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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 200 118 89
Rank change year-on-year -82 -29 0
Permanent jobs citing OO 1,473 2,937 6,339
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.46% 2.98% 3.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.72% 3.12% 4.04%
Number of salaries quoted 803 1,560 2,236
10th Percentile £35,000 £42,975 £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 £68,625 £82,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £106,250 £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 85,549 94,155 156,986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.76% 95.59% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 60,063 55,401 82,663
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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% +10.53%

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 23 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 23 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 -82 1,233 £52,500 -19.23% 324
UK excluding London -71 1,127 £50,000 -13.04% 239
Work from Home -74 541 £50,000 -18.37% 232
London -101 317 £85,000 +6.25% 109
North of England -44 286 £47,500 -17.39% 66
South East -40 272 £52,500 -12.50% 48
North West -5 195 £45,000 -21.74% 30
Scotland -50 184 £52,500 -8.70% 19
Midlands -59 184 £47,500 -17.39% 48
East Midlands -9 111 £45,000 -21.74% 17
South West -99 89 £47,500 -13.64% 21
Yorkshire -45 77 £55,000 -4.35% 26
East of England -53 74 £47,500 -13.64% 25
West Midlands -66 72 £47,500 -17.39% 31
Northern Ireland -30 20 £40,000 -23.81% 8
Wales -38 18 £46,250 -45.59% 9
North East -57 14 £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 37 (2.51%) Apache
2 24 (1.63%) CMS
3 22 (1.49%) SharePoint
4 18 (1.22%) Apache Spark
5 16 (1.09%) Confluence
6 14 (0.95%) ArcGIS
7 13 (0.88%) NServiceBus
8 11 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
9 8 (0.54%) IIS
9 8 (0.54%) nginx
10 7 (0.48%) Apache Pig
11 6 (0.41%) Drupal
11 6 (0.41%) JBoss
11 6 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
12 5 (0.34%) WebSphere
13 4 (0.27%) SAS
14 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
14 3 (0.20%) Tomcat
15 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 1 (0.068%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 16 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 16 (1.09%) Photoshop
2 11 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.61%) Trello
4 8 (0.54%) InfoPath
4 8 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.20%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.20%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 17 (1.15%) 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
1 677 (45.96%) Azure
2 318 (21.59%) AWS
3 248 (16.84%) IBM Cloud
4 194 (13.17%) Azure DevOps
5 176 (11.95%) Serverless
6 165 (11.20%) Azure Service Bus
7 140 (9.50%) Azure Functions
8 136 (9.23%) Azure API Management
8 136 (9.23%) Azure Logic Apps
9 84 (5.70%) GCP
10 40 (2.72%) SaaS
11 33 (2.24%) GitHub
12 28 (1.90%) Amazon S3
12 28 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
13 20 (1.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 18 (1.22%) Azure Monitor
15 16 (1.09%) Adobe Creative Cloud
15 16 (1.09%) NuGet
16 15 (1.02%) Amazon SQS
16 15 (1.02%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 26 (1.77%) TCP/IP
2 25 (1.70%) 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
10 3 (0.20%) WAN
11 2 (0.14%) Firewall
11 2 (0.14%) Modbus
11 2 (0.14%) SD-WAN
12 1 (0.068%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 347 (23.56%) SQL Server
