Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for OOP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited OOP over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 278 183 152
Rank change year-on-year -95 -31 +5
Permanent jobs citing OOP 1,096 1,878 4,690
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.04% 1.98% 2.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 2.08% 2.90%
Number of salaries quoted 670 1,099 1,437
10th Percentile £32,500 £41,167 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £85,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,575 £105,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

OOP 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 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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% +9.38%

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for OOP in the UK

OOP
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for OOP in the UK

OOP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing OOP over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for OOP in the UK

OOP
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OOP within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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 -67 1,017 £55,000 -8.33% 175
UK excluding London -83 841 £50,000 -13.04% 107
Work from Home -30 471 £52,500 -19.23% 114
London -30 247 £77,500 -11.43% 85
South East -58 223 £57,500 - 23
North of England -71 219 £52,500 -8.70% 22
North West -23 173 £52,500 -12.50% 11
Midlands -41 161 £50,000 -13.04% 24
East Midlands 0 112 £51,250 -10.87% 4
South West -23 100 £45,000 -14.29% 9
East of England -11 63 £62,500 +13.64% 11
West Midlands -77 48 £50,000 -13.04% 20
Scotland -99 48 £44,750 -22.17% 13
Yorkshire -61 35 £45,000 -21.74% 8
Northern Ireland -4 16 £35,000 -39.13% 4
Wales -1 11 £60,000 +9.09% 2
North East -44 11 £71,500 +24.35% 3

