OOD Jobs in the UK excluding London

Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 491 618 643
Rank change year-on-year +127 +25 -129
Permanent jobs citing OOD 88 145 105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.22% 0.19% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.24% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 56 106 83
10th Percentile - £41,250 £39,423
25th Percentile £37,574 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.58% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £71,875
90th Percentile £65,625 £72,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £50,055 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -16.58% -7.69% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 36,721 61,614 54,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.53% 82.28% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 17,560 42,296 28,644
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

OOD
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for OOD in the UK excluding London

OOD
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for OOD in the UK excluding London

OOD
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing OOD in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for OOD in the UK excluding London

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 OOD within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 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
South East +53 35 £65,000 - 15
South West +116 13 £48,918 +2.99% 8
Scotland +118 12 £40,101 -33.17% 16
North of England +23 11 £50,055 -16.58% 26
Wales +40 7 £65,000 +40.54% 2
North West -4 6 £50,055 -16.58% 17
Midlands +50 4 £40,101 -15.58% 1
Yorkshire +47 4 £40,101 - 7
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 1
East of England +46 3 £40,101 -49.87% 7
West Midlands +44 2 - -
East Midlands +40 2 £40,101 -10.89% 1
North East +50 1 £55,000 - 2
OOD
UK

OOD
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 (34.09%) Apache
2 4 (4.55%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.41%) IIS
4 2 (2.27%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (1.14%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.14%) GNU Octave
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.27%) SAP EHS
1 2 (2.27%) SAP IBP
1 2 (2.27%) SAP PP
1 2 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.14%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (1.14%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 3 (3.41%) AWS
2 2 (2.27%) Azure
2 2 (2.27%) SaaS
3 1 (1.14%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (1.14%) Figma
3 1 (1.14%) GitHub
3 1 (1.14%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (1.14%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.14%) Broadband
2 1 (1.14%) HTTP
2 1 (1.14%) Internet
2 1 (1.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.23%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.55%) Apache Hive
2 4 (4.55%) Big Data
2 4 (4.55%) Hadoop
2 4 (4.55%) MySQL
3 2 (2.27%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.27%) SAP BW
4 1 (1.14%) Couchbase
4 1 (1.14%) DB2
4 1 (1.14%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.14%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.14%) Power BI
4 1 (1.14%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 25 (28.41%) Eclipse
1 25 (28.41%) Eclipse RCP
2 13 (14.77%) Git
3 4 (4.55%) JIRA
3 4 (4.55%) Subversion
4 3 (3.41%) NetBeans
5 2 (2.27%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.14%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.14%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.14%) Spock
6 1 (1.14%) TeamCity
General
1 14 (15.91%) Aerospace
2 13 (14.77%) Electronics
2 13 (14.77%) Social Skills
3 12 (13.64%) Finance
4 7 (7.95%) Manufacturing
5 5 (5.68%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.55%) Aviation
6 4 (4.55%) Banking
6 4 (4.55%) Games
6 4 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.55%) Law
7 3 (3.41%) Military
8 2 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.27%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.27%) Marketing
9 1 (1.14%) Automotive
9 1 (1.14%) Legal
9 1 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.14%) Retail
9 1 (1.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 43 (48.86%) Software Engineer
2 22 (25.00%) Junior
2 22 (25.00%) Junior Software Engineer
3 19 (21.59%) Lead
3 19 (21.59%) Senior
4 15 (17.05%) Software Team Leader
4 15 (17.05%) Team Leader
5 10 (11.36%) Developer
6 8 (9.09%) Java Engineer
7 6 (6.82%) Java Software Engineer
7 6 (6.82%) Senior Software Engineer
8 4 (4.55%) Apache Spark Developer
8 4 (4.55%) Electronics Engineer
8 4 (4.55%) Java Developer
8 4 (4.55%) Senior Electronics Engineer
9 3 (3.41%) .NET Developer
9 3 (3.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 3 (3.41%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 2 (2.27%) C# Developer
10 2 (2.27%) Senior Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (34.09%) HTML
2 29 (32.95%) CSS
3 26 (29.55%) Middleware
4 25 (28.41%) JSP
5 18 (20.45%) XML
6 8 (9.09%) .NET
7 7 (7.95%) Kafka
7 7 (7.95%) Spring
8 5 (5.68%) React
9 4 (4.55%) Hibernate
9 4 (4.55%) J2EE
9 4 (4.55%) Java EE
9 4 (4.55%) Spring Boot
9 4 (4.55%) Web Services
10 3 (3.41%) JavaFX
10 3 (3.41%) REST
10 3 (3.41%) SOAP
11 2 (2.27%) Entity Framework
11 2 (2.27%) HTML5
11 2 (2.27%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.91%) Embedded Systems
2 7 (7.95%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.68%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.55%) CPLD
4 4 (4.55%) Fixed Income
4 4 (4.55%) FPGA
5 3 (3.41%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.41%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.41%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.27%) Derivative
6 2 (2.27%) Robotics
7 1 (1.14%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 37 (42.05%) Linux
2 30 (34.09%) Windows
3 3 (3.41%) Android
3 3 (3.41%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.27%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (1.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (95.45%) OO
2 63 (71.59%) Software Engineering
3 55 (62.50%) SDLC
4 47 (53.41%) UML
5 37 (42.05%) Unit Testing
6 34 (38.64%) Mentoring
7 27 (30.68%) Mathematics
8 26 (29.55%) Business Intelligence
8 26 (29.55%) Physics
9 25 (28.41%) Analytics
9 25 (28.41%) Business Analytics
9 25 (28.41%) ETL
10 22 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (20.45%) Agile
11 18 (20.45%) Customer Requirements
11 18 (20.45%) Design Patterns
12 17 (19.32%) SysML
13 16 (18.18%) Quality Management
14 14 (15.91%) OOP
14 14 (15.91%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 43 (48.86%) SQL
2 42 (47.73%) Java
3 37 (42.05%) C#
4 36 (40.91%) Ada
5 34 (38.64%) Python
6 30 (34.09%) C
7 22 (25.00%) C++
7 22 (25.00%) Rust
8 7 (7.95%) JavaScript
9 4 (4.55%) TypeScript
10 3 (3.41%) Groovy
10 3 (3.41%) PHP
11 1 (1.14%) MATLAB
11 1 (1.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 42 (47.73%) BPSS Clearance
2 39 (44.32%) Degree
3 4 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.27%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.27%) Numerate Degree
4 2 (2.27%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.14%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.41%) Def Stans
1 3 (3.41%) IEC 61508
2 1 (1.14%) ISO 9001
2 1 (1.14%) QA
System Software
1 4 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (6.82%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.14%) Grafana
2 1 (1.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (10.23%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.68%) Oracle
2 5 (5.68%) Sybase
3 4 (4.55%) Agilent
4 2 (2.27%) SAP
5 1 (1.14%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.14%) Xamarin