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

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 590 707 747
Rank change year-on-year +117 +40 -250
Permanent jobs citing OOD 119 207 215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.20% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.24% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 75 137 154
10th Percentile - £42,500 £40,057
25th Percentile £37,574 £46,250 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.58% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £79,500 £95,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -16.58% +14.29% -4.55%

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 51,902 86,889 92,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.67% 84.13% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25,611 60,763 54,796
10th Percentile £28,822 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,574 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.15% -9.09% +4.76%

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 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for OOD in the UK

OOD
Top 17 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 30 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 +137 88 £50,055 -16.58% 283
England +63 87 £60,000 -2.44% 267
Work from Home +79 38 £50,055 -16.58% 119
South East +63 35 £65,000 - 82
London +74 22 £80,000 -3.03% 39
South West +109 13 £48,918 +2.99% 32
Scotland +114 12 £40,101 -33.17% 30
North of England +37 11 £50,055 -16.58% 57
Wales +46 7 £65,000 +40.54% 7
North West +3 6 £50,055 -16.58% 26
Midlands +71 4 £40,101 -15.58% 46
Yorkshire +51 4 £40,101 - 23
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 4
East of England +43 3 £40,101 -49.87% 39
West Midlands +46 2 - - 24
East Midlands +43 2 £40,101 -10.89% 18
North East +47 1 £55,000 - 8

