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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 681 746 500
Rank change year-on-year +65 -246 -20
Permanent jobs citing OOD 207 231 1,126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.23% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.24% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 142 168 430
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,192 £38,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,813 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £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 85,108 95,066 155,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.18% 95.58% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,794 56,135 83,138
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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%

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 20 May 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 20 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 +64 183 £61,500 -5.38% 63
UK excluding London +20 141 £60,000 +14.29% 50
Work from Home +29 78 £60,000 -7.69% 29
London +67 66 £78,750 +1.61% 17
South East +22 55 £63,750 +21.43% 23
North of England +44 25 £60,000 +27.66% 8
Midlands +3 19 £47,500 -24.00% 8
Scotland -53 16 £60,000 -7.69% 1
West Midlands +21 14 £47,500 -20.83% 5
Yorkshire +89 12 - - 5
North West +2 12 £60,000 +84.62%
South West -24 10 £47,500 -9.52% 4
Wales +12 8 £46,250 -45.59% 4
East of England +1 8 £76,250 +90.35% 1
East Midlands -16 5 £45,000 -30.77% 3
North East -3 1 £55,000 +17.02% 3

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%) Apache Pig
2 7 (3.38%) IIS
3 2 (0.97%) Confluence
3 2 (0.97%) IBM Domino
4 1 (0.48%) Drupal
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 57 (27.54%) Azure
2 51 (24.64%) AWS
3 29 (14.01%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (10.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 20 (9.66%) Azure Monitor
6 18 (8.70%) Azure Service Bus
7 15 (7.25%) SaaS
8 11 (5.31%) GitHub
8 11 (5.31%) Serverless
9 8 (3.86%) IBM Cloud
10 7 (3.38%) Google Analytics
11 5 (2.42%) GCP
12 4 (1.93%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (1.93%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (1.93%) Amazon S3
12 4 (1.93%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (1.93%) Power Platform
13 2 (0.97%) Amazon SQS
13 2 (0.97%) Dynamics 365
14 1 (0.48%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 25 (12.08%) Wi-Fi
1 25 (12.08%) Wireless
2 17 (8.21%) RS-232
3 13 (6.28%) Ethernet
4 12 (5.80%) 3G
4 12 (5.80%) 4G
4 12 (5.80%) MQTT
4 12 (5.80%) RS-485
5 7 (3.38%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.97%) HTTP
6 2 (0.97%) Modbus
7 1 (0.48%) FTP
7 1 (0.48%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (18.36%) SQL Server
2 16 (7.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 14 (6.76%) Relational Database
4 9 (4.35%) Big Data
5 7 (3.38%) Apache Hive
5 7 (3.38%) Hadoop
6 6 (2.90%) MySQL
6 6 (2.90%) NoSQL
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 36 (17.39%) Git
2 23 (11.11%) JUnit
3 17 (8.21%) Visual Studio
4 15 (7.25%) JIRA
5 14 (6.76%) Maven
6 7 (3.38%) Checkstyle
6 7 (3.38%) SonarQube
7 6 (2.90%) Bitbucket
8 5 (2.42%) Jenkins
9 4 (1.93%) Sourcetree
9 4 (1.93%) Subversion
9 4 (1.93%) Zephyr
10 2 (0.97%) Appium
10 2 (0.97%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.97%) Mockito
10 2 (0.97%) Selenium
10 2 (0.97%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.97%) WebDriver
10 2 (0.97%) Xcode
11 1 (0.48%) Rational DOORS
General
1 71 (34.30%) Social Skills
2 40 (19.32%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (8.21%) Back Office
3 17 (8.21%) Finance
3 17 (8.21%) Manufacturing
4 16 (7.73%) Local Government
5 12 (5.80%) Electronics
5 12 (5.80%) Mandarin Language
6 10 (4.83%) Front Office
7 8 (3.86%) Banking
7 8 (3.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.86%) Investment Banking
7 8 (3.86%) Public Sector
8 7 (3.38%) Law
9 6 (2.90%) Legal
