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 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 201 117 90
Rank change year-on-year -84 -27 -2
Permanent jobs citing OO 1,497 2,812 6,541
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.43% 2.97% 3.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.70% 3.11% 4.04%
Number of salaries quoted 803 1,494 2,217
10th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £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 £67,500 £82,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £106,250 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £52,750
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.00% +11.05%

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 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%

OO
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for OO in the UK

OO
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 1 June 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 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 -80 1,256 £52,500 -19.23% 319
UK excluding London -72 1,141 £50,000 -13.04% 220
Work from Home -77 549 £50,000 -16.67% 184
London -82 327 £85,000 +6.25% 125
North of England -51 288 £47,500 -17.39% 60
South East -41 279 £52,500 -12.50% 49
North West -4 193 £45,000 -21.74% 30
Midlands -57 187 £47,500 -17.39% 37
Scotland -54 185 £52,500 -8.70% 21
East Midlands -15 113 £45,000 -21.74% 12
South West -105 89 £47,500 -17.57% 20
Yorkshire -50 79 £55,000 -4.35% 21
East of England -54 75 £47,500 -13.64% 22
West Midlands -81 73 £47,500 -17.39% 25
Northern Ireland -31 20 £40,000 -23.81% 9
Wales -41 18 £46,250 -33.93% 7
North East -58 16 £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 37 (2.47%) Apache
2 30 (2.00%) CMS
3 22 (1.47%) SharePoint
4 18 (1.20%) Apache Spark
5 15 (1.00%) Confluence
6 14 (0.94%) ArcGIS
7 13 (0.87%) NServiceBus
8 11 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
9 9 (0.60%) IIS
9 9 (0.60%) nginx
10 6 (0.40%) Apache Pig
10 6 (0.40%) Drupal
10 6 (0.40%) JBoss
10 6 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
11 5 (0.33%) WebSphere
12 4 (0.27%) SAS
12 4 (0.27%) Tomcat
13 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
13 3 (0.20%) WildFly
14 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 19 (1.27%) Photoshop
2 17 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (0.60%) Trello
5 8 (0.53%) InfoPath
6 3 (0.20%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.20%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 20 (1.34%) 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 (0.13%) CiviCRM
4 2 (0.13%) Magento
5 1 (0.067%) Shopify
5 1 (0.067%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 683 (45.62%) Azure
2 319 (21.31%) AWS
3 248 (16.57%) IBM Cloud
4 200 (13.36%) Azure DevOps
5 175 (11.69%) Serverless
6 165 (11.02%) Azure Service Bus
7 140 (9.35%) Azure Functions
8 136 (9.08%) Azure API Management
8 136 (9.08%) Azure Logic Apps
9 84 (5.61%) GCP
10 40 (2.67%) SaaS
11 31 (2.07%) GitHub
12 28 (1.87%) Amazon S3
12 28 (1.87%) AWS Lambda
13 20 (1.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 19 (1.27%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 19 (1.27%) NuGet
15 18 (1.20%) Azure Monitor
16 16 (1.07%) Amazon SQS
17 14 (0.94%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 27 (1.80%) TCP/IP
2 24 (1.60%) Internet
3 21 (1.40%) Wi-Fi
4 20 (1.34%) HTTP
5 18 (1.20%) MQTT
5 18 (1.20%) SSH
6 13 (0.87%) 3G
6 13 (0.87%) 4G
6 13 (0.87%) FTP
6 13 (0.87%) RS-485
6 13 (0.87%) SNMP
6 13 (0.87%) Wireless
7 5 (0.33%) Bluetooth
8 4 (0.27%) RS-232
9 3 (0.20%) Kerberos
10 2 (0.13%) Firewall
10 2 (0.13%) Modbus
10 2 (0.13%) Network Security
10 2 (0.13%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 356 (23.78%) SQL Server
2 331 (22.11%) NoSQL
3 318 (21.24%) PostgreSQL
4 315 (21.04%) MongoDB
5 253 (16.90%) Relational Database
