OOA/OOD Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (OOA/OOD)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring OOA/OOD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 520 607 530
Rank change year-on-year +87 -77 +216
Permanent jobs citing OOA/OOD 1 13 30
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.003% 0.026% 0.093%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.003% 0.033% 0.099%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £70,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% - -
UK median annual salary £45,000 £62,500 £68,000
% change year-on-year -28.00% -8.09% -2.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

OOA/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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 29,955 39,907 30,250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 87.10% 79.60% 94.16%
Number of salaries quoted 16,192 20,022 22,381
10th Percentile £26,750 £31,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £39,788
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,600 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.70% -2.59% +2.86%
75th Percentile £64,000 £68,484 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

OOA/OOD
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

OOA/OOD job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

OOA/OOD
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing OOA/OOD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing OOA/OOD

OOA/OOD
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 OOA/OOD within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 October 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 +17 1 £45,000 -53.61%
Yorkshire - 1 £45,000 -
OOA/OOD
UK

OOA/OOD
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Bootstrap
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) OOD
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DBS Check