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

6 months to
3 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 294 294 188
Rank change year-on-year 0 -106 -35
Permanent jobs citing OOP 495 913 2,228
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.98% 0.98% 2.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 1.13% 2.12%
Number of salaries quoted 396 656 1,306
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £42,750
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 £86,250 £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 47,277 80,571 105,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.52% 86.76% 95.68%
Number of salaries quoted 25,823 58,144 61,428
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.51% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £99,404 £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 3 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 3 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 -19 443 £60,000 +9.09% 436
UK excluding London +2 351 £55,000 +4.76% 212
Work from Home +18 221 £55,000 - 217
London +10 124 £75,000 - 267
North of England +37 121 £45,000 -18.18% 53
South East +28 89 £62,500 +8.70% 63
North West -21 79 £41,000 -25.45% 27
South West +36 44 £60,000 +33.33% 22
Scotland +96 28 £60,000 +26.32% 17
Midlands -3 27 £50,000 - 20
Yorkshire +81 23 £70,000 +33.33% 9
East of England +23 23 £37,000 -40.80% 29
West Midlands +18 20 £60,000 +20.00% 11
North East +51 19 £55,000 -23.08% 17
Wales +40 12 £42,500 -29.17% 9
Northern Ireland +35 7 £55,000 +57.14% 5
East Midlands 0 7 £37,500 -28.57% 9

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 14 (2.83%) WordPress
2 13 (2.63%) Apache
2 13 (2.63%) CMS
3 10 (2.02%) Drupal
4 9 (1.82%) Confluence
5 4 (0.81%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.81%) Cloud Foundry
5 4 (0.81%) GemFire
6 3 (0.61%) IIS
6 3 (0.61%) nginx
7 2 (0.40%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.40%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.20%) Camunda
Applications
1 11 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.40%) Simulink
4 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (2.42%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (1.62%) JDE OneWorld
2 8 (1.62%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.40%) Shopify
5 1 (0.20%) iTrent
5 1 (0.20%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 127 (25.66%) Azure
2 124 (25.05%) AWS
3 77 (15.56%) GCP
4 35 (7.07%) GitHub
5 34 (6.87%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
7 11 (2.22%) Serverless
8 10 (2.02%) SaaS
9 9 (1.82%) Azure Logic Apps
10 8 (1.62%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (1.62%) Boomi
10 8 (1.62%) Power Platform
11 7 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (1.41%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (1.21%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (1.01%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (0.81%) AWS Step Functions
14 4 (0.81%) Azure Functions
14 4 (0.81%) Azure Pipelines
14 4 (0.81%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.65%) Wireshark
2 11 (2.22%) HTTP
3 10 (2.02%) Multicast
4 9 (1.82%) Network Security
5 3 (0.61%) Internet
6 2 (0.40%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.40%) Modbus
6 2 (0.40%) Profibus
6 2 (0.40%) RTP
6 2 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.20%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (27.27%) MySQL
2 111 (22.42%) SQL Server
3 41 (8.28%) NoSQL
4 31 (6.26%) PostgreSQL
5 28 (5.66%) Relational Database
6 21 (4.24%) MongoDB
7 15 (3.03%) Data Lake
8 14 (2.83%) Azure SQL Database
9 11 (2.22%) Big Data
10 9 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (1.62%) RDBMS
12 7 (1.41%) Redis
13 4 (0.81%) Apache Ignite
13 4 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.81%) InterSystems Cache
13 4 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.81%) SQLite
14 3 (0.61%) Hadoop
14 3 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 2 (0.40%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 160 (32.32%) Git
2 34 (6.87%) JIRA
3 27 (5.45%) Visual Studio
4 21 (4.24%) JUnit
5 19 (3.84%) Jenkins
6 17 (3.43%) NUnit
7 13 (2.63%) GitLab
8 10 (2.02%) Postman
9 9 (1.82%) TestNG
10 8 (1.62%) Selenium
10 8 (1.62%) TeamCity
10 8 (1.62%) Visual Studio Code
11 6 (1.21%) SpecFlow
11 6 (1.21%) webpack
12 5 (1.01%) Cypress.io
12 5 (1.01%) Fiddler
12 5 (1.01%) Maven
12 5 (1.01%) PHPUnit
13 4 (0.81%) Mocha
13 4 (0.81%) MSTest
General
1 167 (33.74%) Finance
2 115 (23.23%) Social Skills
3 63 (12.73%) Games
4 38 (7.68%) Retail
5 37 (7.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 30 (6.06%) Banking
7 29 (5.86%) Analytical Skills
8 23 (4.65%) Marketing
9 20 (4.04%) Front Office
10 18 (3.64%) Public Sector
11 15 (3.03%) Law
12 12 (2.42%) Manufacturing
13 9 (1.82%) Electronics
14 7 (1.41%) iGaming
15 6 (1.21%) Retail Banking
15 6 (1.21%) Social Science
16 5 (1.01%) Automotive
