OO Jobs in Scotland

Object-Oriented (OO)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring OO skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited OO over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 124 75
Rank change year-on-year 0 -49 +5
Permanent jobs citing OO 35 184 177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.18% 2.71% 3.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.28% 2.97% 4.18%
Number of salaries quoted 26 52 92
10th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -8.70% +15.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £72,188 £67,000
90th Percentile - £80,000 £70,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -16.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,745 6,197 4,234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.61% 91.25% 94.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,298 2,442 2,100
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,250 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing OO as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for OO in Scotland

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Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing OO in Scotland.

Salary trend for OO in Scotland

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Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing OO in Scotland over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for OO in Scotland

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Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OO within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 29 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
Edinburgh +23 10 £79,405 +32.34% 15
Lanarkshire - 8 £80,000 - 1
Glasgow +51 5 £80,000 +68.42% 15
Aberdeenshire - 5 £62,500 -
Moray - 2 £40,101 -
Dundee +13 1 - - 2
West Lothian +4 1 - - 5
East Ayrshire - 1 £40,101 -
South Ayrshire - 1 £40,101 -
Fife - 1 £40,101 -
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (14.29%) Apache
2 2 (5.71%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 7 (20.00%) Azure
2 6 (17.14%) AWS
2 6 (17.14%) GitHub
3 4 (11.43%) GCP
4 3 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (8.57%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (5.71%) Apigee
5 2 (5.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.29%) NoSQL
1 5 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 3 (8.57%) MongoDB
2 3 (8.57%) Relational Database
3 2 (5.71%) MySQL
4 1 (2.86%) DB2
Development Applications
1 12 (34.29%) Visual Studio
2 5 (14.29%) Eclipse
2 5 (14.29%) Eclipse RCP
2 5 (14.29%) Git
2 5 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 4 (11.43%) GitLab
4 3 (8.57%) Fiddler
4 3 (8.57%) Postman
4 3 (8.57%) TeamCity
5 2 (5.71%) JUnit
5 2 (5.71%) Maven
5 2 (5.71%) SonarQube
5 2 (5.71%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (25.71%) Finance
2 6 (17.14%) Banking
2 6 (17.14%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (8.57%) Law
4 2 (5.71%) Investment Banking
4 2 (5.71%) Marketing
5 1 (2.86%) Electronics
5 1 (2.86%) Legal
5 1 (2.86%) Retail Banking
5 1 (2.86%) Social Science
5 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (48.57%) Software Engineer
2 13 (37.14%) Senior
3 11 (31.43%) Architect
3 11 (31.43%) Software Architect
4 9 (25.71%) Senior Architect
4 9 (25.71%) Senior Software Architect
4 9 (25.71%) Senior Systems Architect
4 9 (25.71%) Systems Architect
5 5 (14.29%) Junior
5 5 (14.29%) Junior Software Engineer
5 5 (14.29%) Robotics Software Engineer
6 4 (11.43%) .NET Developer
6 4 (11.43%) Developer
6 4 (11.43%) Senior Software Engineer
7 3 (8.57%) Java Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) Java Software Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) Lead
8 2 (5.71%) Python Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) Python Software Engineer
9 1 (2.86%) Firmware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (51.43%) CSS
1 18 (51.43%) HTML
2 16 (45.71%) .NET
3 14 (40.00%) .NET Framework
4 10 (28.57%) Middleware
5 7 (20.00%) React
5 7 (20.00%) RESTful
6 6 (17.14%) .NET Core
6 6 (17.14%) Web Services
7 5 (14.29%) JSP
7 5 (14.29%) Spring
8 4 (11.43%) ASP.NET
8 4 (11.43%) ASP.NET Web API
9 3 (8.57%) ADO.NET
9 3 (8.57%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (8.57%) Entity Framework
9 3 (8.57%) REST
9 3 (8.57%) Swagger
10 2 (5.71%) CSS3
10 2 (5.71%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Robotics
2 3 (8.57%) Fixed Income
3 2 (5.71%) Derivative
3 2 (5.71%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.86%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 10 (28.57%) Linux
2 6 (17.14%) Windows
3 5 (14.29%) Robot Operating System
4 2 (5.71%) Unix
5 1 (2.86%) Android
5 1 (2.86%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (2.86%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (2.86%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (77.14%) Software Engineering
2 17 (48.57%) Microservices
3 16 (45.71%) Agile
4 14 (40.00%) Mentoring
4 14 (40.00%) OOP
5 10 (28.57%) Multithreading
5 10 (28.57%) OOD
5 10 (28.57%) Unit Testing
6 9 (25.71%) SOA
6 9 (25.71%) Software Architecture
7 8 (22.86%) CI/CD
7 8 (22.86%) SDLC
8 7 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
8 7 (20.00%) DevOps
9 5 (14.29%) Analytics
9 5 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (14.29%) ETL
9 5 (14.29%) Mathematics
9 5 (14.29%) Physics
9 5 (14.29%) UML
Programming Languages
1 22 (62.86%) SQL
2 20 (57.14%) Java
3 19 (54.29%) C#
4 17 (48.57%) C++
5 12 (34.29%) Python
6 11 (31.43%) C
7 7 (20.00%) JavaScript
8 5 (14.29%) Ada
8 5 (14.29%) Rust
8 5 (14.29%) TypeScript
9 2 (5.71%) Go
10 1 (2.86%) Scala
10 1 (2.86%) VB
Qualifications
1 12 (34.29%) Degree
2 5 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (14.29%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 8 (22.86%) Docker
2 1 (2.86%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (2.86%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.71%) Istio
2 2 (5.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.86%) Sybase