OLE Contracts in England

Object Linking and Embedding (OLE)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for OLE skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OLE over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 539 648 781
Rank change year-on-year +109 +133 -160
Contract jobs citing OLE 3 5 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.008% 0.010% 0.003%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.040% 0.043% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £163 - -
25th Percentile £228 £469 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 £488 £535
Median % change year-on-year -31.28% -8.88% +45.08%
75th Percentile £443 £506 -
90th Percentile £507 - -
UK median daily rate £510 £488 £535
% change year-on-year +4.62% -8.88% +45.08%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

OLE is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,510 11,671 19,226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.19% 23.13% 27.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,340 8,632 14,422
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £430 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 138 213
10th Percentile £22.27 £28.73 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £48.88 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.08 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing OLE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for OLE in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OLE in England.

Daily rate trend for OLE in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OLE in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OLE in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OLE in England.

Hourly rate trend for OLE in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OLE within the England region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +15 2 £120 -75.38% 3
West Midlands - 1 £550 -
Midlands - 1 £550 -
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (66.67%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) tcpdump
2 1 (33.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Hive
1 1 (33.33%) Hadoop
1 1 (33.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) IDA Disassembler
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Legal
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) 1st Line Support
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Security Incident Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Security Incident Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Security Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (33.33%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
1 2 (66.67%) Escalation Management
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Inversion of Control
2 1 (33.33%) Malware Reverse Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Reverse Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Use Case
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) A+ Certification
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) MCITP
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Snort
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk