Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring OOD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited OOD over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 682 746 519
Rank change year-on-year +64 -227 -69
Permanent jobs citing OOD 160 141 1,146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.17% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.18% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 100 123 401
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,850 £39,124
25th Percentile £47,577 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,750 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £88,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £93,250 £125,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £53,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.63% -2.27% +18.28%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 73,969 76,929 168,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.84% 95.34% 96.40%
Number of salaries quoted 48,628 50,249 85,709
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +6.06%

OOD
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for OOD in the UK

OOD
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for OOD in the UK

OOD
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing OOD over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for OOD in the UK

OOD
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OOD within the UK over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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 +55 140 £63,750 -3.77% 23
UK excluding London +17 119 £60,000 +11.63% 24
Work from Home +25 63 £65,000 - 12
South East +24 42 £62,500 +19.05% 5
London +61 41 £86,250 +7.81% 3
North of England +26 27 £60,000 +84.62% 2
Midlands -15 18 £47,500 -13.64% 8
Yorkshire - 16 £45,000 - 1
West Midlands +6 14 £47,500 +5.56% 7
Scotland -36 12 £60,000 -7.69% 1
South West -4 10 £67,500 +28.57% 3
North West -8 9 £60,000 +84.62% 1
Wales +36 8 £46,250 +6.32% 1
East Midlands -31 4 £45,000 -18.18% 1
North East -10 2 £55,000 +15.37%
East of England - 2 £76,250 - 2

