Hybrid/Remote OOP Job Trends

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring OOP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 325 211 246
Rank change year-on-year -114 +35 -40
Permanent jobs citing OOP 117 247 409
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.55% 1.50% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 1.61% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 98 171 330
10th Percentile - £25,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £25,000 £30,500 £40,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £69,063 £62,500 £70,938
90th Percentile £78,250 £72,500 £90,125
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -12.50%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,646 15,385 28,336
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.65% 93.30% 88.77%
Number of salaries quoted 12,860 9,109 21,557
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,848 £33,750
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.84%

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

OOP job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

OOP
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

OOP
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing OOP over the 6 months to 15 July 2026.

OOP salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

OOP
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 5 (4.27%) Apache
2 1 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 77 (65.81%) AWS
2 45 (38.46%) Azure
3 20 (17.09%) GCP
4 13 (11.11%) Cloud Functions
4 13 (11.11%) Cloud Run
5 10 (8.55%) GitHub
6 8 (6.84%) Serverless
7 7 (5.98%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (4.27%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (3.42%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (3.42%) SaaS
10 3 (2.56%) GitHub Copilot
11 2 (1.71%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (1.71%) npm
11 2 (1.71%) PaaS
12 1 (0.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (0.85%) Amazon ECS
12 1 (0.85%) Amazon S3
12 1 (0.85%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.85%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.26%) Broadband
2 3 (2.56%) HTTP
2 3 (2.56%) RTP
2 3 (2.56%) Unified Communications
2 3 (2.56%) VoIP
2 3 (2.56%) Wireshark
3 2 (1.71%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (37.61%) SQL Server
2 23 (19.66%) MySQL
3 16 (13.68%) MongoDB
3 16 (13.68%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (11.97%) NoSQL
4 14 (11.97%) Redis
5 4 (3.42%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.85%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.85%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.85%) Looker
6 1 (0.85%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.85%) Power BI
6 1 (0.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (16.24%) Git
2 14 (11.97%) Cypress.io
3 12 (10.26%) CircleCI
4 7 (5.98%) JIRA
5 6 (5.13%) Selenium
6 5 (4.27%) Jenkins
7 4 (3.42%) Postman
7 4 (3.42%) Visual Studio
8 2 (1.71%) Bower
8 2 (1.71%) Subversion
9 1 (0.85%) JMeter
9 1 (0.85%) MLflow
9 1 (0.85%) Ranorex
9 1 (0.85%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 47 (40.17%) Social Skills
2 36 (30.77%) Finance
3 3 (2.56%) Aerospace
3 3 (2.56%) Automotive
3 3 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (0.85%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (0.85%) Billing
4 1 (0.85%) Electronics
4 1 (0.85%) Marketing
4 1 (0.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 90 (76.92%) Developer
2 37 (31.62%) Graduate
3 35 (29.91%) Software Developer
4 29 (24.79%) Graduate Developer
4 29 (24.79%) Graduate Software Developer
5 27 (23.08%) SQL Developer
6 26 (22.22%) C# Developer
6 26 (22.22%) C# Software Developer
6 26 (22.22%) Graduate C# Developer
6 26 (22.22%) Graduate C# Software Developer
6 26 (22.22%) Graduate SQL Developer
7 20 (17.09%) PHP Developer
8 17 (14.53%) Software Engineer
9 16 (13.68%) Azure Developer
9 16 (13.68%) Graduate PHP Developer
10 14 (11.97%) Ruby Developer
11 10 (8.55%) Full-Stack Developer
12 9 (7.69%) Applications Developer
13 8 (6.84%) Graduate Software Engineer
13 8 (6.84%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (36.75%) CSS
2 36 (30.77%) jQuery
3 21 (17.95%) RESTful
4 19 (16.24%) .NET
4 19 (16.24%) React
5 16 (13.68%) JSON
6 15 (12.82%) .NET Core
6 15 (12.82%) JWT
6 15 (12.82%) Playwright
7 14 (11.97%) Ruby on Rails
7 14 (11.97%) Sidekiq
8 13 (11.11%) HTML
8 13 (11.11%) Node.js
9 12 (10.26%) Leaflet
10 7 (5.98%) Kafka
10 7 (5.98%) REST
10 7 (5.98%) Spring Boot
11 6 (5.13%) AngularJS
11 6 (5.13%) Spring
12 5 (4.27%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.97%) Virtual Team
2 11 (9.40%) Data Structures
3 9 (7.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 8 (6.84%) Client/Server
5 4 (3.42%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.42%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.42%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.71%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.71%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.71%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.85%) IoT
8 1 (0.85%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.85%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.69%) Linux
2 5 (4.27%) Windows
3 3 (2.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (74.36%) Agile
2 53 (45.30%) OO
3 49 (41.88%) Computer Science
4 41 (35.04%) MVC
5 39 (33.33%) Clean Code
6 36 (30.77%) CI/CD
7 33 (28.21%) Containerisation
8 29 (24.79%) Continuous Improvement
8 29 (24.79%) Software Engineering
9 28 (23.93%) Scrum
10 23 (19.66%) Full-Stack Development
11 22 (18.80%) Mentoring
12 18 (15.38%) Unit Testing
13 17 (14.53%) SDLC
14 14 (11.97%) API Design
14 14 (11.97%) Kanban
14 14 (11.97%) Performance Tuning
15 13 (11.11%) Design Patterns
15 13 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
15 13 (11.11%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 58 (49.57%) C#
2 46 (39.32%) SQL
3 45 (38.46%) Java
4 41 (35.04%) C++
5 40 (34.19%) PHP
6 30 (25.64%) Python
7 26 (22.22%) JavaScript
8 14 (11.97%) Ruby
9 7 (5.98%) TypeScript
10 5 (4.27%) C
11 3 (2.56%) Kotlin
11 3 (2.56%) Scala
12 2 (1.71%) Delphi
12 2 (1.71%) Pascal
13 1 (0.85%) Go
13 1 (0.85%) Rust
Qualifications
1 43 (36.75%) Degree
2 35 (29.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.56%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.85%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (0.85%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.27%) QA
2 3 (2.56%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.56%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.85%) Data Quality
System Software
1 39 (33.33%) Docker
2 3 (2.56%) Kamailio
3 1 (0.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (10.26%) Podman
2 9 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.42%) Terraform
4 3 (2.56%) Argo
5 1 (0.85%) Grafana
Vendors
1 31 (26.50%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.26%) Google
3 3 (2.56%) BT
3 3 (2.56%) Dynatrace
3 3 (2.56%) Fortinet
3 3 (2.56%) Mitel
3 3 (2.56%) Splunk
4 2 (1.71%) Databricks
4 2 (1.71%) Oracle
4 2 (1.71%) ServiceNow