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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 197 115 90
Rank change year-on-year -82 -25 -2
Permanent jobs citing OO 1,514 2,754 6,630
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.40% 2.95% 3.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% 3.09% 4.02%
Number of salaries quoted 797 1,458 2,235
10th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £50,000 £45,625
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 £90,500 £106,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +15.79%

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 89,730 89,109 165,036
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.98% 95.44% 95.91%
Number of salaries quoted 62,034 53,947 83,947
10th Percentile £29,500 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,000
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 8 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 8 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 -83 1,275 £52,500 -19.23% 297
UK excluding London -77 1,155 £50,000 -13.04% 228
Work from Home -79 559 £50,000 -20.00% 211
London -95 330 £85,000 +6.25% 103
North of England -46 296 £47,500 -17.39% 62
South East -33 279 £52,500 -16.00% 48
North West -2 197 £45,000 -21.74% 30
Midlands -67 190 £47,500 -17.39% 32
Scotland -50 182 £52,500 -8.70% 22
East Midlands -28 114 £45,000 -23.40% 11
South West -102 92 £47,500 -17.57% 23
Yorkshire -40 83 £55,000 -4.35% 22
East of England -57 76 £47,500 -13.64% 24
West Midlands -75 75 £47,500 -17.39% 21
Northern Ireland -33 20 £40,000 -23.81% 16
Wales -38 20 £47,500 -32.14% 7
North East -65 16 £42,500 -22.73% 10

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 38 (2.51%) Apache
2 31 (2.05%) CMS
3 21 (1.39%) SharePoint
4 19 (1.25%) Apache Spark
5 15 (0.99%) Confluence
6 14 (0.92%) ArcGIS
6 14 (0.92%) NServiceBus
7 11 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
8 9 (0.59%) IIS
8 9 (0.59%) nginx
9 6 (0.40%) Drupal
9 6 (0.40%) JBoss
9 6 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
9 6 (0.40%) WildFly
10 5 (0.33%) Apache Pig
10 5 (0.33%) WebSphere
11 4 (0.26%) SAS
11 4 (0.26%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
12 3 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 19 (1.25%) Photoshop
2 17 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.66%) Trello
5 9 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
6 8 (0.53%) InfoPath
7 4 (0.26%) MS Visio
8 3 (0.20%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 20 (1.32%) SDL Web 8
2 4 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.13%) CiviCRM
4 2 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.13%) Magento
4 2 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.13%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.066%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 686 (45.31%) Azure
2 322 (21.27%) AWS
3 248 (16.38%) IBM Cloud
4 203 (13.41%) Azure DevOps
5 176 (11.62%) Serverless
6 164 (10.83%) Azure Service Bus
7 140 (9.25%) Azure Functions
8 135 (8.92%) Azure API Management
8 135 (8.92%) Azure Logic Apps
9 82 (5.42%) GCP
10 40 (2.64%) SaaS
11 29 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
11 29 (1.92%) GitHub
12 28 (1.85%) Amazon S3
13 20 (1.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 19 (1.25%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 19 (1.25%) NuGet
15 18 (1.19%) Azure Monitor
16 16 (1.06%) Amazon SQS
17 14 (0.92%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 28 (1.85%) TCP/IP
2 24 (1.59%) Internet
3 21 (1.39%) HTTP
3 21 (1.39%) Wi-Fi
4 18 (1.19%) MQTT
4 18 (1.19%) SSH
5 13 (0.86%) 3G
5 13 (0.86%) 4G
5 13 (0.86%) FTP
5 13 (0.86%) RS-485
5 13 (0.86%) SNMP
5 13 (0.86%) Wireless
6 5 (0.33%) Bluetooth
7 4 (0.26%) RS-232
8 3 (0.20%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.13%) Firewall
9 2 (0.13%) Modbus
9 2 (0.13%) Network Security
