OO Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Object-Oriented (OO)
UK > Northern Ireland

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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 36 45
Rank change year-on-year -82 +9 -15
Permanent jobs citing OO 4 5 12
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 0.24% 1.58% 2.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 1.77% 2.93%
Number of salaries quoted 0 3 9
10th Percentile - - £36,150
25th Percentile - £50,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +22.22% -18.18%
75th Percentile - £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile - - £62,000
UK median annual salary £55,500 £55,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year +0.91% -5.98% -10.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,100 283 409
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 66.34% 89.56% 79.42%
Number of salaries quoted 303 134 206
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £35,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £58,150
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -14.02% +16.30%
75th Percentile £80,000 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,083 £91,875
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,430
% change year-on-year +9.09% -7.45% -0.95%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing OO relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

OO job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

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Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing OO.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing OO

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Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OO within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 5 October 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
County Antrim -57 4 - - 23
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UK

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) RS-422
General
1 2 (50.00%) Aerospace
1 2 (50.00%) Electronics
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (50.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) Integration Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Workday Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) Workday Integration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Jakarta EE
1 2 (50.00%) Middleware
1 2 (50.00%) Web Services
1 2 (50.00%) XML
1 2 (50.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) FreeRTOS
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Change Management
1 2 (50.00%) Commercial Awareness
1 2 (50.00%) Embedded Software Development
1 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (50.00%) OOP
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (50.00%) Requirements Analysis
1 2 (50.00%) SDLC
1 2 (50.00%) Situational Awareness
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (50.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C
1 2 (50.00%) C++
1 2 (50.00%) XPath
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) DBS Check
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Thales
1 2 (50.00%) Workday