OOP Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring OOP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 399 141 238
Rank change year-on-year -258 +97 -96
Permanent jobs citing OOP 190 706 828
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.29% 2.42% 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 2.63% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 170 238 498
10th Percentile £25,000 £29,925 £32,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,813 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,625 £73,886 £72,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -12.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

OOP 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 46,961 26,881 57,436
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.85% 92.04% 83.12%
Number of salaries quoted 30,193 13,787 41,079
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £59,684 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.53% +8.52% -9.84%

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

OOP job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

OOP
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

OOP
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing OOP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2026.

Salary histogram for OOP in the UK excluding London

OOP
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 OOP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
South East -20 71 £60,000 - 30
North of England -211 65 £37,500 -31.82% 41
North West -167 32 £37,500 -28.57% 24
Yorkshire -55 24 £37,500 -46.43% 10
Midlands -44 17 £37,500 -11.76% 16
South West -60 17 £37,500 -37.50% 14
East of England -47 13 £25,000 -32.43% 10
West Midlands -36 11 £37,500 -37.50% 4
North East -48 9 £37,500 -31.82% 7
Scotland -22 6 £37,500 -37.50% 11
East Midlands -39 6 £30,000 -22.58% 12
Wales -38 1 £42,000 -1.18% 1
OOP
UK

