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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 167 173 211
Rank change year-on-year +6 +38 -61
DemandTrendPermanent jobs citing OO 694 900 671
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.80% 1.46% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.12% 1.85% 1.69%
Number of salaries quoted 184 393 425
10th Percentile £25,000 £32,500 £38,350
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £76,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.79% -13.85% +4.00%

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.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,764 48,527 39,735
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.84% 78.72% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 17,529 28,450 24,638
10th Percentile £25,087 £30,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £31,000 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,055 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% -8.99% +4.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

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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

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 28 August 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 28 August 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
DemandTrendPermanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +99 460 £50,000 +5.26% 40
North West +113 412 £60,000 +29.73% 23
East of England +14 67 £55,000 - 22
South East -80 61 £53,750 +13.16% 66
Midlands -42 43 £40,000 -20.00% 20
Yorkshire -10 37 £45,750 -8.50% 9
South West +14 23 £52,500 -9.09% 8
West Midlands +8 23 £47,500 -5.00% 12
Scotland +2 23 £80,000 +52.38% 17
East Midlands -43 19 £40,000 -15.79% 8
North East +5 11 £25,000 -47.37% 8
Northern Ireland +17 9 £55,000 +37.50% 1
Wales 0 8 £42,000 +29.23% 4
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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 30 (4.32%) Apache Spark
2 23 (3.31%) Kinematics
3 14 (2.02%) Apache
4 8 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.15%) Appian
5 5 (0.72%) nginx
5 5 (0.72%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.58%) Cloud Foundry
6 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.43%) Confluence
7 3 (0.43%) GemFire
8 2 (0.29%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.14%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.14%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 3 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.14%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.14%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 110 (15.85%) Azure
2 103 (14.84%) AWS
3 54 (7.78%) Amazon EKS
4 39 (5.62%) AWS CloudFormation
5 29 (4.18%) Amazon S3
6 23 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (2.88%) Amazon ELB
8 16 (2.31%) SaaS
9 12 (1.73%) GitHub
10 11 (1.59%) GCP
11 9 (1.30%) Apigee
11 9 (1.30%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 9 (1.30%) Serverless
12 8 (1.15%) MinIO
12 8 (1.15%) Power Platform
13 7 (1.01%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (0.72%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 5 (0.72%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 5 (0.72%) Amazon SQS
15 4 (0.58%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 394 (56.77%) DNS
2 391 (56.34%) VPN
3 6 (0.86%) HTTP
4 4 (0.58%) Broadband
5 2 (0.29%) FTP
5 2 (0.29%) SMTP
5 2 (0.29%) SSH
6 1 (0.14%) Intranet
6 1 (0.14%) RTP
6 1 (0.14%) SMS
6 1 (0.14%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (8.36%) MySQL
2 57 (8.21%) SQL Server
3 44 (6.34%) Elasticsearch
4 22 (3.17%) Relational Database
5 18 (2.59%) Delta Lake
5 18 (2.59%) DynamoDB
5 18 (2.59%) Metadata
5 18 (2.59%) Spark SQL
6 15 (2.16%) NoSQL
7 13 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (1.59%) MongoDB
9 10 (1.44%) RDBMS
10 8 (1.15%) Amazon Aurora
10 8 (1.15%) Big Data
11 7 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (0.72%) Redis
13 4 (0.58%) Apache Hive
13 4 (0.58%) CockroachDB
13 4 (0.58%) Hadoop
14 3 (0.43%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 45 (6.48%) Git
2 24 (3.46%) Jenkins
3 19 (2.74%) JUnit
3 19 (2.74%) MLflow
4 17 (2.45%) SonarQube
5 16 (2.31%) Maven
6 15 (2.16%) Selenium
7 9 (1.30%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (1.15%) JIRA
8 8 (1.15%) Robot Framework
8 8 (1.15%) Snyk
9 7 (1.01%) Visual Studio
10 6 (0.86%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.86%) Mockito
10 6 (0.86%) Postman
10 6 (0.86%) Subversion
11 5 (0.72%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.72%) GitLab
11 5 (0.72%) NUnit
11 5 (0.72%) TestNG
General
1 469 (67.58%) Finance
2 447 (64.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 440 (63.40%) Analytical Skills
4 100 (14.41%) Social Skills
5 37 (5.33%) Electronics
6 34 (4.90%) Law
7 23 (3.31%) Banking
8 14 (2.02%) Manufacturing
