Object-Oriented (OO)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for OO skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited OO over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 206 116 89
Rank change year-on-year -90 -27 +1
Permanent jobs citing OO 1,475 2,972 6,192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.48% 3.00% 3.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 3.14% 4.02%
Number of salaries quoted 813 1,598 2,221
10th Percentile £35,000 £43,525 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £68,750 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £105,375 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% +10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

OO 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 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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%

OO
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for OO in the UK

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Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for OO in the UK

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Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing OO over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for OO in the UK

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Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OO within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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 -87 1,232 £52,500 -19.23% 370
UK excluding London -72 1,134 £50,000 -13.04% 294
Work from Home -73 544 £50,000 -16.67% 268
London -104 312 £85,000 +6.25% 125
North of England -45 287 £47,500 -17.39% 67
South East -33 277 £52,500 -12.50% 73
North West -4 196 £45,000 -21.74% 32
Scotland -52 187 £52,500 -8.70% 21
Midlands -61 181 £47,500 -17.39% 55
East Midlands -12 110 £45,000 -21.74% 20
South West -101 88 £47,500 -17.39% 27
Yorkshire -39 77 £55,000 -4.35% 26
East of England -55 76 £47,500 -13.64% 33
West Midlands -70 70 £47,500 -17.39% 35
Northern Ireland -32 20 £40,000 -23.81% 9
Wales -39 18 £46,250 -45.59% 14
North East -57 14 £42,500 -22.73% 9

