OO Jobs in the South East

Object-Oriented (OO)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 195 164 130
Rank change year-on-year -31 -34 -37
Permanent jobs citing OO 122 273 362
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.27% 1.56% 2.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 1.86% 2.73%
Number of salaries quoted 87 179 196
10th Percentile £37,574 £37,500 £34,875
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile - £80,000 £83,125
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -19.23% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,872 14,647 13,269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 92.08% 83.51% 94.48%
Number of salaries quoted 4,278 10,075 7,715
10th Percentile £29,175 £27,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £39,750 £36,875 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing OO as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for OO in the South East

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Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing OO in the South East.

Salary trend for OO in the South East

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Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing OO in the South East over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for OO in the South East

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Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OO within the South East region over the 6 months to 30 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
Hampshire -9 38 £70,000 +14.75% 54
Thames Valley +31 23 £60,000 +17.60% 140
Surrey +35 16 £70,000 +43.59% 41
East Sussex +31 16 £50,000 +17.65% 17
Oxfordshire +15 14 £62,500 +19.05% 19
Isle of Wight - 14 £65,000 -
Kent +35 6 £40,000 -27.27% 32
West Sussex +19 5 £70,000 +40.00% 15
Buckinghamshire +17 5 £60,000 +34.83% 34
Berkshire +32 4 £50,000 - 88
Middlesex -19 3 - -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 7 (5.74%) Apache
2 3 (2.46%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.46%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.46%) Appian
3 1 (0.82%) GemFire
Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 36 (29.51%) Azure
2 33 (27.05%) AWS
3 18 (14.75%) Amazon EKS
3 18 (14.75%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (3.28%) Power Platform
6 3 (2.46%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.46%) GitHub
6 3 (2.46%) MinIO
6 3 (2.46%) SaaS
7 2 (1.64%) Azure API Management
7 2 (1.64%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (1.64%) Firebase
8 1 (0.82%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.82%) Azure Functions
8 1 (0.82%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.82%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 23 (18.85%) Wireshark
2 1 (0.82%) Broadband
2 1 (0.82%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (14.75%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (3.28%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.46%) MySQL
3 3 (2.46%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.64%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.64%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.82%) Airbyte
5 1 (0.82%) Apache Ignite
5 1 (0.82%) Big Data
5 1 (0.82%) Couchbase
5 1 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.82%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.82%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (0.82%) Metadata
5 1 (0.82%) Power BI
5 1 (0.82%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.82%) Redis
5 1 (0.82%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 7 (5.74%) Git
2 6 (4.92%) Eclipse
3 5 (4.10%) Eclipse RCP
3 5 (4.10%) JIRA
4 4 (3.28%) Subversion
5 3 (2.46%) Robot Framework
5 3 (2.46%) Selenium
5 3 (2.46%) Snyk
6 2 (1.64%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.64%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.82%) CMake
7 1 (0.82%) MSTest
7 1 (0.82%) NUnit
7 1 (0.82%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.82%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.82%) Spock
7 1 (0.82%) Visual Studio
General
1 21 (17.21%) Social Skills
2 20 (16.39%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (14.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (11.48%) Electronics
5 12 (9.84%) Aerospace
5 12 (9.84%) Finance
6 5 (4.10%) Aviation
6 5 (4.10%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.64%) Front Office
