OOP Job Trends in West Wales

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
Wales > West Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Wales requiring OOP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 - 29
Rank change year-on-year - - +7
Permanent jobs citing OOP 4 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in West Wales 0.70% - 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% - 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £45,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 - -
75th Percentile £60,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median annual salary £52,500 £42,500 £27,500
% change year-on-year +23.53% +54.55% -50.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Wales

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 in West Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 404 33 151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Wales 70.51% 75.00% 72.95%
Number of salaries quoted 254 25 126
10th Percentile £30,000 £21,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £31,250 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £37,733 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +29.20% -11.22% -4.94%
75th Percentile £64,938 £55,607 £55,000
90th Percentile £76,201 £59,857 £64,108
Wales median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% -0.08%

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend in West Wales

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

OOP job vacancy trend in West Wales

OOP
Salary Trend in West Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Wales citing OOP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Wales citing OOP

OOP
Salary Histogram in West Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing OOP in West Wales over the 6 months to 24 August 2026.

Salary histogram for OOP in West Wales

OOP
Job Locations in West Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OOP within the West Wales region over the 6 months to 24 August 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
Swansea - 4 £52,500 - 1
OOP
Wales

OOP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Wales 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) MySQL
1 4 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (100.00%) Redis
1 4 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
1 4 (100.00%) minitest
1 4 (100.00%) RSpec
2 2 (50.00%) GitLab
2 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Ruby Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Software Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Ruby Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 4 (100.00%) React
1 4 (100.00%) RESTful
1 4 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 4 (100.00%) Sidekiq
1 4 (100.00%) Vue
2 2 (50.00%) Kafka
2 2 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
1 4 (100.00%) OO
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 4 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 2 (50.00%) Application Security
2 2 (50.00%) Backlog Refinement
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) SDLC
2 2 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) Ruby
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Google