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

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 166 276 183
Rank change year-on-year +110 -93 -34
Permanent jobs citing OOP 938 1,037 2,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.80% 1.05% 2.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.93% 1.23% 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 396 672 1,234
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £41,188 £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 £72,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,375 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +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 48,641 84,574 99,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.26% 86.00% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26,531 59,798 58,397
10th Percentile £30,580 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
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 30 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 30 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 +96 880 £57,500 +4.55% 346
UK excluding London +107 772 £55,000 +10.00% 228
North of England +144 513 £47,500 -9.52% 103
North West +89 460 £41,000 -21.90% 59
Work from Home +50 267 £55,000 - 235
London +35 136 £71,250 -6.56% 134
South East +15 102 £62,500 +8.70% 50
East of England +35 39 £37,000 -40.80% 12
South West +50 38 £60,000 +33.33% 30
Yorkshire +76 33 £70,000 +55.56% 22
Midlands -43 29 £42,500 -15.00% 23
Scotland +106 27 £60,000 +26.32% 5
North East +60 20 £55,000 -23.08% 23
West Midlands +30 18 £57,500 +15.00% 15
Northern Ireland +33 13 £55,000 +57.14% 5
Wales +40 11 £42,500 -29.17% 8
East Midlands -35 11 £37,500 -28.57% 8

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 (1.39%) Apache
2 12 (1.28%) WordPress
3 10 (1.07%) CMS
3 10 (1.07%) 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
1 178 (18.98%) AWS
2 171 (18.23%) Azure
3 71 (7.57%) GCP
4 51 (5.44%) AWS CloudFormation
5 49 (5.22%) Amazon EKS
6 38 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
7 33 (3.52%) 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%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 397 (42.32%) DNS
1 397 (42.32%) VPN
2 23 (2.45%) Wireshark
3 11 (1.17%) HTTP
4 10 (1.07%) 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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (13.75%) MySQL
2 112 (11.94%) SQL Server
3 60 (6.40%) Elasticsearch
4 37 (3.94%) NoSQL
4 37 (3.94%) PostgreSQL
5 27 (2.88%) Relational Database
6 25 (2.67%) MongoDB
7 13 (1.39%) Big Data
7 13 (1.39%) 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 (16.31%) Git
2 33 (3.52%) JIRA
3 27 (2.88%) JUnit
4 26 (2.77%) Jenkins
5 25 (2.67%) Visual Studio
6 18 (1.92%) Postman
6 18 (1.92%) Selenium
7 16 (1.71%) NUnit
8 15 (1.60%) TestNG
9 13 (1.39%) GitLab
10 12 (1.28%) Maven
11 10 (1.07%) Bitbucket
11 10 (1.07%) SonarQube
12 9 (0.96%) Mockito
13 8 (0.85%) Cucumber
13 8 (0.85%) TeamCity
14 7 (0.75%) Cypress.io
15 6 (0.64%) SpecFlow
15 6 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
15 6 (0.64%) webpack
General
1 572 (60.98%) Finance
2 482 (51.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 481 (51.28%) Analytical Skills
4 114 (12.15%) Social Skills
5 59 (6.29%) Games
6 37 (3.94%) Retail
7 30 (3.20%) Banking
8 22 (2.35%) Front Office
8 22 (2.35%) 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
1 732 (78.04%) Developer
2 491 (52.35%) Software Developer
3 135 (14.39%) Senior
4 79 (8.42%) Senior Developer
5 64 (6.82%) Software Engineer
6 60 (6.40%) PHP Developer
7 42 (4.48%) Lead
8 40 (4.26%) .NET Developer
9 38 (4.05%) 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 (2.35%) Graduate Developer
14 21 (2.24%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 21 (2.24%) IT Graduate
15 19 (2.03%) Python Engineer
16 18 (1.92%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 211 (22.49%) CSS
2 190 (20.26%) HTML
3 184 (19.62%) .NET
4 95 (10.13%) React
5 78 (8.32%) LAMP
6 75 (8.00%) Node.js
7 74 (7.89%) Laravel
8 66 (7.04%) REST
9 57 (6.08%) RESTful
10 55 (5.86%) jQuery
10 55 (5.86%) Web Services
11 54 (5.76%) ASP.NET
12 50 (5.33%) AngularJS
13 49 (5.22%) Pandas
14 45 (4.80%) .NET Core
15 37 (3.94%) .NET Framework
16 32 (3.41%) Kafka
17 30 (3.20%) JSON
18 29 (3.09%) HTML5
18 29 (3.09%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 446 (47.55%) Cyberattack
2 62 (6.61%) Algorithms
2 62 (6.61%) Mobile App
3 52 (5.54%) Management Information System
4 50 (5.33%) Data Structures
5 28 (2.99%) Equities
6 22 (2.35%) Hedge funds
7 21 (2.24%) Product Ownership
8 19 (2.03%) Derivative
9 18 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
10 16 (1.71%) Fixed Income
10 16 (1.71%) Virtual Team
11 13 (1.39%) Cloud Native
11 13 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
12 10 (1.07%) Client/Server
13 8 (0.85%) Life Science
13 8 (0.85%) Robotics
14 7 (0.75%) Public Cloud
15 6 (0.64%) CUDA
15 6 (0.64%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 530 (56.50%) Linux
2 452 (48.19%) Android
3 37 (3.94%) Windows
4 9 (0.96%) 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
1 769 (81.98%) OO
2 647 (68.98%) Agile
3 550 (58.64%) Design Patterns
4 482 (51.39%) Mathematics
5 449 (47.87%) Android Development
5 449 (47.87%) Line Management
6 198 (21.11%) Software Engineering
7 153 (16.31%) CI/CD
8 150 (15.99%) Problem-Solving
9 125 (13.33%) MVC
10 96 (10.23%) Containerisation
11 95 (10.13%) Web Development
12 92 (9.81%) Computer Science
13 89 (9.49%) E-Commerce
14 80 (8.53%) Test Automation
15 71 (7.57%) DevOps
16 67 (7.14%) Collaborative Working
17 66 (7.04%) Microservices
18 64 (6.82%) Kanban
19 63 (6.72%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 575 (61.30%) Java
2 557 (59.38%) Python
3 509 (54.26%) C++
4 457 (48.72%) Go
5 250 (26.65%) JavaScript
6 161 (17.16%) C#
7 129 (13.75%) PHP
8 109 (11.62%) SQL
9 52 (5.54%) Rust
10 49 (5.22%) TypeScript
11 13 (1.39%) Scala
12 8 (0.85%) C
13 5 (0.53%) Bash
13 5 (0.53%) PowerShell
13 5 (0.53%) Swift
13 5 (0.53%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.43%) Ruby
15 3 (0.32%) Objective-C
16 2 (0.21%) MATLAB
16 2 (0.21%) XAML
Qualifications
1 466 (49.68%) Security Cleared
2 449 (47.87%) DV Cleared
3 174 (18.55%) Degree
4 50 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 23 (2.45%) Chartered Engineer
6 20 (2.13%) Master's Degree
7 16 (1.71%) 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 38 (4.05%) QA
2 25 (2.67%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.21%) IEC 61131
3 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.21%) NCSC
3 2 (0.21%) SLA
4 1 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 496 (52.88%) 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 (48.72%) Ansible
2 90 (9.59%) Kubernetes
3 63 (6.72%) 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 (5.12%) Oracle
3 22 (2.35%) Twitter
4 12 (1.28%) Salesforce
5 11 (1.17%) Dell
6 10 (1.07%) Google
6 10 (1.07%) 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%) Facebook