Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for OOP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited OOP over the 6 months to 28 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 299 220 184
Rank change year-on-year -79 -36 -19
Permanent jobs citing OOP 563 2,155 2,711
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.04% 1.72% 2.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 1.79% 2.21%
Number of salaries quoted 480 1,415 1,687
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £32,626
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +27.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £74,063 £87,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £107,500 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

OOP 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 51,121 120,104 122,523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 94.09% 95.72% 95.43%
Number of salaries quoted 36,956 73,203 81,032
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,313 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year - +1.69% +7.27%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.94% +6.00% +4.17%

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 28 November 2023.

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 28 November 2023. 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 -49 525 £60,000 -14.29% 259
UK excluding London -37 364 £55,000 -8.33% 195
Work from Home -48 295 £56,000 -13.85% 149
London -80 184 £69,000 -18.82% 100
South East +27 117 £55,000 -8.33% 57
North of England -20 117 £55,000 -31.25% 51
North West +8 75 £60,000 -25.00% 34
South West +63 54 £55,000 +10.00% 24
Midlands +80 40 £60,000 +11.11% 19
Yorkshire +17 37 £55,000 -31.25% 6
West Midlands +87 27 £67,500 +31.71% 10
Scotland -49 16 £40,250 -32.92% 20
East Midlands +28 13 £55,000 -4.35% 9
Wales +16 12 £50,000 -44.44% 4
East of England +38 6 £67,500 +3.85% 25
North East +31 5 £44,500 -6.32% 12
Northern Ireland +15 2 - - 2

