OO Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Object-Oriented (OO)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring OO skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 92 174
Rank change year-on-year -246 +82 -62
Permanent jobs citing OO 239 799 1,076
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.38% 3.00% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 3.29% 1.91%
Number of salaries quoted 165 279 635
10th Percentile £29,300 £25,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £39,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £53,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.43% +7.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,250 £82,500 £76,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -15.38%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46,067 24,285 56,424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 72.39% 91.28% 84.13%
Number of salaries quoted 28,065 13,812 40,686
10th Percentile £28,957 £28,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.86%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing OO relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

OO job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

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Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing OO.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing OO

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Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing OO in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 April 2026.

Salary histogram for OO in the UK excluding London

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Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OO within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 April 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
North of England -226 63 £37,500 -31.82% 36
Scotland +2 58 £37,500 -50.00% 25
South East -87 46 £60,000 +20.00% 50
North West -172 31 £37,500 -21.05% 17
Yorkshire -75 26 £37,500 -45.45% 10
Midlands -50 25 £37,500 -11.76% 12
East of England -77 22 £76,500 +39.09% 17
South West -68 19 £37,500 -28.57% 12
East Midlands -53 14 £37,500 - 5
West Midlands -44 11 £37,500 -27.54% 7
North East -44 6 £37,500 -28.57% 9
Wales -51 6 £57,500 +76.92% 2
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UK

