OOP Jobs in the UK excluding London

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 241 158 151
Rank change year-on-year -83 -7 -30
Permanent jobs citing OOP 841 1,285 1,831
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.11% 2.27% 2.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 2.38% 2.63%
Number of salaries quoted 491 673 735
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £40,811
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61,250 £68,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £85,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 62,202 53,975 69,729
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.87% 95.46% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 42,597 28,532 41,279
10th Percentile £27,300 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing OOP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for OOP in the UK excluding London

OOP
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing OOP in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for OOP in the UK excluding London

OOP
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing OOP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for OOP in the UK excluding London

OOP
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OOP within the UK excluding London region 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
South East -58 223 £57,500 - 22
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% 3
North East -44 11 £71,500 +24.35% 3
OOP
UK

OOP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 14 (1.66%) Apache
2 13 (1.55%) NServiceBus
3 12 (1.43%) nginx
4 10 (1.19%) WordPress
5 8 (0.95%) Confluence
5 8 (0.95%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.59%) IIS
7 4 (0.48%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.48%) ColdFusion
7 4 (0.48%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.36%) WildFly
9 2 (0.24%) CMS
10 1 (0.12%) Drupal
10 1 (0.12%) PrestaShop
10 1 (0.12%) Umbraco
Applications
1 19 (2.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (1.07%) Trello
4 8 (0.95%) InfoPath
5 5 (0.59%) Doxygen
6 4 (0.48%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (0.48%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
7 2 (0.24%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 10 (1.19%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.24%) Magento
3 2 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 346 (41.14%) Azure
2 230 (27.35%) IBM Cloud
3 189 (22.47%) AWS
4 148 (17.60%) Serverless
5 140 (16.65%) Azure DevOps
6 120 (14.27%) Azure Service Bus
7 118 (14.03%) Azure Functions
8 115 (13.67%) Azure API Management
8 115 (13.67%) Azure Logic Apps
9 64 (7.61%) SaaS
10 47 (5.59%) GitHub
11 33 (3.92%) GCP
12 23 (2.73%) AWS Lambda
13 19 (2.26%) Cloud Computing
14 8 (0.95%) Amazon SQS
14 8 (0.95%) Microsoft 365
14 8 (0.95%) OneDrive
15 7 (0.83%) GitHub Actions
16 6 (0.71%) Amazon S3
17 5 (0.59%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.85%) TCP/IP
2 17 (2.02%) HTTP
3 13 (1.55%) SNMP
3 13 (1.55%) SSH
4 9 (1.07%) FTP
5 8 (0.95%) Internet
6 2 (0.24%) Multicast
6 2 (0.24%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.12%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 242 (28.78%) PostgreSQL
2 241 (28.66%) NoSQL
3 235 (27.94%) MongoDB
4 228 (27.11%) DB2
5 218 (25.92%) MySQL
6 174 (20.69%) Relational Database
7 62 (7.37%) SQL Server
8 28 (3.33%) Redis
9 20 (2.38%) MariaDB
10 15 (1.78%) GIS
11 10 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (0.71%) Big Data
12 6 (0.71%) Geospatial Data
13 5 (0.59%) MS Access
13 5 (0.59%) RDBMS
14 4 (0.48%) DynamoDB
15 3 (0.36%) Amazon Aurora
16 2 (0.24%) Azure SQL Database
16 2 (0.24%) Metadata
17 1 (0.12%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 135 (16.05%) Git
2 57 (6.78%) JIRA
3 25 (2.97%) Jenkins
4 22 (2.62%) GitLab
5 20 (2.38%) Maven
6 19 (2.26%) Eclipse
7 15 (1.78%) Selenium
8 14 (1.66%) PHPUnit
8 14 (1.66%) Visual Studio
9 12 (1.43%) TeamCity
10 11 (1.31%) CircleCI
11 7 (0.83%) Postman
11 7 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
12 6 (0.71%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.71%) JMeter
12 6 (0.71%) Newman
12 6 (0.71%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.71%) Subversion
13 5 (0.59%) InstallShield
13 5 (0.59%) webpack
General
1 253 (30.08%) Public Sector
2 141 (16.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 115 (13.67%) Social Skills
4 72 (8.56%) Finance
5 47 (5.59%) Law
6 29 (3.45%) Banking
7 27 (3.21%) Retail
8 25 (2.97%) Games
9 23 (2.73%) Analytical Skills
10 21 (2.50%) Electronics
10 21 (2.50%) Publishing
11 17 (2.02%) Investment Banking
12 14 (1.66%) Manufacturing
12 14 (1.66%) Marketing
