Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (OOA/OOD)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring OOA/OOD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited OOA/OOD over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 683 881 815
Rank change year-on-year +198 -66 +176
Permanent jobs citing OOA/OOD 9 15 174
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.017% 0.015% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.019% 0.018% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 0 8 28
10th Percentile - £45,875 £62,750
25th Percentile - £46,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £47,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - -32.14% +24.44%
75th Percentile - £48,750 £85,000
90th Percentile - £76,875 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary - £47,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -32.14% +33.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

OOA/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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,568 84,685 99,386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.32% 85.99% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26,511 59,837 58,366
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £76,009 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

OOA/OOD
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing OOA/OOD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for OOA/OOD in the UK

OOA/OOD
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing OOA/OOD.

Salary trend for OOA/OOD in the UK

OOA/OOD
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OOA/OOD within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
UK excluding London +210 9 - - 6
England +163 4 - - 12
South West +104 4 - -
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
Scotland - 1 - - 1

OOA/OOD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (44.44%) Apache
1 4 (44.44%) Apache Spark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Apache Hive
1 4 (44.44%) Big Data
1 4 (44.44%) Hadoop
1 4 (44.44%) MySQL
1 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) DB2
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) NetBeans
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Java Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Apache Spark Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Java Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Java Software Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Java Server Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) Spring
2 4 (44.44%) Hibernate
2 4 (44.44%) J2EE
2 4 (44.44%) Java EE
2 4 (44.44%) JavaFX
2 4 (44.44%) Kafka
2 4 (44.44%) Spring Boot
3 1 (11.11%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) OO
1 9 (100.00%) OOD
1 9 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 8 (88.89%) Design Patterns
3 5 (55.56%) Agile
3 5 (55.56%) Concurrent Programming
3 5 (55.56%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (55.56%) Low Latency
3 5 (55.56%) Multithreading
3 5 (55.56%) OOP
3 5 (55.56%) Scrum
4 4 (44.44%) Architectural Design
4 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
4 4 (44.44%) Domain Models
4 4 (44.44%) Sequence Diagram
4 4 (44.44%) UML
4 4 (44.44%) Use Case
5 1 (11.11%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (55.56%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) Def Stans
1 4 (44.44%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Sybase