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 49 (20.50%) Jupyter
2 2 (0.84%) Apache
2 2 (0.84%) NServiceBus
3 1 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.42%) CICS
3 1 (0.42%) CMS
3 1 (0.42%) Confluence
3 1 (0.42%) Kinematics
3 1 (0.42%) PegaRULES
3 1 (0.42%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.42%) WildFly
Applications
1 49 (20.50%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.84%) Windchill
3 1 (0.42%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 2 (0.84%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.42%) Magento
2 1 (0.42%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 93 (38.91%) AWS
2 51 (21.34%) Azure
3 49 (20.50%) Cloud Computing
4 22 (9.21%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (7.11%) Serverless
6 15 (6.28%) GitHub
7 11 (4.60%) Azure Key Vault
7 11 (4.60%) dbt
7 11 (4.60%) Snowflake
8 7 (2.93%) Azure AI
9 5 (2.09%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (1.67%) GCP
11 2 (0.84%) Power Platform
12 1 (0.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (0.42%) Amazon ECS
12 1 (0.42%) Amazon EKS
12 1 (0.42%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.42%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (0.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 1 (0.42%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 35 (14.64%) Broadband
2 3 (1.26%) HTTP
2 3 (1.26%) RTP
2 3 (1.26%) Unified Communications
2 3 (1.26%) VoIP
2 3 (1.26%) Wireshark
3 1 (0.42%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (11.30%) SQL Server
2 20 (8.37%) MySQL
3 11 (4.60%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (4.60%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (1.26%) Oracle Database
4 3 (1.26%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.42%) DB2
6 1 (0.42%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 49 (20.50%) Visual Studio Code
2 36 (15.06%) GitLab
2 36 (15.06%) Jenkins
3 34 (14.23%) SonarQube
4 27 (11.30%) Git
5 6 (2.51%) Storybook
6 3 (1.26%) IntelliJ
6 3 (1.26%) Ranorex
6 3 (1.26%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.84%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.84%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.84%) JUnit
7 2 (0.84%) NUnit
8 1 (0.42%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.42%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.42%) JIRA
8 1 (0.42%) jMock
8 1 (0.42%) MSTest
8 1 (0.42%) Selenium
8 1 (0.42%) Visual Studio
General
1 77 (32.22%) Finance
2 50 (20.92%) Retail
3 49 (20.50%) Manufacturing
4 40 (16.74%) Marketing
5 37 (15.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 35 (14.64%) Games
7 34 (14.23%) Social Skills
8 7 (2.93%) Public Sector
9 6 (2.51%) Aviation
9 6 (2.51%) Law
10 5 (2.09%) Electronics
11 3 (1.26%) Avionics
12 2 (0.84%) Automotive
12 2 (0.84%) Military
13 1 (0.42%) Advertising
13 1 (0.42%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.42%) Police
13 1 (0.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 96 (40.17%) Developer
2 46 (19.25%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
2 46 (19.25%) Programmer
2 46 (19.25%) Trainee
2 46 (19.25%) Trainee Programmer
3 36 (15.06%) Architect
4 33 (13.81%) Salesforce Architect
5 30 (12.55%) Software Engineer
6 23 (9.62%) Senior
7 20 (8.37%) PHP Developer
8 18 (7.53%) Salesforce Technical Architect
8 18 (7.53%) Technical Architect
9 17 (7.11%) Applications Developer
9 17 (7.11%) Lead
10 16 (6.69%) Software Developer
11 15 (6.28%) Graduate
12 14 (5.86%) Lead Software Engineer
13 13 (5.44%) Python Developer
14 12 (5.02%) .NET Developer
14 12 (5.02%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (20.92%) Hugging Face
1 50 (20.92%) NumPy
1 50 (20.92%) Pandas
2 49 (20.50%) Matplotlib
2 49 (20.50%) scikit-learn
2 49 (20.50%) Streamlit
3 45 (18.83%) CSS
4 44 (18.41%) React
5 43 (17.99%) .NET
6 41 (17.15%) HTML
7 39 (16.32%) REST
8 38 (15.90%) SOAP
9 34 (14.23%) Lightning Web Components
9 34 (14.23%) Visualforce
10 30 (12.55%) .NET Core
11 19 (7.95%) Web Services
12 18 (7.53%) jQuery
12 18 (7.53%) OAuth
13 17 (7.11%) Laravel
13 17 (7.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 58 (24.27%) Algorithms
2 49 (20.50%) Product Ownership
3 19 (7.95%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 15 (6.28%) Cloud Native
5 14 (5.86%) e-Learning
6 12 (5.02%) Data Structures
7 8 (3.35%) Virtual Team
8 7 (2.93%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (2.51%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.51%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.67%) FPGA
10 4 (1.67%) N-Tier
10 4 (1.67%) Social Network
11 3 (1.26%) Client/Server
11 3 (1.26%) PKI
12 2 (0.84%) BBC
12 2 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.84%) Legacy Code
12 2 (0.84%) Low-Code
12 2 (0.84%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.77%) Windows
2 4 (1.67%) Linux
3 3 (1.26%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (57.32%) Agile
2 122 (51.05%) OOP
3 86 (35.98%) CI/CD
4 82 (34.31%) Continuous Improvement
5 65 (27.20%) DevOps
6 63 (26.36%) AI
6 63 (26.36%) Software Engineering
7 57 (23.85%) Machine Learning
7 57 (23.85%) Scrum
8 52 (21.76%) Sentiment Analysis
8 52 (21.76%) Visualisation
9 50 (20.92%) Customer Service
9 50 (20.92%) LLM
9 50 (20.92%) Workflow
10 49 (20.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
10 49 (20.50%) Conversational UI
10 49 (20.50%) Data Privacy
10 49 (20.50%) Neural Network
10 49 (20.50%) Prompt Engineering
10 49 (20.50%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 94 (39.33%) Python
2 70 (29.29%) C#
3 63 (26.36%) SQL
4 56 (23.43%) JavaScript
5 36 (15.06%) Java
6 34 (14.23%) Apex Code
6 34 (14.23%) SOQL
6 34 (14.23%) SOSL
7 30 (12.55%) TypeScript
8 28 (11.72%) PHP
9 25 (10.46%) C++
10 11 (4.60%) PowerShell
11 10 (4.18%) C
12 3 (1.26%) Delphi
13 2 (0.84%) ABAP
13 2 (0.84%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.84%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.42%) Go
14 1 (0.42%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.42%) Rust
Qualifications
1 51 (21.34%) AWS Certification
2 49 (20.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 26 (10.88%) Degree
4 20 (8.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (5.86%) DBS Check
6 4 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.26%) HNC
7 3 (1.26%) HND
7 3 (1.26%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.26%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.26%) Security Cleared
8 2 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.84%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.84%) CEH
8 2 (0.84%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.42%) OCA
9 1 (0.42%) OCP
9 1 (0.42%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.62%) QA
2 8 (3.35%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.51%) WCAG
4 4 (1.67%) IEC 61508
4 4 (1.67%) ISO 26262
5 3 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.26%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.84%) ECSS
7 1 (0.42%) GDPR
System Software
1 20 (8.37%) Docker
2 4 (1.67%) Embedded Firmware
2 4 (1.67%) Firmware
3 3 (1.26%) Kamailio
4 1 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (9.62%) Terraform
2 8 (3.35%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.26%) Argo
4 1 (0.42%) Grafana
Vendors
1 102 (42.68%) Microsoft
2 36 (15.06%) Salesforce
3 34 (14.23%) Splunk
4 5 (2.09%) Oracle
5 3 (1.26%) BT
5 3 (1.26%) Fortinet
5 3 (1.26%) Mitel
5 3 (1.26%) SAP
6 2 (0.84%) Apple
6 2 (0.84%) Facebook
6 2 (0.84%) Google
6 2 (0.84%) Pega
6 2 (0.84%) Sony
6 2 (0.84%) Xamarin
6 2 (0.84%) Yahoo!
7 1 (0.42%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.42%) Remedy
7 1 (0.42%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.42%) Siemens