OOP
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 25 (2.28%) Apache
2 13 (1.19%) Apache Spark
2 13 (1.19%) nginx
2 13 (1.19%) NServiceBus
3 11 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (0.91%) Confluence
4 10 (0.91%) WordPress
5 8 (0.73%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.55%) CMS
6 6 (0.55%) IIS
6 6 (0.55%) Mendix
7 5 (0.46%) K2 blackpearl
7 5 (0.46%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.36%) Apache Solr
8 4 (0.36%) ColdFusion
9 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.27%) WildFly
10 2 (0.18%) SAS
11 1 (0.091%) Drupal
11 1 (0.091%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 19 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.82%) Trello
4 8 (0.73%) InfoPath
5 5 (0.46%) Doxygen
6 4 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (0.36%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
7 2 (0.18%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 10 (0.91%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.18%) Magento
3 2 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.091%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.091%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 414 (37.77%) Azure
2 289 (26.37%) AWS
3 240 (21.90%) IBM Cloud
4 182 (16.61%) Serverless
5 161 (14.69%) Azure DevOps
6 130 (11.86%) Azure Service Bus
7 128 (11.68%) Azure Functions
8 125 (11.41%) Azure API Management
8 125 (11.41%) Azure Logic Apps
9 74 (6.75%) SaaS
10 57 (5.20%) GCP
11 50 (4.56%) GitHub
12 47 (4.29%) AWS Lambda
13 25 (2.28%) Cloud Computing
14 21 (1.92%) Amazon SQS
15 18 (1.64%) Amazon S3
16 11 (1.00%) AWS Step Functions
17 8 (0.73%) Microsoft 365
17 8 (0.73%) OneDrive
18 7 (0.64%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 27 (2.46%) TCP/IP
2 17 (1.55%) HTTP
3 16 (1.46%) SSH
4 13 (1.19%) SNMP
5 9 (0.82%) FTP
6 8 (0.73%) Internet
7 4 (0.36%) Multicast
8 2 (0.18%) Network Security
8 2 (0.18%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.18%) WAN
8 2 (0.18%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.091%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 267 (24.36%) PostgreSQL
2 263 (24.00%) NoSQL
3 247 (22.54%) MongoDB
4 239 (21.81%) MySQL
5 238 (21.72%) DB2
6 210 (19.16%) Relational Database
7 76 (6.93%) SQL Server
8 30 (2.74%) Redis
9 20 (1.82%) MariaDB
10 15 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
10 15 (1.37%) GIS
11 11 (1.00%) Apache Hive
11 11 (1.00%) Presto
12 10 (0.91%) RDBMS
13 8 (0.73%) Amazon Aurora
13 8 (0.73%) Big Data
14 6 (0.55%) Geospatial Data
15 5 (0.46%) DynamoDB
15 5 (0.46%) MS Access
16 4 (0.36%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 194 (17.70%) Git
2 67 (6.11%) JIRA
3 29 (2.65%) Jenkins
4 22 (2.01%) GitLab
4 22 (2.01%) Maven
5 20 (1.82%) Eclipse
6 17 (1.55%) Selenium
7 16 (1.46%) Visual Studio
8 14 (1.28%) PHPUnit
9 12 (1.09%) TeamCity
10 11 (1.00%) CircleCI
11 10 (0.91%) Postman
12 8 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
13 7 (0.64%) Bitbucket
13 7 (0.64%) JUnit
14 6 (0.55%) Cucumber
14 6 (0.55%) JMeter
14 6 (0.55%) Newman
14 6 (0.55%) REST Assured
14 6 (0.55%) Subversion
General
1 268 (24.45%) Public Sector
2 194 (17.70%) Social Skills
3 151 (13.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 135 (12.32%) Finance
5 55 (5.02%) Law
6 42 (3.83%) Analytical Skills
7 37 (3.38%) Banking
8 36 (3.28%) Games
9 34 (3.10%) Electronics
10 33 (3.01%) Retail
11 25 (2.28%) Tech for Good
12 24 (2.19%) Investment Banking
13 21 (1.92%) Front Office
13 21 (1.92%) Publishing
14 20 (1.82%) Legal
15 18 (1.64%) Manufacturing
16 17 (1.55%) Marketing
17 16 (1.46%) Telecoms
18 15 (1.37%) Health Technology
19 12 (1.09%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 617 (56.30%) Developer
2 228 (20.80%) Software Engineer
3 222 (20.26%) Senior
4 208 (18.98%) Full Stack Developer
5 138 (12.59%) PHP Developer
6 131 (11.95%) Full Stack Engineer
7 126 (11.50%) Azure Developer
8 122 (11.13%) Azure Engineer
8 122 (11.13%) Senior Developer
9 83 (7.57%) .NET Developer
10 67 (6.11%) Software Developer
11 66 (6.02%) Lead
12 55 (5.02%) C# Developer
13 47 (4.29%) Senior Software Engineer
14 40 (3.65%) Java Developer
14 40 (3.65%) Web Developer
15 37 (3.38%) Lead Developer
15 37 (3.38%) PHP Software Engineer
16 35 (3.19%) .NET Software Engineer
17 30 (2.74%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 503 (45.89%) .NET
2 489 (44.62%) HTML
3 481 (43.89%) CSS
4 411 (37.50%) React
5 377 (34.40%) AngularJS
6 356 (32.48%) Vue
7 350 (31.93%) Web Services
8 344 (31.39%) jQuery
9 335 (30.57%) REST
10 303 (27.65%) ASP.NET