2 334 (22.67%) NoSQL
3 314 (21.32%) MongoDB
3 314 (21.32%) PostgreSQL
4 249 (16.90%) Relational Database
5 238 (16.16%) DB2
6 163 (11.07%) MySQL
7 41 (2.78%) Data Lake
8 39 (2.65%) Qlik Sense
9 28 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
10 27 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
11 23 (1.56%) GIS
12 20 (1.36%) NonStop SQL
13 19 (1.29%) Geospatial Data
14 18 (1.22%) Apache Hive
15 16 (1.09%) Big Data
15 16 (1.09%) MariaDB
15 16 (1.09%) Redis
15 16 (1.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 11 (0.75%) Presto
Development Applications
1 216 (14.66%) Git
2 96 (6.52%) JIRA
3 69 (4.68%) Visual Studio
4 36 (2.44%) Maven
5 31 (2.10%) Jenkins
5 31 (2.10%) JUnit
6 27 (1.83%) Subversion
7 26 (1.77%) NUnit
8 23 (1.56%) Postman
9 21 (1.43%) TeamCity
10 20 (1.36%) Sourcetree
10 20 (1.36%) SpecFlow
11 19 (1.29%) Octopus Deploy
12 18 (1.22%) Eclipse
12 18 (1.22%) git-flow
13 17 (1.15%) CMake
13 17 (1.15%) JMeter
13 17 (1.15%) Moq
14 15 (1.02%) Selenium
15 12 (0.81%) Bitbucket
General
1 275 (18.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 272 (18.47%) Finance
3 270 (18.33%) Public Sector
4 238 (16.16%) Social Skills
5 161 (10.93%) Law
6 112 (7.60%) Analytical Skills
7 98 (6.65%) Legal
8 67 (4.55%) Banking
9 57 (3.87%) Marketing
10 48 (3.26%) Investment Banking
11 42 (2.85%) Electronics
12 39 (2.65%) Front Office
13 28 (1.90%) Advertising
14 23 (1.56%) Manufacturing
15 22 (1.49%) Prime Brokerage
16 21 (1.43%) Retail
17 20 (1.36%) Back Office
17 20 (1.36%) Military
18 18 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
18 18 (1.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 696 (47.25%) Developer
2 376 (25.53%) Software Engineer
3 226 (15.34%) Senior
4 204 (13.85%) .NET Developer
5 190 (12.90%) Full Stack Developer
6 161 (10.93%) Full Stack Engineer
7 137 (9.30%) Azure Developer
8 118 (8.01%) Azure Engineer
8 118 (8.01%) Lead
9 109 (7.40%) PHP Developer
10 81 (5.50%) C# Developer
11 80 (5.43%) Senior Software Engineer
12 78 (5.30%) Java Engineer
13 76 (5.16%) Senior Developer
14 68 (4.62%) Java Software Engineer
15 63 (4.28%) Software Developer
16 56 (3.80%) Data Engineer
17 53 (3.60%) Support Engineer
18 46 (3.12%) Full Stack Software Engineer
19 40 (2.72%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 717 (48.68%) .NET
2 519 (35.23%) AngularJS
3 513 (34.83%) HTML
4 494 (33.54%) ASP.NET
5 474 (32.18%) CSS
6 456 (30.96%) React
7 403 (27.36%) Web Services
8 386 (26.21%) REST
9 354 (24.03%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 353 (23.96%) Vue
11 334 (22.67%) jQuery
12 256 (17.38%) .NET Core
13 246 (16.70%) ASP.NET Core
14 241 (16.36%) Ember.js
15 238 (16.16%) Backbone.js
16 219 (14.87%) .NET Framework
17 206 (13.99%) Entity Framework
18 197 (13.37%) ASP.NET MVC
19 172 (11.68%) Node.js
20 162 (11.00%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 386 (26.21%) Algorithms
2 279 (18.94%) Data Structures
3 249 (16.90%) Hybrid Cloud
4 248 (16.84%) Blockchain
5 121 (8.21%) e-Learning
6 92 (6.25%) Onboarding
7 85 (5.77%) Greenfield Project
8 59 (4.01%) Cloud Native
9 35 (2.38%) Social Network
10 34 (2.31%) Social Media
11 33 (2.24%) BBC
12 30 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
13 29 (1.97%) Hedge funds
13 29 (1.97%) Mobile App
14 28 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
15 25 (1.70%) Management Information System
15 25 (1.70%) Product Ownership
16 22 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
17 20 (1.36%) Legacy Code
18 19 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 427 (28.99%) Linux
