OOD Jobs in the Thames Valley

Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 166 217 233
Rank change year-on-year +51 +16 -9
Permanent jobs citing OOD 14 27 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.41% 0.40% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.48% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 6 27 25
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 -
25th Percentile £45,625 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% -7.40%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile - - £77,500
South East median annual salary £61,250 £63,750 £53,750
% change year-on-year -3.92% +18.60% -10.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,193 5,670 5,630
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 93.99% 84.73% 94.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,218 3,891 3,075
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,183 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £88,750
South East median annual salary £56,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% -9.09% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing OOD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for OOD in the Thames Valley

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Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing OOD in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for OOD in the Thames Valley

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Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing OOD in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for OOD 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 OOD within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 15 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
Oxfordshire +19 8 - - 2
Buckinghamshire - 4 £60,000 - 1
Berkshire +44 2 £45,000 -25.00% 5
OOD
South East

OOD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Git
1 4 (28.57%) JIRA
1 4 (28.57%) Subversion
General
1 14 (100.00%) Electronics
2 12 (85.71%) Aerospace
3 4 (28.57%) Aviation
3 4 (28.57%) Manufacturing
3 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (100.00%) Senior
2 4 (28.57%) Electronics Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Senior Electronics Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Embedded Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Embedded Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) CPLD
1 4 (28.57%) FPGA
2 2 (14.29%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) OO
2 8 (57.14%) Mentoring
2 8 (57.14%) Technical Leadership
2 8 (57.14%) Unit Testing
3 4 (28.57%) Customer Requirements
3 4 (28.57%) Issue Tracking
3 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (28.57%) Project Delivery
3 4 (28.57%) Prototyping
3 4 (28.57%) Schematic Capture
3 4 (28.57%) SDLC
3 4 (28.57%) Software Architecture
3 4 (28.57%) Systems Thinking
3 4 (28.57%) Test Automation
3 4 (28.57%) Validation
3 4 (28.57%) Verification and Validation
4 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) C++
2 12 (85.71%) C
3 4 (28.57%) C#
4 2 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (57.14%) Degree
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Agilent