OO
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 35 (2.37%) Apache
2 23 (1.56%) CMS
3 22 (1.49%) SharePoint
4 18 (1.22%) Confluence
5 16 (1.08%) Apache Spark
6 14 (0.95%) ArcGIS
7 13 (0.88%) NServiceBus
8 9 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
9 8 (0.54%) Apache Pig
9 8 (0.54%) IIS
9 8 (0.54%) nginx
10 6 (0.41%) Drupal
10 6 (0.41%) JBoss
10 6 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
11 5 (0.34%) WebSphere
12 4 (0.27%) SAS
13 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
13 3 (0.20%) Tomcat
14 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 1 (0.068%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 17 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (1.02%) Photoshop
3 11 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.61%) Trello
5 8 (0.54%) InfoPath
5 8 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.20%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.20%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 16 (1.08%) SDL Web 8
2 4 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.14%) CiviCRM
4 2 (0.14%) Magento
5 1 (0.068%) Shopify
5 1 (0.068%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 673 (45.63%) Azure
2 311 (21.08%) AWS
3 248 (16.81%) IBM Cloud
4 191 (12.95%) Azure DevOps
5 176 (11.93%) Serverless
6 165 (11.19%) Azure Service Bus
7 140 (9.49%) Azure Functions
8 136 (9.22%) Azure API Management
8 136 (9.22%) Azure Logic Apps
9 83 (5.63%) GCP
10 40 (2.71%) SaaS
11 34 (2.31%) GitHub
12 27 (1.83%) Amazon S3
12 27 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
13 20 (1.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 18 (1.22%) Azure Monitor
15 15 (1.02%) Adobe Creative Cloud
15 15 (1.02%) Cloud Computing
15 15 (1.02%) NuGet
16 14 (0.95%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (1.83%) TCP/IP
2 25 (1.69%) Internet
3 20 (1.36%) HTTP
3 20 (1.36%) Wi-Fi
4 18 (1.22%) SSH
5 17 (1.15%) MQTT
6 13 (0.88%) FTP
6 13 (0.88%) SNMP
7 12 (0.81%) 3G
7 12 (0.81%) 4G
7 12 (0.81%) RS-485
7 12 (0.81%) Wireless
8 5 (0.34%) Bluetooth
9 4 (0.27%) RS-232
10 3 (0.20%) Kerberos
11 2 (0.14%) Firewall
11 2 (0.14%) Modbus
11 2 (0.14%) WAN
12 1 (0.068%) Software-Defined Radio
12 1 (0.068%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 347 (23.53%) SQL Server
2 333 (22.58%) NoSQL
3 315 (21.36%) PostgreSQL
4 312 (21.15%) MongoDB
5 248 (16.81%) Relational Database
6 238 (16.14%) DB2
7 162 (10.98%) MySQL
8 41 (2.78%) Data Lake
9 39 (2.64%) Qlik Sense
10 27 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
10 27 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
11 23 (1.56%) GIS
12 20 (1.36%) NonStop SQL
13 19 (1.29%) Geospatial Data
14 17 (1.15%) Apache Hive
14 17 (1.15%) Big Data
15 16 (1.08%) MariaDB
15 16 (1.08%) Redis
15 16 (1.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 11 (0.75%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 213 (14.44%) Git
2 97 (6.58%) JIRA
3 70 (4.75%) Visual Studio
4 36 (2.44%) Maven
5 32 (2.17%) Jenkins
5 32 (2.17%) JUnit
6 28 (1.90%) Subversion
7 25 (1.69%) NUnit
8 23 (1.56%) Postman
9 21 (1.42%) TeamCity
10 19 (1.29%) Octopus Deploy
10 19 (1.29%) Sourcetree
10 19 (1.29%) SpecFlow
11 18 (1.22%) Eclipse
12 17 (1.15%) CMake
12 17 (1.15%) git-flow
13 16 (1.08%) JMeter
13 16 (1.08%) Moq
13 16 (1.08%) Selenium
14 12 (0.81%) Bitbucket
General
1 276 (18.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 271 (18.37%) Finance
3 270 (18.31%) Public Sector
4 236 (16.00%) Social Skills
5 159 (10.78%) Law
6 114 (7.73%) Analytical Skills
7 97 (6.58%) Legal
8 69 (4.68%) Banking
9 56 (3.80%) Marketing
10 49 (3.32%) Investment Banking
11 41 (2.78%) Electronics
12 38 (2.58%) Front Office
13 28 (1.90%) Advertising
14 24 (1.63%) Manufacturing
15 22 (1.49%) Prime Brokerage
16 21 (1.42%) Retail
17 20 (1.36%) Back Office
17 20 (1.36%) Military
18 18 (1.22%) Telecoms
19 17 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 694 (47.05%) Developer
2 373 (25.29%) Software Engineer
3 224 (15.19%) Senior
4 203 (13.76%) .NET Developer
5 188 (12.75%) Full Stack Developer
6 160 (10.85%) Full Stack Engineer
7 137 (9.29%) Azure Developer
8 119 (8.07%) Lead
9 115 (7.80%) Azure Engineer
10 109 (7.39%) PHP Developer
11 81 (5.49%) Senior Software Engineer
12 80 (5.42%) C# Developer
13 78 (5.29%) Java Engineer
14 75 (5.08%) Senior Developer
15 68 (4.61%) Java Software Engineer
16 63 (4.27%) Software Developer
17 57 (3.86%) Data Engineer
18 53 (3.59%) Support Engineer
19 45 (3.05%) Full Stack Software Engineer
20 41 (2.78%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 714 (48.41%) .NET
2 514 (34.85%) AngularJS
3 513 (34.78%) HTML
4 492 (33.36%) ASP.NET
5 473 (32.07%) CSS
6 454 (30.78%) React
7 404 (27.39%) Web Services
8 386 (26.17%) REST
9 354 (24.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 350 (23.73%) Vue
11 333 (22.58%) jQuery
12 253 (17.15%) .NET Core
13 245 (16.61%) ASP.NET Core
14 241 (16.34%) Ember.js
15 238 (16.14%) Backbone.js
16 217 (14.71%) .NET Framework
17 204 (13.83%) Entity Framework
18 195 (13.22%) ASP.NET MVC
19 172 (11.66%) Node.js
