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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 288 61 172
Rank change year-on-year -227 +111 +32
Permanent jobs citing OO 72 447 172
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.31% 4.76% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 5.45% 1.56%
Number of salaries quoted 54 49 77
10th Percentile £36,400 £25,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £27,875 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,550 £80,500
England median annual salary £55,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.91% -8.33% -9.09%

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 16,632 8,209 11,010
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.57% 87.48% 78.41%
Number of salaries quoted 12,400 4,082 6,061
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £39,221
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,735 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.86% -2.53% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -7.26%

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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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -182 32 £45,000 -30.77% 50
Yorkshire -41 27 £55,000 +37.50% 19
North East -59 13 £65,000 +160.00% 27
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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 (2.78%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 35 (48.61%) Azure
2 22 (30.56%) Azure AI
2 22 (30.56%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (19.44%) AWS
4 12 (16.67%) GitHub
5 9 (12.50%) Serverless
6 8 (11.11%) GitHub Copilot
7 4 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (5.56%) Slack
8 2 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (2.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (2.78%) npm
9 1 (1.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.39%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.39%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 1 (1.39%) AWS CodeBuild
9 1 (1.39%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (1.39%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (1.39%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.56%) Internet
2 1 (1.39%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (1.39%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (37.50%) MongoDB
2 24 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (12.50%) MySQL
4 6 (8.33%) NonStop SQL
4 6 (8.33%) Relational Database
5 5 (6.94%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (5.56%) SQL Server
7 3 (4.17%) NoSQL
8 2 (2.78%) Redis
9 1 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (1.39%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.39%) Db2
9 1 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 6 (8.33%) Git
2 3 (4.17%) Eclipse
2 3 (4.17%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.17%) JUnit
2 3 (4.17%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 18 (25.00%) Finance
2 12 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 8 (11.11%) Advertising
4 7 (9.72%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.56%) Legal
5 4 (5.56%) Local Government
5 4 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.39%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.39%) Automotive
7 1 (1.39%) Banking
7 1 (1.39%) Electronics
7 1 (1.39%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 55 (76.39%) Developer
2 30 (41.67%) .NET Developer
3 11 (15.28%) Software Developer
4 9 (12.50%) Senior
5 7 (9.72%) Software Engineer
6 5 (6.94%) Consultant
6 5 (6.94%) Software Consultant
7 4 (5.56%) Analyst
7 4 (5.56%) C# Developer
7 4 (5.56%) Delphi Developer
7 4 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (5.56%) Integration Analyst
7 4 (5.56%) Senior Developer
7 4 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Support Analyst
7 4 (5.56%) Technical Analyst
8 3 (4.17%) Backend Developer
8 3 (4.17%) Graduate
8 3 (4.17%) Graduate Software Developer
8 3 (4.17%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (54.17%) .NET
2 29 (40.28%) .NET Core
3 28 (38.89%) ASP.NET
3 28 (38.89%) ASP.NET Core
4 26 (36.11%) CSS
5 22 (30.56%) ML.NET
5 22 (30.56%) React
6 20 (27.78%) HTML
7 16 (22.22%) RESTful
8 14 (19.44%) Blazor
9 8 (11.11%) Terraform
10 7 (9.72%) Entity Framework
11 6 (8.33%) LINQ
11 6 (8.33%) REST
11 6 (8.33%) Vue
12 4 (5.56%) jQuery
12 4 (5.56%) JSON
12 4 (5.56%) SOAP
12 4 (5.56%) Web Services
12 4 (5.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (8.33%) BBC
2 6 (8.33%) Data Structures
2 6 (8.33%) Social Media
3 4 (5.56%) Blog
3 4 (5.56%) Social Network
4 3 (4.17%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.17%) NHS
4 3 (4.17%) PKI
5 2 (2.78%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.78%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.78%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.39%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.39%) Culture of Ownership
6 1 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.39%) IoT
6 1 (1.39%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.56%) Linux
2 1 (1.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (68.06%) Agile
2 35 (48.61%) Full-Stack Development
3 29 (40.28%) DevOps
4 28 (38.89%) CI/CD
5 27 (37.50%) AI
6 25 (34.72%) OOP
7 24 (33.33%) Machine Learning
8 21 (29.17%) TDD
9 14 (19.44%) Multithreading
10 12 (16.67%) Mentoring
10 12 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (15.28%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (15.28%) Design Patterns
11 11 (15.28%) Software Engineering
12 10 (13.89%) Computer Science
13 9 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
13 9 (12.50%) SDLC
14 8 (11.11%) BDD
14 8 (11.11%) Microservices
15 7 (9.72%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 46 (63.89%) C#
2 38 (52.78%) SQL
3 21 (29.17%) JavaScript
4 19 (26.39%) Java
5 17 (23.61%) Python
6 8 (11.11%) PHP
7 5 (6.94%) Scala
8 4 (5.56%) Delphi
8 4 (5.56%) Ruby
8 4 (5.56%) XPath
9 3 (4.17%) C++
9 3 (4.17%) Go
10 2 (2.78%) TypeScript
11 1 (1.39%) C
Qualifications
1 11 (15.28%) SC Cleared
1 11 (15.28%) Security Cleared
2 10 (13.89%) Degree
3 8 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.39%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.39%) QA
System Software
1 13 (18.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (13.89%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.39%) logstash
Vendors
1 36 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.33%) Apple
2 6 (8.33%) Facebook
2 6 (8.33%) Google
2 6 (8.33%) Sony
2 6 (8.33%) Yahoo!
3 1 (1.39%) Cisco
3 1 (1.39%) Oracle
3 1 (1.39%) Sybase