OOP
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 (25.79%) Jupyter
2 3 (1.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (1.05%) Apache
3 2 (1.05%) CICS
4 1 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.53%) PegaRULES
4 1 (0.53%) WordPress
Applications
1 49 (25.79%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Magento
1 1 (0.53%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 113 (59.47%) AWS
2 49 (25.79%) Cloud Computing
3 38 (20.00%) Azure
4 17 (8.95%) GitHub
5 14 (7.37%) GCP
6 11 (5.79%) Serverless
7 7 (3.68%) SaaS
8 6 (3.16%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.58%) Cloud Functions
10 3 (1.58%) Cloud Run
11 2 (1.05%) Figma
11 2 (1.05%) GitHub Copilot
11 2 (1.05%) Power Platform
12 1 (0.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (0.53%) Amazon ECS
12 1 (0.53%) Amazon EKS
12 1 (0.53%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.53%) ChatGPT
12 1 (0.53%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.16%) HTTP
2 3 (1.58%) Broadband
2 3 (1.58%) RTP
2 3 (1.58%) Unified Communications
2 3 (1.58%) VoIP
2 3 (1.58%) Wireshark
3 1 (0.53%) Intranet
3 1 (0.53%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (20.53%) SQL Server
2 31 (16.32%) MySQL
3 9 (4.74%) MongoDB
4 8 (4.21%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.58%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.58%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.05%) DB2
7 2 (1.05%) Hazelcast
8 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.53%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.53%) Redis
Development Applications
1 49 (25.79%) Visual Studio Code
2 27 (14.21%) Git
3 5 (2.63%) Cypress.io
3 5 (2.63%) JIRA
4 4 (2.11%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.58%) CircleCI
5 3 (1.58%) Eclipse
5 3 (1.58%) IntelliJ
5 3 (1.58%) JUnit
5 3 (1.58%) PHPUnit
5 3 (1.58%) Ranorex
5 3 (1.58%) Selenium
5 3 (1.58%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.53%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.53%) MLflow
6 1 (0.53%) Moq
6 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio
General
1 81 (42.63%) Finance
2 55 (28.95%) Manufacturing
3 49 (25.79%) Retail
4 29 (15.26%) Social Skills
5 7 (3.68%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.16%) Electronics
7 5 (2.63%) Automotive
8 4 (2.11%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.58%) Marketing
10 2 (1.05%) Games
10 2 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.05%) Law
11 1 (0.53%) Advertising
11 1 (0.53%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 106 (55.79%) Developer
2 46 (24.21%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
2 46 (24.21%) Programmer
2 46 (24.21%) Trainee
2 46 (24.21%) Trainee Programmer
3 38 (20.00%) Software Developer
4 30 (15.79%) Graduate
5 23 (12.11%) Graduate Developer
5 23 (12.11%) Graduate Software Developer
6 22 (11.58%) C# Developer
7 21 (11.05%) C# Software Developer
7 21 (11.05%) Graduate C# Developer
7 21 (11.05%) Graduate C# Software Developer
7 21 (11.05%) Graduate SQL Developer
7 21 (11.05%) SQL Developer
8 20 (10.53%) Backend Developer
9 18 (9.47%) PHP Developer
9 18 (9.47%) Software Engineer
10 17 (8.95%) Applications Developer
10 17 (8.95%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (26.32%) Hugging Face
1 50 (26.32%) NumPy
1 50 (26.32%) Pandas
2 49 (25.79%) CSS
2 49 (25.79%) Matplotlib
2 49 (25.79%) scikit-learn
2 49 (25.79%) Streamlit
3 38 (20.00%) .NET
4 32 (16.84%) HTML
5 28 (14.74%) jQuery
6 24 (12.63%) .NET Core
7 15 (7.89%) AngularJS
7 15 (7.89%) Flask
8 14 (7.37%) React
8 14 (7.37%) RESTful
9 11 (5.79%) Vue
10 10 (5.26%) Laravel
11 9 (4.74%) REST
12 8 (4.21%) Kafka
12 8 (4.21%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 59 (31.05%) Algorithms
2 17 (8.95%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 13 (6.84%) Data Structures
4 10 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (5.26%) Virtual Team
5 8 (4.21%) Client/Server
6 6 (3.16%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.63%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.11%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.11%) Hedge funds
8 4 (2.11%) PKI
9 3 (1.58%) Marketing Technology
9 3 (1.58%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.05%) Acoustics
10 2 (1.05%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.05%) Analogue Electronics
10 2 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.05%) Low-Code
10 2 (1.05%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.68%) Linux
1 7 (3.68%) Windows
2 3 (1.58%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.53%) Android
3 1 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (59.47%) OO
2 83 (43.68%) Agile
3 62 (32.63%) AI
4 56 (29.47%) Visualisation
5 54 (28.42%) Machine Learning
6 52 (27.37%) Sentiment Analysis
7 50 (26.32%) LLM
7 50 (26.32%) Workflow
8 49 (25.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
8 49 (25.79%) Conversational UI
8 49 (25.79%) Customer Service
8 49 (25.79%) Data Privacy
8 49 (25.79%) Neural Network
8 49 (25.79%) Prompt Engineering
8 49 (25.79%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
9 43 (22.63%) CI/CD
10 37 (19.47%) Clean Code
10 37 (19.47%) Computer Science
11 35 (18.42%) Full-Stack Development
12 30 (15.79%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 94 (49.47%) Python
2 68 (35.79%) C#
3 49 (25.79%) SQL
4 46 (24.21%) PHP
5 40 (21.05%) Java
6 36 (18.95%) C++
7 33 (17.37%) JavaScript
8 15 (7.89%) TypeScript
9 5 (2.63%) C
10 3 (1.58%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.05%) Embedded C
11 2 (1.05%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.53%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.53%) Rust
Qualifications
1 51 (26.84%) AWS Certification
2 49 (25.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 44 (23.16%) Degree
4 30 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.11%) Security Cleared
6 3 (1.58%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.58%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.58%) PhD
6 3 (1.58%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.05%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.26%) QA
2 4 (2.11%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.58%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.53%) HL7
System Software
1 22 (11.58%) Docker
2 3 (1.58%) Kamailio
3 2 (1.05%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (1.05%) Firmware
4 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (7.37%) Kubernetes
2 11 (5.79%) Terraform
3 3 (1.58%) Argo
3 3 (1.58%) Podman
4 1 (0.53%) Grafana
4 1 (0.53%) Kibana
Vendors
1 85 (44.74%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.63%) Google
2 5 (2.63%) Oracle
3 3 (1.58%) Adobe
3 3 (1.58%) BT
3 3 (1.58%) Fortinet
3 3 (1.58%) Mitel
3 3 (1.58%) Pega
4 2 (1.05%) EMC
5 1 (0.53%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.53%) SAP
5 1 (0.53%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.53%) Xamarin
5 1 (0.53%) Zend