OO Jobs in Wales

Object-Oriented (OO)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales requiring OO skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited OO over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 104 69
Rank change year-on-year +39 -35 -15
Permanent jobs citing OO 16 18 70
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 1.31% 0.82% 4.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 1.07% 4.32%
Number of salaries quoted 11 14 14
10th Percentile - £27,750 £36,052
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £37,476
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,733 £46,250 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.42% -40.32% +72.22%
75th Percentile £43,750 £52,500 £94,375
90th Percentile £65,000 - £96,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -16.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

OO 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 in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 999 1,682 1,620
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 81.89% 76.42% 96.26%
Number of salaries quoted 557 1,114 800
10th Percentile £23,504 £26,975 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £35,000 £32,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.96% - -5.59%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing OO as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for OO in Wales

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Salary Trend in Wales

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing OO in Wales.

Salary trend for OO in Wales

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Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing OO in Wales over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for OO in Wales

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Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OO within the Wales region over the 6 months to 31 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
South Wales +41 10 £32,500 -27.78% 6
West Wales +14 3 £37,733 -24.53% 2
North Wales +1 3 £40,101 +58.81% 2
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 5 (31.25%) CMS
2 1 (6.25%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) npm
2 1 (6.25%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) MySQL
2 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Git
1 5 (31.25%) Grunt
1 5 (31.25%) webpack
2 1 (6.25%) Eclipse
2 1 (6.25%) Eclipse RCP
General
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Electronics
2 2 (12.50%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Games
2 2 (12.50%) Manufacturing
2 2 (12.50%) Marketing
2 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (12.50%) Telecoms
3 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Software Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Developer
2 5 (31.25%) PHP Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Development Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Lead
3 2 (12.50%) Software Development Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Software Team Leader
3 2 (12.50%) Team Leader
4 1 (6.25%) Junior
4 1 (6.25%) Junior Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) HTML
2 5 (31.25%) CakePHP
2 5 (31.25%) Doctrine
2 5 (31.25%) Pyjs
2 5 (31.25%) Sass
2 5 (31.25%) Symfony
2 5 (31.25%) Vue
3 2 (12.50%) Regular Expression
3 2 (12.50%) XML
4 1 (6.25%) CSS
4 1 (6.25%) JSP
4 1 (6.25%) Middleware
4 1 (6.25%) Node.js
4 1 (6.25%) OpenAPI
4 1 (6.25%) React
4 1 (6.25%) Ruby on Rails
4 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Legacy Code
2 3 (18.75%) Algorithms
3 2 (12.50%) CUDA
3 2 (12.50%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (6.25%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Software Engineering
2 7 (43.75%) OOD
3 5 (31.25%) B2B
3 5 (31.25%) Collaborative Working
3 5 (31.25%) CRM
3 5 (31.25%) OO PHP
3 5 (31.25%) SDLC
4 4 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (25.00%) Design Patterns
4 4 (25.00%) Mathematics
4 4 (25.00%) OOP
5 3 (18.75%) Agile
5 3 (18.75%) Architectural Patterns
5 3 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (18.75%) UML
6 2 (12.50%) Continuous Deployment
6 2 (12.50%) Customer Requirements
6 2 (12.50%) Order Management
6 2 (12.50%) Parallel Processing
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) C++
1 6 (37.50%) Java
1 6 (37.50%) JavaScript
2 5 (31.25%) C#
2 5 (31.25%) PHP
3 3 (18.75%) Ada
4 2 (12.50%) C
4 2 (12.50%) Groovy
4 2 (12.50%) Python
5 1 (6.25%) Ruby
5 1 (6.25%) Rust
5 1 (6.25%) SQL
5 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Degree
2 3 (18.75%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (12.50%) Master's Degree
3 2 (12.50%) Numerate Degree
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 2 (12.50%) SAP