9 6 (2.90%) Publishing
10 5 (2.42%) Automotive
10 5 (2.42%) Games
11 4 (1.93%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.97%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 93 (44.93%) Senior
2 78 (37.68%) Developer
3 66 (31.88%) Software Engineer
4 45 (21.74%) Embedded Engineer
5 41 (19.81%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 39 (18.84%) Senior Developer
7 33 (15.94%) Senior Software Engineer
8 27 (13.04%) Senior Embedded Engineer
9 26 (12.56%) Lead
10 23 (11.11%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
11 21 (10.14%) Java Developer
12 19 (9.18%) Software Developer
13 17 (8.21%) .NET Developer
14 16 (7.73%) Senior Java Developer
15 15 (7.25%) Senior .NET Developer
16 14 (6.76%) Java Engineer
17 9 (4.35%) C# Developer
17 9 (4.35%) C++ Software Engineer
17 9 (4.35%) Senior Software Developer
17 9 (4.35%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (27.54%) .NET
2 28 (13.53%) CSS
2 28 (13.53%) HTML
2 28 (13.53%) Spring
3 26 (12.56%) REST
4 23 (11.11%) .NET Core
5 22 (10.63%) AngularJS
6 19 (9.18%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 19 (9.18%) Yocto
7 17 (8.21%) jQuery
8 16 (7.73%) Web Services
9 15 (7.25%) ASP.NET
9 15 (7.25%) Hibernate
9 15 (7.25%) XML
10 13 (6.28%) Spring Boot
11 12 (5.80%) React
12 11 (5.31%) .NET Framework
13 9 (4.35%) Entity Framework
13 9 (4.35%) SOAP
14 7 (3.38%) KnockoutJS
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.63%) Algorithms
2 21 (10.14%) Self-Motivation
3 20 (9.66%) Data Structures
3 20 (9.66%) Enterprise Software
4 19 (9.18%) Device Driver
5 18 (8.70%) Product Ownership
6 17 (8.21%) Analytical Mindset
7 16 (7.73%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (3.86%) Blockchain
8 8 (3.86%) e-Learning
8 8 (3.86%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (3.86%) IoT
9 7 (3.38%) Client/Server
9 7 (3.38%) Cloud Native
9 7 (3.38%) Mobile App
9 7 (3.38%) Onboarding
10 6 (2.90%) Fixed Income
11 4 (1.93%) Credit Risk
11 4 (1.93%) Market Risk
12 3 (1.45%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 51 (24.64%) Linux
2 36 (17.39%) Embedded Linux
3 13 (6.28%) Windows
4 5 (2.42%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.93%) FreeRTOS
6 3 (1.45%) Android
7 2 (0.97%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.48%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (77.29%) OO
2 104 (50.24%) Software Engineering
3 95 (45.89%) Agile
4 76 (36.71%) Computer Science
5 61 (29.47%) DevOps
6 53 (25.60%) SDLC
7 52 (25.12%) Design Patterns
8 48 (23.19%) Problem-Solving
9 35 (16.91%) TDD
10 29 (14.01%) CI/CD
10 29 (14.01%) Scrum
11 27 (13.04%) SOLID
12 25 (12.08%) Mathematics
13 23 (11.11%) Clean Code
13 23 (11.11%) Full Stack Development
14 22 (10.63%) Mentoring
14 22 (10.63%) User Experience
15 21 (10.14%) Continuous Improvement
15 21 (10.14%) Test Automation
16 20 (9.66%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 77 (37.20%) C#
2 60 (28.99%) Java
3 58 (28.02%) C
4 49 (23.67%) C++
5 48 (23.19%) JavaScript
6 43 (20.77%) SQL
7 39 (18.84%) 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%) Bash
14 5 (2.42%) Groovy
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 68 (32.85%) 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 2 (0.97%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.48%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.48%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.21%) QA
2 12 (5.80%) 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 31 (14.98%) Docker
2 18 (8.70%) Active Directory
3 7 (3.38%) HDFS
4 5 (2.42%) Firmware
5 4 (1.93%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 22 (10.63%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.42%) Terraform
Vendors
1 47 (22.71%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.80%) Google
3 8 (3.86%) IBM
3 8 (3.86%) Red Hat
4 5 (2.42%) Xamarin
5 4 (1.93%) Oracle
6 2 (0.97%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.97%) Siemens
7 1 (0.48%) Apple
7 1 (0.48%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.48%) SAP