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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 57 152
Rank change year-on-year -194 +95 -48
Permanent jobs citing OO 81 469 307
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.40% 5.55% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 5.97% 1.95%
Number of salaries quoted 70 70 169
10th Percentile - £25,000 £35,000
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 14,027 7,854 15,736
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 69.43% 93.02% 79.03%
Number of salaries quoted 10,452 3,734 11,911
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,963 £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 £79,250
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 23 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 23 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 -151 43 £42,500 -22.73% 22
Yorkshire -46 27 £42,500 -39.29% 10
North East -52 11 £55,500 +122.00% 11
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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 (34.57%) Jupyter
2 2 (2.47%) nginx
3 1 (1.23%) CICS
3 1 (1.23%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 28 (34.57%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 41 (50.62%) AWS
2 30 (37.04%) Azure
3 28 (34.57%) Cloud Computing
4 20 (24.69%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (22.22%) Azure AI
6 10 (12.35%) GitHub
7 6 (7.41%) GitHub Copilot
7 6 (7.41%) Serverless
8 2 (2.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (2.47%) GCP
8 2 (2.47%) npm
9 1 (1.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.23%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.23%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.23%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.23%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.47%) Internet
2 1 (1.23%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (25.93%) MongoDB
2 20 (24.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (8.64%) MySQL
4 5 (6.17%) SQL Server
5 4 (4.94%) NonStop SQL
6 3 (3.70%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.47%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.23%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.23%) Db2
8 1 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.23%) Hazelcast
8 1 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (34.57%) Visual Studio Code
2 6 (7.41%) Git
3 3 (3.70%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.47%) Eclipse
4 2 (2.47%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.23%) GitLab
5 1 (1.23%) SonarQube
General
1 35 (43.21%) Finance
2 28 (34.57%) Manufacturing
2 28 (34.57%) Retail
3 6 (7.41%) Advertising
3 6 (7.41%) Social Skills
4 2 (2.47%) Avionics
4 2 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.23%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.23%) Automotive
5 1 (1.23%) Electronics
5 1 (1.23%) Games
5 1 (1.23%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 43 (53.09%) Developer
2 28 (34.57%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
2 28 (34.57%) Programmer
2 28 (34.57%) Trainee
2 28 (34.57%) Trainee Programmer
3 22 (27.16%) .NET Developer
4 7 (8.64%) Software Developer
5 6 (7.41%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (4.94%) Consultant
6 4 (4.94%) Software Consultant
7 3 (3.70%) Delphi Developer
7 3 (3.70%) Graduate
7 3 (3.70%) Graduate Developer
7 3 (3.70%) Graduate Software Developer
7 3 (3.70%) PHP Developer
7 3 (3.70%) Software Engineer
8 2 (2.47%) Architect
8 2 (2.47%) C# Developer
8 2 (2.47%) SQL Developer
8 2 (2.47%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (35.80%) NumPy
1 29 (35.80%) Pandas
1 29 (35.80%) scikit-learn
2 28 (34.57%) Hugging Face
2 28 (34.57%) Matplotlib
2 28 (34.57%) Streamlit
3 27 (33.33%) .NET
4 22 (27.16%) ASP.NET
4 22 (27.16%) ASP.NET Core
4 22 (27.16%) CSS
5 21 (25.93%) .NET Core
6 20 (24.69%) HTML
6 20 (24.69%) React
7 18 (22.22%) ML.NET
8 17 (20.99%) RESTful
9 12 (14.81%) Blazor
10 7 (8.64%) Vue
11 5 (6.17%) Entity Framework
11 5 (6.17%) Flask
11 5 (6.17%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 29 (35.80%) Algorithms
2 8 (9.88%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (6.17%) BBC
3 5 (6.17%) Data Structures
3 5 (6.17%) Social Media
3 5 (6.17%) Social Network
4 3 (3.70%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.70%) PKI
4 3 (3.70%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.47%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.47%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.23%) Culture of Ownership
6 1 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.23%) IoT
6 1 (1.23%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.23%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.23%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.47%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (62.96%) AI
2 48 (59.26%) Machine Learning
3 47 (58.02%) OOP
4 41 (50.62%) Agile
5 31 (38.27%) Full-Stack Development
5 31 (38.27%) Visualisation
6 30 (37.04%) LLM
6 30 (37.04%) Prompt Engineering
7 28 (34.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
7 28 (34.57%) Conversational UI
7 28 (34.57%) Customer Service
7 28 (34.57%) Data Privacy
7 28 (34.57%) Neural Network
7 28 (34.57%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 28 (34.57%) Sentiment Analysis
7 28 (34.57%) Workflow
8 23 (28.40%) CI/CD
8 23 (28.40%) DevOps
9 14 (17.28%) TDD
10 12 (14.81%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 38 (46.91%) Python
2 33 (40.74%) SQL
3 28 (34.57%) C#
4 23 (28.40%) JavaScript
5 9 (11.11%) Java
5 9 (11.11%) PHP
6 4 (4.94%) Scala
7 3 (3.70%) Delphi
8 2 (2.47%) C++
8 2 (2.47%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.23%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.23%) SOQL
9 1 (1.23%) SOSL
9 1 (1.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (34.57%) AWS Certification
1 28 (34.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 11 (13.58%) Degree
3 8 (9.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (6.17%) SC Cleared
4 5 (6.17%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.47%) CEH
5 2 (2.47%) HNC
5 2 (2.47%) HND
6 1 (1.23%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.23%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (13.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (9.88%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 53 (65.43%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.17%) Apple
2 5 (6.17%) Facebook
2 5 (6.17%) Google
2 5 (6.17%) Sony
2 5 (6.17%) Yahoo!
3 2 (2.47%) Pega
4 1 (1.23%) Oracle
4 1 (1.23%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.23%) Splunk