11 256 (23.36%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 248 (22.63%) ASP.NET Core
13 238 (21.72%) Backbone.js
13 238 (21.72%) Ember.js
14 186 (16.97%) Laravel
15 173 (15.78%) Node.js
16 115 (10.49%) LAMP
17 98 (8.94%) .NET Core
18 81 (7.39%) RESTful
19 63 (5.75%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 329 (30.02%) Data Structures
2 318 (29.01%) Algorithms
3 241 (21.99%) Blockchain
4 240 (21.90%) Hybrid Cloud
5 114 (10.40%) e-Learning
6 86 (7.85%) Client/Server
7 38 (3.47%) Greenfield Project
8 36 (3.28%) Product Ownership
9 30 (2.74%) Cloud Native
10 27 (2.46%) Hedge funds
11 26 (2.37%) Video\Live Streaming
12 17 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
12 17 (1.55%) Management Information System
13 15 (1.37%) Distributed Applications
13 15 (1.37%) IoT
14 13 (1.19%) CMDB
14 13 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
15 11 (1.00%) Blog
15 11 (1.00%) Online Games
15 11 (1.00%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 339 (30.93%) Linux
2 304 (27.74%) Windows
3 259 (23.63%) Android
4 254 (23.18%) Apple iOS
5 36 (3.28%) Unix
6 9 (0.82%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.46%) Embedded Linux
7 5 (0.46%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.091%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.091%) Solaris
8 1 (0.091%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.091%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 628 (57.30%) OO
2 494 (45.07%) Agile
3 441 (40.24%) Design Patterns
4 416 (37.96%) MVC
5 415 (37.86%) Full Stack Development
6 359 (32.76%) Software Engineering
7 331 (30.20%) Web Development
8 329 (30.02%) SOLID
9 286 (26.09%) User Experience
10 262 (23.91%) MVVM
11 259 (23.63%) Artificial Intelligence
12 244 (22.26%) Responsive Web Design
13 239 (21.81%) DevOps
14 238 (21.72%) Co-Creation
14 238 (21.72%) Design Thinking
15 226 (20.62%) Mentoring
16 220 (20.07%) Computer Science
17 200 (18.25%) Problem-Solving
18 167 (15.24%) TDD
19 157 (14.32%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 604 (55.11%) JavaScript
2 545 (49.73%) C#
3 467 (42.61%) SQL
4 317 (28.92%) Java
5 272 (24.82%) Python
6 262 (23.91%) PHP
7 120 (10.95%) TypeScript
8 47 (4.29%) C++
9 41 (3.74%) C
10 33 (3.01%) T-SQL
11 30 (2.74%) PowerShell
12 23 (2.10%) Kotlin
13 22 (2.01%) Scala
14 20 (1.82%) Groovy
15 17 (1.55%) Go
16 16 (1.46%) Perl
17 14 (1.28%) Apex Code
18 13 (1.19%) VB.NET
19 12 (1.09%) Ada
19 12 (1.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 199 (18.16%) Degree
2 100 (9.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 33 (3.01%) Security Cleared
4 17 (1.55%) Master's Degree
5 9 (0.82%) DBS Check
6 8 (0.73%) AWS Certification
6 8 (0.73%) Azure Certification
6 8 (0.73%) PhD
7 6 (0.55%) Numerate Degree
8 5 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (0.46%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.46%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.091%) HNC
10 1 (0.091%) HND
10 1 (0.091%) MCP
10 1 (0.091%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.091%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (6.11%) QA
2 5 (0.46%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.36%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.36%) DICOM
3 4 (0.36%) HL7
3 4 (0.36%) ISO 13485
4 2 (0.18%) GDPR
5 1 (0.091%) SLA
System Software
1 115 (10.49%) Docker
2 19 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (1.00%) Firmware
4 5 (0.46%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.18%) HDFS
6 1 (0.091%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.091%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.091%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.091%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.091%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 67 (6.11%) Kubernetes
2 66 (6.02%) Terraform
3 13 (1.19%) WMI
4 12 (1.09%) Ansible
5 4 (0.36%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.18%) CASB
7 1 (0.091%) Argo
7 1 (0.091%) Grafana
7 1 (0.091%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.091%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.091%) Packer
7 1 (0.091%) Podman
7 1 (0.091%) SCCM
Vendors
1 241 (21.99%) Red Hat
2 240 (21.90%) IBM
3 99 (9.03%) Microsoft
4 38 (3.47%) Google
5 25 (2.28%) Oracle
6 19 (1.73%) Salesforce
7 13 (1.19%) SAP
7 13 (1.19%) Splunk
8 11 (1.00%) Databricks
8 11 (1.00%) Xamarin
9 7 (0.64%) Bloomberg
10 6 (0.55%) MuleSoft
11 5 (0.46%) Automation Anywhere
11 5 (0.46%) Blue Prism
11 5 (0.46%) F5
11 5 (0.46%) Twitter
12 4 (0.36%) Adobe
12 4 (0.36%) Peregrine
13 3 (0.27%) Murex
14 2 (0.18%) Intel