Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for OOD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited OOD over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 678 730 505
Rank change year-on-year +52 -225 -35
Permanent jobs citing OOD 209 230 1,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.23% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.24% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 143 167 425
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,173 £38,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £106,250 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% +19.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

OOD is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,075 94,861 153,532
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.25% 95.59% 95.75%
Number of salaries quoted 59,840 55,938 82,447
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,714
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

OOD
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing OOD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for OOD in the UK

OOD
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing OOD.

Salary trend for OOD in the UK

OOD
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing OOD over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for OOD in the UK

OOD
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OOD within the UK over the 6 months to 17 May 2024. 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
England +79 184 £61,500 -5.38% 60
UK excluding London +14 142 £60,000 +14.29% 51
Work from Home +15 79 £60,000 -7.69% 27
London +81 67 £78,750 +1.61% 11
South East +8 55 £63,750 +21.43% 25
North of England +55 25 £60,000 +27.66% 8
Midlands +4 19 £47,500 -24.00% 7
Scotland -44 17 £60,000 -7.69% 1
West Midlands +23 14 £47,500 -20.83% 3
Yorkshire +80 12 - - 5
North West 0 12 £60,000 +84.62%
South West -19 10 £47,500 -9.52% 4
Wales +17 8 £46,250 -45.59% 4
East of England +7 8 £76,250 +90.35% 1
East Midlands -8 5 £45,000 -30.77% 4
North East -5 1 £55,000 +17.02% 3

