Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 275 187 155
Rank change year-on-year -88 -32 -1
Permanent jobs citing OOP 1,070 1,996 4,468
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.07% 2.01% 2.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 2.10% 2.89%
Number of salaries quoted 676 1,162 1,450
10th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £43,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £71,563 £85,938 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £106,125 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,150 95,114 154,445
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.20% 95.57% 95.77%
Number of salaries quoted 59,851 56,202 82,517
10th Percentile £29,079 £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% +10.43%

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for OOP in the UK

OOP
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing OOP.

Salary trend for OOP in the UK

OOP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing OOP over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for OOP in the UK

OOP
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OOP within the UK over the 6 months to 19 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 -67 992 £55,000 -12.00% 274
UK excluding London -87 832 £50,000 -13.04% 183
Work from Home -31 469 £55,000 -15.38% 182
London -69 230 £77,500 -13.89% 138
South East -53 222 £57,500 +4.55% 64
North of England -70 221 £52,500 -8.70% 28
North West -15 180 £52,500 -10.64% 11
Midlands -41 153 £50,000 -13.04% 41
East Midlands -2 109 £51,250 -10.87% 14
South West -2 100 £45,000 -12.20% 12
East of England -22 62 £62,500 +13.64% 19
Scotland -115 47 £47,500 -17.39% 13
West Midlands -57 43 £50,000 -13.04% 27
Yorkshire -64 30 £45,000 -21.74% 14
Northern Ireland -2 16 £35,000 -39.13% 7
Wales -6 11 £60,000 +9.09% 2
North East -35 11 £71,500 +24.35% 3