9 2 (0.13%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 360 (23.78%) SQL Server
2 327 (21.60%) NoSQL
3 321 (21.20%) PostgreSQL
4 313 (20.67%) MongoDB
5 256 (16.91%) Relational Database
6 238 (15.72%) DB2
7 179 (11.82%) MySQL
8 41 (2.71%) Data Lake
9 39 (2.58%) Qlik Sense
10 30 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
11 28 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
12 23 (1.52%) GIS
13 20 (1.32%) NonStop SQL
14 19 (1.25%) Geospatial Data
15 16 (1.06%) Apache Hive
15 16 (1.06%) MariaDB
15 16 (1.06%) Redis
15 16 (1.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 14 (0.92%) Big Data
17 11 (0.73%) Presto
Development Applications
1 237 (15.65%) Git
2 99 (6.54%) JIRA
3 72 (4.76%) Visual Studio
4 38 (2.51%) Maven
5 33 (2.18%) JUnit
6 30 (1.98%) NUnit
7 28 (1.85%) Jenkins
8 26 (1.72%) Subversion
9 23 (1.52%) Sourcetree
9 23 (1.52%) SpecFlow
10 22 (1.45%) Postman
10 22 (1.45%) Selenium
10 22 (1.45%) TeamCity
11 21 (1.39%) git-flow
11 21 (1.39%) Moq
12 20 (1.32%) Octopus Deploy
13 19 (1.25%) JMeter
14 18 (1.19%) Eclipse
15 16 (1.06%) CMake
16 15 (0.99%) Bitbucket
General
1 277 (18.30%) Finance
2 274 (18.10%) Public Sector
3 269 (17.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 235 (15.52%) Social Skills
5 153 (10.11%) Law
6 107 (7.07%) Analytical Skills
7 94 (6.21%) Legal
8 64 (4.23%) Banking
9 60 (3.96%) Marketing
10 48 (3.17%) Electronics
11 46 (3.04%) Investment Banking
12 39 (2.58%) Front Office
13 31 (2.05%) Advertising
14 28 (1.85%) Manufacturing
15 22 (1.45%) Back Office
15 22 (1.45%) Prime Brokerage
16 20 (1.32%) Games
16 20 (1.32%) Military
16 20 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
17 19 (1.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 726 (47.95%) Developer
2 394 (26.02%) Software Engineer
3 244 (16.12%) Senior
4 214 (14.13%) .NET Developer
5 200 (13.21%) Full Stack Developer
6 159 (10.50%) Full Stack Engineer
7 136 (8.98%) Azure Developer
8 121 (7.99%) Azure Engineer
9 116 (7.66%) Lead
9 116 (7.66%) PHP Developer
10 93 (6.14%) Senior Developer
11 92 (6.08%) C# Developer
12 84 (5.55%) Senior Software Engineer
13 80 (5.28%) Java Engineer
14 67 (4.43%) Java Software Engineer
15 62 (4.10%) Software Developer
16 53 (3.50%) Support Engineer
17 50 (3.30%) Data Engineer
18 43 (2.84%) Full Stack Software Engineer
19 42 (2.77%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 739 (48.81%) .NET
2 529 (34.94%) AngularJS
3 526 (34.74%) HTML
4 504 (33.29%) ASP.NET
5 482 (31.84%) CSS
6 469 (30.98%) React
7 412 (27.21%) Web Services
8 398 (26.29%) REST
9 354 (23.38%) Vue
10 353 (23.32%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 337 (22.26%) jQuery
12 262 (17.31%) .NET Core
13 248 (16.38%) ASP.NET Core
14 241 (15.92%) Ember.js
15 238 (15.72%) Backbone.js
16 230 (15.19%) .NET Framework
17 214 (14.13%) Entity Framework
18 201 (13.28%) ASP.NET MVC
19 173 (11.43%) Node.js
20 164 (10.83%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 375 (24.77%) Algorithms
2 274 (18.10%) Data Structures
3 249 (16.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 248 (16.38%) Blockchain
5 121 (7.99%) e-Learning
6 87 (5.75%) Greenfield Project
7 83 (5.48%) Onboarding
8 60 (3.96%) Cloud Native
9 35 (2.31%) Social Network
10 34 (2.25%) Social Media
11 33 (2.18%) BBC
12 31 (2.05%) Hedge funds
13 29 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
13 29 (1.92%) Mobile App
13 29 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
14 24 (1.59%) Management Information System
15 23 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
15 23 (1.52%) Legacy Code
16 22 (1.45%) Product Ownership
17 20 (1.32%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 436 (28.80%) Linux
2 342 (22.59%) Windows
3 261 (17.24%) Android
4 259 (17.11%) Apple iOS
5 28 (1.85%) Embedded Linux
5 28 (1.85%) Unix
6 22 (1.45%) AIX
7 9 (0.59%) VMS
8 6 (0.40%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.40%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.33%) Windows Server
