OOP Jobs in Scotland

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 233 134
Rank change year-on-year +99 -99 -43
Permanent jobs citing OOP 27 47 97
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.91% 0.70% 2.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 0.76% 2.21%
Number of salaries quoted 22 25 50
10th Percentile £49,750 £31,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -17.39% +9.52%
75th Percentile £68,750 £55,000 £61,250
90th Percentile - £62,500 £80,500
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
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,741 6,180 4,397
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.85% 92.45% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,350 2,400 2,209
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £43,813 £40,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,471 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -8.70% +4.78%
75th Percentile £63,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,958 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for OOP in Scotland

OOP
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for OOP in Scotland

OOP
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing OOP in Scotland over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for OOP in Scotland

OOP
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OOP within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 14 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 14 £60,000 - 5
Glasgow +160 6 £55,000 +57.14% 5
Aberdeenshire - 5 £62,500 -
Lanarkshire - 1 £48,343 -
North Lanarkshire - 1 £51,000 -
OOP
UK

OOP
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:

Cloud Services
1 14 (51.85%) AWS
2 10 (37.04%) GCP
2 10 (37.04%) GitHub
3 6 (22.22%) Azure
4 3 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (7.41%) AWS CodeCommit
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (44.44%) MySQL
2 8 (29.63%) SQL Server
3 7 (25.93%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (11.11%) MongoDB
4 3 (11.11%) NoSQL
4 3 (11.11%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.70%) DB2
Development Applications
1 18 (66.67%) Git
2 6 (22.22%) GitLab
3 5 (18.52%) Jenkins
4 3 (11.11%) Fiddler
4 3 (11.11%) Postman
4 3 (11.11%) TeamCity
4 3 (11.11%) Visual Studio
5 2 (7.41%) Checkstyle
5 2 (7.41%) SonarQube
6 1 (3.70%) MSTest
6 1 (3.70%) NUnit
General
1 16 (59.26%) Finance
2 10 (37.04%) Games
3 5 (18.52%) Social Skills
4 3 (11.11%) Banking
4 3 (11.11%) Retail Banking
4 3 (11.11%) Social Science
5 2 (7.41%) Local Government
6 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (44.44%) Developer
2 10 (37.04%) Senior
3 9 (33.33%) Software Engineer
4 6 (22.22%) PHP Developer
4 6 (22.22%) Senior Developer
4 6 (22.22%) Senior PHP Developer
5 5 (18.52%) .NET Developer
5 5 (18.52%) Robotics Software Engineer
6 4 (14.81%) PHP Software Engineer
6 4 (14.81%) Senior Software Engineer
7 3 (11.11%) Audit Manager
7 3 (11.11%) Lead
7 3 (11.11%) Risk Manager
8 1 (3.70%) Java Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) Java Server Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) Lead Developer
8 1 (3.70%) React Developer
8 1 (3.70%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (51.85%) CSS
1 14 (51.85%) HTML
2 10 (37.04%) LAMP
2 10 (37.04%) Laravel
3 7 (25.93%) Web Services
4 6 (22.22%) .NET
4 6 (22.22%) .NET Framework
4 6 (22.22%) RESTful
5 5 (18.52%) .NET Core
5 5 (18.52%) ASP.NET
5 5 (18.52%) Middleware
5 5 (18.52%) REST
6 4 (14.81%) Entity Framework
6 4 (14.81%) React
7 3 (11.11%) ADO.NET
7 3 (11.11%) ASP.NET MVC
7 3 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (11.11%) Swagger
8 2 (7.41%) EJB
8 2 (7.41%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 10 (37.04%) Mobile App
2 5 (18.52%) Robotics
3 2 (7.41%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (7.41%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.70%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (18.52%) Robot Operating System
2 1 (3.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (55.56%) OO
2 13 (48.15%) MVC
3 10 (37.04%) E-Commerce
3 10 (37.04%) Software Engineering
3 10 (37.04%) Web Development
4 8 (29.63%) Microservices
5 7 (25.93%) CI/CD
5 7 (25.93%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (18.52%) DevOps
6 5 (18.52%) Remote Testing
6 5 (18.52%) Test Automation
6 5 (18.52%) Unit Testing
7 3 (11.11%) Coaching
7 3 (11.11%) Containerisation
7 3 (11.11%) Data Science
7 3 (11.11%) Event-Driven
7 3 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 3 (11.11%) Internal Audit
7 3 (11.11%) Quantitative Analysis
7 3 (11.11%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 14 (51.85%) JavaScript
2 10 (37.04%) PHP
3 6 (22.22%) SQL
4 5 (18.52%) C++
5 3 (11.11%) C#
5 3 (11.11%) Java
5 3 (11.11%) Python
6 2 (7.41%) TypeScript
7 1 (3.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (29.63%) Degree
2 5 (18.52%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 6 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
1 2 (7.41%) Twitter
2 1 (3.70%) Sybase