OOP Jobs in the UK excluding London

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 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 244 156 149
Rank change year-on-year -88 -7 -30
Permanent jobs citing OOP 830 1,343 1,831
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.16% 2.27% 2.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% 2.38% 2.68%
Number of salaries quoted 497 702 761
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,875 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £68,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £86,250 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,818 56,534 68,369
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.50% 95.59% 94.17%
Number of salaries quoted 41,261 29,197 41,375
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing OOP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for OOP in the UK excluding London

OOP
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing OOP in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for OOP in the UK excluding London

OOP
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing OOP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for OOP in the UK excluding London

OOP
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OOP within the UK excluding London region 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
South East -42 222 £57,500 +4.55% 57
North of England -63 219 £52,500 -8.70% 28
North West -20 178 £52,500 -10.64% 12
Midlands -44 153 £50,000 -13.04% 42
East Midlands -4 109 £51,250 -10.87% 15
South West -16 100 £45,000 -12.20% 11
East of England -19 62 £62,500 +13.64% 18
Scotland -107 47 £47,500 -17.39% 13
West Midlands -57 43 £50,000 -13.04% 27
Yorkshire -58 30 £45,000 -21.74% 13
Northern Ireland +5 16 £35,000 -39.13% 6
Wales -2 11 £60,000 +9.09% 2
North East -34 11 £71,500 +24.35% 3
OOP
UK