9 10 (1.44%) Marketing
10 9 (1.30%) Legal
10 9 (1.30%) Public Sector
11 8 (1.15%) Aerospace
12 6 (0.86%) Games
12 6 (0.86%) Retail
13 5 (0.72%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.72%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.58%) Aviation
14 4 (0.58%) Front Office
15 3 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 545 (78.53%) Developer
2 433 (62.39%) Software Developer
3 43 (6.20%) Software Engineer
4 39 (5.62%) Graduate
4 39 (5.62%) PHP Developer
5 38 (5.48%) Graduate Developer
5 38 (5.48%) IT Graduate
5 38 (5.48%) Senior
6 30 (4.32%) Lead
7 29 (4.18%) C# Developer
8 23 (3.31%) Robotics Engineer
9 22 (3.17%) Java Engineer
10 20 (2.88%) .NET Developer
11 19 (2.74%) SQL Developer
12 18 (2.59%) Graduate C# Developer
12 18 (2.59%) Graduate PHP Developer
12 18 (2.59%) Graduate SQL Developer
12 18 (2.59%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 18 (2.59%) Operations Engineer
13 16 (2.31%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (18.44%) .NET
2 81 (11.67%) CSS
3 58 (8.36%) Pandas
4 51 (7.35%) ASP.NET
5 44 (6.34%) HTML
6 43 (6.20%) jQuery
7 42 (6.05%) Node.js
8 39 (5.62%) Spring
9 37 (5.33%) React
10 31 (4.47%) Kafka
11 30 (4.32%) RESTful
12 29 (4.18%) Middleware
13 28 (4.03%) REST
14 23 (3.31%) Spring Boot
15 18 (2.59%) Keras
15 18 (2.59%) Lambda Expressions
15 18 (2.59%) NumPy
15 18 (2.59%) PySpark
15 18 (2.59%) scikit-learn
15 18 (2.59%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 427 (61.53%) Cyberattack
2 40 (5.76%) Algorithms
3 26 (3.75%) Robotics
4 23 (3.31%) Product Ownership
5 21 (3.03%) Cloud Native
6 18 (2.59%) Linux Command Line
7 15 (2.16%) Virtual Team
8 12 (1.73%) Fixed Income
9 10 (1.44%) Data Structures
9 10 (1.44%) Derivative
10 8 (1.15%) Low-Code
11 7 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (0.86%) Life Science
13 5 (0.72%) Equities
13 5 (0.72%) Mobile App
14 4 (0.58%) Credit Derivative
14 4 (0.58%) e-Learning
14 4 (0.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 4 (0.58%) Public Cloud
14 4 (0.58%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 461 (66.43%) Linux
2 435 (62.68%) Android
3 31 (4.47%) Unix
4 24 (3.46%) Windows
5 8 (1.15%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.58%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.29%) VMS
8 1 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.14%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 569 (81.99%) OOP
2 546 (78.67%) Agile
3 472 (68.01%) Design Patterns
4 436 (62.82%) Mathematics
5 430 (61.96%) Android Development
5 430 (61.96%) Line Management
6 129 (18.59%) Software Engineering
7 111 (15.99%) CI/CD
8 85 (12.25%) Problem-Solving
9 67 (9.65%) Computer Science
10 62 (8.93%) MVC
11 60 (8.65%) Containerisation
12 55 (7.93%) OWASP
13 52 (7.49%) Test Automation
14 49 (7.06%) Continuous Improvement
15 45 (6.48%) DevOps
16 43 (6.20%) Collaborative Working
17 41 (5.91%) Secure Coding
18 40 (5.76%) Microservices
19 39 (5.62%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 528 (76.08%) Java
2 513 (73.92%) C++
3 496 (71.47%) Python
4 437 (62.97%) Go
5 121 (17.44%) C#
6 112 (16.14%) SQL
7 109 (15.71%) JavaScript
8 70 (10.09%) PHP
9 41 (5.91%) Rust
10 38 (5.48%) C
11 27 (3.89%) TypeScript
12 7 (1.01%) Perl
13 6 (0.86%) Groovy
14 4 (0.58%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.58%) Delphi
15 3 (0.43%) Ruby
15 3 (0.43%) Scala
15 3 (0.43%) SOQL
15 3 (0.43%) SOSL
16 2 (0.29%) VC++
Qualifications
1 447 (64.41%) Security Cleared
2 433 (62.39%) DV Cleared
3 76 (10.95%) Degree
4 57 (8.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.44%) SC Cleared
6 6 (0.86%) AWS Certification
7 5 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.14%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.14%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.14%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (1.59%) QA
2 7 (1.01%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.14%) Def Stans
3 1 (0.14%) GDPR
3 1 (0.14%) IEC 61508
3 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 475 (68.44%) Docker
2 5 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.14%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 444 (63.98%) Ansible
2 87 (12.54%) Kubernetes
3 82 (11.82%) Terraform
4 18 (2.59%) Kubeflow
5 9 (1.30%) Istio
6 5 (0.72%) Kustomize
6 5 (0.72%) Packer
7 2 (0.29%) Grafana
7 2 (0.29%) Nagios
7 2 (0.29%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.14%) PingFederate
8 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (2.74%) Microsoft
2 18 (2.59%) Databricks
3 14 (2.02%) Oracle
4 8 (1.15%) BiZZdesign
4 8 (1.15%) Black Duck
4 8 (1.15%) UiPath
4 8 (1.15%) VMware
5 6 (0.86%) Red Hat
6 5 (0.72%) Salesforce
7 4 (0.58%) SAP
7 4 (0.58%) Splunk
7 4 (0.58%) Sybase
8 3 (0.43%) Agilent
8 3 (0.43%) Blue Prism
8 3 (0.43%) Coverity
8 3 (0.43%) Solace
8 3 (0.43%) TIBCO
9 2 (0.29%) Apple
9 2 (0.29%) Okta
10 1 (0.14%) IBM