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 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 198 181 161
Rank change year-on-year -17 -20 +15
Contract jobs citing OO 500 844 1,540
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.16% 1.45% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 1.62% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 551 1,053
10th Percentile £385 £413 £400
25th Percentile £463 £510 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +22.45%
75th Percentile £700 £750 £728
90th Percentile £825 £875 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% +19.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 23 26
10th Percentile £55.50 £47.50 £43.84
25th Percentile £60.00 £47.63 £48.07
Median hourly rate £67.00 £56.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.11% +2.27% +22.22%
75th Percentile £82.50 £70.00 £59.69
90th Percentile £85.00 £77.50 £60.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £64.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +17.19% +16.36% +18.92%

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 37,201 52,182 79,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.27% 89.83% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,946 36,175 55,967
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
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% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,437 1,727 1,890
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 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
England -42 410 £588 -6.00% 322
London -48 246 £625 -3.85% 107
UK excluding London +69 192 £550 -4.35% 242
Work from Home -31 169 £538 -14.68% 232
South West +23 49 £688 +9.13% 19
South East -6 48 £525 -8.06% 46
Scotland +64 36 £463 -26.00% 17
North of England +36 30 £510 -9.33% 67
North West +41 27 £510 -19.37% 35
East of England +8 13 £550 +29.41% 35
Midlands +27 12 £450 -10.00% 45
West Midlands +22 10 £450 -10.00% 25
Yorkshire +17 3 £475 -13.64% 25
Wales +14 3 £583 -10.38% 9
Northern Ireland +1 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 (6.20%) Confluence
2 14 (2.80%) CMS
3 13 (2.60%) Apache Spark
4 11 (2.20%) SAS
5 10 (2.00%) Apache
6 7 (1.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 6 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (1.00%) IIS
9 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.20%) JBoss
10 1 (0.20%) nginx
10 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.20%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.00%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.20%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.20%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.20%) Simulink
4 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.00%) Endur
2 5 (1.00%) Temenos T24
3 4 (0.80%) Distributed Ledger
3 4 (0.80%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.60%) Maximo
4 3 (0.60%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 3 (0.60%) SAP EWM
4 3 (0.60%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.60%) Shopify
5 2 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.40%) SAP R/3
6 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.20%) SAP CAR
6 1 (0.20%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.20%) SAP MDG-BP
6 1 (0.20%) SAP MDG-F
6 1 (0.20%) SAP POS DM
6 1 (0.20%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 138 (27.60%) Azure
2 82 (16.40%) AWS
3 79 (15.80%) Azure DevOps
4 46 (9.20%) Azure Service Bus
5 41 (8.20%) Azure Monitor
6 40 (8.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 38 (7.60%) Serverless
8 23 (4.60%) AWS Lambda
9 20 (4.00%) Amazon S3
10 18 (3.60%) Azure Pipelines
11 17 (3.40%) Azure Logic Apps
12 15 (3.00%) Amazon EC2
12 15 (3.00%) GCP
13 13 (2.60%) Azure Data Factory
14 11 (2.20%) Azure API Management
14 11 (2.20%) Azure Functions
15 9 (1.80%) PaaS
16 8 (1.60%) Amazon EMR
16 8 (1.60%) Amazon SQS
16 8 (1.60%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.60%) FTP
2 6 (1.20%) HTTP
2 6 (1.20%) Kerberos
3 5 (1.00%) Tactical Data Link
4 4 (0.80%) Fibre Channel
4 4 (0.80%) iSCSI
4 4 (0.80%) SAN
5 3 (0.60%) BGP
5 3 (0.60%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (0.60%) IOS XR
5 3 (0.60%) Link 16
6 2 (0.40%) Broadband
6 2 (0.40%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.20%) Internet
7 1 (0.20%) NFC
7 1 (0.20%) PPP
7 1 (0.20%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.20%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (20.20%) SQL Server
2 41 (8.20%) NoSQL
3 35 (7.00%) Relational Database
4 21 (4.20%) KDB
5 20 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (3.00%) Azure SQL Database
7 12 (2.40%) MySQL
8 11 (2.20%) MongoDB
8 11 (2.20%) Oracle Database
9 9 (1.80%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (1.80%) Big Data
10 7 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (1.20%) Geospatial Data
12 5 (1.00%) OLAP
12 5 (1.00%) OLTP
12 5 (1.00%) Oracle OLAP
12 5 (1.00%) SQLite
13 4 (0.80%) DB2
13 4 (0.80%) Redis
13 4 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 129 (25.80%) Git
2 69 (13.80%) JIRA
3 46 (9.20%) Jenkins
4 39 (7.80%) Bitbucket
5 28 (5.60%) Cucumber
6 23 (4.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 17 (3.40%) TeamCity
8 15 (3.00%) Visual Studio
9 11 (2.20%) NUnit
9 11 (2.20%) webpack
10 10 (2.00%) Rational DOORS
11 9 (1.80%) Moq
11 9 (1.80%) Postman
11 9 (1.80%) Selenium
12 7 (1.40%) SonarQube
12 7 (1.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 6 (1.20%) Jasmine
13 6 (1.20%) Maven
13 6 (1.20%) SpecFlow
13 6 (1.20%) Subversion
General
1 140 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 94 (18.80%) Finance
3 62 (12.40%) Banking
4 59 (11.80%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (8.40%) Back Office
6 34 (6.80%) Public Sector
7 29 (5.80%) Investment Banking
8 23 (4.60%) Front Office
9 22 (4.40%) Aerospace
10 10 (2.00%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.40%) Electronics
11 7 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (1.40%) Retail
12 6 (1.20%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.20%) Marketing
12 6 (1.20%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.60%) Local Government
14 3 (0.60%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 285 (57.00%) Developer
2 83 (16.60%) Senior
3 53 (10.60%) Senior Developer
4 45 (9.00%) Software Engineer
5 41 (8.20%) Lead
6 39 (7.80%) Java Developer
7 36 (7.20%) Full Stack Developer
8 35 (7.00%) C# Developer
9 29 (5.80%) .NET Developer
10 27 (5.40%) Scala Developer
11 20 (4.00%) Data Engineer
11 20 (4.00%) Senior Software Engineer
12 19 (3.80%) Technical Leader
13 18 (3.60%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 16 (3.20%) Architect
14 16 (3.20%) Senior Java Developer
15 15 (3.00%) Python Engineer
16 14 (2.80%) C# .NET Developer
16 14 (2.80%) Linux Engineer
16 14 (2.80%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (37.00%) .NET
2 114 (22.80%) .NET Core
3 75 (15.00%) REST
4 61 (12.20%) React
5 57 (11.40%) HTML
6 54 (10.80%) CSS
7 50 (10.00%) ASP.NET
8 47 (9.40%) JSON
9 43 (8.60%) Spring
10 42 (8.40%) Web Services
11 34 (6.80%) .NET Framework
12 32 (6.40%) Kafka
13 31 (6.20%) XML
14 29 (5.80%) AngularJS
15 26 (5.20%) Middleware
15 26 (5.20%) RESTful
16 25 (5.00%) Vue
17 23 (4.60%) ASP.NET Core
18 22 (4.40%) Node.js
18 22 (4.40%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 38 (7.60%) Algorithms
1 38 (7.60%) Distributed Systems
2 30 (6.00%) Data Structures
3 25 (5.00%) Product Ownership
4 23 (4.60%) Derivative
5 21 (4.20%) Self-Motivation
