OO Job Trends in the West Midlands

Object-Oriented (OO)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring OO skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 164 162
Rank change year-on-year -29 -2 -12
Permanent jobs citing OO 18 11 54
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.20% 0.34% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.39% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 29
10th Percentile £42,250 - £31,100
25th Percentile £43,750 £25,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £44,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.15% -14.76% -6.67%
75th Percentile £48,750 £66,438 £60,250
90th Percentile - £68,575 £70,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -7.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,263 2,846 4,667
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 69.54% 87.09% 81.04%
Number of salaries quoted 4,564 1,741 2,263
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +7.57%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £68,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.64%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing OO relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

OO job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

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Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing OO.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing OO

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Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OO within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 October 2026. 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
Staffordshire - 10 - - 4
Wolverhampton - 5 - - 2
Dudley - 2 £47,500 - 5
Warwickshire -22 1 £42,500 - 1
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (22.22%) Power Automate
1 4 (22.22%) Power Platform
1 4 (22.22%) PowerApps
2 3 (16.67%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (16.67%) Azure Functions
2 3 (16.67%) Serverless
3 2 (11.11%) GitHub
3 2 (11.11%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 11 (61.11%) Ethernet
2 10 (55.56%) DMZ
2 10 (55.56%) IPv4
2 10 (55.56%) Modbus
2 10 (55.56%) OSPF
2 10 (55.56%) VLAN
2 10 (55.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) Power BI
1 4 (22.22%) Relational Database
2 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Git
General
1 11 (61.11%) Manufacturing
2 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Automation Engineer
1 10 (55.56%) Control Systems Engineer
1 10 (55.56%) Principal Engineer
1 10 (55.56%) Principal Systems Engineer
2 7 (38.89%) Developer
3 3 (16.67%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (44.44%) .NET
2 7 (38.89%) REST
3 3 (16.67%) .NET Framework
3 3 (16.67%) EDI
3 3 (16.67%) Entity Framework
3 3 (16.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (61.11%) SCADA
2 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.56%) FMCG
2 1 (5.56%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Validation
2 10 (55.56%) Customer Requirements
2 10 (55.56%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (55.56%) Data Acquisition
2 10 (55.56%) Data Modelling
2 10 (55.56%) High Availability
2 10 (55.56%) Integration Testing
2 10 (55.56%) Root Cause Analysis
2 10 (55.56%) Technical Leadership
3 7 (38.89%) SDLC
4 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (22.22%) Agile
5 4 (22.22%) Build Automation
5 4 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (22.22%) OOP
6 3 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (16.67%) CRM
6 3 (16.67%) Dependency Injection
6 3 (16.67%) Logistics
6 3 (16.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) SQL
2 7 (38.89%) C#
3 3 (16.67%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) 21 CFR Part 11
1 1 (5.56%) GAMP
1 1 (5.56%) GMP
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Siemens