OOP Jobs in the North West

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring OOP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited OOP over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 126 110
Rank change year-on-year +87 -16 +35
Permanent jobs citing OOP 460 178 240
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 6.07% 1.83% 3.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.37% 2.20% 3.17%
Number of salaries quoted 70 87 174
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £39,313 £43,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.90% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £53,750 £62,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £63,875 £72,500 £86,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,217 8,082 7,562
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.29% 83.16% 95.75%
Number of salaries quoted 4,047 6,150 3,924
10th Percentile £27,123 £27,750 £30,500
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 £61,250 £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%

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for OOP in the North West

OOP
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for OOP in the North West

OOP
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing OOP in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for OOP in the North West

OOP
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 OOP within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 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 +43 305 - - 17
Manchester +8 64 £55,000 - 63
Cheshire +46 38 £35,000 - 3
Cumbria -43 31 £41,000 -3.53% 1
Merseyside +59 22 £44,250 +18.00%
OOP
England

OOP
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 4 (0.87%) Apache
2 3 (0.65%) GemFire
3 1 (0.22%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 20 (4.35%) AWS
2 8 (1.74%) GCP
3 6 (1.30%) Azure
4 5 (1.09%) Amazon Cognito
4 5 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (1.09%) CloudFront
4 5 (1.09%) Serverless
5 3 (0.65%) SaaS
6 2 (0.43%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.22%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.22%) Azure Stack
7 1 (0.22%) ChatGPT
7 1 (0.22%) Datadog
7 1 (0.22%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.22%) GitHub
7 1 (0.22%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 379 (82.39%) DNS
1 379 (82.39%) VPN
2 3 (0.65%) HTTP
3 1 (0.22%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (9.78%) SQL Server
2 13 (2.83%) MongoDB
2 13 (2.83%) MySQL
3 8 (1.74%) NoSQL
4 4 (0.87%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.65%) Apache Ignite
5 3 (0.65%) InterSystems Cache
5 3 (0.65%) RDBMS
5 3 (0.65%) Redis
6 1 (0.22%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.22%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 14 (3.04%) Git
2 5 (1.09%) Jasmine
2 5 (1.09%) Karma Test Runner
3 3 (0.65%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.65%) JIRA
3 3 (0.65%) JUnit
3 3 (0.65%) NUnit
4 2 (0.43%) MSTest
4 2 (0.43%) SpecFlow
4 2 (0.43%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.22%) Babel
5 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.22%) Maven
5 1 (0.22%) PHPUnit
5 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.22%) webpack
General
1 396 (86.09%) Finance
2 379 (82.39%) Analytical Skills
2 379 (82.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 14 (3.04%) Social Skills
4 7 (1.52%) Games
4 7 (1.52%) Law
5 5 (1.09%) Retail
6 4 (0.87%) Back Office
6 4 (0.87%) Front Office
7 1 (0.22%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.22%) Agriculture
7 1 (0.22%) Automotive
7 1 (0.22%) Banking
7 1 (0.22%) Electronics
7 1 (0.22%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.22%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.22%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 443 (96.30%) Developer
2 408 (88.70%) Software Developer
3 17 (3.70%) .NET Developer
4 14 (3.04%) Senior
5 12 (2.61%) Senior Developer
6 10 (2.17%) PHP Developer
7 9 (1.96%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 9 (1.96%) WinForms Developer
8 7 (1.52%) Senior PHP Developer
9 6 (1.30%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 6 (1.30%) Software Engineer
10 5 (1.09%) Senior .NET Developer
11 4 (0.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 3 (0.65%) C# Developer
12 3 (0.65%) Java Engineer
12 3 (0.65%) Java Server Engineer
12 3 (0.65%) Lead
12 3 (0.65%) Server Engineer
13 2 (0.43%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
13 2 (0.43%) Graduate Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (6.09%) .NET
2 25 (5.43%) CSS
3 24 (5.22%) HTML
4 17 (3.70%) AngularJS
5 12 (2.61%) React
6 10 (2.17%) Kafka
6 10 (2.17%) WinForms
7 9 (1.96%) RESTful
8 8 (1.74%) HTML5
8 8 (1.74%) jQuery
9 7 (1.52%) LAMP
9 7 (1.52%) REST
9 7 (1.52%) Vue
10 6 (1.30%) Spring
11 5 (1.09%) Sass
12 4 (0.87%) .NET Core
12 4 (0.87%) .NET Framework
12 4 (0.87%) ASP.NET Web API
12 4 (0.87%) Blazor
12 4 (0.87%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 379 (82.39%) Cyberattack
2 25 (5.43%) Management Information System
3 5 (1.09%) Data Structures
3 5 (1.09%) Derivative
4 4 (0.87%) Algorithms
4 4 (0.87%) Credit Derivative
4 4 (0.87%) Equities
4 4 (0.87%) Fixed Income
4 4 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (0.65%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (0.65%) Product Ownership
6 2 (0.43%) Cloud Native
6 2 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (0.43%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.22%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.22%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 383 (83.26%) Linux
2 379 (82.39%) Android
3 3 (0.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 439 (95.43%) OO
2 430 (93.48%) Agile
3 405 (88.04%) Design Patterns
4 380 (82.61%) Mathematics
5 379 (82.39%) Android Development
5 379 (82.39%) Line Management
6 46 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (8.48%) Software Engineering
8 28 (6.09%) Architectural Design
8 28 (6.09%) Business Analysis
8 28 (6.09%) ITIL
8 28 (6.09%) Service Delivery
9 25 (5.43%) Information Management
10 18 (3.91%) Code Quality
11 16 (3.48%) E-Commerce
12 14 (3.04%) Microservices
13 13 (2.83%) Computer Science
14 11 (2.39%) TDD
15 9 (1.96%) Scrum
15 9 (1.96%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 416 (90.43%) Java
2 381 (82.83%) C++
2 381 (82.83%) Python
3 379 (82.39%) Go
4 54 (11.74%) C#
5 25 (5.43%) JavaScript
6 13 (2.83%) PHP
7 12 (2.61%) SQL
8 11 (2.39%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.22%) Delphi
9 1 (0.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 382 (83.04%) Security Cleared
2 379 (82.39%) DV Cleared
3 43 (9.35%) Degree
4 12 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.43%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.22%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (0.87%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.22%) QA
System Software
1 381 (82.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 379 (82.39%) Ansible
2 1 (0.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 33 (7.17%) Oracle
2 3 (0.65%) Bloomberg
2 3 (0.65%) Solace
2 3 (0.65%) Splunk
2 3 (0.65%) TIBCO
2 3 (0.65%) Twitter
3 2 (0.43%) Google
3 2 (0.43%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.22%) EMC
4 1 (0.22%) Zend