OOP Contracts in England

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for OOP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OOP over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 363 347 329
Rank change year-on-year -16 -18 +14
Contract jobs citing OOP 177 342 584
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.48% 0.68% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.75% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 240 470
10th Percentile £363 £400 £381
25th Percentile £463 £488 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £590 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +12.38% +7.69%
75th Percentile £700 £688 £650
90th Percentile £723 £776 £793
UK median daily rate £553 £593 £525
% change year-on-year -6.75% +12.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 10
10th Percentile £48.00 - £42.42
25th Percentile - - £43.42
Median hourly rate £60.00 £35.00 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year +71.43% -38.05% -
75th Percentile - - £61.93
90th Percentile £78.00 - £63.44
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £35.00 £56.50
% change year-on-year +71.43% -38.05% +25.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

OOP is in the Processes and Methodologies 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 process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,992 45,544 64,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.24% 90.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,975 31,977 45,770
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,229 1,592 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for OOP in England

OOP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for OOP in England

OOP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OOP in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OOP in England

OOP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for OOP in England

OOP
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing OOP in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for OOP in England

OOP
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 OOP within the England region over the 6 months to 28 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
London -36 89 £533 -11.17% 82
South West +31 41 £688 +9.13% 6
North of England +39 23 £495 +10.00% 38
North West +30 18 £510 +21.43% 18
South East +8 7 £550 +7.84% 39
Yorkshire +23 5 £400 -16.88% 15
East of England +9 5 £400 -20.63% 22
West Midlands +33 4 £450 -29.13% 16
Midlands +28 4 £450 -24.37% 30
OOP
UK

