OOD Jobs in the South East

Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring OOD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited OOD 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 255 338 358
Rank change year-on-year +83 +20 0
Permanent jobs citing OOD 37 55 48
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.39% 0.33% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.39% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 28 46 38
10th Percentile £37,574 £41,250 £41,000
25th Percentile £48,125 £50,313 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £63,750 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year -3.92% +18.60% -10.42%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile - - £77,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £61,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.63% -5.38% +1.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

OOD 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 8,619 14,172 13,723
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 91.80% 84.50% 94.52%
Number of salaries quoted 4,258 9,870 8,005
10th Percentile £29,925 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £86,250
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 OOD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for OOD in the South East

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Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for OOD in the South East

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Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing OOD in the South East over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for OOD 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 OOD within the South East 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
Thames Valley +63 14 £60,000 +14.29% 8
Isle of Wight - 14 £65,000 -
Oxfordshire +15 8 - - 2
Buckinghamshire - 4 £60,000 - 1
Hampshire +44 3 £40,101 -42.71% 2
East Sussex +33 3 £50,000 -
Berkshire +31 2 £45,000 -25.00% 7
Surrey +48 1 £70,000 +55.56% 11
Kent +36 1 £40,101 -52.82%
Middlesex - 1 - - 1
OOD
England

OOD
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 5 (13.51%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 4 (10.81%) SaaS
2 1 (2.70%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.70%) Couchbase
1 1 (2.70%) MongoDB
1 1 (2.70%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (21.62%) Git
2 5 (13.51%) Eclipse
2 5 (13.51%) Eclipse RCP
2 5 (13.51%) JIRA
2 5 (13.51%) Subversion
3 3 (8.11%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.70%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.70%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (2.70%) Spock
4 1 (2.70%) TeamCity
General
1 14 (37.84%) Electronics
2 12 (32.43%) Aerospace
3 8 (21.62%) Social Skills
4 4 (10.81%) Aviation
4 4 (10.81%) Manufacturing
5 3 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (43.24%) Senior
2 12 (32.43%) Lead
2 12 (32.43%) Software Team Leader
2 12 (32.43%) Team Leader
3 10 (27.03%) Software Engineer
4 5 (13.51%) Junior
4 5 (13.51%) Junior Software Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Electronics Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Senior Electronics Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) C# Developer
6 3 (8.11%) Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Embedded Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Senior Embedded Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) C# Software Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (32.43%) XML
2 6 (16.22%) Middleware
3 5 (13.51%) .NET
3 5 (13.51%) CSS
3 5 (13.51%) HTML
3 5 (13.51%) JSP
4 1 (2.70%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (2.70%) Kafka
4 1 (2.70%) Node.js
4 1 (2.70%) pytest
4 1 (2.70%) React
4 1 (2.70%) Redux
4 1 (2.70%) REST
4 1 (2.70%) WCF
4 1 (2.70%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 12 (32.43%) Embedded Systems
2 4 (10.81%) CPLD
2 4 (10.81%) FPGA
3 2 (5.41%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (18.92%) Linux
2 5 (13.51%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (100.00%) OO
2 23 (62.16%) SDLC
3 22 (59.46%) Software Engineering
4 17 (45.95%) UML
5 16 (43.24%) Customer Requirements
6 14 (37.84%) Mentoring
6 14 (37.84%) Unit Testing
7 12 (32.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (32.43%) Project Planning
7 12 (32.43%) Quality Management
7 12 (32.43%) SysML
8 9 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (21.62%) Technical Leadership
10 5 (13.51%) Analytics
10 5 (13.51%) Business Analytics
10 5 (13.51%) Design Patterns
10 5 (13.51%) Issue Tracking
10 5 (13.51%) Software Architecture
10 5 (13.51%) SOLID
10 5 (13.51%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 25 (67.57%) C
2 17 (45.95%) Ada
3 15 (40.54%) C++
4 14 (37.84%) C#
5 9 (24.32%) SQL
6 7 (18.92%) Python
7 6 (16.22%) Java
8 5 (13.51%) Rust
9 1 (2.70%) Groovy
9 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 17 (45.95%) BPSS Clearance
2 13 (35.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.11%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.70%) Grafana
1 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (10.81%) Agilent
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle