OO Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Object-Oriented (OO)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring OO skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 161 154
Rank change year-on-year +3 -7 -72
Permanent jobs citing OO 13 18 41
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.32% 0.53% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.58% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 8 10 30
10th Percentile £32,875 £42,250 £42,375
25th Percentile £42,813 £52,422 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £59,125 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year -11.21% +10.00% -2.27%
75th Percentile £67,500 £64,563 £64,375
90th Percentile £70,875 £65,356 £74,250
South East median annual salary £60,000 £53,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.68% -3.18% -8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,227 3,123 3,549
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 80.49% 91.69% 89.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,748 1,396 2,454
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £39,021
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,000 £76,009 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £83,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.79% +10.48% -4.55%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing OO relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

OO job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

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Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing OO.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing OO

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Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing OO in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for OO in the Thames Valley

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Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OO within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 12 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
Buckinghamshire +14 6 £65,000 +6.12% 7
Oxfordshire +20 4 - - 6
Berkshire -11 3 £52,500 -7.18% 19
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South East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) AWS
3 2 (15.38%) GCP
3 2 (15.38%) GitHub
3 2 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (7.69%) Azure AI
4 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) SQL Server
2 3 (23.08%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (15.38%) MySQL
4 1 (7.69%) Big Data
4 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Git
2 2 (15.38%) GitLab
3 1 (7.69%) MLflow
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.69%) Automotive
3 1 (7.69%) Aviation
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.69%) Law
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Developer
2 5 (38.46%) Software Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Senior
3 3 (23.08%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) C++ Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) .NET Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Graduate
5 1 (7.69%) Graduate Developer
5 1 (7.69%) IT Graduate
5 1 (7.69%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) PHP Developer
5 1 (7.69%) PHP Laravel Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) .NET
2 6 (46.15%) ASP.NET
3 5 (38.46%) React
4 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET Core
4 2 (15.38%) Blazor
4 2 (15.38%) CSS
4 2 (15.38%) jQuery
4 2 (15.38%) RESTful
5 1 (7.69%) .NET Core
5 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (7.69%) CSS3
5 1 (7.69%) HTML
5 1 (7.69%) HTML5
5 1 (7.69%) Laravel
5 1 (7.69%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 3 (23.08%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (23.08%) N-Tier
3 2 (15.38%) Data Structures
3 2 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (15.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (7.69%) Low-Code
4 1 (7.69%) Social Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Agile
2 8 (61.54%) OOP
3 7 (53.85%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (53.85%) Software Engineering
4 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
4 6 (46.15%) Computer Science
4 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (38.46%) Scrum
6 4 (30.77%) DevOps
6 4 (30.77%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (30.77%) Microservices
6 4 (30.77%) MVC
6 4 (30.77%) TDD
7 3 (23.08%) Concurrent Programming
7 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
7 3 (23.08%) Data Management
7 3 (23.08%) Machine Learning
7 3 (23.08%) Multithreading
7 3 (23.08%) OOD
7 3 (23.08%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) SQL
2 7 (53.85%) C#
3 6 (46.15%) C++
4 4 (30.77%) Java
4 4 (30.77%) Python
5 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
6 2 (15.38%) C
6 2 (15.38%) PHP
7 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) Degree
2 3 (23.08%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
3 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
3 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) QA
2 2 (15.38%) ECSS
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft