Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for AOP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited AOP over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 578 603 684
Rank change year-on-year +25 +81 -35
Contract jobs citing AOP 8 119 147
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% 0.20% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.021% 0.22% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 94 34
10th Percentile £505 £454 £428
25th Percentile £513 £500 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £666
90th Percentile £545 £694 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £600 £545
% change year-on-year -16.67% +10.09% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

AOP 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,653 53,977 80,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.28% 89.91% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,313 37,392 56,301
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,429 1,779 1,937
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.54 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.98 £35.90 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.21% +79.50% -8.09%

AOP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing AOP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AOP in the UK

AOP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for AOP in the UK

AOP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for AOP in the UK

AOP
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AOP within the UK over the 6 months to 25 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
England +7 6 £525 -8.70%
Work from Home +105 5 - - 1
London +36 5 £550 +4.76%
UK excluding London +27 1 £500 -16.67% 1
North of England +23 1 £500 -16.67%
North West - 1 £500 -

AOP
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 2 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (37.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (12.50%) Supabase
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Financial Institution
3 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Banking
4 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) FMCG Manager
1 3 (37.50%) SAP Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Security Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Security Project Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Technical Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Technical Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) JDBC
1 1 (12.50%) Node.js
1 1 (12.50%) REST
1 1 (12.50%) SailPoint
1 1 (12.50%) Svelte
1 1 (12.50%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) FMCG
1 3 (37.50%) Hedge funds
2 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) Cost Optimisation
2 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (62.50%) Project Delivery
2 5 (62.50%) Project Management
3 4 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (50.00%) DevOps
4 3 (37.50%) Analytics
4 3 (37.50%) BPR
4 3 (37.50%) Coaching
4 3 (37.50%) Conflict Resolution
4 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (37.50%) Decision-Making
4 3 (37.50%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (37.50%) PRINCE2
4 3 (37.50%) Programme Management
5 2 (25.00%) Process Improvement
5 2 (25.00%) Scrum
5 2 (25.00%) SDLC
5 2 (25.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
1 3 (37.50%) PMI Certification
1 3 (37.50%) PMP
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
2 1 (12.50%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) PingFederate
2 1 (12.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) SAP
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) CyberArk
2 1 (12.50%) F5
2 1 (12.50%) ForgeRock
2 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Juniper
2 1 (12.50%) Okta
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto