Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for OOD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited OOD over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 675 700 500
Rank change year-on-year +25 -200 -56
Permanent jobs citing OOD 214 282 1,053
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.27% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.28% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 149 182 431
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,025 £38,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,188 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,500 £103,750 £100,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% +15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

OOD is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,165 101,093 147,090
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.12% 95.64% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 59,702 59,212 83,288
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,496
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,600 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +2.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for OOD in the UK

OOD
Top 15 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 23 April 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 +58 190 £65,000 - 64
UK excluding London 0 145 £60,000 +14.29% 37
Work from Home +9 77 £60,000 -2.04% 26
London +78 68 £78,750 +1.61% 26
South East +20 57 £65,650 +19.36% 12
North of England +38 24 £60,000 +14.29% 7
Midlands +31 20 £47,500 -20.83% 8
Scotland -52 19 £60,000 -5.88%
West Midlands +40 15 £54,500 -9.17% 5
Yorkshire +86 12 - -
North West +6 12 £60,000 +84.62% 4
South West -14 12 £47,500 -9.52% 4
East of England +26 9 £80,000 +99.72% 3
Wales -3 5 £23,000 -73.71% 2
East Midlands -10 5 £45,000 -26.53% 3

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 (3.74%) Apache Pig
1 8 (3.74%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.27%) IIS
3 3 (1.40%) Confluence
4 2 (0.93%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 7 (3.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 62 (28.97%) Azure
2 56 (26.17%) AWS
3 29 (13.55%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (9.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 20 (9.35%) Azure Monitor
5 19 (8.88%) SaaS
6 18 (8.41%) Azure Service Bus
7 12 (5.61%) Serverless
8 11 (5.14%) GitHub
9 8 (3.74%) IBM Cloud
10 7 (3.27%) GCP
10 7 (3.27%) Google Analytics
11 6 (2.80%) PaaS
12 4 (1.87%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (1.87%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (1.87%) Amazon S3
12 4 (1.87%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (1.87%) Power Platform
13 3 (1.40%) IaaS
14 2 (0.93%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 27 (12.62%) Wi-Fi
1 27 (12.62%) Wireless
2 19 (8.88%) RS-232
3 15 (7.01%) Ethernet
4 12 (5.61%) 3G
4 12 (5.61%) 4G
4 12 (5.61%) MQTT
4 12 (5.61%) RS-485
5 7 (3.27%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.93%) Modbus
7 1 (0.47%) FTP
7 1 (0.47%) HTTP
7 1 (0.47%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (19.16%) SQL Server
2 17 (7.94%) Relational Database
3 16 (7.48%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 8 (3.74%) Apache Hive
4 8 (3.74%) Big Data
4 8 (3.74%) Hadoop
5 7 (3.27%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.80%) MySQL
7 2 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.93%) Power BI
8 1 (0.47%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (0.47%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.47%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.47%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.47%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 36 (16.82%) Git
2 24 (11.21%) JUnit
3 17 (7.94%) Visual Studio
4 15 (7.01%) Maven
5 14 (6.54%) JIRA
6 8 (3.74%) Checkstyle
6 8 (3.74%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.34%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.34%) Jenkins
8 4 (1.87%) Sourcetree
8 4 (1.87%) Subversion
8 4 (1.87%) Zephyr
9 3 (1.40%) Mockito
10 2 (0.93%) Appium
10 2 (0.93%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.93%) Selenium
10 2 (0.93%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.93%) WebDriver
10 2 (0.93%) Xcode
11 1 (0.47%) NUnit
General
1 71 (33.18%) Social Skills
2 35 (16.36%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (9.35%) Finance
4 19 (8.88%) Manufacturing
5 17 (7.94%) Back Office
6 16 (7.48%) Local Government
7 12 (5.61%) Electronics
7 12 (5.61%) Mandarin Language
8 11 (5.14%) Front Office
