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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 208 280 186
Rank change year-on-year +72 -94 -33
Permanent jobs citing OOP 873 1,067 1,940
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.60% 1.04% 1.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.70% 1.24% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 347 666 1,126
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £42,125 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,313 £85,000
90th Percentile £80,500 £91,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +15.00%

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 51,242 86,144 93,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.71% 84.33% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 25,211 60,433 55,406
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -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 28 May 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 28 May 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 +58 823 £57,500 +4.55% 449
UK excluding London +78 718 £55,000 +10.00% 264
North of England +134 501 £47,500 -9.52% 121
North West +79 457 £41,000 -21.90% 73
Work from Home -22 240 £52,500 - 381
London +29 124 £64,500 -16.77% 211
South East -19 91 £62,500 +8.70% 52
East of England +17 35 £34,750 -44.40% 16
Yorkshire +60 30 £70,000 +55.56% 23
Midlands -62 27 £41,250 -17.50% 26
South West +47 26 £61,250 +36.11% 30
Scotland +102 24 £60,000 +34.08% 8
West Midlands +35 16 £60,000 +20.00% 18
North East +51 14 £55,000 -23.08% 25
East Midlands -55 11 £40,000 -21.95% 8
Northern Ireland +36 9 £55,000 +57.14% 7
Wales +41 5 £42,500 -29.17% 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 12 (1.37%) Apache
2 11 (1.26%) WordPress
3 10 (1.15%) CMS
3 10 (1.15%) Drupal
4 9 (1.03%) nginx
4 9 (1.03%) Tomcat
5 5 (0.57%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.46%) Cloud Foundry
6 4 (0.46%) Confluence
6 4 (0.46%) GemFire
7 3 (0.34%) IIS
8 2 (0.23%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.11%) Camunda
Applications
1 10 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.23%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.23%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 12 (1.37%) Oracle EBS
2 11 (1.26%) JDE OneWorld
2 11 (1.26%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.11%) iTrent
3 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 156 (17.87%) Azure
2 151 (17.30%) AWS
3 51 (5.84%) AWS CloudFormation
4 49 (5.61%) Amazon EKS
5 46 (5.27%) GCP
6 37 (4.24%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (2.18%) GitHub
8 14 (1.60%) SaaS
9 11 (1.26%) Boomi
10 10 (1.15%) Serverless
11 9 (1.03%) Amazon SQS
12 8 (0.92%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 8 (0.92%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 8 (0.92%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (0.80%) Cloud Computing
14 6 (0.69%) Azure Monitor
15 5 (0.57%) Azure Logic Apps
16 4 (0.46%) Amazon Cognito
16 4 (0.46%) Azure Pipelines
16 4 (0.46%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 397 (45.48%) DNS
1 397 (45.48%) VPN
2 23 (2.63%) Wireshark
3 12 (1.37%) HTTP
4 10 (1.15%) Multicast
5 2 (0.23%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.23%) Modbus
5 2 (0.23%) Profibus
5 2 (0.23%) RTP
5 2 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (12.26%) MySQL
2 106 (12.14%) SQL Server
3 60 (6.87%) Elasticsearch
4 35 (4.01%) NoSQL
5 31 (3.55%) PostgreSQL
6 29 (3.32%) MongoDB
7 28 (3.21%) Relational Database
8 13 (1.49%) Big Data
9 10 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (1.03%) RDBMS
11 8 (0.92%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (0.92%) Data Lake
12 6 (0.69%) Redis
13 4 (0.46%) Apache Hive
13 4 (0.46%) Apache Ignite
13 4 (0.46%) Hadoop
13 4 (0.46%) InterSystems Cache
14 3 (0.34%) DynamoDB
15 2 (0.23%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 127 (14.55%) Git
2 26 (2.98%) JUnit
3 24 (2.75%) Jenkins
3 24 (2.75%) JIRA
4 17 (1.95%) Postman
4 17 (1.95%) Selenium
4 17 (1.95%) Visual Studio
5 16 (1.83%) NUnit
6 13 (1.49%) Maven
7 12 (1.37%) TestNG
8 10 (1.15%) SonarQube
9 9 (1.03%) Bitbucket
9 9 (1.03%) GitLab
9 9 (1.03%) Mockito
10 8 (0.92%) Cucumber
10 8 (0.92%) TeamCity
11 7 (0.80%) PHPUnit
12 6 (0.69%) SpecFlow
13 5 (0.57%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.57%) Fiddler
General
1 553 (63.34%) Finance
2 479 (54.87%) Analytical Skills
2 479 (54.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 91 (10.42%) Social Skills
4 44 (5.04%) Games
5 31 (3.55%) Retail
6 27 (3.09%) Banking
6 27 (3.09%) Law
7 22 (2.52%) Front Office
8 18 (2.06%) Public Sector
9 15 (1.72%) Marketing
10 13 (1.49%) Manufacturing
11 6 (0.69%) Back Office
12 5 (0.57%) iGaming
13 3 (0.34%) Electronics
13 3 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.23%) Advertising
14 2 (0.23%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.23%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 707 (80.99%) Developer
2 487 (55.78%) Software Developer
3 109 (12.49%) Senior
4 65 (7.45%) Senior Developer
5 55 (6.30%) PHP Developer
6 54 (6.19%) Software Engineer
7 44 (5.04%) .NET Developer
8 39 (4.47%) Lead
9 28 (3.21%) C# Developer
9 28 (3.21%) Graduate
9 28 (3.21%) Graduate Developer
10 25 (2.86%) Principal Engineer
10 25 (2.86%) Systems Engineer
11 23 (2.63%) IT Graduate
11 23 (2.63%) Principal Systems Engineer
12 22 (2.52%) Senior Software Engineer
13 20 (2.29%) Python Engineer
13 20 (2.29%) Senior PHP Developer
14 18 (2.06%) C++ Developer
14 18 (2.06%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (20.73%) CSS
2 166 (19.01%) .NET
3 154 (17.64%) HTML
4 85 (9.74%) React
5 70 (8.02%) Node.js
6 64 (7.33%) REST
7 58 (6.64%) LAMP
8 57 (6.53%) jQuery
9 52 (5.96%) Laravel
10 50 (5.73%) Pandas
11 48 (5.50%) ASP.NET
11 48 (5.50%) RESTful
12 43 (4.93%) Web Services
13 39 (4.47%) .NET Core
14 36 (4.12%) AngularJS
15 32 (3.67%) Kafka
16 31 (3.55%) Spring
17 30 (3.44%) .NET Framework
18 27 (3.09%) CSS3
19 26 (2.98%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 446 (51.09%) Cyberattack
2 51 (5.84%) Mobile App
3 49 (5.61%) Management Information System
4 48 (5.50%) Algorithms
5 38 (4.35%) Data Structures
6 28 (3.21%) Equities
7 22 (2.52%) Product Ownership
8 20 (2.29%) Derivative
9 19 (2.18%) Hedge funds
10 17 (1.95%) Fixed Income
11 14 (1.60%) Cloud Native
12 13 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
12 13 (1.49%) Virtual Team
13 11 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
14 8 (0.92%) Life Science
14 8 (0.92%) Robotics
15 7 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
16 6 (0.69%) Credit Derivative
16 6 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 6 (0.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 515 (58.99%) Linux
2 451 (51.66%) Android
3 34 (3.89%) Windows
4 9 (1.03%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.57%) Robot Operating System
6 4 (0.46%) Unix
7 1 (0.11%) Solaris
7 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 740 (84.77%) OO
2 629 (72.05%) Agile
3 541 (61.97%) Design Patterns
4 475 (54.41%) Mathematics
5 449 (51.43%) Android Development
6 447 (51.20%) Line Management
7 175 (20.05%) Software Engineering
8 144 (16.49%) Problem-Solving
9 143 (16.38%) CI/CD
10 97 (11.11%) MVC
11 94 (10.77%) Containerisation
12 77 (8.82%) Computer Science
13 74 (8.48%) Test Automation
14 69 (7.90%) Web Development
15 67 (7.67%) DevOps
16 66 (7.56%) Collaborative Working
16 66 (7.56%) Kanban
17 65 (7.45%) E-Commerce
18 57 (6.53%) Secure Coding
19 55 (6.30%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 569 (65.18%) Java
2 533 (61.05%) Python
3 503 (57.62%) C++
4 454 (52.00%) Go
5 222 (25.43%) JavaScript
6 137 (15.69%) C#
7 109 (12.49%) PHP
8 99 (11.34%) SQL
9 49 (5.61%) Rust
10 42 (4.81%) TypeScript
11 11 (1.26%) Scala
12 5 (0.57%) Swift
13 3 (0.34%) Objective-C
13 3 (0.34%) Ruby
13 3 (0.34%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.23%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.23%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.23%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.23%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.11%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 462 (52.92%) Security Cleared
2 448 (51.32%) DV Cleared
3 149 (17.07%) Degree
4 45 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 23 (2.63%) Chartered Engineer
6 17 (1.95%) Master's Degree
7 15 (1.72%) SC Cleared
8 9 (1.03%) Numerate Degree
9 5 (0.57%) PhD
10 4 (0.46%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.34%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.23%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.11%) MCSE
13 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.11%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.11%) VCAP
13 1 (0.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (3.21%) QA
2 22 (2.52%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.23%) IEC 61131
3 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.23%) NCSC
4 1 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 490 (56.13%) 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 (52.35%) Ansible
2 85 (9.74%) Kubernetes
3 64 (7.33%) Terraform
4 8 (0.92%) Kustomize
4 8 (0.92%) Packer
5 3 (0.34%) Grafana
5 3 (0.34%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.11%) Puppet
6 1 (0.11%) vRealize
Vendors
1 50 (5.73%) Oracle
2 45 (5.15%) Microsoft
3 13 (1.49%) Salesforce
3 13 (1.49%) Twitter
4 11 (1.26%) Dell
5 9 (1.03%) Red Hat
6 8 (0.92%) Okta
7 5 (0.57%) Solace
7 5 (0.57%) Splunk
7 5 (0.57%) Sybase
8 4 (0.46%) Bloomberg
8 4 (0.46%) TIBCO
9 3 (0.34%) ANSYS
9 3 (0.34%) Google
9 3 (0.34%) SAP
10 2 (0.23%) Apple
10 2 (0.23%) Xamarin
11 1 (0.11%) Alteryx
11 1 (0.11%) Facebook
11 1 (0.11%) New Relic