OOP Jobs in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring OOP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited OOP over the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 182 246 151
Rank change year-on-year +64 -95 +7
Permanent jobs citing OOP 671 855 1,240
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.67% 1.05% 2.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.84% 1.30% 2.38%
Number of salaries quoted 205 490 642
10th Percentile £25,000 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,000 £40,000 £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 £67,500 £61,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £73,886 £72,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%

All Process and 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 36,417 65,562 52,023
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.68% 80.14% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 17,878 44,405 28,133
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year - -9.54% +1.33%

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for OOP in the UK excluding London

OOP
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for OOP in the UK excluding London

OOP
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing OOP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 June 2025.

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 22 June 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 +124 482 £55,000 +4.76% 236
North West +95 435 £52,500 - 126
South East -36 65 £51,250 -6.82% 296
East of England +19 36 £28,750 -54.00% 122
Yorkshire +47 32 £70,000 +43.59% 70
Midlands -26 31 £40,000 -20.00% 97
South West +42 25 £62,500 +38.89% 96
Scotland +72 18 £60,000 +26.32% 47
West Midlands +32 18 £55,000 +10.00% 49
North East +52 15 £42,875 -40.03% 42
East Midlands -40 13 £40,000 -20.00% 45
Northern Ireland +29 9 £55,000 +37.50% 22
Wales +41 5 £42,500 -29.17% 23
OOP
UK

OOP
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 10 (1.49%) Apache
2 6 (0.89%) nginx
3 5 (0.75%) Apache Spark
3 5 (0.75%) Confluence
3 5 (0.75%) Tomcat
4 4 (0.60%) Cloud Foundry
4 4 (0.60%) GemFire
5 2 (0.30%) IIS
5 2 (0.30%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (0.89%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 111 (16.54%) Azure
2 108 (16.10%) AWS
3 38 (5.66%) AWS CloudFormation
4 36 (5.37%) Amazon EKS
5 30 (4.47%) GCP
6 26 (3.87%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (2.09%) SaaS
8 11 (1.64%) GitHub
9 6 (0.89%) Serverless
10 5 (0.75%) Amazon Cognito
10 5 (0.75%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 5 (0.75%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 5 (0.75%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (0.75%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (0.75%) CloudFront
11 4 (0.60%) Azure Pipelines
12 3 (0.45%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (0.45%) OpenShift
13 2 (0.30%) DigitalOcean
Communications & Networking
1 391 (58.27%) DNS
1 391 (58.27%) VPN
2 8 (1.19%) HTTP
3 2 (0.30%) RTP
3 2 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (13.26%) MySQL
2 74 (11.03%) SQL Server
3 44 (6.56%) Elasticsearch
4 30 (4.47%) MongoDB
5 27 (4.02%) NoSQL
6 20 (2.98%) Relational Database
7 16 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (1.79%) Big Data
9 11 (1.64%) RDBMS
10 9 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (1.19%) Data Lake
12 6 (0.89%) Redis
13 5 (0.75%) Amazon Aurora
13 5 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (0.60%) Apache Hive
14 4 (0.60%) Apache Ignite
14 4 (0.60%) Hadoop
14 4 (0.60%) InterSystems Cache
15 2 (0.30%) Power BI
16 1 (0.15%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 84 (12.52%) Git
2 16 (2.38%) Visual Studio
3 15 (2.24%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.94%) JIRA
4 13 (1.94%) JUnit
5 11 (1.64%) NUnit
6 10 (1.49%) Postman
7 8 (1.19%) Maven
7 8 (1.19%) Selenium
8 7 (1.04%) SonarQube
8 7 (1.04%) TeamCity
9 6 (0.89%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.89%) PHPUnit
10 5 (0.75%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.75%) Jasmine
10 5 (0.75%) Karma Test Runner
10 5 (0.75%) Mockito
10 5 (0.75%) SpecFlow
10 5 (0.75%) TestNG
11 4 (0.60%) GitLab
General
1 486 (72.43%) Finance
2 442 (65.87%) Analytical Skills
3 437 (65.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 62 (9.24%) Social Skills
5 30 (4.47%) Games
6 27 (4.02%) Retail
7 24 (3.58%) Law
8 14 (2.09%) Banking
9 11 (1.64%) Manufacturing
10 9 (1.34%) Marketing
11 7 (1.04%) Public Sector
12 6 (0.89%) Back Office
12 6 (0.89%) Front Office
13 4 (0.60%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.45%) Electronics
15 2 (0.30%) Local Government
15 2 (0.30%) Telecoms
16 1 (0.15%) Advertising
16 1 (0.15%) iGaming
16 1 (0.15%) Legal
Job Titles
1 582 (86.74%) Developer
2 435 (64.83%) Software Developer
3 54 (8.05%) Senior
4 48 (7.15%) PHP Developer
5 42 (6.26%) .NET Developer
6 34 (5.07%) Senior Developer
7 30 (4.47%) Graduate
7 30 (4.47%) Graduate Developer
8 28 (4.17%) IT Graduate
9 27 (4.02%) Software Engineer
10 22 (3.28%) C# Developer
11 21 (3.13%) Lead
12 16 (2.38%) Senior PHP Developer
13 14 (2.09%) Java Engineer
14 13 (1.94%) SQL Developer
15 12 (1.79%) Senior .NET Developer
16 11 (1.64%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 11 (1.64%) Graduate C# Developer
16 11 (1.64%) Graduate PHP Developer
16 11 (1.64%) Graduate SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (21.16%) .NET
2 126 (18.78%) CSS
3 96 (14.31%) HTML
4 53 (7.90%) ASP.NET
5 49 (7.30%) jQuery
6 47 (7.00%) LAMP
7 46 (6.86%) Node.js
8 45 (6.71%) React
9 40 (5.96%) Pandas
10 39 (5.81%) REST
11 36 (5.37%) Laravel
12 31 (4.62%) Kafka
12 31 (4.62%) RESTful
13 29 (4.32%) AngularJS
14 27 (4.02%) .NET Core
15 23 (3.43%) Spring
15 23 (3.43%) Web Services
16 20 (2.98%) .NET Framework
17 17 (2.53%) HTML5
17 17 (2.53%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 427 (63.64%) Cyberattack
2 25 (3.73%) Mobile App
3 24 (3.58%) Product Ownership
4 21 (3.13%) Algorithms
5 16 (2.38%) Data Structures
6 12 (1.79%) Cloud Native
6 12 (1.79%) Derivative
6 12 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
7 10 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (1.49%) Fixed Income
8 9 (1.34%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.19%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.04%) Equities
10 7 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (0.89%) Credit Derivative
11 6 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 6 (0.89%) Public Cloud
11 6 (0.89%) Robotics
12 5 (0.75%) Life Science
13 3 (0.45%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 449 (66.92%) Linux
2 430 (64.08%) Android
3 9 (1.34%) Windows
4 4 (0.60%) Unix
5 3 (0.45%) Robot Operating System
6 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 584 (87.03%) OO
2 535 (79.73%) Agile
3 500 (74.52%) Design Patterns
4 439 (65.42%) Mathematics
5 429 (63.93%) Android Development
6 427 (63.64%) Line Management
7 96 (14.31%) Software Engineering
8 86 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
9 85 (12.67%) CI/CD
10 81 (12.07%) MVC
11 56 (8.35%) Computer Science
11 56 (8.35%) E-Commerce
12 53 (7.90%) Kanban
13 50 (7.45%) Microservices
14 46 (6.86%) Containerisation
15 43 (6.41%) Collaborative Working
15 43 (6.41%) Web Development
16 41 (6.11%) Continuous Improvement
17 40 (5.96%) DevOps
18 39 (5.81%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 505 (75.26%) Java
2 465 (69.30%) C++
3 456 (67.96%) Python
4 430 (64.08%) Go
5 145 (21.61%) JavaScript
6 99 (14.75%) C#
7 97 (14.46%) PHP
8 68 (10.13%) SQL
9 36 (5.37%) Rust
10 32 (4.77%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.60%) Scala
12 3 (0.45%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.30%) Groovy
14 1 (0.15%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.15%) Delphi
14 1 (0.15%) Embedded C++
14 1 (0.15%) Ruby
14 1 (0.15%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.15%) VC++
Qualifications
1 431 (64.23%) Security Cleared
2 427 (63.64%) DV Cleared
3 69 (10.28%) Degree
4 42 (6.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (1.19%) Numerate Degree
6 4 (0.60%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.60%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.15%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.15%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (1.34%) QA
2 7 (1.04%) Accessibility
System Software
1 459 (68.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 434 (64.68%) Ansible
2 60 (8.94%) Kubernetes
3 44 (6.56%) Terraform
4 5 (0.75%) Kustomize
4 5 (0.75%) Packer
5 3 (0.45%) Grafana
5 3 (0.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 36 (5.37%) Microsoft
2 13 (1.94%) Twitter
3 10 (1.49%) Oracle
4 8 (1.19%) Splunk
5 5 (0.75%) Red Hat
5 5 (0.75%) Sybase
6 4 (0.60%) Bloomberg
6 4 (0.60%) Okta
6 4 (0.60%) Solace
6 4 (0.60%) TIBCO
7 2 (0.30%) Google
7 2 (0.30%) SAP
8 1 (0.15%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.15%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.15%) Capita
8 1 (0.15%) Facebook
8 1 (0.15%) Intel
8 1 (0.15%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.15%) Zend