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 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 58 154
Rank change year-on-year -204 +96 -47
Permanent jobs citing OO 87 477 295
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.42% 5.41% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 5.89% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 76 72 159
10th Percentile - £25,000 £34,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £38,084
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £60,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +26.32% -17.39%
75th Percentile £60,000 £73,886 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £82,751 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -19.23%

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 14,293 8,104 15,262
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 69.80% 91.99% 79.56%
Number of salaries quoted 10,688 3,886 11,461
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 30 June 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 30 June 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 -163 45 £42,500 -26.09% 17
Yorkshire -47 29 £47,500 -32.14% 11
North East -48 13 £55,500 +122.00% 9
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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 28 (32.18%) Jupyter
2 2 (2.30%) nginx
3 1 (1.15%) CICS
3 1 (1.15%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 28 (32.18%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 41 (47.13%) AWS
2 35 (40.23%) Azure
3 28 (32.18%) Cloud Computing
4 24 (27.59%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (25.29%) Azure AI
6 11 (12.64%) GitHub
7 7 (8.05%) GitHub Copilot
8 6 (6.90%) Serverless
9 2 (2.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (2.30%) GCP
9 2 (2.30%) npm
10 1 (1.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (1.15%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (1.15%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.15%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (1.15%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.45%) Internet
2 1 (1.15%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (29.89%) MongoDB
2 24 (27.59%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (8.05%) MySQL
4 5 (5.75%) NonStop SQL
4 5 (5.75%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.45%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.30%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.15%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.15%) Db2
7 1 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.15%) Hazelcast
7 1 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.15%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (32.18%) Visual Studio Code
2 6 (6.90%) Git
3 3 (3.45%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.30%) Eclipse
4 2 (2.30%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.15%) GitLab
5 1 (1.15%) SonarQube
General
1 36 (41.38%) Finance
2 28 (32.18%) Manufacturing
2 28 (32.18%) Retail
3 7 (8.05%) Advertising
4 6 (6.90%) Social Skills
5 2 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.15%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.15%) Automotive
6 1 (1.15%) Avionics
6 1 (1.15%) Electronics
6 1 (1.15%) Games
6 1 (1.15%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 50 (57.47%) Developer
2 28 (32.18%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
2 28 (32.18%) Programmer
2 28 (32.18%) Trainee
2 28 (32.18%) Trainee Programmer
3 27 (31.03%) .NET Developer
4 8 (9.20%) Software Developer
5 6 (6.90%) Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (5.75%) Consultant
6 5 (5.75%) Software Consultant
7 4 (4.60%) Delphi Developer
8 3 (3.45%) Graduate
8 3 (3.45%) Graduate Developer
8 3 (3.45%) Graduate Software Developer
8 3 (3.45%) PHP Developer
8 3 (3.45%) Software Engineer
9 2 (2.30%) Architect
9 2 (2.30%) C# Software Developer
9 2 (2.30%) Graduate C# Developer
9 2 (2.30%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (36.78%) .NET
2 29 (33.33%) NumPy
2 29 (33.33%) Pandas
2 29 (33.33%) scikit-learn
3 28 (32.18%) Hugging Face
3 28 (32.18%) Matplotlib
3 28 (32.18%) Streamlit
4 27 (31.03%) ASP.NET
4 27 (31.03%) ASP.NET Core
5 25 (28.74%) .NET Core
6 24 (27.59%) CSS
7 23 (26.44%) React
8 22 (25.29%) HTML
8 22 (25.29%) ML.NET
9 20 (22.99%) RESTful
10 15 (17.24%) Blazor
11 7 (8.05%) Vue
12 6 (6.90%) Entity Framework
13 5 (5.75%) Flask
13 5 (5.75%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 29 (33.33%) Algorithms
2 10 (11.49%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (6.90%) BBC
3 6 (6.90%) Social Media
3 6 (6.90%) Social Network
4 5 (5.75%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.45%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.45%) PKI
5 3 (3.45%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.30%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.30%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.15%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.15%) IoT
7 1 (1.15%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.15%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.15%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.30%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (63.22%) AI
2 52 (59.77%) Machine Learning
3 48 (55.17%) OOP
4 47 (54.02%) Agile
5 36 (41.38%) Full-Stack Development
6 31 (35.63%) Visualisation
7 30 (34.48%) LLM
7 30 (34.48%) Prompt Engineering
8 28 (32.18%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
8 28 (32.18%) Conversational UI
8 28 (32.18%) Customer Service
8 28 (32.18%) Data Privacy
8 28 (32.18%) Neural Network
8 28 (32.18%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 28 (32.18%) Sentiment Analysis
8 28 (32.18%) Workflow
9 27 (31.03%) DevOps
10 25 (28.74%) CI/CD
11 16 (18.39%) TDD
12 15 (17.24%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 38 (43.68%) Python
2 37 (42.53%) SQL
3 33 (37.93%) C#
4 26 (29.89%) JavaScript
5 10 (11.49%) Java
6 9 (10.34%) PHP
7 5 (5.75%) Scala
8 4 (4.60%) Delphi
9 2 (2.30%) C++
9 2 (2.30%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.15%) Apex Code
10 1 (1.15%) SOQL
10 1 (1.15%) SOSL
10 1 (1.15%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (32.18%) AWS Certification
1 28 (32.18%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 11 (12.64%) Degree
3 9 (10.34%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (6.90%) SC Cleared
4 6 (6.90%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.15%) CEH
5 1 (1.15%) HNC
5 1 (1.15%) HND
5 1 (1.15%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.15%) Accessibility
System Software
1 12 (13.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (10.34%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.60%) Terraform
Vendors
1 58 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.90%) Apple
2 6 (6.90%) Facebook
2 6 (6.90%) Google
2 6 (6.90%) Sony
2 6 (6.90%) Yahoo!
3 2 (2.30%) Pega
4 1 (1.15%) Oracle
4 1 (1.15%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.15%) Splunk