10 4 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
11 2 (0.13%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.066%) CentOS
12 1 (0.066%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.066%) Solaris
12 1 (0.066%) VxWorks
12 1 (0.066%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 814 (53.76%) Agile
2 647 (42.73%) OOP
3 608 (40.16%) Full Stack Development
4 540 (35.67%) Software Engineering
5 536 (35.40%) MVC
6 430 (28.40%) Design Patterns
7 369 (24.37%) Artificial Intelligence
8 351 (23.18%) DevOps
9 346 (22.85%) SOLID
10 342 (22.59%) Web Development
11 298 (19.68%) User Experience
12 281 (18.56%) Problem-Solving
13 275 (18.16%) MVVM
14 259 (17.11%) Microservices
15 257 (16.97%) Responsive Web Design
16 247 (16.31%) Computer Science
16 247 (16.31%) SDLC
17 243 (16.05%) Mentoring
18 239 (15.79%) Co-Creation
19 238 (15.72%) Design Thinking
Programming Languages
1 829 (54.76%) C#
2 775 (51.19%) JavaScript
3 650 (42.93%) SQL
4 529 (34.94%) Java
5 419 (27.68%) Python
6 156 (10.30%) C++
7 148 (9.78%) PHP
8 111 (7.33%) C
9 89 (5.88%) TypeScript
10 63 (4.16%) T-SQL
11 38 (2.51%) PowerShell
12 31 (2.05%) Scala
13 29 (1.92%) Go
13 29 (1.92%) VB
14 26 (1.72%) XPath
15 25 (1.65%) Perl
16 24 (1.59%) Bash
16 24 (1.59%) Kotlin
17 23 (1.52%) Groovy
18 17 (1.12%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 313 (20.67%) Degree
2 134 (8.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 57 (3.76%) Security Cleared
4 44 (2.91%) Master's Degree
5 26 (1.72%) SC Cleared
6 22 (1.45%) PhD
7 13 (0.86%) DV Cleared
8 11 (0.73%) HND
9 7 (0.46%) HNC
10 6 (0.40%) ISTQB
10 6 (0.40%) Numerate Degree
11 5 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.20%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.20%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.066%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.066%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.066%) MCP
13 1 (0.066%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.066%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (5.15%) QA
2 15 (0.99%) GDPR
3 12 (0.79%) PMO
4 10 (0.66%) Accessibility
5 9 (0.59%) MISRA
6 7 (0.46%) MiFID
7 5 (0.33%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.33%) MISRA C
7 5 (0.33%) NCSC
8 4 (0.26%) DICOM
8 4 (0.26%) EMIR
8 4 (0.26%) HL7
8 4 (0.26%) ISO 13485
9 2 (0.13%) IEC 61508
9 2 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 2 (0.13%) SEPA
10 1 (0.066%) ISO 9000
10 1 (0.066%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.066%) SLA
System Software
1 94 (6.21%) Docker
2 25 (1.65%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.39%) Firmware
4 20 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.73%) Embedded Firmware
6 5 (0.33%) HDFS
7 2 (0.13%) NFS
7 2 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.066%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.066%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.066%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.066%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 75 (4.95%) Kubernetes
2 65 (4.29%) Terraform
3 13 (0.86%) WMI
4 11 (0.73%) 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
7 2 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.066%) Grafana
8 1 (0.066%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.066%) Kiali
8 1 (0.066%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.066%) Packer
8 1 (0.066%) Podman
8 1 (0.066%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.066%) Puppet
8 1 (0.066%) SCCM
Vendors
1 315 (20.81%) Microsoft
2 252 (16.64%) IBM
3 249 (16.45%) Red Hat
4 115 (7.60%) Oracle
5 74 (4.89%) Google
6 39 (2.58%) Alteryx
7 38 (2.51%) Apple
8 34 (2.25%) Sony
9 33 (2.18%) Facebook
9 33 (2.18%) Yahoo!
10 21 (1.39%) Adobe
11 20 (1.32%) Salesforce
12 19 (1.25%) Cognizant
12 19 (1.25%) Databricks
13 14 (0.92%) Atlassian
13 14 (0.92%) SAP
13 14 (0.92%) Splunk
14 10 (0.66%) Bloomberg
14 10 (0.66%) MuleSoft
15 9 (0.59%) Xamarin