7 2 (1.64%) Law
7 2 (1.64%) Retail
8 1 (0.82%) Automotive
8 1 (0.82%) Games
8 1 (0.82%) Marketing
8 1 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.82%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 40 (32.79%) Developer
2 24 (19.67%) Principal Engineer
3 23 (18.85%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 23 (18.85%) Systems Engineer
4 21 (17.21%) Senior
5 19 (15.57%) Software Developer
6 16 (13.11%) Lead
7 12 (9.84%) .NET Developer
7 12 (9.84%) C# Developer
7 12 (9.84%) Software Team Leader
7 12 (9.84%) Team Leader
8 11 (9.02%) Software Engineer
9 10 (8.20%) C# .NET Developer
10 8 (6.56%) Data Engineer
10 8 (6.56%) Junior
10 8 (6.56%) Python Engineer
11 7 (5.74%) Azure Engineer
11 7 (5.74%) Senior Data Engineer
12 5 (4.10%) Azure Data Engineer
12 5 (4.10%) Junior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (32.79%) .NET
2 22 (18.03%) CSS
3 20 (16.39%) HTML
4 19 (15.57%) Node.js
5 18 (14.75%) Pandas
6 15 (12.30%) XML
7 10 (8.20%) jQuery
7 10 (8.20%) RESTful
8 8 (6.56%) Django
9 7 (5.74%) Middleware
10 6 (4.92%) Kafka
11 5 (4.10%) JSP
12 4 (3.28%) .NET Core
12 4 (3.28%) ASP.NET
12 4 (3.28%) CSS3
12 4 (3.28%) HTML5
12 4 (3.28%) REST
13 3 (2.46%) Apache NiFi
13 3 (2.46%) React
13 3 (2.46%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 18 (14.75%) Cyberattack
2 12 (9.84%) Embedded Systems
3 5 (4.10%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.28%) CPLD
4 4 (3.28%) FPGA
5 3 (2.46%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.46%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.64%) Credit Derivative
6 2 (1.64%) Derivative
6 2 (1.64%) Equities
6 2 (1.64%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.64%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.82%) 3D Graphics
7 1 (0.82%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (0.82%) CAN bus
7 1 (0.82%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.82%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.82%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 50 (40.98%) Linux
2 30 (24.59%) Windows
3 22 (18.03%) Android
4 3 (2.46%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (55.74%) OOP
2 52 (42.62%) Software Engineering
3 41 (33.61%) Containerisation
4 33 (27.05%) OOD
5 32 (26.23%) CI/CD
6 29 (23.77%) Agile
7 25 (20.49%) Mathematics
8 23 (18.85%) Data Analysis
8 23 (18.85%) Design Patterns
8 23 (18.85%) Roadmaps
8 23 (18.85%) SDLC
8 23 (18.85%) Systems Engineering
9 21 (17.21%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (15.57%) Android Development
10 19 (15.57%) Collaborative Working
10 19 (15.57%) Customer Requirements
11 18 (14.75%) Kanban
11 18 (14.75%) Line Management
11 18 (14.75%) OWASP
11 18 (14.75%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 45 (36.89%) Python
2 38 (31.15%) Java
3 37 (30.33%) JavaScript
4 36 (29.51%) C++
5 32 (26.23%) C#
6 25 (20.49%) C
7 24 (19.67%) SQL
8 23 (18.85%) Rust
9 19 (15.57%) Go
10 17 (13.93%) Ada
11 11 (9.02%) TypeScript
12 7 (5.74%) Scala
13 2 (1.64%) PHP
14 1 (0.82%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.82%) Embedded C++
14 1 (0.82%) Groovy
14 1 (0.82%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.82%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.82%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 51 (41.80%) Degree
2 40 (32.79%) BPSS Clearance
3 23 (18.85%) Chartered Engineer
3 23 (18.85%) Security Cleared
4 20 (16.39%) DV Cleared
5 6 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.46%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.82%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.02%) QA
2 2 (1.64%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.82%) Data Quality
System Software
1 19 (15.57%) Docker
2 2 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (17.21%) Ansible
1 21 (17.21%) Terraform
2 19 (15.57%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.82%) Grafana
3 1 (0.82%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (3.28%) Agilent
2 3 (2.46%) BiZZdesign
2 3 (2.46%) Black Duck
2 3 (2.46%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.46%) UiPath
2 3 (2.46%) VMware
3 2 (1.64%) Apple
3 2 (1.64%) Oracle
4 1 (0.82%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.82%) Blue Prism
4 1 (0.82%) Coverity
4 1 (0.82%) Intel
4 1 (0.82%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.82%) SAP
4 1 (0.82%) Solace
4 1 (0.82%) TIBCO