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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 276 187 154
Rank change year-on-year -89 -33 -5
Permanent jobs citing OOP 1,060 2,043 4,338
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.07% 2.02% 2.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 2.11% 2.89%
Number of salaries quoted 676 1,199 1,462
10th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £86,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £106,250 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% +5.26%

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 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,550
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 9 May 2024.

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 9 May 2024. 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 -65 982 £55,000 -12.00% 207
UK excluding London -84 831 £50,000 -13.04% 128
Work from Home -33 470 £55,000 -15.38% 139
South East -60 223 £57,500 +4.55% 27
London -73 221 £77,500 -13.89% 92
North of England -63 219 £52,500 -8.70% 30
North West -21 178 £52,500 -12.50% 13
Midlands -47 150 £50,000 -13.04% 33
East Midlands -3 108 £51,250 -10.87% 14
South West -12 103 £45,000 -14.29% 6
East of England -12 62 £62,500 +8.70% 15
Scotland -112 47 £47,500 -17.39% 11
West Midlands -62 41 £50,000 -13.04% 19
Yorkshire -52 30 £45,000 -21.74% 14
Northern Ireland +2 16 £35,000 -39.13% 6
Wales -6 11 £60,000 +9.09% 2
North East -37 11 £71,500 +24.35% 3

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 21 (1.98%) Apache
2 12 (1.13%) Confluence
2 12 (1.13%) nginx
3 11 (1.04%) NServiceBus
4 9 (0.85%) Apache Spark
4 9 (0.85%) WordPress
5 8 (0.75%) SharePoint
6 7 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.57%) Mendix
7 6 (0.57%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.47%) CMS
8 5 (0.47%) IIS
8 5 (0.47%) K2 blackpearl
9 4 (0.38%) Apache Solr
9 4 (0.38%) ColdFusion
10 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.19%) SAS
12 1 (0.094%) Drupal
12 1 (0.094%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.094%) Umbraco
Applications
1 19 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 9 (0.85%) Trello
3 8 (0.75%) InfoPath
4 5 (0.47%) Doxygen
5 4 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (0.38%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.19%) Simulink
7 1 (0.094%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (0.94%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.19%) Magento
3 2 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.094%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.094%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 391 (36.89%) Azure
2 266 (25.09%) AWS
3 240 (22.64%) IBM Cloud
4 184 (17.36%) Serverless
5 154 (14.53%) Azure DevOps
6 130 (12.26%) Azure Service Bus
7 128 (12.08%) Azure Functions
8 125 (11.79%) Azure API Management
8 125 (11.79%) Azure Logic Apps
9 74 (6.98%) SaaS
10 53 (5.00%) GitHub
11 47 (4.43%) AWS Lambda
12 44 (4.15%) GCP
13 25 (2.36%) Cloud Computing
14 20 (1.89%) Amazon SQS
15 16 (1.51%) Amazon S3
16 9 (0.85%) AWS Step Functions
17 8 (0.75%) Microsoft 365
17 8 (0.75%) OneDrive
18 7 (0.66%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 28 (2.64%) TCP/IP
2 17 (1.60%) HTTP
3 15 (1.42%) SSH
4 13 (1.23%) SNMP
5 10 (0.94%) Internet
6 9 (0.85%) FTP
7 3 (0.28%) Multicast
8 2 (0.19%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.094%) Firewall
