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 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 702 750 495
Rank change year-on-year +48 -255 -34
Permanent jobs citing OOD 207 200 1,197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.21% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.22% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 136 147 431
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,057 £38,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £83,125 £82,500
90th Percentile £93,125 £110,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% +19.98%

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 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%

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 1 June 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 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 +43 183 £61,500 -5.38% 58
UK excluding London +12 145 £60,000 +14.29% 42
Work from Home +3 78 £60,000 -7.69% 21
London +86 62 £82,500 +6.45% 14
South East +17 60 £65,000 +23.81% 21
North of England +46 27 £60,000 +50.94% 7
Midlands -1 19 £47,500 -24.00% 7
Scotland -55 16 £60,000 -7.69% 1
West Midlands -4 14 £47,500 -20.83% 4
Yorkshire +73 13 - - 6
North West -1 12 £60,000 +84.62%
South West -30 9 £47,500 -9.52% 3
Wales +13 8 £46,250 -45.59% 1
East of England -8 6 £76,250 +90.35% 1
East Midlands -16 5 £45,000 -30.77% 3
North East -10 2 £55,000 +16.19% 1

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 (3.86%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.38%) IIS
3 6 (2.90%) Apache Pig
4 2 (0.97%) CMS
4 2 (0.97%) Confluence
4 2 (0.97%) IBM Domino
5 1 (0.48%) Drupal
5 1 (0.48%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 7 (3.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.48%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 56 (27.05%) Azure
2 54 (26.09%) AWS
3 28 (13.53%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (10.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 20 (9.66%) Azure Monitor
6 19 (9.18%) SaaS
7 18 (8.70%) Azure Service Bus
8 13 (6.28%) Serverless
9 10 (4.83%) GitHub
10 8 (3.86%) IBM Cloud
11 7 (3.38%) Google Analytics
12 6 (2.90%) GCP
13 4 (1.93%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (1.93%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (1.93%) Amazon S3
13 4 (1.93%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (1.93%) Power Platform
14 2 (0.97%) Amazon SQS
14 2 (0.97%) Dynamics 365
14 2 (0.97%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (12.56%) Wi-Fi
1 26 (12.56%) Wireless
2 17 (8.21%) RS-232
3 13 (6.28%) 3G
3 13 (6.28%) 4G
3 13 (6.28%) Ethernet
3 13 (6.28%) MQTT
3 13 (6.28%) RS-485
4 6 (2.90%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.97%) HTTP
5 2 (0.97%) Modbus
6 1 (0.48%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (0.48%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.48%) DMVPN
6 1 (0.48%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (0.48%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (0.48%) FTP
6 1 (0.48%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.48%) VPN
6 1 (0.48%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (18.84%) SQL Server
2 16 (7.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 15 (7.25%) Relational Database
4 8 (3.86%) Big Data
5 6 (2.90%) Apache Hive
5 6 (2.90%) Hadoop
5 6 (2.90%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.42%) MySQL
7 2 (0.97%) Power BI
8 1 (0.48%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (0.48%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.48%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.48%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 37 (17.87%) Git
2 23 (11.11%) JUnit
3 18 (8.70%) Visual Studio
4 17 (8.21%) JIRA
5 14 (6.76%) Maven
6 6 (2.90%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.90%) Checkstyle
6 6 (2.90%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.93%) Jenkins
7 4 (1.93%) Sourcetree
7 4 (1.93%) Subversion
7 4 (1.93%) Zephyr
8 3 (1.45%) Selenium
9 2 (0.97%) Appium
9 2 (0.97%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.97%) Mockito
9 2 (0.97%) MSTest
9 2 (0.97%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.97%) WebDriver
9 2 (0.97%) Xcode
General
1 71 (34.30%) Social Skills
2 40 (19.32%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (8.21%) Back Office
3 17 (8.21%) Manufacturing
4 16 (7.73%) Finance
4 16 (7.73%) Local Government
5 12 (5.80%) Mandarin Language
6 11 (5.31%) Electronics
7 9 (4.35%) Front Office
8 8 (3.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (3.86%) Public Sector
9 7 (3.38%) Banking
9 7 (3.38%) Investment Banking
9 7 (3.38%) Law
10 6 (2.90%) Legal
10 6 (2.90%) Publishing
11 5 (2.42%) Automotive
11 5 (2.42%) Games
12 4 (1.93%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (1.45%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 94 (45.41%) Senior