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 11 (1.95%) Tomcat
2 10 (1.78%) CMS
3 9 (1.60%) Apache
3 9 (1.60%) WordPress
4 6 (1.07%) Confluence
5 5 (0.89%) Drupal
5 5 (0.89%) IIS
6 4 (0.71%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.53%) nginx
8 2 (0.36%) Jetty
8 2 (0.36%) Joomla!
9 1 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (1.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.18%) Magento
3 1 (0.18%) osCommerce
Cloud Services
1 122 (21.67%) AWS
2 108 (19.18%) Azure
3 71 (12.61%) SaaS
4 38 (6.75%) Power Platform
5 36 (6.39%) Serverless
6 28 (4.97%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (4.26%) GitHub
7 24 (4.26%) PowerApps
8 21 (3.73%) GCP
9 19 (3.37%) Amazon SQS
9 19 (3.37%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (3.02%) Cloud Computing
11 16 (2.84%) Amazon ECS
12 15 (2.66%) Azure Service Bus
12 15 (2.66%) Dynamics 365
13 11 (1.95%) Amazon EKS
13 11 (1.95%) Power Automate
14 8 (1.42%) Azure Data Factory
15 4 (0.71%) Stripe
16 3 (0.53%) Azure Service Fabric
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.73%) Internet
2 18 (3.20%) TCP/IP
3 10 (1.78%) Firewall
4 8 (1.42%) HTTP
5 3 (0.53%) SSL
5 3 (0.53%) Wireless
6 2 (0.36%) Intranet
7 1 (0.18%) DNS
7 1 (0.18%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.18%) RS-232
7 1 (0.18%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (28.06%) SQL Server
2 100 (17.76%) MySQL
3 54 (9.59%) Relational Database
4 43 (7.64%) NoSQL
5 31 (5.51%) MongoDB
6 24 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
7 17 (3.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 16 (2.84%) MariaDB
8 16 (2.84%) Power BI
9 12 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
9 12 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (1.60%) RDBMS
11 8 (1.42%) DynamoDB
12 6 (1.07%) Big Data
13 5 (0.89%) Redis
14 4 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 3 (0.53%) Apache Hive
15 3 (0.53%) CouchDB
15 3 (0.53%) Hadoop
16 2 (0.36%) KDB
Development Applications
1 141 (25.04%) Git
2 33 (5.86%) Visual Studio
3 30 (5.33%) JIRA
4 18 (3.20%) Jenkins
4 18 (3.20%) Selenium
5 16 (2.84%) GitLab
6 12 (2.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 11 (1.95%) Subversion
8 10 (1.78%) Maven
8 10 (1.78%) Postman
8 10 (1.78%) Team Foundation Server
9 5 (0.89%) JMeter
10 4 (0.71%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.71%) Gatling
10 4 (0.71%) MSTest
10 4 (0.71%) NUnit
10 4 (0.71%) PostCSS
10 4 (0.71%) WebDriver
11 3 (0.53%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.53%) Moq
General
1 162 (28.77%) Social Skills
2 51 (9.06%) Analytical Skills
2 51 (9.06%) Finance
3 31 (5.51%) Retail
4 22 (3.91%) Marketing
5 18 (3.20%) Automotive
6 12 (2.13%) Banking
6 12 (2.13%) Front Office
7 10 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (1.60%) Manufacturing
9 8 (1.42%) Billing
9 8 (1.42%) Games
10 7 (1.24%) Electronics
10 7 (1.24%) Public Sector
11 6 (1.07%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.07%) Law
12 3 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.53%) Tech for Good
12 3 (0.53%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.36%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 321 (57.02%) Developer
2 94 (16.70%) .NET Developer
3 93 (16.52%) Senior
4 78 (13.85%) Software Engineer
5 71 (12.61%) Senior Developer
6 51 (9.06%) C# Developer
7 47 (8.35%) PHP Developer
8 46 (8.17%) Architect
9 40 (7.10%) Full Stack Developer
9 40 (7.10%) Software Architect
10 38 (6.75%) .NET Architect
11 37 (6.57%) Software Developer
12 35 (6.22%) Junior
13 32 (5.68%) Lead
14 31 (5.51%) Senior .NET Developer
15 30 (5.33%) C# .NET Developer
16 26 (4.62%) Analyst
16 26 (4.62%) Python Developer
17 24 (4.26%) SQL Developer
18 23 (4.09%) Quantitative Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 237 (42.10%) .NET
2 143 (25.40%) CSS
3 138 (24.51%) HTML
4 111 (19.72%) React
5 65 (11.55%) AngularJS
6 64 (11.37%) RabbitMQ
7 63 (11.19%) .NET Core
8 60 (10.66%) Laravel
9 58 (10.30%) Vue
10 57 (10.12%) ASP.NET
11 49 (8.70%) .NET Framework
11 49 (8.70%) Web Services
12 47 (8.35%) ASP.NET Web API
13 46 (8.17%) HTML5
14 45 (7.99%) REST
14 45 (7.99%) RESTful
15 44 (7.82%) jQuery
16 36 (6.39%) Spring
17 31 (5.51%) ASP.NET MVC
18 29 (5.15%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 29 (5.15%) Algorithms
2 26 (4.62%) Self-Motivation
3 25 (4.44%) Data Structures
4 24 (4.26%) Product Ownership
5 21 (3.73%) IoT
6 16 (2.84%) Greenfield Project
6 16 (2.84%) Raspberry Pi
7 13 (2.31%) Housing Association
7 13 (2.31%) Management Information System
8 11 (1.95%) Client/Server
9 10 (1.78%) Low-Code
10 9 (1.60%) CMDB
10 9 (1.60%) Embedded Systems
10 9 (1.60%) Video\Live Streaming
11 8 (1.42%) Arduino
12 7 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
13 6 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
14 5 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 5 (0.89%) Legacy Code
14 5 (0.89%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 71 (12.61%) Linux
2 27 (4.80%) Windows
3 6 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.89%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.89%) Unix
5 4 (0.71%) Android
5 4 (0.71%) QNX Neutrino
6 1 (0.18%) Debian
6 1 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 298 (52.93%) OO
2 202 (35.88%) Agile
3 136 (24.16%) Software Engineering
4 121 (21.49%) MVC
5 113 (20.07%) Problem-Solving
6 110 (19.54%) CI/CD
7 107 (19.01%) TDD
8 105 (18.65%) Full Stack Development
9 104 (18.47%) Computer Science
9 104 (18.47%) Design Patterns
10 87 (15.45%) SDLC
11 83 (14.74%) DevOps
12 82 (14.56%) Unit Testing
13 78 (13.85%) Web Development
14 68 (12.08%) SOLID
15 66 (11.72%) Microservices
16 58 (10.30%) Containerisation
17 52 (9.24%) Clean Code
18 50 (8.88%) Mathematics
19 48 (8.53%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 272 (48.31%) C#
2 217 (38.54%) JavaScript
3 144 (25.58%) SQL
4 114 (20.25%) PHP
5 113 (20.07%) Python
6 91 (16.16%) Java
7 87 (15.45%) C++
8 33 (5.86%) C
9 30 (5.33%) T-SQL
10 23 (4.09%) TypeScript
11 16 (2.84%) VB
12 12 (2.13%) VB.NET
13 11 (1.95%) Bash
14 9 (1.60%) Perl
15 7 (1.24%) Apex Code
15 7 (1.24%) Kotlin
15 7 (1.24%) PowerShell
15 7 (1.24%) R
16 6 (1.07%) Go
16 6 (1.07%) XPath
Qualifications
1 108 (19.18%) Degree
2 50 (8.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 36 (6.39%) Master's Degree
4 24 (4.26%) PhD
4 24 (4.26%) Security Cleared
5 7 (1.24%) SC Cleared
6 4 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.18%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.18%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (5.15%) QA
2 4 (0.71%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.53%) PMO
3 3 (0.53%) Software Quality Assurance
4 2 (0.36%) MISRA
4 2 (0.36%) MISRA C
5 1 (0.18%) GDPR
5 1 (0.18%) JTAG
5 1 (0.18%) SLA
System Software
1 67 (11.90%) Docker
2 3 (0.53%) Firmware
3 2 (0.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 50 (8.88%) Kubernetes
2 15 (2.66%) Terraform
3 11 (1.95%) Ansible
4 6 (1.07%) Puppet
5 5 (0.89%) Grafana
6 4 (0.71%) Kibana
7 3 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.18%) cPanel
8 1 (0.18%) Plesk
8 1 (0.18%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 73 (12.97%) Microsoft
2 10 (1.78%) Salesforce
3 5 (0.89%) ServiceNow
3 5 (0.89%) Sitecore
4 4 (0.71%) Dynatrace
4 4 (0.71%) Google
4 4 (0.71%) MuleSoft
4 4 (0.71%) Oracle
4 4 (0.71%) QNX
5 3 (0.53%) Rollbar
5 3 (0.53%) SnapLogic
5 3 (0.53%) Zend
6 2 (0.36%) Atlassian
6 2 (0.36%) Databricks
6 2 (0.36%) Intel
6 2 (0.36%) SAP
6 2 (0.36%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.18%) IBM
7 1 (0.18%) Telerik
7 1 (0.18%) Twitter