OOP Contracts in the North of England

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 163 197 135
Rank change year-on-year +34 -62 +22
Contract jobs citing OOP 21 16 114
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.45% 0.28% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.31% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 11 105
10th Percentile £338 £375 £381
25th Percentile £463 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £450 £438
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £515 £500 £481
90th Percentile £586 £519 £536
England median daily rate £551 £588 £525
% change year-on-year -6.17% +11.90% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,023 5,182 6,316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.72% 90.78% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,447 3,599 4,626
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.21%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 363 202 253
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.86 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.15 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.21% +57.57% +0.87%
75th Percentile £45.00 £46.51 £31.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £52.40
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for OOP in the North of England

OOP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for OOP in the North of England

OOP
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OOP in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OOP in the North of England

OOP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for OOP in the North of England

OOP
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 8 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +30 17 £510 +21.43% 13
Yorkshire +26 4 £475 -1.30% 14
OOP
England

OOP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 5 (23.81%) Apache
1 5 (23.81%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (23.81%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (28.57%) AWS
1 6 (28.57%) Serverless
2 5 (23.81%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (23.81%) Amazon EMR
2 5 (23.81%) Amazon S3
2 5 (23.81%) Amazon SQS
2 5 (23.81%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (23.81%) Snowflake
3 4 (19.05%) npm
3 4 (19.05%) Yarn
4 2 (9.52%) Azure
5 1 (4.76%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (23.81%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) Big Data
1 5 (23.81%) Redis
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.76%) MySQL
2 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (33.33%) Git
2 5 (23.81%) JIRA
3 4 (19.05%) Jasmine
3 4 (19.05%) Karma Test Runner
3 4 (19.05%) Mocha
3 4 (19.05%) webpack
4 2 (9.52%) TestComplete
5 1 (4.76%) Artifactory
5 1 (4.76%) Cucumber
5 1 (4.76%) GitLab
5 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
5 1 (4.76%) JMeter
5 1 (4.76%) JUnit
5 1 (4.76%) Maven
5 1 (4.76%) Mercurial
5 1 (4.76%) Postman
5 1 (4.76%) Selenium
5 1 (4.76%) SoapUI
5 1 (4.76%) SpecFlow
5 1 (4.76%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (23.81%) Manufacturing
1 5 (23.81%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Banking
2 2 (9.52%) Finance
2 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (52.38%) Developer
2 5 (23.81%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Data Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) .NET Developer
3 4 (19.05%) Tester
4 3 (14.29%) Java Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Automation Tester
5 2 (9.52%) C# Developer
5 2 (9.52%) PHP Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Senior
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Developer
6 1 (4.76%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Low Latency Java Developer
6 1 (4.76%) PHP Symfony Developer
6 1 (4.76%) QA Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) SQL Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Symfony Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (33.33%) JSON
2 5 (23.81%) .NET
2 5 (23.81%) Kafka
2 5 (23.81%) Web Services
2 5 (23.81%) XML
3 4 (19.05%) .NET Core
3 4 (19.05%) .NET Framework
3 4 (19.05%) AngularJS
3 4 (19.05%) React
4 3 (14.29%) RESTful
4 3 (14.29%) Spring
5 2 (9.52%) Node.js
5 2 (9.52%) REST
5 2 (9.52%) SOAP
6 1 (4.76%) ASP.NET
6 1 (4.76%) Entity Framework
6 1 (4.76%) OpenAPI
6 1 (4.76%) Playwright
6 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
6 1 (4.76%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Algorithms
1 6 (28.57%) Data Structures
2 4 (19.05%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (19.05%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (9.52%) Derivative
3 2 (9.52%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (4.76%) Blockchain
4 1 (4.76%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Linux
1 2 (9.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (76.19%) OO
2 12 (57.14%) Agile
3 11 (52.38%) CI/CD
4 10 (47.62%) Test Automation
5 9 (42.86%) Scrum
6 7 (33.33%) Design Patterns
6 7 (33.33%) Multithreading
6 7 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
7 6 (28.57%) SOLID
8 5 (23.81%) Containerisation
8 5 (23.81%) Data Engineering
8 5 (23.81%) Data Management
8 5 (23.81%) Data Pipeline
8 5 (23.81%) Deployment Automation
8 5 (23.81%) ETL
8 5 (23.81%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 5 (23.81%) Software Engineering
9 4 (19.05%) Asynchronous Programming
9 4 (19.05%) Memory Management
9 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 14 (66.67%) C#
2 11 (52.38%) Java
2 11 (52.38%) SQL
3 9 (42.86%) Python
4 8 (38.10%) JavaScript
5 2 (9.52%) C++
5 2 (9.52%) Delphi
5 2 (9.52%) PHP
5 2 (9.52%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Informatica
1 5 (23.81%) Talend