20 160 (10.85%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 386 (26.17%) Algorithms
2 279 (18.92%) Data Structures
3 249 (16.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 248 (16.81%) Blockchain
5 121 (8.20%) e-Learning
6 92 (6.24%) Onboarding
7 84 (5.69%) Greenfield Project
8 58 (3.93%) Cloud Native
9 35 (2.37%) Social Network
10 34 (2.31%) Social Media
11 33 (2.24%) BBC
12 31 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
13 30 (2.03%) Mobile App
14 28 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
15 27 (1.83%) Hedge funds
15 27 (1.83%) Product Ownership
16 23 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
16 23 (1.56%) Management Information System
17 19 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
17 19 (1.29%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 429 (29.08%) Linux
2 337 (22.85%) Windows
3 259 (17.56%) Android
4 257 (17.42%) Apple iOS
5 26 (1.76%) Unix
6 25 (1.69%) Embedded Linux
7 22 (1.49%) AIX
8 9 (0.61%) VMS
9 6 (0.41%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.41%) Windows 10
10 4 (0.27%) FreeRTOS
11 2 (0.14%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.068%) CentOS
12 1 (0.068%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.068%) Solaris
12 1 (0.068%) VxWorks
12 1 (0.068%) Windows Server
12 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 810 (54.92%) Agile
2 596 (40.41%) OOP
3 592 (40.14%) Full Stack Development
4 526 (35.66%) MVC
5 510 (34.58%) Software Engineering
6 422 (28.61%) Design Patterns
7 376 (25.49%) Artificial Intelligence
8 346 (23.46%) DevOps
9 333 (22.58%) SOLID
9 333 (22.58%) Web Development
10 296 (20.07%) User Experience
11 274 (18.58%) MVVM
12 271 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
13 260 (17.63%) SDLC
14 254 (17.22%) Microservices
15 253 (17.15%) Responsive Web Design
16 251 (17.02%) Computer Science
17 246 (16.68%) Mentoring
18 239 (16.20%) Co-Creation
19 238 (16.14%) Design Thinking
Programming Languages
1 818 (55.46%) C#
2 752 (50.98%) JavaScript
3 631 (42.78%) SQL
4 526 (35.66%) Java
5 426 (28.88%) Python
6 163 (11.05%) C++
7 134 (9.08%) PHP
8 112 (7.59%) C
9 83 (5.63%) TypeScript
10 59 (4.00%) T-SQL
11 31 (2.10%) VB
12 29 (1.97%) PowerShell
13 26 (1.76%) Bash
13 26 (1.76%) Perl
14 25 (1.69%) Go
15 24 (1.63%) Scala
16 23 (1.56%) Groovy
16 23 (1.56%) XPath
17 17 (1.15%) Fortran
17 17 (1.15%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 306 (20.75%) Degree
2 130 (8.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 54 (3.66%) Security Cleared
4 46 (3.12%) Master's Degree
5 26 (1.76%) SC Cleared
6 25 (1.69%) PhD
7 11 (0.75%) DV Cleared
8 10 (0.68%) HND
9 7 (0.47%) ISTQB
10 6 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
11 5 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.34%) HNC
12 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.20%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.14%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.14%) Azure Certification
14 1 (0.068%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.068%) ISEB
14 1 (0.068%) Postgraduate
14 1 (0.068%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (5.02%) QA
2 14 (0.95%) GDPR
3 13 (0.88%) PMO
4 11 (0.75%) Accessibility
5 10 (0.68%) Data Quality
6 9 (0.61%) MISRA
7 5 (0.34%) MiFID
7 5 (0.34%) MISRA C
7 5 (0.34%) NCSC
8 4 (0.27%) DICOM
8 4 (0.27%) HL7
8 4 (0.27%) ISO 13485
9 2 (0.14%) EMIR
9 2 (0.14%) IEC 61508
9 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 2 (0.14%) SEPA
10 1 (0.068%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.068%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.068%) ISO 9000
10 1 (0.068%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 89 (6.03%) Docker
2 25 (1.69%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.22%) Firmware
4 14 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.68%) Embedded Firmware
6 8 (0.54%) HDFS
7 2 (0.14%) NFS
7 2 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.068%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.068%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.068%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.068%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 65 (4.41%) Kubernetes
2 59 (4.00%) Terraform
3 13 (0.88%) WMI
4 6 (0.41%) CloudHub
5 3 (0.20%) Ansible
5 3 (0.20%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.14%) Istio
6 2 (0.14%) linkerd
7 1 (0.068%) Grafana
7 1 (0.068%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.068%) Kiali
7 1 (0.068%) Podman
7 1 (0.068%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.068%) Puppet
7 1 (0.068%) SCCM
7 1 (0.068%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 302 (20.47%) Microsoft
2 251 (17.02%) IBM
3 248 (16.81%) Red Hat
4 113 (7.66%) Oracle
5 74 (5.02%) Google
6 39 (2.64%) Alteryx
7 37 (2.51%) Apple
8 34 (2.31%) Sony
9 33 (2.24%) Facebook
9 33 (2.24%) Yahoo!
10 20 (1.36%) Salesforce
11 16 (1.08%) Adobe
11 16 (1.08%) Databricks
12 15 (1.02%) Cognizant
13 14 (0.95%) Atlassian
13 14 (0.95%) SAP
13 14 (0.95%) Splunk
14 9 (0.61%) Bloomberg
14 9 (0.61%) MuleSoft
14 9 (0.61%) Xamarin