9 1 (0.094%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 265 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 263 (24.81%) NoSQL
3 245 (23.11%) MongoDB
4 238 (22.45%) DB2
5 226 (21.32%) MySQL
6 201 (18.96%) Relational Database
7 75 (7.08%) SQL Server
8 28 (2.64%) Redis
9 21 (1.98%) MariaDB
10 15 (1.42%) GIS
11 13 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (0.85%) Big Data
12 9 (0.85%) RDBMS
13 7 (0.66%) Amazon Aurora
13 7 (0.66%) Apache Hive
13 7 (0.66%) DynamoDB
13 7 (0.66%) Metadata
13 7 (0.66%) Presto
14 6 (0.57%) Geospatial Data
15 5 (0.47%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 181 (17.08%) Git
2 68 (6.42%) JIRA
3 32 (3.02%) Jenkins
4 23 (2.17%) Maven
5 20 (1.89%) GitLab
6 19 (1.79%) Eclipse
7 18 (1.70%) Visual Studio
8 12 (1.13%) TeamCity
9 11 (1.04%) CircleCI
9 11 (1.04%) Selenium
10 10 (0.94%) PHPUnit
11 9 (0.85%) Postman
12 7 (0.66%) Spinnaker
13 6 (0.57%) Bitbucket
13 6 (0.57%) JMeter
13 6 (0.57%) Newman
13 6 (0.57%) REST Assured
13 6 (0.57%) Subversion
13 6 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
14 5 (0.47%) JUnit
General
1 264 (24.91%) Public Sector
2 188 (17.74%) Social Skills
3 148 (13.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 119 (11.23%) Finance
5 51 (4.81%) Law
6 44 (4.15%) Analytical Skills
7 40 (3.77%) Banking
8 34 (3.21%) Games
8 34 (3.21%) Retail
9 31 (2.92%) Electronics
10 24 (2.26%) Investment Banking
10 24 (2.26%) Tech for Good
11 21 (1.98%) Publishing
12 18 (1.70%) Front Office
13 17 (1.60%) Legal
14 15 (1.42%) Health Technology
14 15 (1.42%) Manufacturing
14 15 (1.42%) Marketing
14 15 (1.42%) Telecoms
15 13 (1.23%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 603 (56.89%) Developer
2 208 (19.62%) Senior
2 208 (19.62%) Software Engineer
3 200 (18.87%) Full Stack Developer
4 137 (12.92%) PHP Developer
5 129 (12.17%) Full Stack Engineer
6 126 (11.89%) Azure Developer
7 118 (11.13%) Senior Developer
8 117 (11.04%) Azure Engineer
9 83 (7.83%) .NET Developer
10 69 (6.51%) Software Developer
11 63 (5.94%) Lead
12 53 (5.00%) C# Developer
13 43 (4.06%) Senior Software Engineer
14 38 (3.58%) Web Developer
15 37 (3.49%) Java Developer
16 36 (3.40%) .NET Software Engineer
16 36 (3.40%) Lead Developer
16 36 (3.40%) PHP Software Engineer
17 33 (3.11%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 493 (46.51%) .NET
2 479 (45.19%) HTML
3 472 (44.53%) CSS
4 401 (37.83%) React
5 362 (34.15%) AngularJS
6 353 (33.30%) Web Services
7 352 (33.21%) Vue
8 345 (32.55%) jQuery
9 329 (31.04%) REST
10 299 (28.21%) ASP.NET
11 256 (24.15%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 246 (23.21%) ASP.NET Core
13 238 (22.45%) Backbone.js
13 238 (22.45%) Ember.js
14 185 (17.45%) Laravel
15 175 (16.51%) Node.js
16 112 (10.57%) LAMP
17 97 (9.15%) .NET Core
18 74 (6.98%) RESTful
19 56 (5.28%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 328 (30.94%) Data Structures
2 317 (29.91%) Algorithms
3 241 (22.74%) Blockchain
4 240 (22.64%) Hybrid Cloud
5 114 (10.75%) e-Learning
6 84 (7.92%) Client/Server
7 38 (3.58%) Product Ownership
8 37 (3.49%) Greenfield Project
9 30 (2.83%) Video\Live Streaming
10 28 (2.64%) Cloud Native
11 22 (2.08%) Hedge funds
12 16 (1.51%) IoT
12 16 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
13 15 (1.42%) Distributed Applications
14 13 (1.23%) CMDB
14 13 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
14 13 (1.23%) Management Information System
15 11 (1.04%) Online Games
15 11 (1.04%) Virtual Team