OOD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (3.83%) Apache Pig
1 8 (3.83%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.35%) IIS
3 2 (0.96%) Confluence
3 2 (0.96%) IBM Domino
4 1 (0.48%) Drupal
Applications
1 7 (3.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.48%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 58 (27.75%) Azure
2 52 (24.88%) AWS
3 29 (13.88%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (10.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 20 (9.57%) Azure Monitor
6 18 (8.61%) Azure Service Bus
7 15 (7.18%) SaaS
8 12 (5.74%) Serverless
9 11 (5.26%) GitHub
10 8 (3.83%) IBM Cloud
11 7 (3.35%) Google Analytics
12 5 (2.39%) GCP
13 4 (1.91%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (1.91%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (1.91%) Amazon S3
13 4 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (1.91%) Power Platform
14 2 (0.96%) Amazon SQS
14 2 (0.96%) Dynamics 365
15 1 (0.48%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 25 (11.96%) Wi-Fi
1 25 (11.96%) Wireless
2 17 (8.13%) RS-232
3 13 (6.22%) Ethernet
4 12 (5.74%) 3G
4 12 (5.74%) 4G
4 12 (5.74%) MQTT
4 12 (5.74%) RS-485
5 7 (3.35%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.96%) HTTP
6 2 (0.96%) Modbus
7 1 (0.48%) FTP
7 1 (0.48%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 16 (7.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 14 (6.70%) Relational Database
4 10 (4.78%) Big Data
5 8 (3.83%) Apache Hive
5 8 (3.83%) Hadoop
6 6 (2.87%) MySQL
6 6 (2.87%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.96%) Power BI
8 1 (0.48%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (0.48%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.48%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.48%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.48%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 36 (17.22%) Git
2 24 (11.48%) JUnit
3 17 (8.13%) Visual Studio
4 15 (7.18%) JIRA
5 14 (6.70%) Maven
6 8 (3.83%) Checkstyle
6 8 (3.83%) SonarQube
7 6 (2.87%) Bitbucket
8 5 (2.39%) Jenkins
9 4 (1.91%) Sourcetree
9 4 (1.91%) Subversion
9 4 (1.91%) Zephyr
10 2 (0.96%) Appium
10 2 (0.96%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.96%) Mockito
10 2 (0.96%) Selenium
10 2 (0.96%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.96%) WebDriver
10 2 (0.96%) Xcode
11 1 (0.48%) Rational DOORS
General
1 71 (33.97%) Social Skills
2 40 (19.14%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (8.13%) Back Office
3 17 (8.13%) Finance
3 17 (8.13%) Manufacturing
4 16 (7.66%) Local Government
5 12 (5.74%) Electronics
5 12 (5.74%) Mandarin Language
6 10 (4.78%) Front Office
7 8 (3.83%) Banking
7 8 (3.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.83%) Investment Banking
7 8 (3.83%) Public Sector
8 7 (3.35%) Law
9 6 (2.87%) Legal
9 6 (2.87%) Publishing
10 5 (2.39%) Automotive
10 5 (2.39%) Games
11 4 (1.91%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.96%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 93 (44.50%) Senior
2 79 (37.80%) Developer
3 67 (32.06%) Software Engineer
4 45 (21.53%) Embedded Engineer
5 41 (19.62%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 39 (18.66%) Senior Developer
7 33 (15.79%) Senior Software Engineer
8 27 (12.92%) Lead
8 27 (12.92%) Senior Embedded Engineer
9 23 (11.00%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
10 21 (10.05%) Java Developer
11 19 (9.09%) Software Developer
12 17 (8.13%) .NET Developer
13 16 (7.66%) Senior Java Developer
14 15 (7.18%) Senior .NET Developer
15 14 (6.70%) Java Engineer
16 10 (4.78%) Technical Leader
17 9 (4.31%) C# Developer
17 9 (4.31%) C++ Software Engineer
17 9 (4.31%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (27.27%) .NET
2 29 (13.88%) Spring
3 28 (13.40%) CSS
3 28 (13.40%) HTML
4 26 (12.44%) REST
5 23 (11.00%) .NET Core
6 22 (10.53%) AngularJS
7 19 (9.09%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 19 (9.09%) Yocto
8 17 (8.13%) jQuery
9 16 (7.66%) Web Services
10 15 (7.18%) ASP.NET
10 15 (7.18%) Hibernate
10 15 (7.18%) XML
11 14 (6.70%) Spring Boot
12 12 (5.74%) React
13 11 (5.26%) .NET Framework
14 10 (4.78%) Entity Framework
15 9 (4.31%) SOAP
16 8 (3.83%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.53%) Algorithms
1 22 (10.53%) Self-Motivation
2 20 (9.57%) Data Structures
2 20 (9.57%) Enterprise Software
3 19 (9.09%) Device Driver
3 19 (9.09%) Product Ownership
4 17 (8.13%) Analytical Mindset
5 16 (7.66%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (3.83%) Blockchain
6 8 (3.83%) Client/Server
6 8 (3.83%) e-Learning
6 8 (3.83%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (3.83%) IoT
7 7 (3.35%) Cloud Native
7 7 (3.35%) Mobile App
7 7 (3.35%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.87%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.91%) Credit Risk
9 4 (1.91%) Market Risk
10 3 (1.44%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 51 (24.40%) Linux
2 36 (17.22%) Embedded Linux
3 14 (6.70%) Windows
4 5 (2.39%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.91%) FreeRTOS
6 3 (1.44%) Android
7 2 (0.96%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.48%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (77.51%) OO
2 105 (50.24%) Software Engineering
3 97 (46.41%) Agile
4 77 (36.84%) Computer Science
5 61 (29.19%) DevOps
6 54 (25.84%) SDLC
7 53 (25.36%) Design Patterns
8 48 (22.97%) Problem-Solving
9 35 (16.75%) TDD
10 30 (14.35%) CI/CD
11 29 (13.88%) Scrum
12 27 (12.92%) SOLID
13 25 (11.96%) Mathematics
14 24 (11.48%) Full Stack Development
15 23 (11.00%) Clean Code
15 23 (11.00%) Mentoring
16 22 (10.53%) User Experience
17 21 (10.05%) Continuous Improvement
17 21 (10.05%) Test Automation
18 20 (9.57%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 78 (37.32%) C#
2 61 (29.19%) Java
3 58 (27.75%) C
4 49 (23.44%) C++
5 48 (22.97%) JavaScript
6 45 (21.53%) SQL
7 39 (18.66%) Python
8 19 (9.09%) Bicep
9 17 (8.13%) Fortran
10 15 (7.18%) Embedded C
11 11 (5.26%) TypeScript
12 8 (3.83%) T-SQL
13 7 (3.35%) XPath
14 5 (2.39%) Bash
14 5 (2.39%) Groovy
15 4 (1.91%) PHP
16 2 (0.96%) MATLAB
16 2 (0.96%) Objective-C
16 2 (0.96%) PowerShell
16 2 (0.96%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 69 (33.01%) Degree
2 37 (17.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (10.05%) Master's Degree
4 17 (8.13%) PhD
5 5 (2.39%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (1.44%) Security Cleared
7 2 (0.96%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.48%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.48%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.61%) QA
2 12 (5.74%) GDPR
3 6 (2.87%) ISO 9000
4 5 (2.39%) MISRA
4 5 (2.39%) MISRA C
5 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.48%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.48%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (14.83%) Docker
2 18 (8.61%) Active Directory
3 8 (3.83%) HDFS
4 5 (2.39%) Firmware
5 4 (1.91%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 22 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 48 (22.97%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.74%) Google
3 8 (3.83%) IBM
3 8 (3.83%) Red Hat
4 5 (2.39%) Xamarin
5 4 (1.91%) Oracle
6 2 (0.96%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.96%) Siemens
7 1 (0.48%) Apple
7 1 (0.48%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.48%) SAP