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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 263 270
Rank change year-on-year -143 +7 -68
Permanent jobs citing OOP 103 352 364
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.98% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 1.10% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 82 231 311
10th Percentile £25,000 £33,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £31,563 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -14.29%

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 33,283 31,985 30,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 78.49% 89.04% 88.64%
Number of salaries quoted 19,187 14,363 22,780
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 14 January 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 14 January 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
North of England -38 40 £58,750 +11.90% 42
South East -23 34 £60,000 - 55
Yorkshire -8 23 £52,500 -8.70% 13
North West -20 15 £60,000 +14.29% 23
East of England +10 9 £25,000 -61.54% 24
Midlands -3 8 £44,250 -23.04% 17
Wales +3 6 £41,500 +10.67% 9
East Midlands -10 5 £42,500 +13.33% 8
Scotland -12 4 £39,594 -34.01% 11
West Midlands -1 3 £47,500 -17.39% 9
North East +1 2 £27,875 -51.52% 6
South West -59 2 £65,000 +13.04% 20
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 3 (2.91%) Apache
2 2 (1.94%) NServiceBus
3 1 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.97%) JBoss
3 1 (0.97%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.97%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (2.91%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 38 (36.89%) AWS
2 30 (29.13%) Azure
3 18 (17.48%) GitHub
4 12 (11.65%) Serverless
5 10 (9.71%) SaaS
6 4 (3.88%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (2.91%) ChatGPT
8 2 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.94%) GCP
8 2 (1.94%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.97%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.97%) BrowserStack
9 1 (0.97%) Cloudflare
9 1 (0.97%) Heroku
9 1 (0.97%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.97%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.97%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.88%) HTTP
2 3 (2.91%) Intranet
3 1 (0.97%) Broadband
3 1 (0.97%) DNS
3 1 (0.97%) Internet
3 1 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (32.04%) MySQL
2 31 (30.10%) SQL Server
3 9 (8.74%) NoSQL
4 5 (4.85%) MongoDB
5 4 (3.88%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.94%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.94%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.97%) Big Data
7 1 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.97%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (18.45%) Git
2 6 (5.83%) JIRA
3 5 (4.85%) JUnit
4 3 (2.91%) GitLab
5 2 (1.94%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.94%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.94%) Ranorex
5 2 (1.94%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.97%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.97%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.97%) Gradle
6 1 (0.97%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.97%) Maven
6 1 (0.97%) Moq
6 1 (0.97%) PHPUnit
6 1 (0.97%) Postman
6 1 (0.97%) Selenium
6 1 (0.97%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.97%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.97%) Zephyr
General
1 31 (30.10%) Finance
2 28 (27.18%) Social Skills
3 8 (7.77%) Public Sector
4 7 (6.80%) Financial Institution
5 3 (2.91%) Games
6 2 (1.94%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.94%) Law
6 2 (1.94%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.97%) Advertising
7 1 (0.97%) Automotive
7 1 (0.97%) Aviation
7 1 (0.97%) Back Office
7 1 (0.97%) Police
7 1 (0.97%) Retail
7 1 (0.97%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 75 (72.82%) Developer
2 24 (23.30%) Senior
3 19 (18.45%) Software Developer
4 17 (16.50%) Graduate
4 17 (16.50%) Graduate Developer
5 16 (15.53%) PHP Developer
5 16 (15.53%) Senior Developer
5 16 (15.53%) Software Engineer
6 12 (11.65%) C# Developer
6 12 (11.65%) Python Developer
7 10 (9.71%) Azure Developer
7 10 (9.71%) Graduate C# Developer
7 10 (9.71%) Graduate PHP Developer
7 10 (9.71%) Graduate SQL Developer
7 10 (9.71%) IT Graduate
7 10 (9.71%) SQL Developer
8 9 (8.74%) Backend Developer
8 9 (8.74%) Java Developer
8 9 (8.74%) Senior Backend Developer
9 8 (7.77%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (46.60%) CSS
2 38 (36.89%) .NET
3 29 (28.16%) HTML
4 23 (22.33%) jQuery
4 23 (22.33%) React
5 16 (15.53%) RESTful
6 15 (14.56%) ASP.NET
6 15 (14.56%) Vue
7 13 (12.62%) Flask
8 12 (11.65%) Django
8 12 (11.65%) FastAPI
9 10 (9.71%) .NET Core
10 9 (8.74%) .NET Framework
10 9 (8.74%) AngularJS
10 9 (8.74%) Spring
11 7 (6.80%) Micronaut
11 7 (6.80%) Web Services
12 6 (5.83%) Laravel
12 6 (5.83%) REST
12 6 (5.83%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.65%) Data Structures
2 10 (9.71%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (7.77%) Cloud Native
3 8 (7.77%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 5 (4.85%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.91%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (2.91%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.91%) Legacy Code
5 3 (2.91%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.91%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.94%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.94%) N-Tier
6 2 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.97%) Digital Signage
7 1 (0.97%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.97%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.97%) NHS
7 1 (0.97%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.77%) Windows
2 5 (4.85%) Linux
3 3 (2.91%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.97%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (61.17%) Agile
1 63 (61.17%) OO
2 39 (37.86%) CI/CD
3 32 (31.07%) Computer Science
4 30 (29.13%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (28.16%) Continuous Improvement
5 29 (28.16%) MVC
6 26 (25.24%) Software Engineering
7 23 (22.33%) Design Patterns
8 21 (20.39%) Infrastructure as Code
9 20 (19.42%) Mentoring
9 20 (19.42%) TDD
10 17 (16.50%) Clean Code
10 17 (16.50%) Front End Development
11 16 (15.53%) DevOps
12 14 (13.59%) Microservices
13 13 (12.62%) Containerisation
13 13 (12.62%) Full-Stack Development
14 12 (11.65%) Data Analysis
15 11 (10.68%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 47 (45.63%) C#
2 41 (39.81%) SQL
3 38 (36.89%) JavaScript
4 36 (34.95%) Java
5 35 (33.98%) PHP
6 20 (19.42%) C++
7 18 (17.48%) Python
8 13 (12.62%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.91%) Delphi
9 3 (2.91%) VB.NET
10 2 (1.94%) C
11 1 (0.97%) Ruby
11 1 (0.97%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (32.04%) Degree
2 29 (28.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.94%) DBS Check
3 2 (1.94%) ISTQB
3 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (1.94%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.94%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.97%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.97%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.97%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.80%) QA
2 2 (1.94%) ECSS
3 1 (0.97%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.97%) HL7
System Software
1 20 (19.42%) Docker
2 1 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (13.59%) Terraform
2 7 (6.80%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.97%) Ansible
3 1 (0.97%) Argo
Vendors
1 12 (11.65%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.91%) OpenAI
2 3 (2.91%) Oracle
2 3 (2.91%) SAP
3 2 (1.94%) Xamarin
4 1 (0.97%) Remedy
4 1 (0.97%) SendGrid
4 1 (0.97%) Zend