OOP
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 24 (2.24%) Apache
2 13 (1.21%) NServiceBus
3 12 (1.12%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.12%) Confluence
3 12 (1.12%) nginx
4 10 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (0.84%) WordPress
6 8 (0.75%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.56%) Mendix
8 5 (0.47%) CMS
8 5 (0.47%) IIS
8 5 (0.47%) K2 blackpearl
8 5 (0.47%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.37%) Apache Solr
9 4 (0.37%) ColdFusion
10 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.19%) SAS
12 1 (0.093%) Drupal
12 1 (0.093%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.093%) Umbraco
Applications
1 19 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 9 (0.84%) Trello
3 8 (0.75%) InfoPath
4 5 (0.47%) Doxygen
5 4 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (0.37%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.19%) Simulink
7 1 (0.093%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (0.93%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.19%) Magento
3 2 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.093%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.093%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 403 (37.66%) Azure
2 276 (25.79%) AWS
3 240 (22.43%) IBM Cloud
4 184 (17.20%) Serverless
5 155 (14.49%) Azure DevOps
6 130 (12.15%) Azure Service Bus
7 128 (11.96%) Azure Functions
8 125 (11.68%) Azure API Management
8 125 (11.68%) Azure Logic Apps
9 73 (6.82%) SaaS
10 55 (5.14%) GCP
11 53 (4.95%) GitHub
12 47 (4.39%) AWS Lambda
13 26 (2.43%) Cloud Computing
14 20 (1.87%) Amazon SQS
15 17 (1.59%) Amazon S3
16 10 (0.93%) AWS Step Functions
17 8 (0.75%) Microsoft 365
17 8 (0.75%) OneDrive
18 7 (0.65%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 28 (2.62%) TCP/IP
2 17 (1.59%) HTTP
3 15 (1.40%) SSH
4 13 (1.21%) SNMP
5 9 (0.84%) FTP
5 9 (0.84%) Internet
6 4 (0.37%) Multicast
7 2 (0.19%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.093%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 266 (24.86%) PostgreSQL
2 264 (24.67%) NoSQL
3 245 (22.90%) MongoDB
4 238 (22.24%) DB2
5 231 (21.59%) MySQL
6 205 (19.16%) Relational Database
7 75 (7.01%) SQL Server
8 29 (2.71%) Redis
9 20 (1.87%) MariaDB
10 15 (1.40%) GIS
11 13 (1.21%) Elasticsearch
12 10 (0.93%) Apache Hive
12 10 (0.93%) Presto
13 9 (0.84%) RDBMS
14 8 (0.75%) Big Data
15 7 (0.65%) Amazon Aurora
15 7 (0.65%) Metadata
16 6 (0.56%) DynamoDB
16 6 (0.56%) Geospatial Data
17 5 (0.47%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 184 (17.20%) Git
2 67 (6.26%) JIRA
3 32 (2.99%) Jenkins
4 22 (2.06%) Maven
5 21 (1.96%) GitLab
6 19 (1.78%) Eclipse
7 18 (1.68%) Visual Studio
8 13 (1.21%) Selenium
9 12 (1.12%) PHPUnit
9 12 (1.12%) TeamCity
10 11 (1.03%) CircleCI
11 9 (0.84%) Postman
12 7 (0.65%) Spinnaker
13 6 (0.56%) Bitbucket
13 6 (0.56%) JMeter
13 6 (0.56%) Newman
13 6 (0.56%) REST Assured
13 6 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
14 5 (0.47%) InstallShield
14 5 (0.47%) Subversion
General
1 265 (24.77%) Public Sector
2 192 (17.94%) Social Skills
3 150 (14.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 122 (11.40%) Finance
5 52 (4.86%) Law
6 43 (4.02%) Analytical Skills
7 40 (3.74%) Banking
8 34 (3.18%) Games
8 34 (3.18%) Retail
9 33 (3.08%) Electronics
10 24 (2.24%) Investment Banking
10 24 (2.24%) Tech for Good
11 21 (1.96%) Publishing
12 19 (1.78%) Front Office
13 17 (1.59%) Legal
14 15 (1.40%) Health Technology
14 15 (1.40%) Manufacturing
14 15 (1.40%) Marketing
14 15 (1.40%) Telecoms
15 13 (1.21%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 605 (56.54%) Developer
2 215 (20.09%) Software Engineer
3 212 (19.81%) Senior
4 203 (18.97%) Full Stack Developer
5 138 (12.90%) PHP Developer
6 129 (12.06%) Full Stack Engineer
7 126 (11.78%) Azure Developer
8 121 (11.31%) Senior Developer
9 117 (10.93%) Azure Engineer
10 82 (7.66%) .NET Developer
11 69 (6.45%) Software Developer
12 65 (6.07%) Lead
13 55 (5.14%) C# Developer
14 43 (4.02%) Senior Software Engineer
15 38 (3.55%) Web Developer
16 36 (3.36%) Java Developer
16 36 (3.36%) Lead Developer
16 36 (3.36%) PHP Software Engineer
17 35 (3.27%) .NET Software Engineer
18 32 (2.99%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 494 (46.17%) .NET
2 482 (45.05%) HTML
3 475 (44.39%) CSS
4 405 (37.85%) React
5 366 (34.21%) AngularJS
6 353 (32.99%) Vue
7 352 (32.90%) Web Services
