Hybrid/Remote OO Job Trends

Object-Oriented (OO)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring OO skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 231 154 199
Rank change year-on-year -77 +45 -89
Permanent jobs citing OO 145 369 366
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.96% 2.25% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 2.41% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 96 254 315
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £43,750 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,125 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £79,375
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,250 £96,539
UK median annual salary £57,500 £63,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.42% -11.11%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,144 15,339 20,307
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 87.43% 93.72% 93.52%
Number of salaries quoted 8,355 9,020 16,451
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,500 £47,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,100 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing OO and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

OO job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

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Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing OO.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing OO

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Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing OO over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

OO salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 7 (4.83%) Apache Solr
2 2 (1.38%) NServiceBus
3 1 (0.69%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 69 (47.59%) Azure
2 32 (22.07%) AWS
3 19 (13.10%) GitHub
4 16 (11.03%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (7.59%) Azure Key Vault
5 11 (7.59%) dbt
5 11 (7.59%) Serverless
5 11 (7.59%) Snowflake
6 10 (6.90%) GCP
6 10 (6.90%) GitHub Copilot
7 5 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (2.07%) Azure AI
8 3 (2.07%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.38%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.38%) SaaS
10 1 (0.69%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.69%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (0.69%) Cloudflare
10 1 (0.69%) Heroku
10 1 (0.69%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 17 (11.72%) Broadband
2 10 (6.90%) HTTP
3 1 (0.69%) DNS
3 1 (0.69%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (28.97%) MySQL
2 29 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 13 (8.97%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (6.90%) MongoDB
5 8 (5.52%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (5.52%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (4.83%) Relational Database
7 6 (4.14%) NonStop SQL
8 1 (0.69%) Big Data
8 1 (0.69%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.69%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.69%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.69%) RavenDB
8 1 (0.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (13.10%) Git
2 17 (11.72%) GitLab
3 16 (11.03%) Jenkins
4 15 (10.34%) SonarQube
5 6 (4.14%) Storybook
6 4 (2.76%) Cypress.io
6 4 (2.76%) Selenium
7 2 (1.38%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.38%) JUnit
8 1 (0.69%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.69%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.69%) JMeter
8 1 (0.69%) jMock
8 1 (0.69%) WebDriver
General
1 52 (35.86%) Finance
2 38 (26.21%) Social Skills
3 23 (15.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 21 (14.48%) Marketing
5 17 (11.72%) Influencing Skills
6 16 (11.03%) Games
7 15 (10.34%) Law
8 11 (7.59%) Banking
9 10 (6.90%) Public Sector
10 5 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
11 1 (0.69%) Automotive
11 1 (0.69%) Aviation
11 1 (0.69%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 74 (51.03%) Developer
2 32 (22.07%) Senior
3 23 (15.86%) Software Engineer
4 17 (11.72%) Architect
4 17 (11.72%) Graduate
4 17 (11.72%) Graduate Developer
5 16 (11.03%) IT Graduate
5 16 (11.03%) PHP Developer
6 14 (9.66%) Salesforce Architect
6 14 (9.66%) Senior Software Engineer
7 12 (8.28%) .NET Developer
7 12 (8.28%) Azure Engineer
8 10 (6.90%) Development Engineer
8 10 (6.90%) Senior Development Engineer
8 10 (6.90%) Senior Software Development Engineer
8 10 (6.90%) Software Development Engineer
9 9 (6.21%) Applications Developer
9 9 (6.21%) C# Developer
10 8 (5.52%) Salesforce Technical Architect
10 8 (5.52%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (35.86%) .NET
2 39 (26.90%) CSS
3 31 (21.38%) ASP.NET
4 29 (20.00%) React
5 28 (19.31%) HTML
6 26 (17.93%) REST
7 23 (15.86%) .NET Core
8 20 (13.79%) jQuery
9 18 (12.41%) RESTful
10 15 (10.34%) Lightning Web Components
10 15 (10.34%) SOAP
10 15 (10.34%) Visualforce
11 14 (9.66%) AngularJS
12 12 (8.28%) GraphQL
12 12 (8.28%) Laravel
12 12 (8.28%) OpenAPI
12 12 (8.28%) Swagger
13 11 (7.59%) OAuth
14 10 (6.90%) Symfony
15 9 (6.21%) CodeIgniter
Miscellaneous
1 21 (14.48%) Product Ownership
2 14 (9.66%) Cloud Native
3 10 (6.90%) Public Cloud
3 10 (6.90%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 7 (4.83%) Data Structures
5 6 (4.14%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (3.45%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.76%) e-Learning
7 4 (2.76%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.07%) N-Tier
9 2 (1.38%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.38%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.38%) Social Network
10 1 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.69%) BBC
10 1 (0.69%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.69%) IoT
10 1 (0.69%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.69%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.59%) Windows
2 8 (5.52%) Linux
3 7 (4.83%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.69%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (71.72%) Agile
2 64 (44.14%) CI/CD
2 64 (44.14%) Software Engineering
3 53 (36.55%) OOP
4 52 (35.86%) Continuous Improvement
5 51 (35.17%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (25.52%) DevOps
6 37 (25.52%) MVC
7 35 (24.14%) Mentoring
8 32 (22.07%) Full-Stack Development
9 30 (20.69%) Scrum
10 26 (17.93%) SOLID
11 25 (17.24%) Roadmaps
12 24 (16.55%) Design Patterns
13 23 (15.86%) AI
13 23 (15.86%) Computer Science
14 22 (15.17%) SDLC
15 21 (14.48%) Community of Practice
15 21 (14.48%) Microservices
15 21 (14.48%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 71 (48.97%) C#
2 51 (35.17%) JavaScript
3 47 (32.41%) Java
3 47 (32.41%) SQL
4 37 (25.52%) PHP
5 25 (17.24%) TypeScript
6 21 (14.48%) C++
7 20 (13.79%) Python
8 15 (10.34%) Apex Code
8 15 (10.34%) SOQL
8 15 (10.34%) SOSL
9 11 (7.59%) PowerShell
10 3 (2.07%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.38%) C
12 1 (0.69%) Perl
12 1 (0.69%) Ruby
12 1 (0.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (18.62%) Degree
2 20 (13.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (4.14%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.14%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.45%) DBS Check
5 4 (2.76%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.07%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.07%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.97%) QA
2 7 (4.83%) Accessibility
3 6 (4.14%) WCAG
4 2 (1.38%) ECSS
5 1 (0.69%) IFRS
System Software
1 17 (11.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (11.03%) Terraform
2 7 (4.83%) Ansible
3 5 (3.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 41 (28.28%) Microsoft
2 15 (10.34%) Salesforce
2 15 (10.34%) Splunk
3 2 (1.38%) Xamarin
4 1 (0.69%) Apple
4 1 (0.69%) Facebook
4 1 (0.69%) Google
4 1 (0.69%) SendGrid
4 1 (0.69%) Sony
4 1 (0.69%) Yahoo!