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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 236 213 180
Rank change year-on-year -23 -33 -14
Permanent jobs citing OOP 34 94 119
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.33% 1.05% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 1.19% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 29 64 102
10th Percentile £25,000 £40,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -
75th Percentile - £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £61,500 £70,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -14.29%

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 8,324 7,915 7,772
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 80.21% 88.16% 88.29%
Number of salaries quoted 4,975 3,773 5,421
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,250 £45,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £58,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +11.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 14 January 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 14 January 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 -6 13 £60,000 +14.29% 10
Thames Valley -4 9 £65,000 +8.33% 20
East Sussex - 8 £60,000 - 4
Buckinghamshire +10 5 £65,000 - 1
Oxfordshire +11 4 - - 1
Kent -11 3 £25,000 -36.71% 1
Surrey -3 1 - - 7
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 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 12 (35.29%) Azure
2 7 (20.59%) AWS
3 3 (8.82%) GitHub
4 2 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (5.88%) GCP
4 2 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.94%) Cloudflare
5 1 (2.94%) Heroku
5 1 (2.94%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.94%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.94%) Broadband
1 1 (2.94%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (41.18%) MySQL
2 8 (23.53%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (5.88%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.94%) Big Data
4 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (17.65%) Git
2 2 (5.88%) GitLab
2 2 (5.88%) Ranorex
2 2 (5.88%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (2.94%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.94%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.94%) Jasmine
3 1 (2.94%) MLflow
General
1 8 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 5 (14.71%) Finance
3 2 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (5.88%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.94%) Automotive
4 1 (2.94%) Aviation
4 1 (2.94%) Games
4 1 (2.94%) Law
4 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (64.71%) Developer
2 14 (41.18%) Senior
3 9 (26.47%) Backend Developer
3 9 (26.47%) Senior Backend Developer
3 9 (26.47%) Senior Developer
4 8 (23.53%) Applications Developer
5 7 (20.59%) Software Engineer
6 4 (11.76%) Graduate
6 4 (11.76%) Graduate Developer
6 4 (11.76%) PHP Developer
6 4 (11.76%) Senior Software Engineer
7 3 (8.82%) Azure Developer
7 3 (8.82%) C# Developer
7 3 (8.82%) Graduate C# Developer
7 3 (8.82%) Graduate PHP Developer
7 3 (8.82%) Graduate SQL Developer
7 3 (8.82%) Software Developer
7 3 (8.82%) SQL Developer
8 2 (5.88%) C# Software Developer
8 2 (5.88%) Graduate C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (44.12%) .NET
2 9 (26.47%) .NET Core
3 6 (17.65%) ASP.NET
3 6 (17.65%) CSS
4 5 (14.71%) React
5 4 (11.76%) jQuery
6 2 (5.88%) AngularJS
6 2 (5.88%) HTML
6 2 (5.88%) RESTful
6 2 (5.88%) XML
6 2 (5.88%) XSL
7 1 (2.94%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (2.94%) CSS3
7 1 (2.94%) Ember.js
7 1 (2.94%) HTML5
7 1 (2.94%) Laravel
7 1 (2.94%) Ruby on Rails
7 1 (2.94%) Sass
7 1 (2.94%) Symfony
7 1 (2.94%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (23.53%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 3 (8.82%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.82%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (8.82%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (5.88%) Client/Server
3 2 (5.88%) N-Tier
3 2 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.94%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.88%) Windows
2 1 (2.94%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (64.71%) OO
2 20 (58.82%) Agile
3 14 (41.18%) Continuous Improvement
4 13 (38.24%) TDD
5 10 (29.41%) Computer Science
5 10 (29.41%) SDLC
6 9 (26.47%) Software Engineering
7 8 (23.53%) Clean Code
7 8 (23.53%) Collaborative Culture
7 8 (23.53%) Collaborative Working
7 8 (23.53%) MVC
7 8 (23.53%) SOLID
8 7 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (17.65%) CI/CD
10 4 (11.76%) Containerisation
10 4 (11.76%) DevOps
10 4 (11.76%) Scrum
10 4 (11.76%) Software Testing
11 3 (8.82%) Data Management
11 3 (8.82%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 19 (55.88%) C#
2 14 (41.18%) PHP
3 9 (26.47%) SQL
4 7 (20.59%) C++
4 7 (20.59%) Java
5 4 (11.76%) JavaScript
5 4 (11.76%) Python
6 2 (5.88%) C
6 2 (5.88%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.94%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (29.41%) Degree
2 7 (20.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.88%) ISTQB
3 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.94%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.94%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.94%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.94%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.94%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.65%) QA
2 2 (5.88%) ECSS
System Software
1 4 (11.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (8.82%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (32.35%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.88%) Oracle
3 1 (2.94%) SendGrid
3 1 (2.94%) Zend