8 344 (32.15%) jQuery
9 328 (30.65%) REST
10 298 (27.85%) ASP.NET
11 256 (23.93%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 246 (22.99%) ASP.NET Core
13 238 (22.24%) Backbone.js
13 238 (22.24%) Ember.js
14 185 (17.29%) Laravel
15 174 (16.26%) Node.js
16 114 (10.65%) LAMP
17 96 (8.97%) .NET Core
18 75 (7.01%) RESTful
19 56 (5.23%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 329 (30.75%) Data Structures
2 316 (29.53%) Algorithms
3 241 (22.52%) Blockchain
4 240 (22.43%) Hybrid Cloud
5 114 (10.65%) e-Learning
6 85 (7.94%) Client/Server
7 38 (3.55%) Greenfield Project
7 38 (3.55%) Product Ownership
8 29 (2.71%) Video\Live Streaming
9 28 (2.62%) Cloud Native
10 24 (2.24%) Hedge funds
11 17 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
12 16 (1.50%) Management Information System
13 15 (1.40%) Distributed Applications
13 15 (1.40%) IoT
14 13 (1.21%) CMDB
14 13 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
15 11 (1.03%) Online Games
15 11 (1.03%) PropTech
15 11 (1.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 336 (31.40%) Linux
2 300 (28.04%) Windows
3 259 (24.21%) Android
4 254 (23.74%) Apple iOS
5 34 (3.18%) Unix
6 9 (0.84%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.47%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.093%) Solaris
8 1 (0.093%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.093%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.093%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 598 (55.89%) OO
2 485 (45.33%) Agile
3 443 (41.40%) Design Patterns
4 412 (38.50%) MVC
5 403 (37.66%) Full Stack Development
6 339 (31.68%) Software Engineering
7 327 (30.56%) Web Development
8 325 (30.37%) SOLID
9 285 (26.64%) User Experience
10 262 (24.49%) MVVM
11 259 (24.21%) Artificial Intelligence
12 244 (22.80%) Responsive Web Design
13 238 (22.24%) Co-Creation
13 238 (22.24%) Design Thinking
14 236 (22.06%) DevOps
15 227 (21.21%) Mentoring
16 217 (20.28%) Computer Science
17 189 (17.66%) Problem-Solving
18 166 (15.51%) TDD
19 148 (13.83%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 596 (55.70%) JavaScript
2 542 (50.65%) C#
3 454 (42.43%) SQL
4 302 (28.22%) Java
5 268 (25.05%) Python
6 256 (23.93%) PHP
7 115 (10.75%) TypeScript
8 48 (4.49%) C++
9 41 (3.83%) C
10 33 (3.08%) T-SQL
11 23 (2.15%) PowerShell
12 20 (1.87%) Groovy
12 20 (1.87%) Kotlin
13 19 (1.78%) Scala
14 15 (1.40%) Go
14 15 (1.40%) Perl
15 13 (1.21%) Apex Code
16 12 (1.12%) Ada
16 12 (1.12%) Shell Script
17 10 (0.93%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 192 (17.94%) Degree
2 95 (8.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 30 (2.80%) Security Cleared
4 17 (1.59%) Master's Degree
5 10 (0.93%) PhD
6 9 (0.84%) DBS Check
7 8 (0.75%) AWS Certification
7 8 (0.75%) Azure Certification
8 6 (0.56%) Numerate Degree
9 5 (0.47%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.28%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.093%) MCP
12 1 (0.093%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.093%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (5.70%) QA
2 7 (0.65%) Data Quality
3 5 (0.47%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.37%) DICOM
4 4 (0.37%) HL7
4 4 (0.37%) ISO 13485
5 1 (0.093%) GDPR
5 1 (0.093%) SLA
System Software
1 113 (10.56%) Docker
2 16 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (0.93%) Firmware
4 5 (0.47%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.19%) HDFS
6 1 (0.093%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.093%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.093%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.093%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.093%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 57 (5.33%) Kubernetes
1 57 (5.33%) Terraform
2 13 (1.21%) WMI
3 5 (0.47%) Ansible
4 4 (0.37%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.093%) Argo
5 1 (0.093%) Grafana
5 1 (0.093%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.093%) Podman
5 1 (0.093%) SCCM
Vendors
1 240 (22.43%) IBM
1 240 (22.43%) Red Hat
2 95 (8.88%) Microsoft
3 38 (3.55%) Google
4 24 (2.24%) Oracle
5 18 (1.68%) Salesforce
6 13 (1.21%) Splunk
7 12 (1.12%) SAP
8 11 (1.03%) Xamarin
9 10 (0.93%) Databricks
10 6 (0.56%) Bloomberg
11 5 (0.47%) Automation Anywhere
11 5 (0.47%) Blue Prism
11 5 (0.47%) F5
11 5 (0.47%) MuleSoft
11 5 (0.47%) Twitter
12 4 (0.37%) Adobe
12 4 (0.37%) Peregrine
13 3 (0.28%) Murex
14 2 (0.19%) Intel