OOP Job Trends in the South East

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring OOP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 228 207 193
Rank change year-on-year -21 -14 -47
Permanent jobs citing OOP 70 74 222
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.48% 0.94% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 1.04% 1.61%
Number of salaries quoted 68 49 131
10th Percentile £42,500 £31,100 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £40,000 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile - £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £64,125 £70,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -12.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,409 7,132 13,823
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.81% 90.59% 83.91%
Number of salaries quoted 7,080 3,388 9,795
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,675 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,969 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% +7.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing OOP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

OOP job vacancy trend in the South East

OOP
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing OOP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing OOP

OOP
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing OOP in the South East over the 6 months to 20 May 2026.

Salary histogram for OOP in the South East

OOP
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 OOP within the South East region over the 6 months to 20 May 2026. 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 -15 29 £52,500 -16.00% 3
East Sussex +6 20 £60,000 +100.00%
Thames Valley -4 11 £57,500 -4.17% 4
Oxfordshire -8 7 £57,500 -4.17% 2
Surrey -22 5 £60,000 -14.29% 1
Buckinghamshire -5 3 £77,500 +55.00%
Kent -48 3 £25,000 -23.08% 2
Middlesex +44 1 - - 1
Berkshire +9 1 £37,500 -31.82% 2
OOP
England

OOP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.43%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 24 (34.29%) AWS
2 11 (15.71%) Azure
3 9 (12.86%) GitHub
4 7 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
4 7 (10.00%) SaaS
5 6 (8.57%) GCP
6 2 (2.86%) Figma
6 2 (2.86%) GitHub Copilot
6 2 (2.86%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.43%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.43%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.43%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.29%) HTTP
1 3 (4.29%) RTP
1 3 (4.29%) Unified Communications
1 3 (4.29%) VoIP
1 3 (4.29%) Wireshark
2 1 (1.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (25.71%) MySQL
2 12 (17.14%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.29%) MongoDB
3 3 (4.29%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 12 (17.14%) Git
2 3 (4.29%) Ranorex
2 3 (4.29%) Selenium
2 3 (4.29%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (2.86%) Cypress.io
3 2 (2.86%) JIRA
3 2 (2.86%) PHPUnit
4 1 (1.43%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.43%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.43%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 15 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 7 (10.00%) Manufacturing
3 6 (8.57%) Finance
4 5 (7.14%) Automotive
5 2 (2.86%) Electronics
5 2 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.86%) Law
5 2 (2.86%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 52 (74.29%) Developer
2 18 (25.71%) Backend Developer
3 16 (22.86%) Applications Developer
4 15 (21.43%) Senior
5 13 (18.57%) Senior Developer
5 13 (18.57%) Software Developer
6 12 (17.14%) Senior Backend Developer
7 8 (11.43%) Software Engineer
8 7 (10.00%) C# Software Engineer
9 5 (7.14%) Lead
10 4 (5.71%) .NET Developer
10 4 (5.71%) Lead Software Engineer
11 3 (4.29%) .NET Software Engineer
11 3 (4.29%) C# Developer
11 3 (4.29%) C# Software Developer
11 3 (4.29%) Graduate C# Developer
11 3 (4.29%) Graduate Developer
11 3 (4.29%) Python Developer
11 3 (4.29%) Software Tester
11 3 (4.29%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (38.57%) .NET
2 19 (27.14%) .NET Core
3 9 (12.86%) CSS
4 7 (10.00%) Laravel
5 6 (8.57%) HTML
5 6 (8.57%) Vue
6 5 (7.14%) jQuery
6 5 (7.14%) React
6 5 (7.14%) RESTful
7 4 (5.71%) ASP.NET
7 4 (5.71%) ASP.NET Core
7 4 (5.71%) Blazor
7 4 (5.71%) LAMP
7 4 (5.71%) REST
8 3 (4.29%) Django
8 3 (4.29%) FreeSWITCH
8 3 (4.29%) OAuth
8 3 (4.29%) SQLAlchemy
8 3 (4.29%) XML
8 3 (4.29%) XSL
Miscellaneous
1 16 (22.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 6 (8.57%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (5.71%) Client/Server
4 3 (4.29%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.29%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.86%) Acoustics
5 2 (2.86%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.86%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.86%) Analogue Electronics
5 2 (2.86%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.86%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.86%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.43%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.43%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.43%) IoT
6 1 (1.43%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.43%) PKI
6 1 (1.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.14%) Linux
2 3 (4.29%) Ubuntu
2 3 (4.29%) Windows
3 1 (1.43%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (45.71%) OO
2 31 (44.29%) Agile
3 23 (32.86%) Clean Code
4 22 (31.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 22 (31.43%) SOLID
5 19 (27.14%) CI/CD
5 19 (27.14%) SDLC
6 18 (25.71%) TDD
7 17 (24.29%) Collaborative Culture
7 17 (24.29%) Collaborative Working
8 14 (20.00%) Software Engineering
9 10 (14.29%) AI
10 9 (12.86%) DevOps
10 9 (12.86%) Migration
11 7 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
11 7 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
12 6 (8.57%) Computer Science
12 6 (8.57%) Design Patterns
12 6 (8.57%) Infrastructure as Code
12 6 (8.57%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 37 (52.86%) C#
2 22 (31.43%) PHP
3 12 (17.14%) SQL
4 10 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 9 (12.86%) C++
5 9 (12.86%) Python
6 8 (11.43%) TypeScript
7 6 (8.57%) Java
8 5 (7.14%) C
9 2 (2.86%) Embedded C
9 2 (2.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (18.57%) Degree
2 7 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.29%) AWS Certification
3 3 (4.29%) ISTQB
3 3 (4.29%) Master's Degree
3 3 (4.29%) PhD
3 3 (4.29%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.86%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.86%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.86%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (1.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.29%) QA
2 3 (4.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (15.71%) Docker
2 3 (4.29%) Kamailio
3 2 (2.86%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (2.86%) Firmware
4 1 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.71%) Terraform
3 3 (4.29%) Argo
4 1 (1.43%) Kibana
Vendors
1 22 (31.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.29%) BT
2 3 (4.29%) Fortinet
2 3 (4.29%) Mitel
2 3 (4.29%) Oracle
3 2 (2.86%) EMC
3 2 (2.86%) Google
4 1 (1.43%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.43%) Xamarin
4 1 (1.43%) Zend