6 238 (15.90%) DB2
7 173 (11.56%) MySQL
8 40 (2.67%) Data Lake
9 39 (2.61%) Qlik Sense
10 29 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
11 27 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
12 23 (1.54%) GIS
13 20 (1.34%) NonStop SQL
14 19 (1.27%) Geospatial Data
15 17 (1.14%) Apache Hive
15 17 (1.14%) MariaDB
15 17 (1.14%) Redis
16 16 (1.07%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 14 (0.94%) Big Data
18 11 (0.73%) Presto
Development Applications
1 229 (15.30%) Git
2 99 (6.61%) JIRA
3 72 (4.81%) Visual Studio
4 37 (2.47%) Maven
5 33 (2.20%) JUnit
6 29 (1.94%) Jenkins
6 29 (1.94%) NUnit
7 26 (1.74%) Subversion
8 24 (1.60%) Postman
9 23 (1.54%) Sourcetree
9 23 (1.54%) SpecFlow
9 23 (1.54%) TeamCity
10 21 (1.40%) git-flow
10 21 (1.40%) Moq
10 21 (1.40%) Octopus Deploy
11 20 (1.34%) Selenium
12 18 (1.20%) Eclipse
12 18 (1.20%) JMeter
13 16 (1.07%) CMake
14 13 (0.87%) Bitbucket
General
1 277 (18.50%) Finance
2 275 (18.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 273 (18.24%) Public Sector
4 236 (15.76%) Social Skills
5 161 (10.75%) Law
6 111 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
7 99 (6.61%) Legal
8 65 (4.34%) Banking
9 61 (4.07%) Marketing
10 48 (3.21%) Investment Banking
11 45 (3.01%) Electronics
12 39 (2.61%) Front Office
13 29 (1.94%) Advertising
14 27 (1.80%) Manufacturing
15 22 (1.47%) Prime Brokerage
16 21 (1.40%) Back Office
17 20 (1.34%) Military
18 19 (1.27%) Games
18 19 (1.27%) Retail
19 18 (1.20%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 713 (47.63%) Developer
2 389 (25.99%) Software Engineer
3 238 (15.90%) Senior
4 208 (13.89%) .NET Developer
5 196 (13.09%) Full Stack Developer
6 161 (10.75%) Full Stack Engineer
7 137 (9.15%) Azure Developer
8 120 (8.02%) Azure Engineer
9 117 (7.82%) Lead
10 111 (7.41%) PHP Developer
11 88 (5.88%) C# Developer
11 88 (5.88%) Senior Developer
12 81 (5.41%) Senior Software Engineer
13 80 (5.34%) Java Engineer
14 68 (4.54%) Java Software Engineer
15 64 (4.28%) Software Developer
16 53 (3.54%) Support Engineer
17 51 (3.41%) Data Engineer
18 46 (3.07%) Full Stack Software Engineer
19 41 (2.74%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 729 (48.70%) .NET
2 525 (35.07%) AngularJS
3 519 (34.67%) HTML
4 499 (33.33%) ASP.NET
5 477 (31.86%) CSS
6 464 (31.00%) React
7 411 (27.45%) Web Services
8 390 (26.05%) REST
9 354 (23.65%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 354 (23.65%) Vue
10 337 (22.51%) jQuery
11 258 (17.23%) .NET Core
12 247 (16.50%) ASP.NET Core
13 241 (16.10%) Ember.js
14 238 (15.90%) Backbone.js
15 227 (15.16%) .NET Framework
16 212 (14.16%) Entity Framework
17 200 (13.36%) ASP.NET MVC
18 172 (11.49%) Node.js
19 163 (10.89%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 384 (25.65%) Algorithms
2 279 (18.64%) Data Structures
3 249 (16.63%) Hybrid Cloud
4 248 (16.57%) Blockchain
5 121 (8.08%) e-Learning
6 91 (6.08%) Onboarding
7 88 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
8 60 (4.01%) Cloud Native
9 35 (2.34%) Social Network
10 34 (2.27%) Social Media
11 33 (2.20%) BBC
12 30 (2.00%) Hedge funds
12 30 (2.00%) Mobile App
13 29 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
14 28 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
15 25 (1.67%) Management Information System
16 24 (1.60%) Product Ownership
17 23 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
17 23 (1.54%) Legacy Code
18 20 (1.34%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 432 (28.86%) Linux
2 340 (22.71%) Windows
3 259 (17.30%) Android
4 257 (17.17%) Apple iOS
5 28 (1.87%) Embedded Linux
6 27 (1.80%) Unix
7 22 (1.47%) AIX
8 9 (0.60%) VMS
9 6 (0.40%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.40%) Windows 10
10 4 (0.27%) FreeRTOS
10 4 (0.27%) Windows Server
11 2 (0.13%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.067%) CentOS
12 1 (0.067%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.067%) Solaris
