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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 63 174
Rank change year-on-year -218 +111 +3
Permanent jobs citing OO 73 461 197
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.32% 4.83% 1.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 5.47% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 54 60 96
10th Percentile £34,500 £25,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,688 £32,500 £38,583
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +10.53% -13.64%
75th Percentile £66,563 £70,000 £67,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,525 £72,500
England median annual salary £56,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.73% -4.35% -12.92%

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 16,016 8,432 11,925
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.32% 88.31% 78.04%
Number of salaries quoted 12,004 4,280 7,508
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -4.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -10.40%

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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 26 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 26 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 -176 35 £48,500 -19.17% 21
Yorkshire -46 28 £55,000 +15.79% 8
North East -64 10 £65,000 +133.18% 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 2 (2.74%) Jupyter
1 2 (2.74%) nginx
2 1 (1.37%) CICS
2 1 (1.37%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Chatbot
1 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 37 (50.68%) Azure
2 25 (34.25%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (31.51%) Azure AI
4 18 (24.66%) AWS
5 12 (16.44%) GitHub
6 10 (13.70%) Serverless
7 8 (10.96%) GitHub Copilot
8 4 (5.48%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (5.48%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (5.48%) Slack
9 2 (2.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (2.74%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (2.74%) GCP
9 2 (2.74%) npm
10 1 (1.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (1.37%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (1.37%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (1.37%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.37%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (1.37%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.48%) Internet
2 1 (1.37%) Broadband
2 1 (1.37%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (38.36%) MongoDB
2 25 (34.25%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (10.96%) MySQL
4 6 (8.22%) NonStop SQL
4 6 (8.22%) Relational Database
5 5 (6.85%) SQL Server
6 3 (4.11%) NoSQL
6 3 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.74%) Db2
8 1 (1.37%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.37%) Hazelcast
8 1 (1.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (9.59%) Git
2 5 (6.85%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.48%) Eclipse
3 4 (5.48%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (2.74%) IntelliJ
4 2 (2.74%) JUnit
5 1 (1.37%) GitLab
5 1 (1.37%) SonarQube
General
1 18 (24.66%) Finance
2 9 (12.33%) Social Skills
3 8 (10.96%) Advertising
4 6 (8.22%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.48%) Legal
5 4 (5.48%) Local Government
5 4 (5.48%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (4.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.74%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.74%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.74%) Retail
8 1 (1.37%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.37%) Automotive
8 1 (1.37%) Banking
8 1 (1.37%) Electronics
8 1 (1.37%) Games
8 1 (1.37%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.37%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 55 (75.34%) Developer
2 31 (42.47%) .NET Developer
3 10 (13.70%) Software Developer
4 7 (9.59%) Software Engineer
5 6 (8.22%) Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (8.22%) Senior
6 5 (6.85%) Consultant
6 5 (6.85%) Software Consultant
7 4 (5.48%) C# Developer
7 4 (5.48%) Delphi Developer
7 4 (5.48%) Senior Software Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Graduate
8 3 (4.11%) Graduate Developer
8 3 (4.11%) Graduate Software Developer
9 2 (2.74%) Analyst
9 2 (2.74%) Architect
9 2 (2.74%) PHP Developer
9 2 (2.74%) Programmer
9 2 (2.74%) SQL Developer
9 2 (2.74%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (54.79%) .NET
2 30 (41.10%) .NET Core
3 29 (39.73%) ASP.NET
3 29 (39.73%) ASP.NET Core
3 29 (39.73%) CSS
4 26 (35.62%) React
5 23 (31.51%) HTML
5 23 (31.51%) ML.NET
6 19 (26.03%) RESTful
7 15 (20.55%) Blazor
8 8 (10.96%) Terraform
9 7 (9.59%) Entity Framework
9 7 (9.59%) Vue
10 6 (8.22%) LINQ
10 6 (8.22%) REST
11 5 (6.85%) Flask
11 5 (6.85%) SOAP
12 4 (5.48%) CSS3
12 4 (5.48%) HTML5
12 4 (5.48%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.44%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (9.59%) Data Structures
3 6 (8.22%) BBC
3 6 (8.22%) Social Media
4 5 (6.85%) Social Network
5 4 (5.48%) Blog
6 3 (4.11%) Algorithms
6 3 (4.11%) Cloud Native
6 3 (4.11%) NHS
6 3 (4.11%) PKI
6 3 (4.11%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.74%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.74%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.37%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.37%) IoT
8 1 (1.37%) Mainframe
8 1 (1.37%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (72.60%) Agile
2 39 (53.42%) Full-Stack Development
3 33 (45.21%) DevOps
4 31 (42.47%) CI/CD
5 30 (41.10%) AI
6 28 (38.36%) OOP
7 27 (36.99%) Machine Learning
8 21 (28.77%) TDD
9 15 (20.55%) Multithreading
10 12 (16.44%) Design Patterns
10 12 (16.44%) Mentoring
11 11 (15.07%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (15.07%) Software Engineering
12 10 (13.70%) Computer Science
12 10 (13.70%) Problem-Solving
13 9 (12.33%) Infrastructure as Code
13 9 (12.33%) SDLC
14 8 (10.96%) BDD
14 8 (10.96%) Microservices
14 8 (10.96%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 43 (58.90%) C#
2 41 (56.16%) SQL
3 25 (34.25%) JavaScript
4 17 (23.29%) Java
4 17 (23.29%) Python
5 8 (10.96%) PHP
6 5 (6.85%) Scala
7 4 (5.48%) Delphi
7 4 (5.48%) Ruby
8 3 (4.11%) C++
9 2 (2.74%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.74%) TypeScript
9 2 (2.74%) XPath
10 1 (1.37%) Apex Code
10 1 (1.37%) C
10 1 (1.37%) SOQL
10 1 (1.37%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 11 (15.07%) SC Cleared
1 11 (15.07%) Security Cleared
2 10 (13.70%) Degree
3 8 (10.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.74%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (1.37%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.37%) QA
System Software
1 13 (17.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (13.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 37 (50.68%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.22%) Apple
2 6 (8.22%) Facebook
2 6 (8.22%) Google
2 6 (8.22%) Sony
2 6 (8.22%) Yahoo!
3 2 (2.74%) Oracle
3 2 (2.74%) Pega
4 1 (1.37%) Cisco
4 1 (1.37%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.37%) Splunk
4 1 (1.37%) Sybase