OOP Jobs in Northern Ireland

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 24 56 59
Rank change year-on-year +32 +3 -22
Permanent jobs citing OOP 13 16 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 4.51% 2.31% 4.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.06% 2.56% 4.73%
Number of salaries quoted 5 7 18
10th Percentile - £28,750 -
25th Percentile £50,000 £30,625 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £35,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% -39.13% +17.95%
75th Percentile £60,000 £42,000 £61,250
90th Percentile - £42,200 -
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 257 625 845
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 89.24% 90.32% 97.35%
Number of salaries quoted 70 297 445
10th Percentile £23,504 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £34,112 £33,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £69,500 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £67,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing OOP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for OOP in Northern Ireland

OOP
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing OOP in Northern Ireland.

Salary trend for OOP in Northern Ireland

OOP
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 OOP within the Northern Ireland 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
County Antrim +41 13 £55,000 +57.14% 4
OOP
UK

OOP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 5 (38.46%) nginx
1 5 (38.46%) Tomcat
2 4 (30.77%) Apache
2 4 (30.77%) Apache Spark
2 4 (30.77%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 5 (38.46%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 5 (38.46%) Amazon SQS
1 5 (38.46%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) Amazon Aurora
1 5 (38.46%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (38.46%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (38.46%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (30.77%) Apache Hive
2 4 (30.77%) Big Data
2 4 (30.77%) Hadoop
2 4 (30.77%) MySQL
2 4 (30.77%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Bitbucket
1 5 (38.46%) Cucumber
1 5 (38.46%) Jenkins
1 5 (38.46%) JUnit
1 5 (38.46%) Maven
1 5 (38.46%) Mockito
1 5 (38.46%) Postman
1 5 (38.46%) Selenium
1 5 (38.46%) SonarQube
1 5 (38.46%) TestNG
2 4 (30.77%) JIRA
General
1 9 (69.23%) Finance
2 5 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Manufacturing
2 5 (38.46%) Public Sector
2 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Developer
2 5 (38.46%) Java Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) Apache Spark Developer
3 4 (30.77%) C# Developer
3 4 (30.77%) Java Developer
3 4 (30.77%) Senior
3 4 (30.77%) Senior C# Developer
3 4 (30.77%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (69.23%) Kafka
1 9 (69.23%) REST
1 9 (69.23%) Spring
1 9 (69.23%) Spring Boot
2 5 (38.46%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (38.46%) Gherkin
2 5 (38.46%) Guice
2 5 (38.46%) JAX-RS
2 5 (38.46%) Mustache
2 5 (38.46%) OpenAPI
2 5 (38.46%) RESTful
2 5 (38.46%) Swagger
2 5 (38.46%) WireMock
3 4 (30.77%) GStreamer
3 4 (30.77%) Hibernate
3 4 (30.77%) J2EE
3 4 (30.77%) Java EE
3 4 (30.77%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (30.77%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Life Science
2 4 (30.77%) Algorithms
2 4 (30.77%) CUDA
2 4 (30.77%) Embedded Systems
2 4 (30.77%) Product Ownership
2 4 (30.77%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 8 (61.54%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 13 (100.00%) OO
2 9 (69.23%) CI/CD
3 8 (61.54%) Agile
3 8 (61.54%) Low Latency
3 8 (61.54%) Scrum
4 5 (38.46%) Auto-Scaling
4 5 (38.46%) BDD
4 5 (38.46%) Code Quality
4 5 (38.46%) Dependency Injection
4 5 (38.46%) Innovative Thinking
4 5 (38.46%) MVC
4 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (38.46%) Test Automation
4 5 (38.46%) Unit Testing
5 4 (30.77%) Containerisation
5 4 (30.77%) Design Patterns
5 4 (30.77%) OOA/OOD
5 4 (30.77%) OOD
5 4 (30.77%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) Java
2 4 (30.77%) Bash
2 4 (30.77%) C
2 4 (30.77%) C#
2 4 (30.77%) Python
2 4 (30.77%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (30.77%) Degree
System Software
1 9 (69.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (69.23%) Kubernetes
2 5 (38.46%) Ansible
2 5 (38.46%) Kustomize
2 5 (38.46%) Packer
2 5 (38.46%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Red Hat
2 4 (30.77%) NVIDIA
2 4 (30.77%) Sybase