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 8 (5.00%) IIS
1 8 (5.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.88%) CMS
3 2 (1.25%) Apache Pig
3 2 (1.25%) Confluence
3 2 (1.25%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.63%) Apache
4 1 (0.63%) Drupal
Applications
1 8 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.88%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.63%) GNU Octave
4 1 (0.63%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 44 (27.50%) AWS
2 43 (26.88%) Azure
3 21 (13.13%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (11.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 17 (10.63%) Azure Monitor
5 17 (10.63%) SaaS
6 15 (9.38%) Azure Service Bus
7 10 (6.25%) Serverless
8 7 (4.38%) Google Analytics
9 5 (3.13%) GitHub
9 5 (3.13%) IBM Cloud
10 4 (2.50%) PaaS
11 3 (1.88%) GCP
11 3 (1.88%) Power Platform
12 2 (1.25%) Amazon SQS
13 1 (0.63%) Amazon EC2
13 1 (0.63%) Amazon EKS
13 1 (0.63%) Amazon S3
13 1 (0.63%) AWS Lambda
13 1 (0.63%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (13.13%) Wi-Fi
1 21 (13.13%) Wireless
2 13 (8.13%) 3G
2 13 (8.13%) 4G
2 13 (8.13%) MQTT
2 13 (8.13%) RS-485
3 10 (6.25%) Ethernet
4 8 (5.00%) RS-232
5 7 (4.38%) HTTP
5 7 (4.38%) TCP/IP
6 6 (3.75%) Internet
7 2 (1.25%) Modbus
8 1 (0.63%) BGP
8 1 (0.63%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.63%) DMVPN
8 1 (0.63%) EIGRP
8 1 (0.63%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 1 (0.63%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 1 (0.63%) MPLS
8 1 (0.63%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (21.88%) SQL Server
2 17 (10.63%) Relational Database
3 13 (8.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 5 (3.13%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.50%) Big Data
6 3 (1.88%) MySQL
6 3 (1.88%) Power BI
7 2 (1.25%) Apache Hive
7 2 (1.25%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.63%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (0.63%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 28 (17.50%) Git
2 13 (8.13%) Maven
3 12 (7.50%) JUnit
3 12 (7.50%) Visual Studio
4 5 (3.13%) JIRA
5 4 (2.50%) Moq
5 4 (2.50%) MSTest
5 4 (2.50%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (1.88%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.25%) Checkstyle
7 2 (1.25%) Selenium
7 2 (1.25%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.25%) Visual Studio Team System
8 1 (0.63%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.63%) Eclipse RCP
8 1 (0.63%) GitLab
8 1 (0.63%) Mockito
8 1 (0.63%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.63%) Sourcetree
General
1 45 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 23 (14.38%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (8.75%) Back Office
4 13 (8.13%) Local Government
5 12 (7.50%) Finance
5 12 (7.50%) Mandarin Language
6 9 (5.63%) Law
6 9 (5.63%) Manufacturing
7 7 (4.38%) Front Office
8 6 (3.75%) Aerospace
8 6 (3.75%) Automotive
8 6 (3.75%) Banking
8 6 (3.75%) Electronics
8 6 (3.75%) Investment Banking
9 5 (3.13%) Games
9 5 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (3.13%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.25%) Legal
10 2 (1.25%) Publishing
11 1 (0.63%) Military
Job Titles
1 61 (38.13%) Senior
2 52 (32.50%) Developer
3 51 (31.88%) Software Engineer
4 37 (23.13%) Embedded Engineer
5 33 (20.63%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 31 (19.38%) Lead
7 27 (16.88%) Senior Developer
8 22 (13.75%) Senior Software Engineer
9 19 (11.88%) Senior Embedded Engineer
10 17 (10.63%) .NET Developer
11 15 (9.38%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
12 14 (8.75%) Java Developer
13 13 (8.13%) Java Engineer
13 13 (8.13%) Senior .NET Developer
14 12 (7.50%) Team Leader
15 10 (6.25%) C# Developer
15 10 (6.25%) Senior Java Developer
16 8 (5.00%) C++ Software Engineer
17 7 (4.38%) Full Stack Developer
17 7 (4.38%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (31.25%) .NET
2 27 (16.88%) REST
3 26 (16.25%) HTML
4 21 (13.13%) CSS
5 19 (11.88%) .NET Core
6 18 (11.25%) Spring
6 18 (11.25%) Web Services
7 17 (10.63%) AngularJS
8 16 (10.00%) jQuery
9 15 (9.38%) React
9 15 (9.38%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 15 (9.38%) XML
10 14 (8.75%) ASP.NET
11 10 (6.25%) Hibernate
12 9 (5.63%) Yocto
13 8 (5.00%) Entity Framework
13 8 (5.00%) SOAP
13 8 (5.00%) Spring Boot
13 8 (5.00%) Vue
14 7 (4.38%) DOM
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
2 11 (6.88%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (6.25%) Algorithms
3 10 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (5.63%) Device Driver
4 9 (5.63%) Product Ownership
5 8 (5.00%) Data Structures
5 8 (5.00%) IoT
6 7 (4.38%) Cloud Native
6 7 (4.38%) e-Learning
7 6 (3.75%) Fixed Income
8 5 (3.13%) Blockchain
8 5 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.88%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.88%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.88%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.25%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.25%) FPGA
10 2 (1.25%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.25%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 39 (24.38%) Linux
2 28 (17.50%) Embedded Linux
3 9 (5.63%) Windows
4 2 (1.25%) Android
4 2 (1.25%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.63%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (0.63%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (76.88%) OO
2 86 (53.75%) Software Engineering
3 66 (41.25%) Agile
4 45 (28.13%) Computer Science
5 42 (26.25%) DevOps
6 40 (25.00%) Design Patterns
7 37 (23.13%) TDD
8 31 (19.38%) SDLC
9 30 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
10 23 (14.38%) Software Testing
11 22 (13.75%) SOLID
12 20 (12.50%) Clean Code
12 20 (12.50%) Scrum
12 20 (12.50%) User Experience
13 19 (11.88%) MVC
13 19 (11.88%) Test Automation
14 18 (11.25%) Microservices
14 18 (11.25%) Multithreading
15 17 (10.63%) Full Stack Development
15 17 (10.63%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 60 (37.50%) C#
2 48 (30.00%) JavaScript
3 47 (29.38%) C++
4 42 (26.25%) Java
5 38 (23.75%) C
6 35 (21.88%) SQL
7 24 (15.00%) Python
8 16 (10.00%) Bicep
9 9 (5.63%) T-SQL
9 9 (5.63%) TypeScript
10 8 (5.00%) Embedded C
11 7 (4.38%) Embedded C++
11 7 (4.38%) XPath
12 5 (3.13%) Groovy
12 5 (3.13%) PHP
13 3 (1.88%) Fortran
13 3 (1.88%) MATLAB
14 2 (1.25%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.63%) Rust
15 1 (0.63%) XAML
Qualifications
1 44 (27.50%) Degree
2 27 (16.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (5.00%) Master's Degree
3 8 (5.00%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.13%) Numerate Degree
5 4 (2.50%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.88%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.88%) PhD
7 1 (0.63%) CCNA
7 1 (0.63%) CCNP
7 1 (0.63%) CCSA
7 1 (0.63%) CCSE
7 1 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.63%) CISSP
7 1 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.13%) GDPR
2 6 (3.75%) ISO 9000
2 6 (3.75%) ISO 9001
2 6 (3.75%) QA
3 5 (3.13%) MISRA
3 5 (3.13%) MISRA C
4 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.63%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (10.63%) Docker
2 15 (9.38%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.13%) Firmware
4 4 (2.50%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (1.25%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 16 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 37 (23.13%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.00%) Google
3 5 (3.13%) IBM
3 5 (3.13%) Oracle
3 5 (3.13%) Red Hat
4 3 (1.88%) Xamarin
5 2 (1.25%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.25%) Siemens
5 2 (1.25%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.63%) Aruba
6 1 (0.63%) CheckPoint
6 1 (0.63%) Cisco
6 1 (0.63%) F5
6 1 (0.63%) iManage
6 1 (0.63%) Juniper
6 1 (0.63%) NVIDIA
6 1 (0.63%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.63%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.63%) SAP
6 1 (0.63%) Zscaler