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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 173 246 154
Rank change year-on-year +73 -92 -6
Permanent jobs citing OOP 751 832 1,349
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.88% 1.16% 2.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.03% 1.39% 2.39%
Number of salaries quoted 282 499 706
10th Percentile £30,575 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +15.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £62,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £86,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +13.64%

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 37,041 59,787 56,423
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.90% 83.60% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 18,101 41,279 29,105
10th Percentile £26,875 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

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 18 May 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 18 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
North of England +127 512 £50,000 -4.76% 122
North West +82 462 £41,000 -21.90% 66
South East -21 95 £62,500 +8.70% 126
East of England +15 38 £37,000 -40.80% 17
Yorkshire +67 31 £70,000 +55.56% 22
South West +41 31 £60,000 +33.33% 50
Midlands -51 30 £42,500 -15.00% 26
Scotland +91 26 £60,000 +26.32% 15
North East +44 19 £55,000 -23.08% 35
West Midlands +23 18 £60,000 +20.00% 18
East Midlands -63 12 £38,750 -24.39% 8
Wales +35 10 £42,500 -29.17% 6
Northern Ireland +36 9 £55,000 +57.14% 5
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 12 (1.60%) Apache
2 6 (0.80%) Apache Spark
2 6 (0.80%) nginx
2 6 (0.80%) Tomcat
3 4 (0.53%) Confluence
3 4 (0.53%) GemFire
4 3 (0.40%) IIS
4 3 (0.40%) WordPress
5 2 (0.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (0.80%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.13%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 129 (17.18%) AWS
2 111 (14.78%) Azure
3 51 (6.79%) GCP
4 38 (5.06%) AWS CloudFormation
5 36 (4.79%) Amazon EKS
6 25 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (2.66%) GitHub
8 11 (1.46%) SaaS
9 10 (1.33%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (0.80%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (0.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 5 (0.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 5 (0.67%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (0.67%) Power Platform
11 5 (0.67%) Serverless
12 4 (0.53%) Amazon Cognito
12 4 (0.53%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (0.53%) Azure Pipelines
12 4 (0.53%) CloudFront
13 3 (0.40%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 391 (52.06%) DNS
1 391 (52.06%) VPN
2 23 (3.06%) Wireshark
3 8 (1.07%) HTTP
4 2 (0.27%) Network Security
4 2 (0.27%) RTP
4 2 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (13.18%) MySQL
1 99 (13.18%) SQL Server
2 44 (5.86%) Elasticsearch
3 29 (3.86%) NoSQL
4 26 (3.46%) MongoDB
5 20 (2.66%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (2.13%) Relational Database
7 12 (1.60%) Big Data
8 9 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (1.07%) Data Lake
10 7 (0.93%) RDBMS
10 7 (0.93%) Redis
11 5 (0.67%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (0.53%) Apache Hive
12 4 (0.53%) Apache Ignite
12 4 (0.53%) Hadoop
12 4 (0.53%) InterSystems Cache
12 4 (0.53%) SQLite
13 2 (0.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 105 (13.98%) Git
2 19 (2.53%) Visual Studio
3 17 (2.26%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.73%) JUnit
5 12 (1.60%) JIRA
6 11 (1.46%) NUnit
6 11 (1.46%) Postman
7 8 (1.07%) Selenium
7 8 (1.07%) TeamCity
8 7 (0.93%) Bitbucket
8 7 (0.93%) GitLab
8 7 (0.93%) Maven
8 7 (0.93%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.80%) PHPUnit
10 5 (0.67%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.67%) Fiddler
10 5 (0.67%) Mockito
10 5 (0.67%) SpecFlow
10 5 (0.67%) TestNG
11 4 (0.53%) Jasmine
General
1 499 (66.44%) Finance
2 440 (58.59%) Analytical Skills
3 439 (58.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 69 (9.19%) Social Skills
5 42 (5.59%) Games
6 30 (3.99%) Retail
7 18 (2.40%) Law
8 14 (1.86%) Marketing
9 12 (1.60%) Banking
9 12 (1.60%) Manufacturing
10 8 (1.07%) Public Sector
11 6 (0.80%) Back Office
11 6 (0.80%) Electronics
11 6 (0.80%) Front Office
12 5 (0.67%) Automotive
13 2 (0.27%) Local Government
13 2 (0.27%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.27%) Social Science
