OOD Job Trends in the West Midlands

Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
England > West Midlands

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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 168 211
Rank change year-on-year -34 +43 -18
Permanent jobs citing OOD 3 1 6
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.035% 0.030% 0.098%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.050% 0.035% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile - - £47,375
25th Percentile £61,250 - £49,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 - £55,750
Median % change year-on-year - - +23.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 - £63,250
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +11.11% +3.85%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

OOD 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 6,016 2,830 4,811
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 69.24% 84.45% 78.38%
Number of salaries quoted 4,502 1,784 2,711
10th Percentile £32,250 £28,500 £28,371
25th Percentile £40,500 £35,000 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,603
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

OOD
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

OOD job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

OOD
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing OOD

OOD
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 OOD within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 September 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
Coventry - 3 £62,500 -
OOD
England

OOD
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Functions
1 2 (66.67%) Dynamics 365
1 2 (66.67%) Power Automate
1 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
1 2 (66.67%) Serverless
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
General
1 3 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Dynamics 365 Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Dynamics 365 Developer
3 1 (33.33%) .NET Developer
3 1 (33.33%) .NET Software Developer
3 1 (33.33%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (33.33%) C# Developer
3 1 (33.33%) C# Software Developer
3 1 (33.33%) SEO Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) JSON
1 2 (66.67%) XML
1 2 (66.67%) XSLT
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
1 2 (66.67%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) Change Data Capture
2 2 (66.67%) CRM
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Information Security
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Service Management
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Debt
2 2 (66.67%) Ticket Management
3 1 (33.33%) Application Security
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) SEO
3 1 (33.33%) SOLID
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Certification
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Accessibility
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
1 2 (66.67%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft