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 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 211 189 196
Rank change year-on-year -22 +7 -59
Permanent jobs citing OO 52 107 72
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.50% 1.07% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 1.21% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 40 66 54
10th Percentile £25,000 £32,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £36,563 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -2.33% -20.37%
75th Percentile £71,875 £68,438 £62,969
90th Percentile £80,750 £82,500 £75,875
England median annual salary £56,250 £65,000 £66,056
% change year-on-year -13.46% -1.60% -5.64%

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 8,838 8,809 6,443
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 84.73% 88.27% 94.40%
Number of salaries quoted 4,512 4,096 4,965
10th Percentile £27,388 £31,250 £29,850
25th Percentile £31,750 £40,000 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,238 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -5.11% +2.86%
75th Percentile £65,985 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,216 £80,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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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 15 December 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 15 December 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
Yorkshire -21 28 £40,000 -31.91% 18
North West -16 20 £60,000 +29.73% 34
North East -4 4 £30,750 -36.92% 4
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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 6 (11.54%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.85%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 24 (46.15%) AWS
2 12 (23.08%) Azure
3 8 (15.38%) GitHub
3 8 (15.38%) Serverless
4 7 (13.46%) SaaS
5 6 (11.54%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (11.54%) Amazon ELB
5 6 (11.54%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.85%) GCP
7 1 (1.92%) Azure API Management
7 1 (1.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.92%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.92%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (26.92%) MySQL
2 10 (19.23%) SQL Server
3 6 (11.54%) Delta Lake
3 6 (11.54%) DynamoDB
3 6 (11.54%) Metadata
3 6 (11.54%) Spark SQL
4 2 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (3.85%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.85%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.92%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.92%) Redis
5 1 (1.92%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (11.54%) MLflow
2 3 (5.77%) Git
3 1 (1.92%) JIRA
3 1 (1.92%) JUnit
General
1 15 (28.85%) Social Skills
2 13 (25.00%) Finance
3 7 (13.46%) Financial Institution
4 6 (11.54%) Law
5 4 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.77%) Avionics
7 2 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.92%) Legal
Job Titles
1 34 (65.38%) Developer
2 7 (13.46%) Python Developer
3 6 (11.54%) Delphi Developer
3 6 (11.54%) Java Developer
3 6 (11.54%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 6 (11.54%) Operations Engineer
4 5 (9.62%) Graduate
4 5 (9.62%) Graduate Developer
4 5 (9.62%) IT Graduate
4 5 (9.62%) Junior
4 5 (9.62%) Junior Developer
4 5 (9.62%) PHP Developer
5 4 (7.69%) Junior Java Developer
5 4 (7.69%) Senior
5 4 (7.69%) Software Developer
6 3 (5.77%) Java Software Developer
6 3 (5.77%) Lead
6 3 (5.77%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Systems Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (36.54%) CSS
2 14 (26.92%) HTML
3 10 (19.23%) React
4 8 (15.38%) .NET
4 8 (15.38%) Vue
5 7 (13.46%) ASP.NET
5 7 (13.46%) Django
5 7 (13.46%) FastAPI
5 7 (13.46%) Flask
5 7 (13.46%) Laravel
5 7 (13.46%) Micronaut
6 6 (11.54%) Keras
6 6 (11.54%) Lambda Expressions
6 6 (11.54%) Metaflow
6 6 (11.54%) NumPy
6 6 (11.54%) Pandas
6 6 (11.54%) PySpark
6 6 (11.54%) PyTorch
6 6 (11.54%) scikit-learn
6 6 (11.54%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.54%) Data Structures
1 6 (11.54%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (5.77%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.85%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.85%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.92%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.92%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.54%) Unix
2 2 (3.85%) Linux
2 2 (3.85%) Windows
2 2 (3.85%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.92%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (63.46%) OOP
2 25 (48.08%) Agile
3 24 (46.15%) CI/CD
4 15 (28.85%) Computer Science
5 14 (26.92%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (25.00%) Front End Development
7 12 (23.08%) MVC
7 12 (23.08%) Software Engineering
8 10 (19.23%) AI
8 10 (19.23%) Containerisation
9 9 (17.31%) DevOps
9 9 (17.31%) Full-Stack Development
9 9 (17.31%) Machine Learning
9 9 (17.31%) Unit Testing
10 8 (15.38%) Clean Code
11 7 (13.46%) Design Patterns
11 7 (13.46%) Fintech
11 7 (13.46%) Mentoring
11 7 (13.46%) OO PHP
Programming Languages
1 18 (34.62%) Java
1 18 (34.62%) Python
2 17 (32.69%) JavaScript
2 17 (32.69%) SQL
3 14 (26.92%) PHP
4 11 (21.15%) C#
5 7 (13.46%) TypeScript
6 6 (11.54%) Delphi
7 5 (9.62%) C++
Qualifications
1 18 (34.62%) Degree
2 14 (26.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.77%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (5.77%) HNC
3 3 (5.77%) HND
4 1 (1.92%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 17 (32.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (25.00%) Terraform
2 8 (15.38%) Kubernetes
3 6 (11.54%) Kubeflow
4 2 (3.85%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (11.54%) Databricks
2 3 (5.77%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.92%) Salesforce