16 10 (0.94%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 338 (31.89%) Linux
2 299 (28.21%) Windows
3 257 (24.25%) Android
4 252 (23.77%) Apple iOS
5 34 (3.21%) Unix
6 9 (0.85%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.57%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.094%) Solaris
8 1 (0.094%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.094%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.094%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 588 (55.47%) OO
2 475 (44.81%) Agile
3 444 (41.89%) Design Patterns
4 410 (38.68%) MVC
5 400 (37.74%) Full Stack Development
6 330 (31.13%) Software Engineering
7 327 (30.85%) Web Development
8 324 (30.57%) SOLID
9 285 (26.89%) User Experience
10 262 (24.72%) MVVM
11 259 (24.43%) Artificial Intelligence
12 244 (23.02%) Responsive Web Design
13 238 (22.45%) Co-Creation
13 238 (22.45%) Design Thinking
14 234 (22.08%) DevOps
15 228 (21.51%) Mentoring
16 214 (20.19%) Computer Science
17 184 (17.36%) Problem-Solving
18 160 (15.09%) TDD
19 147 (13.87%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 593 (55.94%) JavaScript
2 544 (51.32%) C#
3 454 (42.83%) SQL
4 296 (27.92%) Java
5 267 (25.19%) Python
6 252 (23.77%) PHP
7 114 (10.75%) TypeScript
8 49 (4.62%) C++
9 42 (3.96%) C
10 33 (3.11%) T-SQL
11 22 (2.08%) PowerShell
12 20 (1.89%) Groovy
13 15 (1.42%) Perl
14 14 (1.32%) Kotlin
15 13 (1.23%) Apex Code
15 13 (1.23%) Go
15 13 (1.23%) Scala
16 12 (1.13%) Ada
16 12 (1.13%) Shell Script
17 11 (1.04%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 188 (17.74%) Degree
2 90 (8.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 30 (2.83%) Security Cleared
4 16 (1.51%) Master's Degree
5 11 (1.04%) PhD
6 9 (0.85%) DBS Check
7 8 (0.75%) AWS Certification
7 8 (0.75%) Azure Certification
8 6 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (0.57%) Numerate Degree
9 5 (0.47%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.19%) SC Cleared
12 1 (0.094%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.094%) MCP
12 1 (0.094%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (5.00%) QA
2 7 (0.66%) Data Quality
3 5 (0.47%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.38%) DICOM
4 4 (0.38%) HL7
4 4 (0.38%) ISO 13485
5 1 (0.094%) GDPR
5 1 (0.094%) SLA
System Software
1 111 (10.47%) Docker
2 11 (1.04%) Firmware
3 10 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.47%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.19%) HDFS
6 1 (0.094%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.094%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.094%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.094%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.094%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 54 (5.09%) Kubernetes
2 51 (4.81%) Terraform
3 13 (1.23%) WMI
4 4 (0.38%) Ansible
4 4 (0.38%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.094%) Argo
5 1 (0.094%) Grafana
5 1 (0.094%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.094%) Podman
5 1 (0.094%) SCCM
Vendors
1 240 (22.64%) IBM
1 240 (22.64%) Red Hat
2 89 (8.40%) Microsoft
3 30 (2.83%) Google
4 24 (2.26%) Oracle
5 17 (1.60%) Salesforce
6 13 (1.23%) Splunk
7 12 (1.13%) SAP
8 10 (0.94%) Xamarin
9 7 (0.66%) Databricks
10 5 (0.47%) Automation Anywhere
10 5 (0.47%) Bloomberg
10 5 (0.47%) Blue Prism
10 5 (0.47%) F5
10 5 (0.47%) MuleSoft
10 5 (0.47%) Twitter
11 4 (0.38%) Adobe
11 4 (0.38%) Peregrine
12 3 (0.28%) Murex
13 2 (0.19%) Intel