OOP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 14 (1.69%) Apache
2 13 (1.57%) NServiceBus
3 12 (1.45%) nginx
4 10 (1.20%) Confluence
5 9 (1.08%) WordPress
6 8 (0.96%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.60%) IIS
7 5 (0.60%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.48%) Apache Solr
8 4 (0.48%) ColdFusion
9 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.24%) CMS
11 1 (0.12%) Drupal
11 1 (0.12%) PrestaShop
11 1 (0.12%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.12%) WildFly
Applications
1 18 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 9 (1.08%) Trello
3 8 (0.96%) InfoPath
4 5 (0.60%) Doxygen
5 4 (0.48%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (0.48%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.24%) Simulink
7 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (1.20%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.24%) Magento
3 2 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 344 (41.45%) Azure
2 230 (27.71%) IBM Cloud
3 185 (22.29%) AWS
4 150 (18.07%) Serverless
5 140 (16.87%) Azure DevOps
6 120 (14.46%) Azure Service Bus
7 118 (14.22%) Azure Functions
8 115 (13.86%) Azure API Management
8 115 (13.86%) Azure Logic Apps
9 63 (7.59%) SaaS
10 50 (6.02%) GitHub
11 33 (3.98%) GCP
12 24 (2.89%) AWS Lambda
13 20 (2.41%) Cloud Computing
14 9 (1.08%) Amazon SQS
15 8 (0.96%) Microsoft 365
15 8 (0.96%) OneDrive
16 7 (0.84%) GitHub Actions
17 6 (0.72%) Amazon S3
18 5 (0.60%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.01%) TCP/IP
2 17 (2.05%) HTTP
3 13 (1.57%) SNMP
3 13 (1.57%) SSH
4 9 (1.08%) FTP
4 9 (1.08%) Internet
5 2 (0.24%) Multicast
5 2 (0.24%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.12%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 242 (29.16%) NoSQL
1 242 (29.16%) PostgreSQL
2 233 (28.07%) MongoDB
3 228 (27.47%) DB2
4 212 (25.54%) MySQL
5 173 (20.84%) Relational Database
6 60 (7.23%) SQL Server
7 27 (3.25%) Redis
8 20 (2.41%) MariaDB
9 15 (1.81%) GIS
10 9 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (0.72%) Big Data
11 6 (0.72%) Geospatial Data
12 5 (0.60%) DynamoDB
12 5 (0.60%) Metadata
12 5 (0.60%) MS Access
12 5 (0.60%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.36%) Amazon Aurora
14 2 (0.24%) Azure SQL Database
14 2 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 131 (15.78%) Git
2 58 (6.99%) JIRA
3 29 (3.49%) Jenkins
4 21 (2.53%) GitLab
4 21 (2.53%) Maven
5 18 (2.17%) Eclipse
6 15 (1.81%) Visual Studio
7 12 (1.45%) PHPUnit
7 12 (1.45%) Selenium
7 12 (1.45%) TeamCity
8 11 (1.33%) CircleCI
9 7 (0.84%) Postman
10 6 (0.72%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.72%) JMeter
10 6 (0.72%) Newman
10 6 (0.72%) REST Assured
10 6 (0.72%) Subversion
11 5 (0.60%) InstallShield
11 5 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
11 5 (0.60%) webpack
General
1 253 (30.48%) Public Sector
2 142 (17.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 112 (13.49%) Social Skills
4 74 (8.92%) Finance
5 45 (5.42%) Law
6 32 (3.86%) Banking
7 28 (3.37%) Retail
8 24 (2.89%) Analytical Skills
8 24 (2.89%) Games
9 22 (2.65%) Electronics
10 21 (2.53%) Publishing
11 17 (2.05%) Investment Banking
12 14 (1.69%) Telecoms
13 13 (1.57%) Marketing
14 12 (1.45%) Automotive
14 12 (1.45%) Manufacturing
15 10 (1.20%) Retail Banking
16 9 (1.08%) Tech for Good
17 8 (0.96%) Legal
17 8 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 481 (57.95%) Developer
2 175 (21.08%) Full Stack Developer
3 165 (19.88%) Senior
4 143 (17.23%) Software Engineer
5 125 (15.06%) Full Stack Engineer
6 123 (14.82%) PHP Developer
7 116 (13.98%) Azure Developer
7 116 (13.98%) Azure Engineer
8 98 (11.81%) Senior Developer
9 69 (8.31%) .NET Developer
10 63 (7.59%) Software Developer
11 38 (4.58%) Web Developer
12 33 (3.98%) C# Developer
12 33 (3.98%) Lead
12 33 (3.98%) Senior Software Engineer
13 27 (3.25%) Java Developer
14 26 (3.13%) Senior .NET Developer
14 26 (3.13%) Senior PHP Developer
15 25 (3.01%) .NET Software Engineer
16 24 (2.89%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 461 (55.54%) HTML
2 447 (53.86%) CSS
3 413 (49.76%) .NET
4 356 (42.89%) React
5 342 (41.20%) Vue
6 333 (40.12%) jQuery
7 329 (39.64%) AngularJS
8 325 (39.16%) Web Services
9 309 (37.23%) REST
10 286 (34.46%) ASP.NET
11 245 (29.52%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 235 (28.31%) ASP.NET Core
13 228 (27.47%) Backbone.js
13 228 (27.47%) Ember.js
14 150 (18.07%) Node.js
15 148 (17.83%) Laravel
16 100 (12.05%) LAMP
17 58 (6.99%) RESTful
18 54 (6.51%) .NET Core
19 50 (6.02%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 272 (32.77%) Algorithms
2 264 (31.81%) Data Structures
3 230 (27.71%) Blockchain
3 230 (27.71%) Hybrid Cloud
4 113 (13.61%) e-Learning
5 42 (5.06%) Client/Server
6 31 (3.73%) Product Ownership
7 26 (3.13%) Cloud Native
7 26 (3.13%) Video\Live Streaming
8 23 (2.77%) Greenfield Project
9 15 (1.81%) Distributed Applications
9 15 (1.81%) IoT
10 13 (1.57%) CMDB
11 11 (1.33%) Online Games
11 11 (1.33%) PropTech
12 10 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (1.08%) Life Science
14 6 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
14 6 (0.72%) Management Information System
14 6 (0.72%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 315 (37.95%) Linux
2 288 (34.70%) Windows
3 244 (29.40%) Android
4 241 (29.04%) Apple iOS
5 29 (3.49%) Unix
6 9 (1.08%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.60%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 492 (59.28%) OO
2 384 (46.27%) MVC
3 370 (44.58%) Design Patterns
4 360 (43.37%) Agile
5 353 (42.53%) Full Stack Development
6 312 (37.59%) Web Development
7 298 (35.90%) SOLID
8 272 (32.77%) User Experience
9 252 (30.36%) MVVM
10 244 (29.40%) Artificial Intelligence
11 234 (28.19%) Responsive Web Design
12 228 (27.47%) Co-Creation
12 228 (27.47%) Design Thinking
13 203 (24.46%) Software Engineering
14 202 (24.34%) DevOps
15 198 (23.86%) Mentoring
16 143 (17.23%) Code Quality
17 142 (17.11%) Problem-Solving
18 127 (15.30%) TDD
19 120 (14.46%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 542 (65.30%) JavaScript
2 442 (53.25%) C#
3 384 (46.27%) SQL
4 230 (27.71%) Java
5 216 (26.02%) PHP
6 182 (21.93%) Python
7 72 (8.67%) TypeScript
8 36 (4.34%) C++
9 34 (4.10%) C
10 30 (3.61%) T-SQL
11 22 (2.65%) PowerShell
12 20 (2.41%) Groovy
13 13 (1.57%) Apex Code
13 13 (1.57%) Perl
14 12 (1.45%) Ada
15 11 (1.33%) Shell Script
16 9 (1.08%) VB.NET
17 8 (0.96%) Go
17 8 (0.96%) MATLAB
18 7 (0.84%) VB
Qualifications
1 129 (15.54%) Degree
2 57 (6.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (3.13%) Security Cleared
4 11 (1.33%) Master's Degree
5 9 (1.08%) DBS Check
6 8 (0.96%) AWS Certification
6 8 (0.96%) Azure Certification
7 6 (0.72%) Numerate Degree
7 6 (0.72%) PhD
8 4 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.48%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.12%) MCP
10 1 (0.12%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.01%) QA
2 5 (0.60%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.48%) DICOM
3 4 (0.48%) HL7
3 4 (0.48%) ISO 13485
4 3 (0.36%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.12%) GDPR
5 1 (0.12%) SLA
System Software
1 83 (10.00%) Docker
2 10 (1.20%) Firmware
3 5 (0.60%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 46 (5.54%) Kubernetes
2 39 (4.70%) Terraform
3 13 (1.57%) WMI
4 4 (0.48%) Ansible
4 4 (0.48%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.12%) Argo
5 1 (0.12%) Grafana
5 1 (0.12%) SCCM
Vendors
1 230 (27.71%) IBM
1 230 (27.71%) Red Hat
2 69 (8.31%) Microsoft
3 19 (2.29%) Oracle
4 18 (2.17%) Salesforce
5 15 (1.81%) Google
6 13 (1.57%) Splunk
7 11 (1.33%) SAP
7 11 (1.33%) Xamarin
8 5 (0.60%) F5
8 5 (0.60%) MuleSoft
8 5 (0.60%) Twitter
9 4 (0.48%) Adobe
10 3 (0.36%) Peregrine
11 1 (0.12%) Ivanti
11 1 (0.12%) Rollbar
11 1 (0.12%) Sitecore