OOD Jobs in the North West

Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring OOD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited OOD over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 290 283 290
Rank change year-on-year -7 +7 -21
Permanent jobs citing OOD 6 12 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.075% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.078% 0.15% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 5 11 9
10th Percentile £39,544 £25,750 -
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,625 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £60,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.58% +84.62% -29.73%
75th Percentile £51,240 £62,500 £33,750
90th Percentile £54,996 £65,000 £56,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £63,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year -17.00% -2.69% +1.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

OOD 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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,665 8,164 7,468
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.84% 82.78% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 3,991 6,201 3,904
10th Percentile £25,856 £27,500 £31,077
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

OOD
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing OOD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for OOD in the North West

OOD
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing OOD in the North West.

Salary trend for OOD in the North West

OOD
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OOD within the North West region over the 6 months to 15 May 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
Lancashire - 4 £50,055 - 2
Manchester +58 1 - - 25
Cheshire +1 1 £50,000 -16.67%
OOD
England

OOD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) GNU Octave
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) GCP
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) Eclipse
2 1 (16.67%) Eclipse RCP
2 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (50.00%) Military
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Junior
2 1 (16.67%) Junior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) SOAP
1 3 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (16.67%) CSS
2 1 (16.67%) HTML
2 1 (16.67%) JSP
2 1 (16.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
2 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) OO
3 4 (66.67%) Agile
3 4 (66.67%) SDLC
3 4 (66.67%) UML
3 4 (66.67%) Unit Testing
4 3 (50.00%) DevSecOps
4 3 (50.00%) Scrum
4 3 (50.00%) SysML
4 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (33.33%) Physics
6 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 1 (16.67%) Customer Experience
6 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
6 1 (16.67%) DevOps
6 1 (16.67%) Mathematics
6 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
6 1 (16.67%) Monte Carlo Method
6 1 (16.67%) Observability
6 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
1 4 (66.67%) Python
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Ada
2 1 (16.67%) C
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) C++
2 1 (16.67%) MATLAB
2 1 (16.67%) Rust
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle