Object-Oriented (OO)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for OO skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OO over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 216 179 166
Rank change year-on-year -37 -13 +3
Contract jobs citing OO 484 879 1,557
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.12% 1.47% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% 1.63% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 577 1,062
10th Percentile £385 £400 £400
25th Percentile £463 £513 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £586
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +6.66% +22.34%
75th Percentile £700 £750 £725
90th Percentile £825 £867 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% +21.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 21 28
10th Percentile - - £43.90
25th Percentile £60.00 £47.50 £47.89
Median hourly rate £71.00 £56.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.22% +2.27% +22.22%
75th Percentile £83.75 £70.00 £59.06
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.50 £60.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £77.50 £65.67 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.01% +19.40% +15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

OO 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 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
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% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

OO
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for OO in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for OO in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OO over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OO in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for OO in the UK

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing OO over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for OO in the UK

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Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OO within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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 -41 395 £575 -8.44% 330
London -56 232 £625 -3.85% 107
UK excluding London +61 189 £550 -4.35% 254
Work from Home -46 161 £538 -15.52% 242
South West +22 50 £688 +9.13% 26
South East +6 47 £520 -13.42% 57
Scotland +55 37 £400 -36.00% 17
North of England +40 31 £510 -9.33% 67
North West +33 28 £510 -19.37% 33
Midlands +17 12 £450 -13.46% 41
West Midlands +24 10 £450 -16.67% 25
East of England +17 10 £475 +11.76% 36
Yorkshire +10 3 £475 -13.64% 24
Wales +9 1 £583 -10.38% 11
Northern Ireland 0 1 - - 8

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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 31 (6.40%) Confluence
2 14 (2.89%) CMS
3 10 (2.07%) Apache
3 10 (2.07%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.86%) SAS
5 7 (1.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.24%) IIS
7 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.21%) JBoss
8 1 (0.21%) nginx
8 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.21%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.03%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.21%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.21%) Simulink
4 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.03%) Endur
2 5 (1.03%) Temenos T24
3 4 (0.83%) Distributed Ledger
3 4 (0.83%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.62%) Maximo
4 3 (0.62%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 3 (0.62%) SAP EWM
4 3 (0.62%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.62%) Shopify
5 2 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.41%) SAP R/3
6 1 (0.21%) Magento
6 1 (0.21%) SAP CAR
6 1 (0.21%) SAP Convergent Charging
6 1 (0.21%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.21%) SAP MDG-BP
6 1 (0.21%) SAP MDG-F
6 1 (0.21%) SAP POS DM
6 1 (0.21%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 133 (27.48%) Azure
2 81 (16.74%) AWS
3 77 (15.91%) Azure DevOps
4 44 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
5 39 (8.06%) Azure Monitor
6 38 (7.85%) Serverless
7 36 (7.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 23 (4.75%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (3.93%) Amazon S3
10 18 (3.72%) Azure Pipelines
11 17 (3.51%) Azure Logic Apps
12 15 (3.10%) Amazon EC2
12 15 (3.10%) GCP
13 13 (2.69%) Azure Data Factory
14 11 (2.27%) Azure API Management
14 11 (2.27%) Azure Functions
15 9 (1.86%) PaaS
16 8 (1.65%) GitHub
17 7 (1.45%) npm
17 7 (1.45%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.69%) FTP
2 6 (1.24%) HTTP
2 6 (1.24%) Kerberos
3 5 (1.03%) Tactical Data Link
4 4 (0.83%) Fibre Channel
4 4 (0.83%) iSCSI
4 4 (0.83%) SAN
5 3 (0.62%) BGP
5 3 (0.62%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (0.62%) IOS XR
5 3 (0.62%) Link 16
6 2 (0.41%) Broadband
6 2 (0.41%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.21%) Internet
7 1 (0.21%) NFC
7 1 (0.21%) PPP
7 1 (0.21%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.21%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (20.66%) SQL Server
2 41 (8.47%) NoSQL
3 32 (6.61%) Relational Database
4 19 (3.93%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (3.51%) KDB
6 15 (3.10%) Azure SQL Database
7 11 (2.27%) MySQL
7 11 (2.27%) Oracle Database
8 10 (2.07%) MongoDB
9 9 (1.86%) Big Data
10 7 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (1.24%) Geospatial Data
12 5 (1.03%) OLAP
12 5 (1.03%) OLTP
12 5 (1.03%) Oracle OLAP
12 5 (1.03%) SQLite
13 4 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.83%) DB2
13 4 (0.83%) Redis
13 4 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 125 (25.83%) Git
2 66 (13.64%) JIRA
3 45 (9.30%) Jenkins
4 38 (7.85%) Bitbucket
5 29 (5.99%) Cucumber
6 23 (4.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 17 (3.51%) TeamCity
8 14 (2.89%) Visual Studio
9 12 (2.48%) NUnit
10 11 (2.27%) webpack
11 10 (2.07%) Moq
11 10 (2.07%) Rational DOORS
12 9 (1.86%) Postman
12 9 (1.86%) Selenium
13 7 (1.45%) SonarQube
13 7 (1.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 6 (1.24%) SpecFlow
15 5 (1.03%) Babel
15 5 (1.03%) Jasmine
15 5 (1.03%) Pylint
General
1 129 (26.65%) Social Skills
2 91 (18.80%) Finance
3 60 (12.40%) Banking
4 53 (10.95%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (8.47%) Back Office
6 33 (6.82%) Public Sector
7 28 (5.79%) Investment Banking
8 22 (4.55%) Aerospace
9 21 (4.34%) Front Office
10 9 (1.86%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.65%) Electronics
12 7 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.24%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.24%) Marketing
13 6 (1.24%) Retail
13 6 (1.24%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.62%) Local Government
15 3 (0.62%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 273 (56.40%) Developer
2 82 (16.94%) Senior
3 52 (10.74%) Senior Developer
4 45 (9.30%) Software Engineer
5 37 (7.64%) Lead
6 35 (7.23%) Full Stack Developer
6 35 (7.23%) Java Developer
7 33 (6.82%) C# Developer
8 27 (5.58%) .NET Developer
9 25 (5.17%) Scala Developer
10 20 (4.13%) Senior Software Engineer
11 19 (3.93%) Data Engineer
11 19 (3.93%) Technical Leader
12 18 (3.72%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 15 (3.10%) Architect
13 15 (3.10%) Python Developer
13 15 (3.10%) Python Engineer
14 14 (2.89%) Senior Java Developer
15 13 (2.69%) Azure Developer
15 13 (2.69%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (36.98%) .NET
2 112 (23.14%) .NET Core
3 73 (15.08%) REST
4 62 (12.81%) React
5 56 (11.57%) HTML
6 53 (10.95%) CSS
7 51 (10.54%) ASP.NET
8 44 (9.09%) JSON
9 43 (8.88%) Spring
9 43 (8.88%) Web Services
10 30 (6.20%) Kafka
10 30 (6.20%) XML
11 29 (5.99%) .NET Framework
12 28 (5.79%) AngularJS
12 28 (5.79%) RESTful
13 26 (5.37%) Middleware
14 25 (5.17%) Vue
15 24 (4.96%) ASP.NET Core
16 23 (4.75%) SOAP
17 21 (4.34%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 37 (7.64%) Distributed Systems
2 33 (6.82%) Algorithms
3 27 (5.58%) Data Structures
4 25 (5.17%) Product Ownership
5 21 (4.34%) Derivative
6 19 (3.93%) Self-Motivation
7 16 (3.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 16 (3.31%) Management Information System
8 15 (3.10%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (2.89%) Fixed Income
10 13 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
12 10 (2.07%) Linux Command Line
13 9 (1.86%) Client/Server
13 9 (1.86%) Market Risk
14 6 (1.24%) Enterprise Cloud
14 6 (1.24%) iPad
14 6 (1.24%) iPhone
14 6 (1.24%) Public Cloud
15 5 (1.03%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 109 (22.52%) Linux
2 42 (8.68%) Unix
3 36 (7.44%) Windows
4 10 (2.07%) Apple iOS
4 10 (2.07%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.03%) Android
6 4 (0.83%) Data ONTAP
6 4 (0.83%) Embedded Linux
6 4 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.21%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (40.70%) Agile
2 159 (32.85%) OOP
3 140 (28.93%) DevOps
4 129 (26.65%) CI/CD
5 109 (22.52%) Problem-Solving
6 104 (21.49%) OOD
7 92 (19.01%) Design Patterns
8 91 (18.80%) TDD
9 89 (18.39%) Software Engineering
10 74 (15.29%) Scrum
11 73 (15.08%) Test Automation
12 70 (14.46%) Continuous Integration
13 60 (12.40%) Unit Testing
14 59 (12.19%) Clean Code
15 56 (11.57%) API Management
16 54 (11.16%) SOLID
17 52 (10.74%) Computer Science
18 51 (10.54%) SDLC
19 50 (10.33%) MVC
20 47 (9.71%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 188 (38.84%) C#
2 150 (30.99%) Python
3 145 (29.96%) Java
4 132 (27.27%) SQL
5 92 (19.01%) JavaScript
6 48 (9.92%) Bicep
6 48 (9.92%) C++
7 44 (9.09%) C
8 41 (8.47%) PowerShell
9 35 (7.23%) Perl
10 32 (6.61%) Scala
11 23 (4.75%) TypeScript
12 21 (4.34%) ABAP
13 13 (2.69%) Bash
14 12 (2.48%) T-SQL
15 11 (2.27%) Go
16 8 (1.65%) PL/SQL
17 7 (1.45%) F#
18 6 (1.24%) R
18 6 (1.24%) VBA
Qualifications
1 76 (15.70%) Security Cleared
2 59 (12.19%) Degree
3 53 (10.95%) SC Cleared
4 31 (6.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (3.72%) DV Cleared
6 8 (1.65%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.83%) CISSP
9 2 (0.41%) HND
9 2 (0.41%) ISEB
9 2 (0.41%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.21%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (6.82%) QA
2 29 (5.99%) Accessibility
3 21 (4.34%) WCAG
4 6 (1.24%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.03%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.83%) MiFID
7 1 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.21%) GDPR
7 1 (0.21%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.21%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.21%) MISRA
7 1 (0.21%) MISRA C
System Software
1 42 (8.68%) Docker
2 41 (8.47%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.83%) GPFS
5 4 (0.83%) NFS
6 2 (0.41%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.21%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 43 (8.88%) Ansible
2 39 (8.06%) Terraform
3 24 (4.96%) Kubernetes
4 23 (4.75%) PowerCLI
5 8 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (1.03%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.83%) Veritas Storage Foundation
8 3 (0.62%) Dell DRAC
8 3 (0.62%) Puppet
9 2 (0.41%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.21%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.21%) Grafana
10 1 (0.21%) Istio
10 1 (0.21%) Kiali
10 1 (0.21%) Podman
10 1 (0.21%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.21%) SCOM
10 1 (0.21%) systemd
Vendors
1 71 (14.67%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.20%) Oracle
3 28 (5.79%) HP
4 23 (4.75%) Atlassian
4 23 (4.75%) SAP
5 22 (4.55%) Dell
6 16 (3.31%) Google
7 15 (3.10%) TIBCO
8 13 (2.69%) IBM
9 10 (2.07%) VMware
10 9 (1.86%) Salesforce
11 8 (1.65%) Cadence
12 7 (1.45%) ION Trading
13 5 (1.03%) Adobe
13 5 (1.03%) Informatica
13 5 (1.03%) Solace
13 5 (1.03%) Talend
13 5 (1.03%) TSYS
14 4 (0.83%) Okta
14 4 (0.83%) Roku