9 9 (4.21%) Banking
9 9 (4.21%) Investment Banking
10 8 (3.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (3.74%) Public Sector
11 7 (3.27%) Law
12 6 (2.80%) Legal
12 6 (2.80%) Publishing
13 5 (2.34%) Automotive
13 5 (2.34%) Games
14 4 (1.87%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.93%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 95 (44.39%) Senior
2 82 (38.32%) Developer
3 67 (31.31%) Software Engineer
4 45 (21.03%) Embedded Engineer
5 41 (19.16%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 38 (17.76%) Senior Developer
7 35 (16.36%) Senior Software Engineer
8 30 (14.02%) Lead
9 29 (13.55%) Senior Embedded Engineer
10 25 (11.68%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
11 24 (11.21%) Java Developer
12 17 (7.94%) .NET Developer
12 17 (7.94%) Software Developer
13 16 (7.48%) Senior Java Developer
14 15 (7.01%) Senior .NET Developer
15 14 (6.54%) Java Engineer
16 11 (5.14%) Lead Developer
17 10 (4.67%) Technical Leader
18 9 (4.21%) C# Developer
18 9 (4.21%) C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (27.10%) .NET
2 29 (13.55%) Spring
3 28 (13.08%) CSS
3 28 (13.08%) HTML
4 27 (12.62%) AngularJS
5 26 (12.15%) REST
6 22 (10.28%) .NET Core
7 20 (9.35%) Yocto
8 19 (8.88%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 17 (7.94%) jQuery
9 17 (7.94%) Web Services
10 16 (7.48%) React
11 15 (7.01%) ASP.NET
11 15 (7.01%) Spring Boot
11 15 (7.01%) XML
12 14 (6.54%) Hibernate
13 11 (5.14%) SOAP
14 10 (4.67%) Entity Framework
14 10 (4.67%) RESTful
15 8 (3.74%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.28%) Algorithms
1 22 (10.28%) Self-Motivation
2 20 (9.35%) Device Driver
3 19 (8.88%) Data Structures
3 19 (8.88%) Enterprise Software
4 18 (8.41%) Product Ownership
5 17 (7.94%) Analytical Mindset
6 15 (7.01%) Greenfield Project
7 10 (4.67%) Blockchain
8 8 (3.74%) Client/Server
8 8 (3.74%) e-Learning
8 8 (3.74%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (3.74%) IoT
9 7 (3.27%) Cloud Native
9 7 (3.27%) Fixed Income
10 6 (2.80%) Onboarding
11 5 (2.34%) Mobile App
12 4 (1.87%) Credit Risk
12 4 (1.87%) Market Risk
13 3 (1.40%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 52 (24.30%) Linux
2 37 (17.29%) Embedded Linux
3 14 (6.54%) Windows
4 4 (1.87%) FreeRTOS
5 3 (1.40%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.93%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.47%) Android
7 1 (0.47%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (75.70%) OO
2 104 (48.60%) Software Engineering
3 97 (45.33%) Agile
4 79 (36.92%) Computer Science
5 64 (29.91%) DevOps
6 56 (26.17%) Design Patterns
7 53 (24.77%) SDLC
8 48 (22.43%) Problem-Solving
9 34 (15.89%) TDD
10 29 (13.55%) SOLID
11 28 (13.08%) CI/CD
11 28 (13.08%) Scrum
12 27 (12.62%) Microservices
13 25 (11.68%) Mathematics
14 23 (10.75%) Mentoring
15 22 (10.28%) Clean Code
15 22 (10.28%) Full Stack Development
15 22 (10.28%) User Experience
16 21 (9.81%) Continuous Improvement
16 21 (9.81%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 79 (36.92%) C#
2 65 (30.37%) Java
3 59 (27.57%) C
4 49 (22.90%) JavaScript
5 46 (21.50%) C++
6 44 (20.56%) Python
6 44 (20.56%) SQL
7 19 (8.88%) Bicep
8 17 (7.94%) Embedded C
8 17 (7.94%) Fortran
9 11 (5.14%) TypeScript
10 8 (3.74%) T-SQL
11 7 (3.27%) XPath
12 5 (2.34%) Bash
12 5 (2.34%) Groovy
13 4 (1.87%) PHP
14 3 (1.40%) Ruby
15 2 (0.93%) Objective-C
15 2 (0.93%) PowerShell
16 1 (0.47%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 71 (33.18%) Degree
2 36 (16.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 23 (10.75%) Master's Degree
4 19 (8.88%) PhD
5 5 (2.34%) Numerate Degree
6 2 (0.93%) SC Cleared
6 2 (0.93%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.47%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.47%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.41%) QA
2 12 (5.61%) GDPR
3 6 (2.80%) ISO 9000
4 4 (1.87%) MISRA
4 4 (1.87%) MISRA C
5 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.47%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.47%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (15.42%) Docker
2 18 (8.41%) Active Directory
3 8 (3.74%) HDFS
4 4 (1.87%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (1.87%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 22 (10.28%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.34%) Terraform
Vendors
1 45 (21.03%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.54%) Google
3 8 (3.74%) IBM
3 8 (3.74%) Red Hat
4 4 (1.87%) Oracle
5 2 (0.93%) ServiceNow
5 2 (0.93%) Siemens
5 2 (0.93%) Xamarin
6 1 (0.47%) Apple
6 1 (0.47%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.47%) SAP