OOA/OOD Job Trends

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring OOA/OOD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 664 725 704
Rank change year-on-year +61 -21 +278
Permanent jobs citing OOA/OOD 1 20 48
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.002% 0.028% 0.085%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.002% 0.034% 0.091%
Number of salaries quoted 1 5 16
10th Percentile - - £49,375
25th Percentile - £38,750 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £62,500 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% -8.09% -2.86%
75th Percentile - £70,000 £82,500
90th Percentile - £86,200 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £70,000 -
% change year-on-year -35.71% - -

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 43,732 58,410 52,845
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.90% 82.19% 94.07%
Number of salaries quoted 24,546 31,188 40,436
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,997 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +2.86%

OOA/OOD
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing OOA/OOD relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

OOA/OOD job vacancy trend in the UK

OOA/OOD
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing OOA/OOD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing OOA/OOD

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 14 October 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
England +89 1 £45,000 -35.71% 3
UK excluding London +71 1 £45,000 -35.71% 3
Work from Home +44 1 £45,000 +5.88% 13
North of England +14 1 £45,000 -53.61%
Yorkshire - 1 £45,000 -

OOA/OOD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Bootstrap
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) OOD
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DBS Check