OO Jobs in the UK excluding London

Object-Oriented (OO)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring OO skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited OO over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 168 107
Rank change year-on-year +20 -61 -12
Permanent jobs citing OO 818 1,125 1,918
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.11% 1.57% 3.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.27% 1.88% 3.41%
Number of salaries quoted 322 629 892
10th Percentile £27,650 £32,500 £40,325
25th Percentile £37,574 £39,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -16.00% +4.17%

All Process and 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 35,992 59,900 56,217
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.91% 83.40% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 17,023 41,311 28,974
10th Percentile £26,500 £27,300 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing OO as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for OO in the UK excluding London

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Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing OO in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for OO in the UK excluding London

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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 23 May 2025.

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 23 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
North of England +86 503 £47,500 - 431
North West +66 451 £41,000 -8.89% 202
South East -17 121 £62,500 +19.05% 478
East of England +23 58 £55,000 +15.79% 247
Yorkshire +28 42 £70,000 +27.27% 167
Midlands -52 42 £40,101 -15.58% 280
Scotland 0 36 £75,000 +42.86% 114
South West +47 31 £48,918 +2.99% 205
West Midlands +24 26 £50,000 +5.26% 146
Wales +35 17 £35,117 -24.07% 44
East Midlands -59 13 £40,000 -11.11% 116
North East +43 10 £50,000 +17.65% 64
Northern Ireland +30 10 £55,000 +37.50% 38
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 38 (4.65%) Apache
2 12 (1.47%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.34%) Kinematics
4 6 (0.73%) CMS
4 6 (0.73%) Tomcat
5 5 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.61%) Appian
5 5 (0.61%) nginx
6 4 (0.49%) Confluence
6 4 (0.49%) GemFire
6 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.37%) IIS
8 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.12%) GNU Octave
3 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.73%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.12%) iTrent
3 1 (0.12%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 135 (16.50%) Azure
2 96 (11.74%) AWS
3 39 (4.77%) AWS CloudFormation
4 36 (4.40%) Amazon EKS
5 28 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (2.69%) GCP
7 18 (2.20%) GitHub
8 11 (1.34%) Serverless
9 10 (1.22%) Amazon S3
9 10 (1.22%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (1.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 10 (1.22%) Power Platform
9 10 (1.22%) SaaS
10 9 (1.10%) Apigee
10 9 (1.10%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 8 (0.98%) dbt
11 8 (0.98%) Snowflake
12 7 (0.86%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (0.86%) npm
13 6 (0.73%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 391 (47.80%) DNS
1 391 (47.80%) VPN
2 23 (2.81%) Wireshark
3 5 (0.61%) HTTP
4 2 (0.24%) RTP
4 2 (0.24%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.12%) Broadband
5 1 (0.12%) Internet
5 1 (0.12%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (10.64%) SQL Server
2 47 (5.75%) MySQL
3 43 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
4 37 (4.52%) NoSQL
5 18 (2.20%) MongoDB
5 18 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (2.20%) Relational Database
6 17 (2.08%) Big Data
7 9 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (0.98%) Data Lake
8 8 (0.98%) RDBMS
9 7 (0.86%) Amazon Athena
10 6 (0.73%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (0.73%) BigQuery
10 6 (0.73%) Redis
11 5 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (0.61%) Hadoop
12 4 (0.49%) Apache Hive
12 4 (0.49%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 68 (8.31%) Git
2 27 (3.30%) Eclipse
3 25 (3.06%) Eclipse RCP
4 24 (2.93%) Jenkins
5 22 (2.69%) Visual Studio
6 19 (2.32%) JUnit
7 16 (1.96%) Maven
8 14 (1.71%) SonarQube
9 13 (1.59%) Selenium
10 12 (1.47%) GitLab
11 11 (1.34%) Postman
12 10 (1.22%) NUnit
13 9 (1.10%) JIRA
13 9 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
13 9 (1.10%) TeamCity
14 7 (0.86%) Bitbucket
14 7 (0.86%) webpack
15 6 (0.73%) Grunt
15 6 (0.73%) Subversion
16 5 (0.61%) Fiddler
General
1 490 (59.90%) Finance
2 443 (54.16%) Analytical Skills
3 441 (53.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 87 (10.64%) Social Skills
5 29 (3.55%) Electronics
6 28 (3.42%) Banking
7 22 (2.69%) Law
8 14 (1.71%) Aerospace
