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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 280 188 155
Rank change year-on-year -92 -33 -3
Permanent jobs citing OOP 1,068 1,991 4,463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.07% 2.01% 2.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 2.10% 2.90%
Number of salaries quoted 676 1,157 1,458
10th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £71,563 £86,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £106,250 £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 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
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% +9.38%

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 18 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 18 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 -68 990 £55,000 -12.00% 260
UK excluding London -84 832 £50,000 -13.04% 175
Work from Home -30 469 £55,000 -15.38% 182
London -61 228 £77,500 -13.89% 127
South East -49 222 £57,500 +4.55% 63
North of England -62 221 £52,500 -8.70% 24
North West -16 180 £52,500 -8.70% 10
Midlands -45 153 £50,000 -13.04% 40
East Midlands +3 109 £51,250 -10.87% 14
South West -19 100 £45,000 -14.29% 13
East of England -18 62 £62,500 +13.64% 20
Scotland -108 47 £47,500 -17.39% 11
West Midlands -60 43 £50,000 -13.04% 26
Yorkshire -57 30 £45,000 -21.74% 11
Northern Ireland -5 16 £35,000 -39.13% 5
Wales -3 11 £60,000 +9.09% 2
North East -39 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 23 (2.15%) Apache
2 13 (1.22%) NServiceBus
3 12 (1.12%) Confluence
3 12 (1.12%) nginx
4 11 (1.03%) Apache Spark
5 9 (0.84%) 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 (0.094%) Drupal
12 1 (0.094%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.094%) WildFly
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 (0.094%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (0.94%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.19%) Magento
3 2 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.094%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.094%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 401 (37.55%) Azure
2 274 (25.66%) AWS
3 240 (22.47%) IBM Cloud
4 184 (17.23%) Serverless
5 155 (14.51%) Azure DevOps
6 130 (12.17%) Azure Service Bus
7 128 (11.99%) Azure Functions
8 125 (11.70%) Azure API Management
8 125 (11.70%) Azure Logic Apps
9 73 (6.84%) SaaS
10 53 (4.96%) GCP
10 53 (4.96%) GitHub
11 47 (4.40%) AWS Lambda
12 26 (2.43%) Cloud Computing
13 20 (1.87%) Amazon SQS
14 17 (1.59%) Amazon S3
15 10 (0.94%) AWS Step Functions
16 8 (0.75%) Microsoft 365
16 8 (0.75%) OneDrive
17 7 (0.66%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 28 (2.62%) TCP/IP
2 17 (1.59%) HTTP
3 15 (1.40%) SSH
4 13 (1.22%) SNMP
5 9 (0.84%) FTP
5 9 (0.84%) Internet
6 4 (0.37%) Multicast
7 2 (0.19%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.094%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 266 (24.91%) PostgreSQL
2 264 (24.72%) NoSQL
3 245 (22.94%) MongoDB
4 238 (22.28%) DB2
5 231 (21.63%) MySQL
6 205 (19.19%) Relational Database
7 75 (7.02%) SQL Server
8 29 (2.72%) Redis
9 20 (1.87%) MariaDB
10 15 (1.40%) GIS
11 13 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (0.84%) Apache Hive
12 9 (0.84%) Presto
12 9 (0.84%) RDBMS
13 8 (0.75%) Big Data
14 7 (0.66%) Amazon Aurora
14 7 (0.66%) Metadata
15 6 (0.56%) DynamoDB
15 6 (0.56%) Geospatial Data
16 5 (0.47%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 184 (17.23%) Git
2 67 (6.27%) JIRA
3 32 (3.00%) Jenkins
4 22 (2.06%) Maven
5 21 (1.97%) GitLab
6 19 (1.78%) Eclipse
7 18 (1.69%) Visual Studio
8 13 (1.22%) Selenium
9 12 (1.12%) PHPUnit
9 12 (1.12%) TeamCity
10 11 (1.03%) CircleCI
11 9 (0.84%) Postman
12 7 (0.66%) 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 (24.81%) Public Sector
2 192 (17.98%) Social Skills
3 150 (14.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 122 (11.42%) Finance
5 52 (4.87%) Law
6 43 (4.03%) Analytical Skills
7 40 (3.75%) Banking
8 34 (3.18%) Games
8 34 (3.18%) Retail
9 32 (3.00%) Electronics
10 24 (2.25%) Investment Banking
10 24 (2.25%) Tech for Good
11 21 (1.97%) 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 (1.22%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 605 (56.65%) Developer
2 213 (19.94%) Software Engineer
3 212 (19.85%) Senior
4 203 (19.01%) Full Stack Developer
5 138 (12.92%) PHP Developer
6 129 (12.08%) Full Stack Engineer
7 126 (11.80%) Azure Developer
8 121 (11.33%) Senior Developer
9 117 (10.96%) Azure Engineer
