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 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 238 189 209
Rank change year-on-year -49 +20 -84
Permanent jobs citing OO 56 123 82
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.62% 0.97% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 1.20% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 44 65 66
10th Percentile £25,000 £32,500 £34,500
25th Percentile £31,344 £36,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,092 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.92% +4.76% -19.23%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £64,375
90th Percentile £77,000 £85,500 £68,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% - -3.70%

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 7,891 10,208 7,783
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 86.96% 80.29% 95.09%
Number of salaries quoted 4,104 4,914 5,896
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,750 £30,236
25th Percentile £31,500 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £51,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% -6.36% +4.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,603 £69,763
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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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 21 October 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 21 October 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 -3 29 £40,000 -34.69% 13
North West -32 21 £60,000 +26.32% 25
North East 0 6 £25,000 -54.55% 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 6 (10.71%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.57%) Apache Solr
3 1 (1.79%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 21 (37.50%) AWS
2 20 (35.71%) Azure
3 11 (19.64%) SaaS
4 6 (10.71%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (10.71%) Amazon ELB
4 6 (10.71%) Amazon S3
4 6 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (10.71%) Serverless
5 4 (7.14%) GitHub
6 3 (5.36%) Amazon Cognito
6 3 (5.36%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (5.36%) CloudFront
7 2 (3.57%) GCP
8 1 (1.79%) Azure API Management
8 1 (1.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (1.79%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.79%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.79%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (32.14%) MySQL
2 13 (23.21%) SQL Server
3 6 (10.71%) Delta Lake
3 6 (10.71%) DynamoDB
3 6 (10.71%) Metadata
3 6 (10.71%) Relational Database
3 6 (10.71%) Spark SQL
4 5 (8.93%) RDBMS
5 2 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (3.57%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.57%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.79%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.79%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (16.07%) Git
2 6 (10.71%) MLflow
3 3 (5.36%) Jasmine
3 3 (5.36%) Karma Test Runner
4 2 (3.57%) JIRA
5 1 (1.79%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.79%) JUnit
General
1 17 (30.36%) Social Skills
2 15 (26.79%) Finance
3 6 (10.71%) Financial Institution
4 4 (7.14%) Law
5 2 (3.57%) Avionics
5 2 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.79%) Legal
6 1 (1.79%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 40 (71.43%) Developer
2 9 (16.07%) Graduate
2 9 (16.07%) Graduate Developer
2 9 (16.07%) IT Graduate
3 7 (12.50%) PHP Developer
4 6 (10.71%) Java Developer
4 6 (10.71%) Junior
4 6 (10.71%) Junior Developer
4 6 (10.71%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 6 (10.71%) Operations Engineer
5 5 (8.93%) Software Developer
6 4 (7.14%) Azure Developer
6 4 (7.14%) Junior Java Developer
7 3 (5.36%) .NET Developer
7 3 (5.36%) Backend Developer
7 3 (5.36%) C# Developer
7 3 (5.36%) Graduate SQL Developer
7 3 (5.36%) Java Software Developer
7 3 (5.36%) Junior Software Developer
7 3 (5.36%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (39.29%) CSS
2 17 (30.36%) .NET
2 17 (30.36%) ASP.NET
3 13 (23.21%) HTML
4 12 (21.43%) jQuery
5 7 (12.50%) Laravel
5 7 (12.50%) REST
6 6 (10.71%) AngularJS
6 6 (10.71%) Keras
6 6 (10.71%) Lambda Expressions
6 6 (10.71%) Metaflow
6 6 (10.71%) Micronaut
6 6 (10.71%) NumPy
6 6 (10.71%) Pandas
6 6 (10.71%) PySpark
6 6 (10.71%) PyTorch
6 6 (10.71%) React
6 6 (10.71%) scikit-learn
6 6 (10.71%) TensorFlow
6 6 (10.71%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 6 (10.71%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (3.57%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.57%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.57%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.57%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.79%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.79%) IoT
4 1 (1.79%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.50%) Windows
2 6 (10.71%) Unix
3 3 (5.36%) Linux
4 2 (3.57%) Android
4 2 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (73.21%) OOP
2 23 (41.07%) Agile
3 19 (33.93%) CI/CD
4 18 (32.14%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (28.57%) Computer Science
6 15 (26.79%) MVC
7 14 (25.00%) Microservices
8 13 (23.21%) Front End Development
8 13 (23.21%) Software Engineering
8 13 (23.21%) TDD
9 12 (21.43%) DevOps
10 11 (19.64%) Design Patterns
11 10 (17.86%) AI
12 9 (16.07%) Containerisation
12 9 (16.07%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (16.07%) Full-Stack Development
12 9 (16.07%) Machine Learning
12 9 (16.07%) Time Management
13 8 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
13 8 (14.29%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (42.86%) SQL
2 22 (39.29%) Java
3 20 (35.71%) C#
4 19 (33.93%) PHP
5 16 (28.57%) JavaScript
6 12 (21.43%) Python
7 9 (16.07%) C++
8 8 (14.29%) TypeScript
9 3 (5.36%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 18 (32.14%) Degree
2 16 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.57%) HNC
3 2 (3.57%) HND
4 1 (1.79%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.79%) Accessibility
System Software
1 12 (21.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 8 (14.29%) Terraform
2 6 (10.71%) Kubeflow
3 2 (3.57%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (10.71%) Databricks
2 4 (7.14%) Microsoft