8 14 (1.71%) Manufacturing
9 9 (1.10%) Marketing
10 8 (0.98%) Public Sector
11 7 (0.86%) Legal
11 7 (0.86%) Retail
12 6 (0.73%) Front Office
13 4 (0.49%) Aviation
13 4 (0.49%) Games
14 3 (0.37%) Advertising
14 3 (0.37%) Automotive
14 3 (0.37%) Military
14 3 (0.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 581 (71.03%) Developer
2 457 (55.87%) Software Developer
3 82 (10.02%) Software Engineer
4 64 (7.82%) Senior
5 35 (4.28%) Lead
6 34 (4.16%) .NET Developer
7 33 (4.03%) Graduate
7 33 (4.03%) PHP Developer
8 32 (3.91%) Graduate Developer
9 31 (3.79%) IT Graduate
10 29 (3.55%) C# Developer
11 25 (3.06%) Principal Engineer
12 24 (2.93%) Architect
12 24 (2.93%) Junior
13 23 (2.81%) Principal Systems Engineer
13 23 (2.81%) Systems Engineer
14 22 (2.69%) Junior Software Engineer
15 21 (2.57%) Data Engineer
15 21 (2.57%) Senior Software Engineer
16 20 (2.44%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (18.34%) .NET
2 112 (13.69%) CSS
3 89 (10.88%) HTML
4 48 (5.87%) Middleware
5 46 (5.62%) ASP.NET
6 45 (5.50%) jQuery
6 45 (5.50%) Node.js
7 40 (4.89%) React
8 38 (4.65%) RESTful
9 37 (4.52%) Pandas
10 30 (3.67%) Kafka
10 30 (3.67%) REST
10 30 (3.67%) Spring
11 27 (3.30%) .NET Framework
12 25 (3.06%) JSP
13 24 (2.93%) .NET Core
14 23 (2.81%) XML
15 20 (2.44%) Spring Boot
16 19 (2.32%) HTML5
16 19 (2.32%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 427 (52.20%) Cyberattack
2 36 (4.40%) Management Information System
3 28 (3.42%) Algorithms
4 24 (2.93%) Product Ownership
5 19 (2.32%) Cloud Native
5 19 (2.32%) Robotics
6 18 (2.20%) Data Structures
7 14 (1.71%) Embedded Systems
8 10 (1.22%) Virtual Team
9 9 (1.10%) Derivative
10 8 (0.98%) Fixed Income
11 7 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (0.86%) Equities
12 6 (0.73%) Credit Derivative
12 6 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 6 (0.73%) Legacy Code
13 5 (0.61%) Life Science
13 5 (0.61%) Low-Code
14 4 (0.49%) FPGA
14 4 (0.49%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 510 (62.35%) Linux
2 433 (52.93%) Android
3 65 (7.95%) Windows
4 14 (1.71%) Unix
5 5 (0.61%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.61%) Robot Operating System
5 5 (0.61%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.12%) Solaris
6 1 (0.12%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 633 (77.38%) OOP
2 575 (70.29%) Agile
3 484 (59.17%) Design Patterns
4 462 (56.48%) Mathematics
5 428 (52.32%) Android Development
5 428 (52.32%) Line Management
6 214 (26.16%) Software Engineering
7 116 (14.18%) Problem-Solving
8 111 (13.57%) CI/CD
9 83 (10.15%) OOD
10 66 (8.07%) Containerisation
11 65 (7.95%) SDLC
12 63 (7.70%) Continuous Improvement
13 60 (7.33%) Unit Testing
14 59 (7.21%) Computer Science
15 58 (7.09%) Microservices
15 58 (7.09%) Test Automation
16 57 (6.97%) DevOps
17 56 (6.85%) Mentoring
18 50 (6.11%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 600 (73.35%) Java
2 526 (64.30%) Python
3 512 (62.59%) C++
4 437 (53.42%) Go
5 180 (22.00%) C#
6 146 (17.85%) SQL
7 117 (14.30%) JavaScript
8 62 (7.58%) Rust
9 61 (7.46%) PHP
10 52 (6.36%) C
11 36 (4.40%) Ada
12 34 (4.16%) TypeScript
13 11 (1.34%) Scala
14 4 (0.49%) Bash
14 4 (0.49%) Perl
15 3 (0.37%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.24%) ABAP
16 2 (0.24%) Groovy
16 2 (0.24%) PowerShell
16 2 (0.24%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 446 (54.52%) Security Cleared
2 432 (52.81%) DV Cleared
3 164 (20.05%) Degree
4 69 (8.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 51 (6.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (2.81%) Chartered Engineer
7 9 (1.10%) SC Cleared
8 8 (0.98%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.12%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.12%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.12%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.12%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (2.93%) QA
2 7 (0.86%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.37%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.37%) Def Stans
3 3 (0.37%) IEC 61508
4 1 (0.12%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 467 (57.09%) Docker
2 4 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 439 (53.67%) Ansible
2 69 (8.44%) Kubernetes
3 58 (7.09%) Terraform
4 9 (1.10%) Istio
5 5 (0.61%) Kustomize
5 5 (0.61%) Packer
6 3 (0.37%) Grafana
6 3 (0.37%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 46 (5.62%) Oracle
2 28 (3.42%) Microsoft
3 10 (1.22%) Databricks
4 7 (0.86%) Red Hat
5 5 (0.61%) BiZZdesign
5 5 (0.61%) Black Duck
5 5 (0.61%) SAP
5 5 (0.61%) Sybase
5 5 (0.61%) UiPath
5 5 (0.61%) VMware
6 4 (0.49%) Agilent
6 4 (0.49%) F5
6 4 (0.49%) Okta
6 4 (0.49%) Solace
6 4 (0.49%) TIBCO
7 3 (0.37%) ANSYS
8 2 (0.24%) Apple
8 2 (0.24%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.12%) Capita
9 1 (0.12%) Intel