitHub
3 8 (12.70%) Serverless
4 7 (11.11%) SaaS
5 6 (9.52%) Azure
6 2 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.17%) GCP
7 1 (1.59%) Azure AI
7 1 (1.59%) Azure API Management
7 1 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.59%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.94%) MySQL
2 4 (6.35%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.17%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (3.17%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (3.17%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.17%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.59%) Redis
4 1 (1.59%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 26 (41.27%) Visual Studio Code
2 3 (4.76%) Git
3 1 (1.59%) JIRA
3 1 (1.59%) JUnit
General
1 35 (55.56%) Finance
2 26 (41.27%) Manufacturing
2 26 (41.27%) Retail
3 7 (11.11%) Financial Institution
4 5 (7.94%) Avionics
5 4 (6.35%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.35%) Social Skills
6 2 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.17%) Law
Job Titles
1 27 (42.86%) Developer
2 26 (41.27%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
2 26 (41.27%) Programmer
2 26 (41.27%) Trainee
2 26 (41.27%) Trainee Programmer
3 8 (12.70%) Python Developer
4 6 (9.52%) Java Developer
5 5 (7.94%) Systems Engineer
6 4 (6.35%) Junior
6 4 (6.35%) Junior Developer
6 4 (6.35%) Junior Java Developer
6 4 (6.35%) PHP Developer
6 4 (6.35%) Senior
7 3 (4.76%) Delphi Developer
7 3 (4.76%) Java Software Developer
7 3 (4.76%) Lead
7 3 (4.76%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Software Developer
8 2 (3.17%) Engineering Manager
8 2 (3.17%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (41.27%) Hugging Face
1 26 (41.27%) Matplotlib
1 26 (41.27%) NumPy
1 26 (41.27%) Pandas
1 26 (41.27%) scikit-learn
1 26 (41.27%) Streamlit
2 12 (19.05%) CSS
2 12 (19.05%) HTML
3 11 (17.46%) React
4 8 (12.70%) Django
4 8 (12.70%) FastAPI
4 8 (12.70%) Flask
4 8 (12.70%) Vue
5 7 (11.11%) Micronaut
6 4 (6.35%) Kafka
6 4 (6.35%) Laravel
6 4 (6.35%) RESTful
7 2 (3.17%) CakePHP
7 2 (3.17%) CodeIgniter
7 2 (3.17%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 26 (41.27%) Algorithms
2 7 (11.11%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.17%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.59%) IoT
4 1 (1.59%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.59%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.59%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.59%) Android
1 1 (1.59%) Linux
1 1 (1.59%) Windows
1 1 (1.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (71.43%) OOP
2 30 (47.62%) AI
3 28 (44.44%) Machine Learning
4 26 (41.27%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
4 26 (41.27%) Conversational UI
4 26 (41.27%) Customer Service
4 26 (41.27%) Data Privacy
4 26 (41.27%) LLM
4 26 (41.27%) Neural Network
4 26 (41.27%) Prompt Engineering
4 26 (41.27%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 26 (41.27%) Sentiment Analysis
4 26 (41.27%) Visualisation
4 26 (41.27%) Workflow
5 18 (28.57%) CI/CD
6 17 (26.98%) Agile
7 15 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
8 14 (22.22%) Front End Development
9 11 (17.46%) Software Engineering
10 10 (15.87%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 37 (58.73%) Python
2 14 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 12 (19.05%) Java
4 9 (14.29%) SQL
5 5 (7.94%) C#
5 5 (7.94%) PHP
6 3 (4.76%) Delphi
6 3 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (41.27%) AWS Certification
1 26 (41.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 13 (20.63%) Degree
3 7 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (7.94%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (7.94%) HNC
4 5 (7.94%) HND
5 2 (3.17%) CEH
6 1 (1.59%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.59%) Accessibility
System Software
1 10 (15.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (12.70%) Terraform
2 1 (1.59%) Ansible
2 1 (1.59%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 28 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.17%) Salesforce