12 14 (1.66%) Telecoms
13 11 (1.31%) Automotive
13 11 (1.31%) Legal
14 10 (1.19%) Retail Banking
15 9 (1.07%) Tech for Good
16 8 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 485 (57.67%) Developer
2 175 (20.81%) Full Stack Developer
3 169 (20.10%) Senior
4 149 (17.72%) Software Engineer
5 127 (15.10%) Full Stack Engineer
6 123 (14.63%) PHP Developer
7 116 (13.79%) Azure Developer
8 115 (13.67%) Azure Engineer
9 97 (11.53%) Senior Developer
10 71 (8.44%) .NET Developer
11 61 (7.25%) Software Developer
12 40 (4.76%) Web Developer
13 37 (4.40%) Senior Software Engineer
14 32 (3.80%) Lead
15 31 (3.69%) C# Developer
16 27 (3.21%) Java Developer
16 27 (3.21%) Senior .NET Developer
17 26 (3.09%) Senior PHP Developer
18 25 (2.97%) .NET Software Engineer
19 24 (2.85%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 466 (55.41%) HTML
2 451 (53.63%) CSS
3 420 (49.94%) .NET
4 358 (42.57%) React
5 345 (41.02%) Vue
6 335 (39.83%) AngularJS
7 333 (39.60%) jQuery
8 324 (38.53%) Web Services
9 314 (37.34%) REST
10 288 (34.24%) ASP.NET
11 245 (29.13%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 237 (28.18%) ASP.NET Core
13 228 (27.11%) Backbone.js
13 228 (27.11%) Ember.js
14 149 (17.72%) Node.js
15 148 (17.60%) Laravel
16 101 (12.01%) LAMP
17 61 (7.25%) RESTful
18 53 (6.30%) HTML5
19 52 (6.18%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 273 (32.46%) Algorithms
2 264 (31.39%) Data Structures
3 230 (27.35%) Blockchain
3 230 (27.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 113 (13.44%) e-Learning
5 42 (4.99%) Client/Server
6 30 (3.57%) Product Ownership
7 24 (2.85%) Cloud Native
7 24 (2.85%) Video\Live Streaming
8 23 (2.73%) Greenfield Project
9 15 (1.78%) Distributed Applications
9 15 (1.78%) IoT
10 13 (1.55%) CMDB
11 11 (1.31%) Online Games
11 11 (1.31%) PropTech
12 10 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (1.07%) Life Science
14 7 (0.83%) Mobile App
15 6 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
15 6 (0.71%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 316 (37.57%) Linux
2 288 (34.24%) Windows
3 244 (29.01%) Android
4 241 (28.66%) Apple iOS
5 30 (3.57%) Unix
6 9 (1.07%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.59%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 506 (60.17%) OO
2 385 (45.78%) MVC
3 368 (43.76%) Design Patterns
4 363 (43.16%) Agile
5 358 (42.57%) Full Stack Development
6 314 (37.34%) Web Development
7 301 (35.79%) SOLID
8 272 (32.34%) User Experience
9 252 (29.96%) MVVM
10 244 (29.01%) Artificial Intelligence
11 234 (27.82%) Responsive Web Design
12 228 (27.11%) Co-Creation
12 228 (27.11%) Design Thinking
13 211 (25.09%) Software Engineering
14 199 (23.66%) Mentoring
15 198 (23.54%) DevOps
16 150 (17.84%) Code Quality
17 146 (17.36%) Problem-Solving
18 127 (15.10%) TDD
19 123 (14.63%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 545 (64.80%) JavaScript
2 446 (53.03%) C#
3 395 (46.97%) SQL
4 236 (28.06%) Java
5 221 (26.28%) PHP
6 183 (21.76%) Python
7 76 (9.04%) TypeScript
8 38 (4.52%) C++
9 34 (4.04%) C
10 30 (3.57%) T-SQL
11 22 (2.62%) PowerShell
12 20 (2.38%) Groovy
13 14 (1.66%) Apex Code
14 13 (1.55%) Perl
14 13 (1.55%) VB.NET
15 12 (1.43%) Ada
16 11 (1.31%) Shell Script
17 9 (1.07%) Go
18 8 (0.95%) MATLAB
19 7 (0.83%) VB
Qualifications
1 135 (16.05%) Degree
2 60 (7.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (3.21%) Security Cleared
4 11 (1.31%) Master's Degree
5 9 (1.07%) DBS Check
6 8 (0.95%) AWS Certification
6 8 (0.95%) Azure Certification
7 7 (0.83%) PhD
8 6 (0.71%) Numerate Degree
9 5 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.48%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.12%) HNC
12 1 (0.12%) HND
12 1 (0.12%) MCP
12 1 (0.12%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (2.97%) QA
2 4 (0.48%) DICOM
2 4 (0.48%) HL7
2 4 (0.48%) ISO 13485
3 3 (0.36%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.24%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.24%) GDPR
5 1 (0.12%) SLA
System Software
1 82 (9.75%) Docker
2 11 (1.31%) Firmware
3 5 (0.59%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 48 (5.71%) Kubernetes
2 38 (4.52%) Terraform
3 13 (1.55%) WMI
4 4 (0.48%) Ansible
4 4 (0.48%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.12%) Argo
5 1 (0.12%) Grafana
5 1 (0.12%) SCCM
Vendors
1 230 (27.35%) IBM
1 230 (27.35%) Red Hat
2 69 (8.20%) Microsoft
3 20 (2.38%) Oracle
4 19 (2.26%) Salesforce
5 13 (1.55%) Splunk
6 12 (1.43%) Google
7 11 (1.31%) SAP
7 11 (1.31%) Xamarin
8 6 (0.71%) MuleSoft
9 5 (0.59%) F5
9 5 (0.59%) Twitter
10 4 (0.48%) Adobe
11 3 (0.36%) Peregrine
12 1 (0.12%) Ivanti
12 1 (0.12%) New Relic
12 1 (0.12%) Sitecore
12 1 (0.12%) Sun
12 1 (0.12%) Sybase