6 18 (3.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 17 (3.40%) Management Information System
8 16 (3.20%) Data Protection Act
8 16 (3.20%) Fixed Income
9 15 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (2.20%) Linux Command Line
11 9 (1.80%) Client/Server
11 9 (1.80%) Market Risk
12 7 (1.40%) Hedge funds
13 6 (1.20%) iPad
13 6 (1.20%) iPhone
13 6 (1.20%) Mobile App
13 6 (1.20%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 115 (23.00%) Linux
2 44 (8.80%) Unix
3 37 (7.40%) Windows
4 11 (2.20%) Apple iOS
5 10 (2.00%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.20%) Android
7 4 (0.80%) Data ONTAP
7 4 (0.80%) Embedded Linux
7 4 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.20%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (40.20%) Agile
2 159 (31.80%) OOP
3 143 (28.60%) DevOps
4 132 (26.40%) CI/CD
5 114 (22.80%) Problem-Solving
6 110 (22.00%) OOD
7 99 (19.80%) Design Patterns
8 96 (19.20%) TDD
9 91 (18.20%) Software Engineering
10 78 (15.60%) Test Automation
11 76 (15.20%) Scrum
12 72 (14.40%) Continuous Integration
13 63 (12.60%) Unit Testing
14 62 (12.40%) Clean Code
15 57 (11.40%) API Management
16 55 (11.00%) Computer Science
16 55 (11.00%) SOLID
17 53 (10.60%) SDLC
18 51 (10.20%) MVC
19 46 (9.20%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 194 (38.80%) C#
2 151 (30.20%) Java
2 151 (30.20%) Python
3 139 (27.80%) SQL
4 91 (18.20%) JavaScript
5 51 (10.20%) C++
6 50 (10.00%) Bicep
7 46 (9.20%) C
8 41 (8.20%) PowerShell
9 36 (7.20%) Perl
10 35 (7.00%) Scala
11 25 (5.00%) TypeScript
12 19 (3.80%) ABAP
13 14 (2.80%) Bash
14 12 (2.40%) T-SQL
15 10 (2.00%) Go
16 9 (1.80%) PL/SQL
17 7 (1.40%) F#
17 7 (1.40%) PHP
17 7 (1.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 77 (15.40%) Security Cleared
2 61 (12.20%) Degree
3 55 (11.00%) SC Cleared
4 31 (6.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (3.40%) DV Cleared
6 9 (1.80%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.80%) CISSP
9 2 (0.40%) HND
9 2 (0.40%) ISEB
9 2 (0.40%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.20%) PhD
10 1 (0.20%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (6.20%) QA
2 30 (6.00%) Accessibility
3 21 (4.20%) WCAG
4 6 (1.20%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.00%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.80%) MiFID
7 1 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.20%) GDPR
7 1 (0.20%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.20%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.20%) MISRA
7 1 (0.20%) MISRA C
System Software
1 43 (8.60%) Docker
2 42 (8.40%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.80%) GPFS
4 4 (0.80%) NFS
4 4 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.40%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.20%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 42 (8.40%) Ansible
2 38 (7.60%) Terraform
3 24 (4.80%) Kubernetes
4 23 (4.60%) PowerCLI
5 8 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (1.00%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.80%) Veritas Storage Foundation
8 3 (0.60%) Dell DRAC
8 3 (0.60%) Puppet
9 2 (0.40%) Podman
9 2 (0.40%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.20%) Grafana
10 1 (0.20%) Istio
10 1 (0.20%) Kiali
10 1 (0.20%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.20%) SCOM
10 1 (0.20%) systemd
Vendors
1 74 (14.80%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.00%) Oracle
3 28 (5.60%) HP
4 23 (4.60%) Atlassian
5 22 (4.40%) Dell
5 22 (4.40%) SAP
6 15 (3.00%) Google
6 15 (3.00%) TIBCO
7 14 (2.80%) IBM
8 10 (2.00%) VMware
9 9 (1.80%) Cadence
9 9 (1.80%) ION Trading
9 9 (1.80%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.20%) Solace
11 5 (1.00%) Informatica
11 5 (1.00%) Talend
11 5 (1.00%) TSYS
11 5 (1.00%) Xamarin
12 4 (0.80%) NetApp
12 4 (0.80%) Veritas