OOP
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 23 (12.99%) Confluence
2 8 (4.52%) Apache
3 6 (3.39%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.82%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.69%) IIS
6 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (2.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.69%) Shopify
2 2 (1.13%) SAP EWM
2 2 (1.13%) SAP R/3
3 1 (0.56%) ION MarketView
3 1 (0.56%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 41 (23.16%) Azure
2 34 (19.21%) AWS
3 13 (7.34%) Serverless
4 10 (5.65%) GCP
5 9 (5.08%) Amazon S3
6 8 (4.52%) Amazon SQS
6 8 (4.52%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (3.39%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (3.39%) Snowflake
8 5 (2.82%) Amazon EMR
8 5 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (2.82%) npm
9 4 (2.26%) WhatsApp
9 4 (2.26%) Yarn
10 3 (1.69%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (1.13%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (1.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (1.13%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (1.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (1.13%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.82%) FTP
1 5 (2.82%) SSH
2 1 (0.56%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (13.56%) SQL Server
2 16 (9.04%) NoSQL
3 14 (7.91%) MySQL
4 11 (6.21%) Oracle Database
5 9 (5.08%) Big Data
6 5 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (2.82%) Redis
7 4 (2.26%) BigQuery
7 4 (2.26%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.13%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.13%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.13%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.13%) Data Mart
8 2 (1.13%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.13%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (1.13%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.13%) Power BI
8 2 (1.13%) SAP HANA
8 2 (1.13%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 43 (24.29%) JIRA
2 31 (17.51%) Jenkins
3 25 (14.12%) Git
4 23 (12.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 23 (12.99%) Bitbucket
5 10 (5.65%) Cucumber
6 9 (5.08%) JUnit
7 8 (4.52%) webpack
8 7 (3.95%) Selenium
9 6 (3.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 5 (2.82%) Maven
10 5 (2.82%) Mocha
10 5 (2.82%) Postman
11 4 (2.26%) GitLab
11 4 (2.26%) Jasmine
11 4 (2.26%) Karma Test Runner
11 4 (2.26%) SoapUI
11 4 (2.26%) WebDriver
12 3 (1.69%) Babel
12 3 (1.69%) SpecFlow
General
1 57 (32.20%) Social Skills
2 44 (24.86%) Finance
3 38 (21.47%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (12.43%) Banking
5 19 (10.73%) Aerospace
6 12 (6.78%) Front Office
7 10 (5.65%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.82%) Back Office
8 5 (2.82%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.82%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (2.82%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.26%) Retail
10 3 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.13%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (1.13%) Law
11 2 (1.13%) Marketing
11 2 (1.13%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.56%) Aviation
12 1 (0.56%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 112 (63.28%) Developer
2 26 (14.69%) Full Stack Developer
3 25 (14.12%) Java Developer
4 14 (7.91%) .NET Developer
5 12 (6.78%) C# Developer
5 12 (6.78%) Senior
6 11 (6.21%) React Developer
7 9 (5.08%) PHP Developer
8 8 (4.52%) C# .NET Developer
8 8 (4.52%) Tester
9 7 (3.95%) Cloud Engineer
9 7 (3.95%) Data Engineer
9 7 (3.95%) Senior Developer
9 7 (3.95%) Site Engineer
9 7 (3.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 6 (3.39%) Lead
10 6 (3.39%) Python Developer
10 6 (3.39%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 5 (2.82%) Front Office Developer
11 5 (2.82%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (35.59%) .NET
2 40 (22.60%) HTML
3 37 (20.90%) React
4 36 (20.34%) CSS
5 31 (17.51%) .NET Core
5 31 (17.51%) Spring
6 26 (14.69%) REST
7 24 (13.56%) Web Services
8 20 (11.30%) Vue
9 19 (10.73%) AngularJS
10 16 (9.04%) .NET Framework
10 16 (9.04%) Node.js
11 15 (8.47%) ASP.NET
11 15 (8.47%) Kafka
12 14 (7.91%) JSON
13 12 (6.78%) ASP.NET Core
13 12 (6.78%) XML
14 10 (5.65%) SOAP
15 9 (5.08%) Hibernate
15 9 (5.08%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.47%) Data Structures
2 13 (7.34%) Algorithms
2 13 (7.34%) Derivative
3 9 (5.08%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (5.08%) Fixed Income
4 8 (4.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 7 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.95%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (3.39%) Hedge funds
7 5 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.82%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (2.26%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.26%) Market Risk
8 4 (2.26%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.13%) Blockchain
9 2 (1.13%) Web3
10 1 (0.56%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.56%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 37 (20.90%) Linux
2 20 (11.30%) Windows
3 10 (5.65%) Windows Server
4 8 (4.52%) Unix
5 4 (2.26%) CentOS
5 4 (2.26%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (2.26%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.13%) Android
6 2 (1.13%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (78.53%) OO
2 73 (41.24%) Agile
3 72 (40.68%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (28.81%) CI/CD
5 47 (26.55%) Continuous Integration
6 39 (22.03%) Scrum
7 37 (20.90%) Design Patterns
8 35 (19.77%) DevOps
9 29 (16.38%) Full Stack Development
10 28 (15.82%) Deployment Automation
11 26 (14.69%) Unit Testing
12 25 (14.12%) Task Automation
13 24 (13.56%) Configuration Management
13 24 (13.56%) SDLC
14 22 (12.43%) Infrastructure Automation
14 22 (12.43%) Software Engineering
14 22 (12.43%) SOLID
14 22 (12.43%) Test Automation
15 21 (11.86%) Computer Science
16 20 (11.30%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 88 (49.72%) Python
2 73 (41.24%) Java
3 61 (34.46%) C#
4 58 (32.77%) SQL
5 53 (29.94%) JavaScript
6 31 (17.51%) PowerShell
7 14 (7.91%) PHP
8 13 (7.34%) C
9 8 (4.52%) PL/SQL
10 7 (3.95%) Perl
10 7 (3.95%) T-SQL
11 6 (3.39%) Bash
11 6 (3.39%) F#
12 5 (2.82%) VB
12 5 (2.82%) VBA
13 4 (2.26%) C++
13 4 (2.26%) Shell Script
13 4 (2.26%) VB.NET
14 3 (1.69%) Ruby
14 3 (1.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 45 (25.42%) Security Cleared
2 33 (18.64%) SC Cleared
3 27 (15.25%) Degree
4 11 (6.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (5.65%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.26%) CISSP
6 4 (2.26%) Numerate Degree
7 3 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.69%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.56%) ISEB
8 1 (0.56%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (16.95%) QA
2 3 (1.69%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.69%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (6.21%) Docker
2 2 (1.13%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (14.12%) Ansible
2 23 (12.99%) PowerCLI
3 15 (8.47%) Terraform
4 3 (1.69%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.69%) Puppet
5 1 (0.56%) Dell DRAC
5 1 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.56%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.56%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.56%) systemd
Vendors
1 24 (13.56%) HP
2 23 (12.99%) Atlassian
3 22 (12.43%) Dell
4 13 (7.34%) Microsoft
4 13 (7.34%) Oracle
5 6 (3.39%) Google
6 5 (2.82%) Informatica
6 5 (2.82%) Talend
7 4 (2.26%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.69%) Citrix
9 2 (1.13%) Adobe
9 2 (1.13%) Databricks
9 2 (1.13%) ESRI
9 2 (1.13%) ION Trading
9 2 (1.13%) SAP
9 2 (1.13%) VMware
9 2 (1.13%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.56%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.56%) New Relic
10 1 (0.56%) Splunk