2 75 (36.23%) Developer
3 67 (32.37%) Software Engineer
4 45 (21.74%) Embedded Engineer
5 41 (19.81%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 41 (19.81%) Senior Developer
6 33 (15.94%) Senior Software Engineer
7 27 (13.04%) Lead
7 27 (13.04%) Senior Embedded Engineer
8 23 (11.11%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
9 21 (10.14%) Java Developer
10 19 (9.18%) Software Developer
11 17 (8.21%) .NET Developer
11 17 (8.21%) Senior Java Developer
12 16 (7.73%) Senior .NET Developer
13 14 (6.76%) Java Engineer
14 9 (4.35%) C# Developer
14 9 (4.35%) Junior
14 9 (4.35%) Senior Software Developer
15 8 (3.86%) C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (27.54%) .NET
2 28 (13.53%) REST
2 28 (13.53%) Spring
3 27 (13.04%) CSS
3 27 (13.04%) HTML
4 23 (11.11%) .NET Core
5 22 (10.63%) AngularJS
6 19 (9.18%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 18 (8.70%) Yocto
8 17 (8.21%) jQuery
9 16 (7.73%) Hibernate
9 16 (7.73%) Web Services
10 15 (7.25%) XML
11 14 (6.76%) ASP.NET
12 13 (6.28%) React
13 12 (5.80%) Spring Boot
14 11 (5.31%) .NET Framework
15 9 (4.35%) Entity Framework
15 9 (4.35%) SOAP
16 7 (3.38%) KnockoutJS
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.63%) Algorithms
2 21 (10.14%) Enterprise Software
2 21 (10.14%) Self-Motivation
3 20 (9.66%) Data Structures
4 18 (8.70%) Device Driver
5 17 (8.21%) Analytical Mindset
5 17 (8.21%) Greenfield Project
5 17 (8.21%) Product Ownership
6 10 (4.83%) IoT
7 8 (3.86%) Blockchain
7 8 (3.86%) e-Learning
7 8 (3.86%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (3.38%) Cloud Native
8 7 (3.38%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.90%) Client/Server
9 6 (2.90%) Fixed Income
9 6 (2.90%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.93%) Credit Risk
10 4 (1.93%) Market Risk
11 2 (0.97%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 50 (24.15%) Linux
2 37 (17.87%) Embedded Linux
3 13 (6.28%) Windows
4 4 (1.93%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.93%) FreeRTOS
5 2 (0.97%) Android
5 2 (0.97%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.48%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (75.36%) OO
2 108 (52.17%) Software Engineering
3 96 (46.38%) Agile
4 75 (36.23%) Computer Science
5 61 (29.47%) DevOps
6 51 (24.64%) Design Patterns
6 51 (24.64%) SDLC
7 45 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
8 37 (17.87%) TDD
9 30 (14.49%) Scrum
10 29 (14.01%) CI/CD
11 28 (13.53%) SOLID
12 25 (12.08%) Mathematics
13 22 (10.63%) Clean Code
13 22 (10.63%) Full Stack Development
13 22 (10.63%) User Experience
14 21 (10.14%) Mentoring
14 21 (10.14%) Test Automation
15 19 (9.18%) MVC
15 19 (9.18%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 77 (37.20%) C#
2 61 (29.47%) Java
3 58 (28.02%) C
4 51 (24.64%) JavaScript
5 48 (23.19%) C++
6 41 (19.81%) SQL
7 38 (18.36%) Python
8 19 (9.18%) Bicep
9 17 (8.21%) Fortran
10 15 (7.25%) Embedded C
11 11 (5.31%) TypeScript
12 8 (3.86%) T-SQL
13 7 (3.38%) XPath
14 5 (2.42%) Groovy
15 4 (1.93%) Bash
15 4 (1.93%) PHP
16 2 (0.97%) MATLAB
16 2 (0.97%) Objective-C
16 2 (0.97%) PowerShell
16 2 (0.97%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 70 (33.82%) Degree
2 37 (17.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (10.14%) Master's Degree
4 17 (8.21%) PhD
5 5 (2.42%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (1.45%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.48%) CCNA
7 1 (0.48%) CCNP
7 1 (0.48%) CCSA
7 1 (0.48%) CCSE
7 1 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.48%) CISSP
7 1 (0.48%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.48%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.48%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.73%) QA
2 13 (6.28%) GDPR
3 6 (2.90%) ISO 9000
4 5 (2.42%) MISRA
4 5 (2.42%) MISRA C
5 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.48%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.48%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (14.49%) Docker
2 18 (8.70%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.90%) HDFS
4 5 (2.42%) Firmware
5 4 (1.93%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 22 (10.63%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.93%) Terraform
Vendors
1 49 (23.67%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.83%) Google
3 8 (3.86%) IBM
3 8 (3.86%) Red Hat
4 5 (2.42%) Oracle
4 5 (2.42%) Xamarin
5 2 (0.97%) ServiceNow
5 2 (0.97%) Siemens
6 1 (0.48%) Aruba
6 1 (0.48%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.48%) Blue Coat
6 1 (0.48%) CheckPoint
6 1 (0.48%) Cisco
6 1 (0.48%) F5
6 1 (0.48%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.48%) Juniper
6 1 (0.48%) McAfee
6 1 (0.48%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.48%) SAP
6 1 (0.48%) Sitecore