10 82 (7.68%) .NET Developer
11 69 (6.46%) Software Developer
12 64 (5.99%) Lead
13 55 (5.15%) C# Developer
14 43 (4.03%) Senior Software Engineer
15 38 (3.56%) Web Developer
16 36 (3.37%) Java Developer
16 36 (3.37%) Lead Developer
16 36 (3.37%) PHP Software Engineer
17 35 (3.28%) .NET Software Engineer
18 32 (3.00%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 494 (46.25%) .NET
2 482 (45.13%) HTML
3 475 (44.48%) CSS
4 405 (37.92%) React
5 366 (34.27%) AngularJS
6 353 (33.05%) Vue
7 352 (32.96%) Web Services
8 344 (32.21%) jQuery
9 328 (30.71%) REST
10 298 (27.90%) ASP.NET
11 256 (23.97%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 246 (23.03%) ASP.NET Core
13 238 (22.28%) Backbone.js
13 238 (22.28%) Ember.js
14 185 (17.32%) Laravel
15 174 (16.29%) Node.js
16 114 (10.67%) LAMP
17 96 (8.99%) .NET Core
18 75 (7.02%) RESTful
19 56 (5.24%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 329 (30.81%) Data Structures
2 316 (29.59%) Algorithms
3 241 (22.57%) Blockchain
4 240 (22.47%) Hybrid Cloud
5 114 (10.67%) e-Learning
6 85 (7.96%) Client/Server
7 38 (3.56%) Greenfield Project
7 38 (3.56%) Product Ownership
8 29 (2.72%) Video\Live Streaming
9 28 (2.62%) Cloud Native
10 24 (2.25%) Hedge funds
11 17 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
12 15 (1.40%) Distributed Applications
12 15 (1.40%) IoT
12 15 (1.40%) Management Information System
13 13 (1.22%) CMDB
13 13 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
14 11 (1.03%) Online Games
14 11 (1.03%) PropTech
14 11 (1.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 336 (31.46%) Linux
2 300 (28.09%) Windows
3 259 (24.25%) Android
4 254 (23.78%) Apple iOS
5 34 (3.18%) Unix
6 9 (0.84%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.47%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.094%) Solaris
8 1 (0.094%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.094%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.094%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 596 (55.81%) OO
2 483 (45.22%) Agile
3 443 (41.48%) Design Patterns
4 412 (38.58%) MVC
5 403 (37.73%) Full Stack Development
6 337 (31.55%) Software Engineering
7 327 (30.62%) Web Development
8 325 (30.43%) SOLID
9 285 (26.69%) User Experience
10 262 (24.53%) MVVM
11 259 (24.25%) Artificial Intelligence
12 244 (22.85%) Responsive Web Design
13 238 (22.28%) Co-Creation
13 238 (22.28%) Design Thinking
14 236 (22.10%) DevOps
15 227 (21.25%) Mentoring
16 216 (20.22%) Computer Science
17 189 (17.70%) Problem-Solving
18 166 (15.54%) TDD
19 148 (13.86%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 596 (55.81%) JavaScript
2 542 (50.75%) C#
3 454 (42.51%) SQL
4 300 (28.09%) Java
5 267 (25.00%) Python
6 256 (23.97%) PHP
7 115 (10.77%) TypeScript
8 48 (4.49%) C++
9 41 (3.84%) C
10 33 (3.09%) T-SQL
11 23 (2.15%) PowerShell
12 20 (1.87%) Groovy
13 18 (1.69%) Kotlin
14 17 (1.59%) Scala
15 15 (1.40%) Go
15 15 (1.40%) Perl
16 13 (1.22%) Apex Code
17 12 (1.12%) Ada
17 12 (1.12%) Shell Script
18 10 (0.94%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 191 (17.88%) Degree
2 94 (8.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 30 (2.81%) Security Cleared
4 17 (1.59%) Master's Degree
5 10 (0.94%) 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 (0.094%) MCP
12 1 (0.094%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.094%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (5.52%) QA
2 7 (0.66%) 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 (0.094%) GDPR
5 1 (0.094%) SLA
System Software
1 113 (10.58%) Docker
2 14 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (0.94%) Firmware
4 5 (0.47%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.19%) HDFS
6 1 (0.094%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.094%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.094%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.094%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.094%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 57 (5.34%) Kubernetes
2 55 (5.15%) Terraform
3 13 (1.22%) WMI
4 5 (0.47%) Ansible
5 4 (0.37%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.094%) Argo
6 1 (0.094%) Grafana
6 1 (0.094%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.094%) Podman
6 1 (0.094%) SCCM
Vendors
1 240 (22.47%) IBM
1 240 (22.47%) Red Hat
2 93 (8.71%) Microsoft
3 36 (3.37%) Google
4 24 (2.25%) Oracle
5 18 (1.69%) Salesforce
6 13 (1.22%) Splunk
7 12 (1.12%) SAP
8 11 (1.03%) Xamarin
9 9 (0.84%) 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