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 31 (26.05%) Apache
2 9 (7.56%) CMS
2 9 (7.56%) WordPress
3 4 (3.36%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.52%) IIS
4 3 (2.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (1.68%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.84%) Confluence
6 1 (0.84%) Drupal
6 1 (0.84%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.84%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.84%) GNU Octave
2 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.68%) SAP EHS
1 2 (1.68%) SAP IBP
1 2 (1.68%) SAP PP
1 2 (1.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.84%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.84%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 7 (5.88%) AWS
2 3 (2.52%) OpenShift
3 2 (1.68%) Azure
3 2 (1.68%) Figma
3 2 (1.68%) SaaS
4 1 (0.84%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (0.84%) GitHub
4 1 (0.84%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (0.84%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.68%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.84%) Broadband
2 1 (0.84%) HTTP
2 1 (0.84%) Internet
2 1 (0.84%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.08%) SQL Server
2 8 (6.72%) Big Data
3 6 (5.04%) NoSQL
4 5 (4.20%) MySQL
5 4 (3.36%) Apache Hive
5 4 (3.36%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.68%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.68%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.84%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.84%) DB2
7 1 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.84%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.84%) NonStop SQL
7 1 (0.84%) Power BI
7 1 (0.84%) Redis
7 1 (0.84%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 26 (21.85%) Eclipse
1 26 (21.85%) Eclipse RCP
2 15 (12.61%) Git
3 5 (4.20%) JIRA
4 4 (3.36%) Subversion
5 3 (2.52%) NetBeans
6 2 (1.68%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.84%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.84%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.84%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.84%) Qt Creator
7 1 (0.84%) RSpec
7 1 (0.84%) Spock
7 1 (0.84%) TeamCity
General
1 25 (21.01%) Finance
2 19 (15.97%) Social Skills
3 14 (11.76%) Aerospace
4 13 (10.92%) Electronics
5 10 (8.40%) Banking
6 9 (7.56%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (7.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (7.56%) Law
7 7 (5.88%) Manufacturing
8 5 (4.20%) Front Office
9 4 (3.36%) Aviation
9 4 (3.36%) Games
10 3 (2.52%) Marketing
10 3 (2.52%) Military
10 3 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.68%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.84%) Legal
12 1 (0.84%) Publishing
12 1 (0.84%) Retail
Job Titles
1 49 (41.18%) Software Engineer
2 25 (21.01%) Developer
3 23 (19.33%) Junior
3 23 (19.33%) Junior Software Engineer
3 23 (19.33%) Senior
4 22 (18.49%) Lead
5 16 (13.45%) Team Leader
6 15 (12.61%) Software Team Leader
7 12 (10.08%) Java Engineer
8 10 (8.40%) Java Software Engineer
9 8 (6.72%) Full-Stack Developer
9 8 (6.72%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
9 8 (6.72%) PHP Developer
9 8 (6.72%) Senior Software Engineer
10 5 (4.20%) .NET Developer
10 5 (4.20%) C# Developer
11 4 (3.36%) Electronics Engineer
11 4 (3.36%) Front Office Developer
11 4 (3.36%) Java Developer
11 4 (3.36%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (30.25%) HTML
2 35 (29.41%) CSS
3 27 (22.69%) Middleware
4 26 (21.85%) JSP
5 18 (15.13%) XML
6 14 (11.76%) .NET
7 12 (10.08%) Web Services
8 11 (9.24%) Spring
9 10 (8.40%) Kafka
10 9 (7.56%) Laravel
11 8 (6.72%) AngularJS
12 7 (5.88%) jQuery
12 7 (5.88%) React
13 5 (4.20%) Angular 2
14 4 (3.36%) Hibernate
14 4 (3.36%) J2EE
14 4 (3.36%) Java EE
14 4 (3.36%) Spring Boot
15 3 (2.52%) JavaFX
15 3 (2.52%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.76%) Embedded Systems
2 9 (7.56%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.88%) Cloud Native
4 6 (5.04%) Derivative
5 5 (4.20%) Algorithms
5 5 (4.20%) Hedge funds
6 4 (3.36%) CPLD
6 4 (3.36%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.36%) Equities
6 4 (3.36%) Equity Derivative
6 4 (3.36%) Fixed Income
6 4 (3.36%) FPGA
7 3 (2.52%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.52%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.68%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.68%) Robotics
8 2 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.84%) 3D Graphics
9 1 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.84%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 39 (32.77%) Linux
2 31 (26.05%) Windows
3 4 (3.36%) Android
3 4 (3.36%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.68%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.84%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (95.80%) OO
2 73 (61.34%) Software Engineering
3 65 (54.62%) SDLC
4 48 (40.34%) UML
5 40 (33.61%) Mentoring
6 39 (32.77%) Unit Testing
7 35 (29.41%) Agile
8 34 (28.57%) Design Patterns
9 29 (24.37%) Mathematics
10 27 (22.69%) Business Intelligence
10 27 (22.69%) ETL
10 27 (22.69%) Physics
11 26 (21.85%) Analytics
11 26 (21.85%) Business Analytics
12 25 (21.01%) Continuous Improvement
13 18 (15.13%) Customer Requirements
14 17 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
14 17 (14.29%) SysML
15 16 (13.45%) Quality Management
16 15 (12.61%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 54 (45.38%) Java
2 50 (42.02%) SQL
3 48 (40.34%) C#
4 37 (31.09%) Ada
5 35 (29.41%) Python
6 31 (26.05%) C
7 25 (21.01%) C++
8 23 (19.33%) Rust
9 22 (18.49%) JavaScript
10 12 (10.08%) PHP
11 9 (7.56%) TypeScript
12 5 (4.20%) Scala
13 4 (3.36%) Kotlin
14 3 (2.52%) Groovy
15 1 (0.84%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.84%) COBOL
15 1 (0.84%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.84%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 46 (38.66%) Degree
2 43 (36.13%) BPSS Clearance
3 9 (7.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.52%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.68%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (1.68%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.84%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.84%) PhD
6 1 (0.84%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.52%) Def Stans
1 3 (2.52%) IEC 61508
2 2 (1.68%) QA
3 1 (0.84%) ISO 15022
3 1 (0.84%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.84%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 8 (6.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (8.40%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.36%) Terraform
3 1 (0.84%) Grafana
3 1 (0.84%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (7.56%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.72%) Oracle
3 5 (4.20%) Sybase
4 4 (3.36%) Agilent
5 2 (1.68%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.68%) SAP
6 1 (0.84%) HP
6 1 (0.84%) IBM
6 1 (0.84%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.84%) Xamarin