2 337 (22.88%) Windows
3 259 (17.58%) Android
4 257 (17.45%) Apple iOS
5 26 (1.77%) Unix
6 25 (1.70%) 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
11 2 (0.14%) Windows Server
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 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 807 (54.79%) Agile
2 604 (41.00%) OOP
3 594 (40.33%) Full Stack Development
4 528 (35.85%) MVC
5 513 (34.83%) Software Engineering
6 424 (28.78%) Design Patterns
7 376 (25.53%) Artificial Intelligence
8 348 (23.63%) DevOps
9 338 (22.95%) SOLID
10 333 (22.61%) Web Development
11 295 (20.03%) User Experience
12 274 (18.60%) MVVM
13 272 (18.47%) Problem-Solving
14 260 (17.65%) SDLC
15 254 (17.24%) Microservices
15 254 (17.24%) Responsive Web Design
16 252 (17.11%) Computer Science
17 243 (16.50%) Mentoring
18 239 (16.23%) Co-Creation
19 238 (16.16%) Design Thinking
Programming Languages
1 813 (55.19%) C#
2 755 (51.26%) JavaScript
3 634 (43.04%) SQL
4 523 (35.51%) Java
5 425 (28.85%) Python
6 156 (10.59%) C++
7 135 (9.16%) PHP
8 110 (7.47%) C
9 86 (5.84%) TypeScript
10 60 (4.07%) T-SQL
11 32 (2.17%) PowerShell
12 29 (1.97%) VB
13 27 (1.83%) Scala
14 26 (1.77%) Perl
15 25 (1.70%) Bash
15 25 (1.70%) Go
16 23 (1.56%) Groovy
16 23 (1.56%) XPath
17 20 (1.36%) Kotlin
18 17 (1.15%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 307 (20.84%) Degree
2 133 (9.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 53 (3.60%) Security Cleared
4 45 (3.05%) Master's Degree
5 24 (1.63%) PhD
5 24 (1.63%) SC Cleared
6 12 (0.81%) DV Cleared
7 10 (0.68%) HND
8 6 (0.41%) ISTQB
8 6 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
9 5 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.34%) HNC
10 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.20%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.14%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.14%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.068%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.068%) MCP
12 1 (0.068%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.068%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (5.09%) QA
2 14 (0.95%) GDPR
3 13 (0.88%) PMO
4 10 (0.68%) Accessibility
5 9 (0.61%) Data Quality
5 9 (0.61%) MISRA
6 5 (0.34%) MiFID
6 5 (0.34%) MISRA C
6 5 (0.34%) NCSC
7 4 (0.27%) DICOM
7 4 (0.27%) HL7
7 4 (0.27%) ISO 13485
8 2 (0.14%) EMIR
8 2 (0.14%) IEC 61508
8 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 2 (0.14%) SEPA
9 1 (0.068%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.068%) ISO 9000
9 1 (0.068%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.068%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 87 (5.91%) Docker
2 25 (1.70%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.22%) Firmware
4 17 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.68%) Embedded Firmware
6 7 (0.48%) 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 67 (4.55%) Kubernetes
2 63 (4.28%) Terraform
3 13 (0.88%) WMI
4 6 (0.41%) Ansible
4 6 (0.41%) CloudHub
5 3 (0.20%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.14%) Istio
6 2 (0.14%) linkerd
7 1 (0.068%) CASB
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
1 304 (20.64%) Microsoft
2 251 (17.04%) IBM
3 248 (16.84%) Red Hat
4 113 (7.67%) Oracle
5 75 (5.09%) Google
6 39 (2.65%) 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 18 (1.22%) Databricks
12 17 (1.15%) Adobe
13 16 (1.09%) Cognizant
14 14 (0.95%) Atlassian
14 14 (0.95%) SAP
14 14 (0.95%) Splunk
15 10 (0.68%) Bloomberg
16 9 (0.61%) MuleSoft
16 9 (0.61%) Xamarin