16 5 (1.01%) Telecoms
17 3 (0.61%) Financial Institution
17 3 (0.61%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 283 (57.17%) Developer
2 142 (28.69%) Senior
3 80 (16.16%) Senior Developer
4 70 (14.14%) Software Engineer
5 59 (11.92%) PHP Developer
6 51 (10.30%) Lead
7 45 (9.09%) Software Developer
8 40 (8.08%) C# Developer
9 37 (7.47%) .NET Developer
10 27 (5.45%) Systems Engineer
11 26 (5.25%) Principal Engineer
11 26 (5.25%) Senior PHP Developer
11 26 (5.25%) Senior Software Engineer
12 23 (4.65%) Graduate
12 23 (4.65%) Principal Systems Engineer
13 22 (4.44%) Graduate Developer
14 21 (4.24%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 21 (4.24%) IT Graduate
15 20 (4.04%) Lead Developer
16 19 (3.84%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 213 (43.03%) CSS
2 192 (38.79%) HTML
3 140 (28.28%) .NET
4 102 (20.61%) React
5 81 (16.36%) LAMP
6 73 (14.75%) Laravel
7 58 (11.72%) ASP.NET
7 58 (11.72%) REST
8 54 (10.91%) Web Services
9 53 (10.71%) AngularJS
10 52 (10.51%) RESTful
11 50 (10.10%) jQuery
12 48 (9.70%) .NET Core
13 42 (8.48%) .NET Framework
14 32 (6.46%) HTML5
15 31 (6.26%) Vue
16 26 (5.25%) JSON
17 25 (5.05%) Entity Framework
17 25 (5.05%) Node.js
18 24 (4.85%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 62 (12.53%) Mobile App
2 59 (11.92%) Algorithms
3 50 (10.10%) Data Structures
3 50 (10.10%) Management Information System
4 26 (5.25%) Equities
5 20 (4.04%) Greenfield Project
6 19 (3.84%) Derivative
6 19 (3.84%) Hedge funds
6 19 (3.84%) Product Ownership
7 17 (3.43%) Fixed Income
8 16 (3.23%) Virtual Team
9 13 (2.63%) Cloud Native
10 11 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (1.62%) Client/Server
11 8 (1.62%) Robotics
12 7 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 7 (1.41%) Public Cloud
13 6 (1.21%) Credit Derivative
13 6 (1.21%) CUDA
14 4 (0.81%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 82 (16.57%) Linux
2 35 (7.07%) Windows
3 10 (2.02%) Apple iOS
4 7 (1.41%) Android
5 5 (1.01%) Robot Operating System
6 4 (0.81%) Unix
7 3 (0.61%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.20%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 319 (64.44%) OO
2 198 (40.00%) Agile
3 156 (31.52%) Problem-Solving
4 154 (31.11%) Software Engineering
5 126 (25.45%) MVC
6 101 (20.40%) Web Development
7 99 (20.00%) CI/CD
8 96 (19.39%) E-Commerce
9 95 (19.19%) Design Patterns
10 93 (18.79%) Computer Science
11 71 (14.34%) DevOps
12 66 (13.33%) Microservices
12 66 (13.33%) Test Automation
13 64 (12.93%) Scrum
14 61 (12.32%) Continuous Improvement
15 59 (11.92%) Full-Stack Development
16 49 (9.90%) Containerisation
17 43 (8.69%) Continuous Integration
18 40 (8.08%) Unit Testing
19 38 (7.68%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 202 (40.81%) JavaScript
2 163 (32.93%) C#
3 133 (26.87%) PHP
4 126 (25.45%) Java
5 116 (23.43%) Python
6 113 (22.83%) SQL
7 62 (12.53%) C++
8 47 (9.49%) TypeScript
9 14 (2.83%) Go
9 14 (2.83%) Scala
10 8 (1.62%) C
11 5 (1.01%) Bash
11 5 (1.01%) PowerShell
11 5 (1.01%) Swift
11 5 (1.01%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.81%) ABAP
12 4 (0.81%) Ruby
13 3 (0.61%) Objective-C
13 3 (0.61%) Rust
13 3 (0.61%) SAPscript
Qualifications
1 177 (35.76%) Degree
2 50 (10.10%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (5.45%) Security Cleared
4 23 (4.65%) BPSS Clearance
4 23 (4.65%) Chartered Engineer
5 21 (4.24%) Master's Degree
6 19 (3.84%) SC Cleared
7 10 (2.02%) Numerate Degree
8 6 (1.21%) PhD
9 5 (1.01%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.81%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.61%) HND
12 2 (0.40%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.40%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.20%) MCSE
13 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.20%) VCAP
13 1 (0.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (7.07%) QA
2 21 (4.24%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.40%) IEC 61131
3 2 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.40%) NCSC
3 2 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 45 (9.09%) Docker
2 2 (0.40%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 37 (7.47%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.62%) Terraform
3 4 (0.81%) Ansible
4 3 (0.61%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.40%) Grafana
6 1 (0.20%) Kustomize
6 1 (0.20%) Packer
6 1 (0.20%) Puppet
6 1 (0.20%) vRealize
Vendors
1 53 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 48 (9.70%) Oracle
3 23 (4.65%) Twitter
4 14 (2.83%) Google
5 9 (1.82%) Salesforce
5 9 (1.82%) SAP
6 8 (1.62%) Dell
6 8 (1.62%) Okta
7 7 (1.41%) ANSYS
8 5 (1.01%) Solace
9 4 (0.81%) NVIDIA
9 4 (0.81%) TIBCO
10 3 (0.61%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.61%) EMC
10 3 (0.61%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.61%) Sybase
11 2 (0.40%) Apple
11 2 (0.40%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.40%) Xamarin
12 1 (0.20%) Splunk