Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring OOP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited OOP over the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 280 186
Rank change year-on-year +116 -94 -34
Permanent jobs citing OOP 939 1,038 2,126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.82% 1.06% 2.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.95% 1.23% 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 397 675 1,250
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £42,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £86,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £51,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year +7.32% -10.87% +9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

OOP 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 48,105 84,479 100,577
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.22% 86.05% 95.64%
Number of salaries quoted 26,550 59,789 58,948
10th Percentile £30,750 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.71% +2.67%
75th Percentile £76,250 £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%

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for OOP in the UK

OOP
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for OOP in the UK

OOP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing OOP over the 6 months to 26 April 2025.

Salary histogram for OOP in the UK

OOP
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OOP within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 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 +90 880 £57,500 +4.55% 446
UK excluding London +115 774 £55,000 +7.32% 222
North of England +143 513 £47,500 -9.52% 74
North West +91 460 £41,000 -21.90% 35
Work from Home +38 267 £55,000 - 231
London +46 135 £70,000 -8.20% 261
South East +22 103 £62,500 +8.70% 55
South West +51 39 £60,000 +33.33% 24
East of England +39 38 £37,000 -40.80% 19
Yorkshire +79 33 £70,000 +55.56% 20
Midlands -33 29 £42,500 -15.00% 28
Scotland +112 28 £60,000 +26.32% 14
North East +60 20 £55,000 -23.08% 19
West Midlands +47 18 £57,500 +15.00% 15
Northern Ireland +35 13 £55,000 +57.14% 5
Wales +44 11 £42,500 -29.17% 11
East Midlands -26 11 £37,500 -28.57% 13

OOP
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 13 (1.38%) Apache
2 12 (1.28%) WordPress
3 10 (1.06%) CMS
3 10 (1.06%) Drupal
4 9 (0.96%) nginx
4 9 (0.96%) Tomcat
5 8 (0.85%) Confluence
6 6 (0.64%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.43%) Cloud Foundry
7 4 (0.43%) GemFire
8 3 (0.32%) IIS
9 2 (0.21%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.11%) Camunda
Applications
1 11 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.21%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 12 (1.28%) Oracle EBS
2 11 (1.17%) JDE OneWorld
2 11 (1.17%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.11%) iTrent
4 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 179 (19.06%) AWS
2 171 (18.21%) Azure
3 71 (7.56%) GCP
4 51 (5.43%) AWS CloudFormation
5 49 (5.22%) Amazon EKS
6 36 (3.83%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (3.41%) GitHub
8 12 (1.28%) Cloud Computing
8 12 (1.28%) Serverless
9 11 (1.17%) Boomi
9 11 (1.17%) SaaS
10 9 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (0.85%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 8 (0.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 8 (0.85%) Amazon SQS
11 8 (0.85%) Azure Logic Apps
11 8 (0.85%) Power Platform
12 7 (0.75%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (0.64%) Dynamics 365
14 5 (0.53%) Amazon Cognito
Communications & Networking
1 397 (42.28%) DNS
1 397 (42.28%) VPN
2 23 (2.45%) Wireshark
3 11 (1.17%) HTTP
4 10 (1.06%) Multicast
5 7 (0.75%) Network Security
6 2 (0.21%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.21%) Modbus
6 2 (0.21%) Profibus
6 2 (0.21%) RTP
6 2 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.11%) Internet
7 1 (0.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (13.74%) MySQL
2 113 (12.03%) SQL Server
3 60 (6.39%) Elasticsearch
4 37 (3.94%) NoSQL
4 37 (3.94%) PostgreSQL
5 27 (2.88%) Relational Database
6 25 (2.66%) MongoDB
7 13 (1.38%) Big Data
7 13 (1.38%) Data Lake
8 11 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (0.96%) Amazon Aurora
9 9 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (0.85%) RDBMS
11 7 (0.75%) Redis
12 5 (0.53%) Hadoop
13 4 (0.43%) Apache Hive
13 4 (0.43%) InterSystems Cache
13 4 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.43%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 153 (16.29%) Git
2 33 (3.51%) JIRA
3 27 (2.88%) JUnit
4 26 (2.77%) Jenkins
5 25 (2.66%) Visual Studio
6 17 (1.81%) NUnit
6 17 (1.81%) Postman
6 17 (1.81%) Selenium
7 15 (1.60%) TestNG
8 13 (1.38%) GitLab
9 12 (1.28%) Maven
10 10 (1.06%) Bitbucket
10 10 (1.06%) SonarQube
11 9 (0.96%) Mockito
12 8 (0.85%) Cucumber
12 8 (0.85%) TeamCity
13 6 (0.64%) Cypress.io
13 6 (0.64%) SpecFlow
13 6 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
14 5 (0.53%) webpack
General
1 573 (61.02%) Finance
2 482 (51.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 481 (51.22%) Analytical Skills
4 115 (12.25%) Social Skills
5 59 (6.28%) Games
6 37 (3.94%) Retail
7 30 (3.19%) Banking
8 22 (2.34%) Front Office
8 22 (2.34%) Public Sector
9 20 (2.13%) Law
9 20 (2.13%) Marketing
10 18 (1.92%) Manufacturing
11 8 (0.85%) Electronics
12 6 (0.64%) iGaming
12 6 (0.64%) Retail Banking
12 6 (0.64%) Social Science
13 5 (0.53%) Automotive
13 5 (0.53%) Back Office
14 4 (0.43%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.32%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 733 (78.06%) Developer
2 491 (52.29%) Software Developer
3 135 (14.38%) Senior
4 79 (8.41%) Senior Developer
5 64 (6.82%) Software Engineer
6 60 (6.39%) PHP Developer
7 43 (4.58%) Lead
8 40 (4.26%) .NET Developer
9 39 (4.15%) C# Developer
10 27 (2.88%) Systems Engineer
11 26 (2.77%) Principal Engineer
11 26 (2.77%) Senior PHP Developer
12 23 (2.45%) Graduate
12 23 (2.45%) Principal Systems Engineer
12 23 (2.45%) Senior Software Engineer
13 22 (2.34%) Graduate Developer
14 21 (2.24%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 21 (2.24%) IT Graduate
15 19 (2.02%) Python Engineer
16 18 (1.92%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 211 (22.47%) CSS
2 190 (20.23%) HTML
3 185 (19.70%) .NET
4 95 (10.12%) React
5 78 (8.31%) LAMP
6 74 (7.88%) Laravel
6 74 (7.88%) Node.js
7 66 (7.03%) REST
8 57 (6.07%) RESTful
9 55 (5.86%) ASP.NET
9 55 (5.86%) jQuery
9 55 (5.86%) Web Services
10 51 (5.43%) AngularJS
11 49 (5.22%) Pandas
12 45 (4.79%) .NET Core
13 38 (4.05%) .NET Framework
14 32 (3.41%) Kafka
15 30 (3.19%) HTML5
15 30 (3.19%) JSON
16 29 (3.09%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 446 (47.50%) Cyberattack
2 63 (6.71%) Mobile App
3 62 (6.60%) Algorithms
4 52 (5.54%) Management Information System
5 50 (5.32%) Data Structures
6 28 (2.98%) Equities
7 22 (2.34%) Hedge funds
8 21 (2.24%) Product Ownership
9 19 (2.02%) Derivative
10 18 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
11 16 (1.70%) Fixed Income
11 16 (1.70%) Virtual Team
12 13 (1.38%) Cloud Native
12 13 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
13 10 (1.06%) Client/Server
14 8 (0.85%) Life Science
14 8 (0.85%) Robotics
15 7 (0.75%) Public Cloud
16 6 (0.64%) Credit Derivative
16 6 (0.64%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 530 (56.44%) Linux
2 453 (48.24%) Android
3 37 (3.94%) Windows
4 10 (1.06%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.53%) Robot Operating System
6 4 (0.43%) Unix
7 3 (0.32%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 771 (82.11%) OO
2 647 (68.90%) Agile
3 549 (58.47%) Design Patterns
4 482 (51.33%) Mathematics
5 450 (47.92%) Android Development
6 449 (47.82%) Line Management
7 199 (21.19%) Software Engineering
8 154 (16.40%) CI/CD
9 153 (16.29%) Problem-Solving
10 126 (13.42%) MVC
11 97 (10.33%) Containerisation
12 95 (10.12%) Web Development
13 92 (9.80%) Computer Science
14 89 (9.48%) E-Commerce
15 80 (8.52%) Test Automation
16 71 (7.56%) DevOps
17 67 (7.14%) Collaborative Working
17 67 (7.14%) Microservices
18 64 (6.82%) Kanban
19 63 (6.71%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 576 (61.34%) Java
2 558 (59.42%) Python
3 509 (54.21%) C++
4 457 (48.67%) Go
5 249 (26.52%) JavaScript
6 162 (17.25%) C#
7 129 (13.74%) PHP
8 110 (11.71%) SQL
9 52 (5.54%) Rust
10 47 (5.01%) TypeScript
11 14 (1.49%) Scala
12 8 (0.85%) C
13 5 (0.53%) Bash
13 5 (0.53%) Swift
13 5 (0.53%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.43%) PowerShell
14 4 (0.43%) Ruby
15 3 (0.32%) Objective-C
16 2 (0.21%) MATLAB
16 2 (0.21%) XAML
Qualifications
1 467 (49.73%) Security Cleared
2 450 (47.92%) DV Cleared
3 175 (18.64%) Degree
4 50 (5.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 23 (2.45%) Chartered Engineer
6 20 (2.13%) Master's Degree
7 17 (1.81%) SC Cleared
8 9 (0.96%) Numerate Degree
9 5 (0.53%) ISTQB
9 5 (0.53%) PhD
10 3 (0.32%) HND
11 2 (0.21%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.21%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.11%) MCSE
12 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.11%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.11%) VCAP
12 1 (0.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (3.94%) QA
2 24 (2.56%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.21%) IEC 61131
3 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.21%) NCSC
3 2 (0.21%) SLA
System Software
1 497 (52.93%) Docker
2 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 457 (48.67%) Ansible
2 91 (9.69%) Kubernetes
3 63 (6.71%) Terraform
4 8 (0.85%) Kustomize
4 8 (0.85%) Packer
5 3 (0.32%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.21%) Grafana
7 1 (0.11%) Puppet
7 1 (0.11%) vRealize
Vendors
1 52 (5.54%) Microsoft
2 48 (5.11%) Oracle
3 22 (2.34%) Twitter
4 12 (1.28%) Salesforce
5 11 (1.17%) Dell
6 10 (1.06%) Google
6 10 (1.06%) Red Hat
7 8 (0.85%) Okta
8 7 (0.75%) ANSYS
9 5 (0.53%) SAP
9 5 (0.53%) Solace
9 5 (0.53%) Sybase
10 4 (0.43%) NVIDIA
10 4 (0.43%) TIBCO
11 3 (0.32%) Bloomberg
11 3 (0.32%) EMC
11 3 (0.32%) Splunk
12 2 (0.21%) Apple
12 2 (0.21%) Xamarin
13 1 (0.11%) Intel