OOP Job Trends in the North of England

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring OOP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 173 190
Rank change year-on-year -57 +17 -70
Permanent jobs citing OOP 61 91 159
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.45% 1.26% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 1.33% 1.38%
Number of salaries quoted 50 73 119
10th Percentile - £30,300 £39,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £62,813
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,886 £73,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -14.81%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

OOP 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 10,455 6,848 11,483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 76.46% 94.46% 85.89%
Number of salaries quoted 5,989 3,401 9,279
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.00%

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing OOP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

OOP job vacancy trend in the North of England

OOP
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing OOP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing OOP

OOP
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing OOP in the North of England over the 6 months to 5 March 2026.

Salary histogram for OOP in the North of England

OOP
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 OOP within the North of England region over the 6 months to 5 March 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
Yorkshire -29 30 £37,500 -47.91% 22
North West -42 26 £37,500 -28.57% 25
North East -23 5 £37,500 -31.82% 8
OOP
England

OOP
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 (45.90%) Jupyter
Applications
1 28 (45.90%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 47 (77.05%) AWS
2 28 (45.90%) Cloud Computing
3 12 (19.67%) Serverless
4 11 (18.03%) GitHub
5 6 (9.84%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.56%) HTTP
2 1 (1.64%) Internet
2 1 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.75%) NoSQL
2 5 (8.20%) MySQL
3 4 (6.56%) MongoDB
3 4 (6.56%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.64%) Redis
4 1 (1.64%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (45.90%) Visual Studio Code
2 8 (13.11%) Git
3 4 (6.56%) JIRA
3 4 (6.56%) JUnit
4 1 (1.64%) PHPUnit
General
1 39 (63.93%) Finance
2 28 (45.90%) Manufacturing
2 28 (45.90%) Retail
3 6 (9.84%) Financial Institution
3 6 (9.84%) Social Skills
4 5 (8.20%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.28%) Games
6 1 (1.64%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 28 (45.90%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
1 28 (45.90%) Programmer
1 28 (45.90%) Trainee
1 28 (45.90%) Trainee Programmer
2 25 (40.98%) Developer
3 12 (19.67%) Python Developer
4 6 (9.84%) Lead
5 5 (8.20%) Java Developer
6 4 (6.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) Software Developer
6 4 (6.56%) Software Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Delphi Developer
7 3 (4.92%) Junior
7 3 (4.92%) Junior Developer
7 3 (4.92%) Junior Java Developer
7 3 (4.92%) Lead Developer
7 3 (4.92%) Lead Software Engineer
8 2 (3.28%) Java Software Developer
8 2 (3.28%) Lead Python Developer
8 2 (3.28%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (45.90%) Hugging Face
1 28 (45.90%) Matplotlib
1 28 (45.90%) NumPy
1 28 (45.90%) Pandas
1 28 (45.90%) scikit-learn
1 28 (45.90%) Streamlit
2 22 (36.07%) CSS
3 21 (34.43%) HTML
4 13 (21.31%) React
5 12 (19.67%) Django
5 12 (19.67%) FastAPI
5 12 (19.67%) Flask
5 12 (19.67%) Vue
6 6 (9.84%) .NET
6 6 (9.84%) Micronaut
7 5 (8.20%) .NET Framework
7 5 (8.20%) AngularJS
7 5 (8.20%) Kafka
7 5 (8.20%) Spring
7 5 (8.20%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 28 (45.90%) Algorithms
2 11 (18.03%) Data Structures
3 7 (11.48%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (6.56%) Product Ownership
5 3 (4.92%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.92%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.64%) Digital Signage
6 1 (1.64%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.64%) IoT
6 1 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.64%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.28%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (75.41%) OO
2 32 (52.46%) AI
3 28 (45.90%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
3 28 (45.90%) Conversational UI
3 28 (45.90%) Customer Service
3 28 (45.90%) Data Privacy
3 28 (45.90%) LLM
3 28 (45.90%) Machine Learning
3 28 (45.90%) Neural Network
3 28 (45.90%) Prompt Engineering
3 28 (45.90%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 28 (45.90%) Sentiment Analysis
3 28 (45.90%) Visualisation
3 28 (45.90%) Workflow
4 25 (40.98%) CI/CD
5 20 (32.79%) Agile
6 18 (29.51%) Infrastructure as Code
7 17 (27.87%) Design Patterns
8 16 (26.23%) Front End Development
8 16 (26.23%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 40 (65.57%) Python
2 21 (34.43%) JavaScript
3 14 (22.95%) SQL
4 11 (18.03%) Java
5 8 (13.11%) TypeScript
6 6 (9.84%) C#
7 3 (4.92%) Delphi
8 1 (1.64%) PHP
Qualifications
1 28 (45.90%) AWS Certification
1 28 (45.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 6 (9.84%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (9.84%) Degree
3 1 (1.64%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.64%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.64%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 15 (24.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (19.67%) Terraform
2 3 (4.92%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 28 (45.90%) Microsoft