OOP Job Trends in the North West

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring OOP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 156 122
Rank change year-on-year -6 -34 +1
Permanent jobs citing OOP 14 54 74
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.22% 1.07% 1.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 1.17% 1.88%
Number of salaries quoted 9 47 56
10th Percentile £53,650 £32,500 £41,875
25th Percentile - £37,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -10.64% -16.07%
75th Percentile £72,500 £57,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £72,750 £63,000 £85,625
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -14.29%

All Process & 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 5,124 4,598 3,941
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 81.28% 91.14% 87.58%
Number of salaries quoted 2,497 2,248 3,064
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,113 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,285 £68,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

OOP job vacancy trend in the North West

OOP
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing OOP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing OOP

OOP
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing OOP in the North West over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

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 12 January 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
Manchester +2 13 £65,000 +23.81% 8
Lancashire - 1 £41,500 - 10
OOP
England

OOP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (64.29%) NoSQL
2 5 (35.71%) MongoDB
2 5 (35.71%) MySQL
3 1 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (7.14%) Redis
3 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (57.14%) Git
2 4 (28.57%) JIRA
2 4 (28.57%) JUnit
3 1 (7.14%) PHPUnit
General
1 4 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Games
3 1 (7.14%) Back Office
3 1 (7.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Lead
3 3 (21.43%) Delphi Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Lead Software Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Software Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) .NET Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior
5 1 (7.14%) Associate Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Games Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Lead .NET Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Lead Developer
5 1 (7.14%) PHP Developer
5 1 (7.14%) PHP Laravel Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior .NET Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (64.29%) CSS
1 9 (64.29%) HTML
2 5 (35.71%) .NET
2 5 (35.71%) AngularJS
2 5 (35.71%) Kafka
2 5 (35.71%) Spring
2 5 (35.71%) Spring Boot
3 4 (28.57%) .NET Framework
3 4 (28.57%) gRPC
3 4 (28.57%) REST
3 4 (28.57%) RESTful
3 4 (28.57%) Spring Batch
3 4 (28.57%) Web Services
4 1 (7.14%) .NET Core
4 1 (7.14%) Hibernate
4 1 (7.14%) jQuery
4 1 (7.14%) Laravel
4 1 (7.14%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (7.14%) WinForms
4 1 (7.14%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (28.57%) Product Ownership
3 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
3 3 (21.43%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (7.14%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Agile
1 9 (64.29%) Microservices
2 7 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 7 (50.00%) User Experience
3 6 (42.86%) Design Patterns
4 5 (35.71%) Full-Stack Development
4 5 (35.71%) OO
5 4 (28.57%) AI
5 4 (28.57%) Code Quality
5 4 (28.57%) Data Modelling
5 4 (28.57%) Mentoring
5 4 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
5 4 (28.57%) Scrum
5 4 (28.57%) Software Architecture
5 4 (28.57%) TDD
5 4 (28.57%) Unit Testing
6 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
6 3 (21.43%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (21.43%) Performance Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) JavaScript
2 8 (57.14%) TypeScript
3 5 (35.71%) C#
3 5 (35.71%) Java
3 5 (35.71%) SQL
4 3 (21.43%) Delphi
5 1 (7.14%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes