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 1 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 290 292 188
Rank change year-on-year +2 -104 -34
Permanent jobs citing OOP 490 910 2,250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.97% 0.99% 2.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 1.13% 2.12%
Number of salaries quoted 393 652 1,318
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £43,525
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +18.18%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £89,500 £91,250 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +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 47,236 80,210 105,970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.56% 86.88% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 25,832 57,895 61,933
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,250 £34,045
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,410 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year +5.20% -8.26% +3.81%

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 1 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 1 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 -33 439 £60,000 +9.09% 416
UK excluding London +13 348 £55,000 +4.76% 197
Work from Home +7 219 £57,500 +4.55% 222
London +20 123 £75,000 - 261
North of England +43 119 £46,250 -15.91% 46
South East +24 89 £62,500 +8.70% 60
North West -15 80 £41,000 -25.45% 22
South West +35 45 £60,000 +33.33% 21
Scotland +95 28 £60,000 +26.32% 16
Midlands -13 26 £50,000 - 21
Yorkshire +64 23 £70,000 +33.33% 7
East of England +21 22 £37,000 -40.80% 25
West Midlands +24 19 £60,000 +20.00% 11
North East +43 16 £55,000 -23.08% 17
Wales +44 12 £42,500 -29.17% 9
Northern Ireland +33 7 £55,000 +57.14% 5
East Midlands -3 7 £37,500 -28.57% 10

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 15 (3.06%) WordPress
2 14 (2.86%) CMS
3 13 (2.65%) Apache
4 10 (2.04%) Drupal
5 8 (1.63%) Confluence
6 4 (0.82%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.82%) Cloud Foundry
6 4 (0.82%) GemFire
7 3 (0.61%) IIS
7 3 (0.61%) nginx
8 2 (0.41%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.41%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.20%) Camunda
Applications
1 11 (2.24%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.41%) Simulink
4 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (2.45%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (1.63%) JDE OneWorld
2 8 (1.63%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.61%) Shopify
5 1 (0.20%) iTrent
5 1 (0.20%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 124 (25.31%) AWS
2 121 (24.69%) Azure
3 77 (15.71%) GCP
4 35 (7.14%) GitHub
5 33 (6.73%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (2.65%) Cloud Computing
7 11 (2.24%) Serverless
8 10 (2.04%) SaaS
9 9 (1.84%) Azure Logic Apps
10 8 (1.63%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (1.63%) Boomi
10 8 (1.63%) Power Platform
11 7 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (1.43%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (1.22%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (1.02%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (0.82%) AWS Step Functions
14 4 (0.82%) Azure Functions
14 4 (0.82%) Azure Pipelines
14 4 (0.82%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.69%) Wireshark
2 11 (2.24%) HTTP
3 10 (2.04%) Multicast
4 9 (1.84%) Network Security
5 3 (0.61%) Internet
6 2 (0.41%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.41%) Modbus
6 2 (0.41%) Profibus
6 2 (0.41%) RTP
6 2 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.20%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (26.73%) MySQL
2 106 (21.63%) SQL Server
3 41 (8.37%) NoSQL
4 30 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
5 27 (5.51%) Relational Database
6 21 (4.29%) MongoDB
7 15 (3.06%) Data Lake
8 13 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
9 11 (2.24%) Big Data
10 9 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (1.63%) RDBMS
12 7 (1.43%) Redis
13 4 (0.82%) Apache Ignite
13 4 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.82%) InterSystems Cache
13 4 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.82%) SQLite
14 3 (0.61%) Hadoop
14 3 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 2 (0.41%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 158 (32.24%) Git
2 34 (6.94%) JIRA
3 26 (5.31%) Visual Studio
4 21 (4.29%) JUnit
5 19 (3.88%) Jenkins
6 16 (3.27%) NUnit
7 13 (2.65%) GitLab
8 10 (2.04%) Postman
9 9 (1.84%) TestNG
10 8 (1.63%) TeamCity
10 8 (1.63%) Visual Studio Code
11 7 (1.43%) Selenium
12 6 (1.22%) webpack
13 5 (1.02%) Cypress.io
13 5 (1.02%) Fiddler
13 5 (1.02%) Maven
13 5 (1.02%) PHPUnit
13 5 (1.02%) SpecFlow
14 4 (0.82%) Grunt
14 4 (0.82%) Mocha
General
1 164 (33.47%) Finance
2 111 (22.65%) Social Skills
3 63 (12.86%) Games
4 38 (7.76%) Retail
5 37 (7.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 30 (6.12%) Banking
7 29 (5.92%) Analytical Skills
8 24 (4.90%) Marketing
9 19 (3.88%) Front Office
10 18 (3.67%) Public Sector
11 15 (3.06%) Law
12 12 (2.45%) Manufacturing
13 9 (1.84%) Electronics
14 7 (1.43%) iGaming
15 6 (1.22%) Retail Banking
15 6 (1.22%) Social Science
16 5 (1.02%) Automotive
16 5 (1.02%) Telecoms
17 3 (0.61%) Back Office
17 3 (0.61%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 279 (56.94%) Developer
2 141 (28.78%) Senior
3 80 (16.33%) Senior Developer
4 70 (14.29%) Software Engineer
5 57 (11.63%) PHP Developer
6 52 (10.61%) Lead
7 45 (9.18%) Software Developer
8 39 (7.96%) C# Developer
9 38 (7.76%) .NET Developer
10 27 (5.51%) Systems Engineer
11 26 (5.31%) Principal Engineer
11 26 (5.31%) Senior PHP Developer
11 26 (5.31%) Senior Software Engineer
12 23 (4.69%) Principal Systems Engineer
13 21 (4.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 21 (4.29%) Lead Developer
14 20 (4.08%) Senior C# Developer
15 19 (3.88%) Graduate
15 19 (3.88%) Python Engineer
15 19 (3.88%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 209 (42.65%) CSS
2 192 (39.18%) HTML
3 136 (27.76%) .NET
4 102 (20.82%) React
5 81 (16.53%) LAMP
6 73 (14.90%) Laravel
7 57 (11.63%) REST
8 54 (11.02%) ASP.NET
8 54 (11.02%) Web Services
9 53 (10.82%) AngularJS
10 51 (10.41%) RESTful
11 48 (9.80%) .NET Core
12 46 (9.39%) jQuery
13 41 (8.37%) .NET Framework
14 32 (6.53%) HTML5
15 30 (6.12%) Vue
16 26 (5.31%) JSON
17 25 (5.10%) Entity Framework
17 25 (5.10%) Node.js
18 24 (4.90%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 62 (12.65%) Mobile App
2 58 (11.84%) Algorithms
3 50 (10.20%) Management Information System
4 49 (10.00%) Data Structures
5 24 (4.90%) Equities
6 20 (4.08%) Greenfield Project
7 19 (3.88%) Product Ownership
8 18 (3.67%) Derivative
8 18 (3.67%) Hedge funds
9 17 (3.47%) Fixed Income
10 14 (2.86%) Virtual Team
11 13 (2.65%) Cloud Native
12 11 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
13 8 (1.63%) Client/Server
13 8 (1.63%) Robotics
14 7 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 7 (1.43%) Public Cloud
15 6 (1.22%) Credit Derivative
15 6 (1.22%) CUDA
16 4 (0.82%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 82 (16.73%) Linux
2 36 (7.35%) Windows
3 10 (2.04%) Apple iOS
4 7 (1.43%) Android
5 5 (1.02%) Robot Operating System
6 4 (0.82%) Unix
6 4 (0.82%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.20%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 311 (63.47%) OO
2 194 (39.59%) Agile
3 154 (31.43%) Software Engineering
4 150 (30.61%) Problem-Solving
5 122 (24.90%) MVC
6 102 (20.82%) Web Development
7 97 (19.80%) CI/CD
8 96 (19.59%) Design Patterns
8 96 (19.59%) E-Commerce
9 90 (18.37%) Computer Science
10 70 (14.29%) DevOps
11 66 (13.47%) Microservices
12 63 (12.86%) Scrum
12 63 (12.86%) Test Automation
13 59 (12.04%) Continuous Improvement
13 59 (12.04%) Full-Stack Development
14 48 (9.80%) Containerisation
15 43 (8.78%) Continuous Integration
16 40 (8.16%) Unit Testing
17 38 (7.76%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 202 (41.22%) JavaScript
2 159 (32.45%) C#
3 130 (26.53%) PHP
4 121 (24.69%) Java
5 115 (23.47%) Python
6 111 (22.65%) SQL
7 56 (11.43%) C++
8 47 (9.59%) TypeScript
9 14 (2.86%) Go
9 14 (2.86%) Scala
10 8 (1.63%) C
11 6 (1.22%) PowerShell
12 5 (1.02%) Bash
12 5 (1.02%) Swift
12 5 (1.02%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.82%) ABAP
14 3 (0.61%) Objective-C
14 3 (0.61%) Ruby
14 3 (0.61%) Rust
14 3 (0.61%) SAPscript
Qualifications
1 173 (35.31%) Degree
2 47 (9.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (5.51%) Security Cleared
4 23 (4.69%) BPSS Clearance
4 23 (4.69%) Chartered Engineer
5 20 (4.08%) Master's Degree
6 19 (3.88%) SC Cleared
7 10 (2.04%) Numerate Degree
8 5 (1.02%) ISTQB
8 5 (1.02%) PhD
9 4 (0.82%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.61%) HND
11 2 (0.41%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.41%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.20%) MCSE
12 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.20%) VCAP
12 1 (0.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (6.94%) QA
2 21 (4.29%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.41%) IEC 61131
3 2 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.41%) NCSC
3 2 (0.41%) SLA
System Software
1 44 (8.98%) Docker
2 2 (0.41%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (7.35%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.63%) Terraform
3 4 (0.82%) Ansible
4 3 (0.61%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.41%) Grafana
6 1 (0.20%) Kustomize
6 1 (0.20%) Packer
6 1 (0.20%) Puppet
6 1 (0.20%) vRealize
Vendors
1 52 (10.61%) Microsoft
2 48 (9.80%) Oracle
3 23 (4.69%) Twitter
4 14 (2.86%) Google
5 9 (1.84%) Salesforce
5 9 (1.84%) SAP
6 8 (1.63%) Dell
6 8 (1.63%) Okta
7 7 (1.43%) ANSYS
8 5 (1.02%) Solace
9 4 (0.82%) NVIDIA
9 4 (0.82%) TIBCO
10 3 (0.61%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.61%) EMC
10 3 (0.61%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.61%) Sybase
11 2 (0.41%) Apple
11 2 (0.41%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.41%) Xamarin
12 1 (0.20%) Splunk