13 2 (0.27%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.13%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 612 (81.49%) Developer
2 465 (61.92%) Software Developer
3 76 (10.12%) Senior
4 50 (6.66%) PHP Developer
5 42 (5.59%) Senior Developer
6 38 (5.06%) .NET Developer
6 38 (5.06%) Software Engineer
7 24 (3.20%) Principal Engineer
8 23 (3.06%) C# Developer
8 23 (3.06%) Lead
8 23 (3.06%) Principal Systems Engineer
8 23 (3.06%) Senior PHP Developer
8 23 (3.06%) Systems Engineer
9 21 (2.80%) Graduate
10 20 (2.66%) Graduate Developer
11 19 (2.53%) IT Graduate
12 18 (2.40%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 13 (1.73%) Senior .NET Developer
14 12 (1.60%) PHP Software Engineer
14 12 (1.60%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (18.64%) .NET
1 140 (18.64%) CSS
2 121 (16.11%) HTML
3 65 (8.66%) LAMP
4 53 (7.06%) Laravel
4 53 (7.06%) React
5 50 (6.66%) Node.js
6 43 (5.73%) ASP.NET
7 42 (5.59%) jQuery
8 40 (5.33%) RESTful
9 39 (5.19%) AngularJS
9 39 (5.19%) REST
10 36 (4.79%) Pandas
11 32 (4.26%) Web Services
12 30 (3.99%) .NET Core
13 23 (3.06%) .NET Framework
13 23 (3.06%) Kafka
14 21 (2.80%) Vue
15 18 (2.40%) Spring
16 17 (2.26%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 427 (56.86%) Cyberattack
2 37 (4.93%) Mobile App
3 34 (4.53%) Management Information System
4 30 (3.99%) Algorithms
5 28 (3.73%) Data Structures
6 20 (2.66%) Product Ownership
7 15 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
8 13 (1.73%) Virtual Team
9 12 (1.60%) Cloud Native
10 11 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (1.07%) Client/Server
11 8 (1.07%) Derivative
11 8 (1.07%) Robotics
12 7 (0.93%) Equities
12 7 (0.93%) Public Cloud
13 6 (0.80%) Credit Derivative
13 6 (0.80%) Fixed Income
13 6 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 6 (0.80%) Hedge funds
13 6 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 473 (62.98%) Linux
2 431 (57.39%) Android
3 30 (3.99%) Windows
4 5 (0.67%) Robot Operating System
5 4 (0.53%) Unix
6 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.13%) Solaris
7 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 645 (85.89%) OO
2 556 (74.03%) Agile
3 508 (67.64%) Design Patterns
4 451 (60.05%) Mathematics
5 430 (57.26%) Android Development
6 428 (56.99%) Line Management
7 146 (19.44%) Software Engineering
8 115 (15.31%) Problem-Solving
9 94 (12.52%) CI/CD
10 91 (12.12%) MVC
11 75 (9.99%) E-Commerce
12 70 (9.32%) Containerisation
13 61 (8.12%) Computer Science
14 59 (7.86%) Web Development
15 51 (6.79%) Microservices
16 49 (6.52%) Kanban
17 48 (6.39%) DevOps
18 40 (5.33%) Collaborative Working
18 40 (5.33%) Statistics
19 39 (5.19%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 527 (70.17%) Java
2 465 (61.92%) Python
3 458 (60.99%) C++
4 430 (57.26%) Go
5 168 (22.37%) JavaScript
6 122 (16.25%) C#
7 105 (13.98%) PHP
8 64 (8.52%) SQL
9 41 (5.46%) TypeScript
10 36 (4.79%) Rust
11 8 (1.07%) Scala
12 4 (0.53%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.27%) Groovy
13 2 (0.27%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.27%) XAML
14 1 (0.13%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.13%) Delphi
14 1 (0.13%) Embedded C++
14 1 (0.13%) Ruby
14 1 (0.13%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 434 (57.79%) Security Cleared
2 427 (56.86%) DV Cleared
3 131 (17.44%) Degree
4 34 (4.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (3.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 23 (3.06%) Chartered Engineer
6 8 (1.07%) Numerate Degree
7 6 (0.80%) Master's Degree
7 6 (0.80%) SC Cleared
8 3 (0.40%) HND
9 1 (0.13%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.13%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (2.40%) QA
2 8 (1.07%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 464 (61.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 434 (57.79%) Ansible
2 60 (7.99%) Kubernetes
3 44 (5.86%) Terraform
4 5 (0.67%) Kustomize
4 5 (0.67%) Packer
5 2 (0.27%) Grafana
5 2 (0.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 41 (5.46%) Microsoft
1 41 (5.46%) Oracle
2 16 (2.13%) Twitter
3 6 (0.80%) ANSYS
3 6 (0.80%) Red Hat
4 5 (0.67%) Google
4 5 (0.67%) Sybase
5 4 (0.53%) Bloomberg
5 4 (0.53%) Okta
5 4 (0.53%) Solace
5 4 (0.53%) TIBCO
6 3 (0.40%) EMC
6 3 (0.40%) Splunk
7 2 (0.27%) SAP
7 2 (0.27%) Xamarin
8 1 (0.13%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.13%) Capita
8 1 (0.13%) Facebook
8 1 (0.13%) Intel
8 1 (0.13%) Salesforce