12 1 (0.067%) VxWorks
12 1 (0.067%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 817 (54.58%) Agile
2 628 (41.95%) OOP
3 604 (40.35%) Full Stack Development
4 534 (35.67%) MVC
5 530 (35.40%) Software Engineering
6 428 (28.59%) Design Patterns
7 373 (24.92%) Artificial Intelligence
8 353 (23.58%) DevOps
9 344 (22.98%) SOLID
10 336 (22.44%) Web Development
11 297 (19.84%) User Experience
12 280 (18.70%) Problem-Solving
13 274 (18.30%) MVVM
14 257 (17.17%) Responsive Web Design
14 257 (17.17%) SDLC
15 255 (17.03%) Microservices
16 252 (16.83%) Computer Science
17 243 (16.23%) Mentoring
18 239 (15.97%) Co-Creation
19 238 (15.90%) Design Thinking
Programming Languages
1 822 (54.91%) C#
2 765 (51.10%) JavaScript
3 644 (43.02%) SQL
4 529 (35.34%) Java
5 422 (28.19%) Python
6 157 (10.49%) C++
7 141 (9.42%) PHP
8 112 (7.48%) C
9 88 (5.88%) TypeScript
10 63 (4.21%) T-SQL
11 36 (2.40%) PowerShell
12 29 (1.94%) Scala
12 29 (1.94%) VB
13 27 (1.80%) Go
14 26 (1.74%) XPath
15 25 (1.67%) Perl
16 24 (1.60%) Bash
17 23 (1.54%) Groovy
18 21 (1.40%) Kotlin
19 17 (1.14%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 311 (20.77%) Degree
2 133 (8.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 54 (3.61%) Security Cleared
4 45 (3.01%) Master's Degree
5 24 (1.60%) PhD
6 23 (1.54%) SC Cleared
7 13 (0.87%) DV Cleared
8 11 (0.73%) HND
9 6 (0.40%) HNC
9 6 (0.40%) ISTQB
9 6 (0.40%) Numerate Degree
10 5 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.20%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.13%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.13%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.067%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.067%) MCP
13 1 (0.067%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.067%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (5.14%) QA
2 15 (1.00%) GDPR
3 12 (0.80%) PMO
4 10 (0.67%) Accessibility
5 9 (0.60%) MISRA
6 6 (0.40%) Data Quality
6 6 (0.40%) MiFID
7 5 (0.33%) MISRA C
7 5 (0.33%) NCSC
8 4 (0.27%) DICOM
8 4 (0.27%) HL7
8 4 (0.27%) ISO 13485
9 3 (0.20%) EMIR
10 2 (0.13%) IEC 61508
10 2 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 2 (0.13%) SEPA
11 1 (0.067%) ISO 9000
11 1 (0.067%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.067%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.067%) SLA
System Software
1 88 (5.88%) Docker
2 25 (1.67%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.34%) Firmware
4 19 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.73%) Embedded Firmware
6 6 (0.40%) HDFS
7 2 (0.13%) NFS
7 2 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.067%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.067%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.067%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.067%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 71 (4.74%) Kubernetes
2 68 (4.54%) Terraform
3 13 (0.87%) WMI
4 10 (0.67%) Ansible
5 6 (0.40%) CloudHub
6 3 (0.20%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.13%) CASB
7 2 (0.13%) Istio
7 2 (0.13%) linkerd
8 1 (0.067%) Grafana
8 1 (0.067%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.067%) Kiali
8 1 (0.067%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.067%) Packer
8 1 (0.067%) Podman
8 1 (0.067%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.067%) Puppet
8 1 (0.067%) SCCM
8 1 (0.067%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 312 (20.84%) Microsoft
2 251 (16.77%) IBM
3 249 (16.63%) Red Hat
4 115 (7.68%) Oracle
5 73 (4.88%) Google
6 39 (2.61%) Alteryx
7 37 (2.47%) Apple
8 34 (2.27%) Sony
9 33 (2.20%) Facebook
9 33 (2.20%) Yahoo!
10 21 (1.40%) Adobe
11 20 (1.34%) Salesforce
12 19 (1.27%) Cognizant
13 18 (1.20%) Databricks
14 16 (1.07%) SAP
15 14 (0.94%) Atlassian
15 14 (0.94%) Splunk
16 10 (0.67%) Bloomberg
17 9 (0.60%) MuleSoft
17 9 (0.60%) Xamarin