Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 380 361 336
Rank change year-on-year -19 -25 +18
Contract jobs citing OOP 213 400 694
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.49% 0.68% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.75% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 271 554
10th Percentile £385 £400 £381
25th Percentile £459 £495 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +12.38% +9.38%
75th Percentile £700 £688 £632
90th Percentile £711 £775 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £638 £550 £438
% change year-on-year +15.91% +25.71% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 9
10th Percentile £48.00 - £42.33
25th Percentile - - £43.23
Median hourly rate £60.00 £35.00 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year +71.43% -38.05% +25.56%
75th Percentile - - £62.15
90th Percentile £78.00 - £64.72
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 - £51.35

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,262 53,150 80,380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.35% 89.86% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,013 36,862 56,431
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
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 2,440 1,756 1,916
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for OOP in the UK

OOP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for OOP in the UK

OOP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OOP over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OOP in the UK

OOP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for OOP in the UK

OOP
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing OOP over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for OOP in the UK

OOP
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 OOP within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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 -26 179 £551 -6.57% 211
London -36 92 £525 -12.50% 84
UK excluding London +75 85 £638 +15.91% 138
Work from Home +46 73 £500 -13.04% 148
South West +38 41 £688 +9.13% 6
North of England +32 22 £490 +8.89% 34
North West +25 17 £510 +21.43% 11
South East +10 7 £550 +7.84% 30
Yorkshire +21 5 £400 -16.88% 17
East of England +10 5 £400 -20.63% 18
Scotland +43 4 £400 -23.81% 11
Midlands +29 4 £450 -29.13% 35
West Midlands +26 4 £450 -33.33% 20
Northern Ireland +1 1 - - 5
Wales - 1 £583 - 2

OOP
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 23 (10.80%) Confluence
2 8 (3.76%) Apache
3 6 (2.82%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.35%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.41%) IIS
6 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (3.29%) Trello
2 6 (2.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.47%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.47%) InfoPath
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.41%) Shopify
2 2 (0.94%) SAP EWM
2 2 (0.94%) SAP R/3
3 1 (0.47%) ION MarketView
3 1 (0.47%) Magento
3 1 (0.47%) SAP CAR
3 1 (0.47%) SAP POS DM
3 1 (0.47%) SAP Retail
3 1 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 51 (23.94%) AWS
1 51 (23.94%) Azure
2 14 (6.57%) Serverless
3 13 (6.10%) Amazon S3
4 12 (5.63%) GCP
5 11 (5.16%) Amazon SQS
6 9 (4.23%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (4.23%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (3.76%) PaaS
7 8 (3.76%) SaaS
8 7 (3.29%) Miro
9 6 (2.82%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (2.82%) Snowflake
10 5 (2.35%) Amazon EMR
10 5 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.35%) GitHub
10 5 (2.35%) npm
11 4 (1.88%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (1.88%) WhatsApp
11 4 (1.88%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.82%) FTP
2 5 (2.35%) SSH
3 1 (0.47%) HTTP
3 1 (0.47%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (14.08%) SQL Server
2 19 (8.92%) NoSQL
3 18 (8.45%) MySQL
4 12 (5.63%) Oracle Database
5 9 (4.23%) Big Data
6 7 (3.29%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (3.29%) Relational Database
7 5 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (2.35%) Redis
8 4 (1.88%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.41%) DB2
10 2 (0.94%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.94%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.94%) Data Mart
10 2 (0.94%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (0.94%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.94%) Power BI
10 2 (0.94%) SAP HANA
10 2 (0.94%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 45 (21.13%) JIRA
2 35 (16.43%) Jenkins
3 32 (15.02%) Git
4 23 (10.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 23 (10.80%) Bitbucket
5 12 (5.63%) Cucumber
6 11 (5.16%) JUnit
7 9 (4.23%) GitLab
7 9 (4.23%) Selenium
8 8 (3.76%) webpack
9 7 (3.29%) Maven
9 7 (3.29%) Mocha
9 7 (3.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 6 (2.82%) SoapUI
10 6 (2.82%) WebDriver
11 5 (2.35%) JMeter
11 5 (2.35%) Postman
11 5 (2.35%) TestNG
12 4 (1.88%) Jasmine
12 4 (1.88%) REST Assured
General
1 70 (32.86%) Social Skills
2 48 (22.54%) Finance
3 41 (19.25%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (10.80%) Banking
5 19 (8.92%) Aerospace
6 12 (5.63%) Front Office
7 11 (5.16%) Investment Banking
8 9 (4.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (3.76%) Public Sector
10 6 (2.82%) Electronics
10 6 (2.82%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.82%) Retail
11 5 (2.35%) Back Office
11 5 (2.35%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.88%) Law
13 3 (1.41%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (1.41%) Marketing
13 3 (1.41%) Retail Banking
13 3 (1.41%) Tech for Good
14 1 (0.47%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 125 (58.69%) Developer
2 29 (13.62%) Full Stack Developer
3 26 (12.21%) Java Developer
4 19 (8.92%) Senior
5 16 (7.51%) .NET Developer
6 14 (6.57%) C# Developer
7 13 (6.10%) Software Engineer
8 11 (5.16%) React Developer
9 10 (4.69%) PHP Developer
9 10 (4.69%) Tester
10 9 (4.23%) C# .NET Developer
10 9 (4.23%) Lead
11 8 (3.76%) DevOps Engineer
11 8 (3.76%) Site Engineer
11 8 (3.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 7 (3.29%) AWS Engineer
12 7 (3.29%) Cloud Engineer
12 7 (3.29%) Data Engineer
12 7 (3.29%) Python Developer
13 6 (2.82%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (34.74%) .NET
2 45 (21.13%) HTML
3 43 (20.19%) CSS
4 39 (18.31%) React
4 39 (18.31%) Spring
5 33 (15.49%) .NET Core
6 30 (14.08%) REST
6 30 (14.08%) Web Services
7 24 (11.27%) Vue
8 21 (9.86%) AngularJS
9 20 (9.39%) Node.js
10 19 (8.92%) .NET Framework
11 17 (7.98%) ASP.NET
12 16 (7.51%) Kafka
13 14 (6.57%) ASP.NET Core
13 14 (6.57%) JSON
14 12 (5.63%) Hibernate
14 12 (5.63%) SOAP
14 12 (5.63%) XML
15 9 (4.23%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.04%) Data Structures
2 13 (6.10%) Algorithms
2 13 (6.10%) Derivative
3 11 (5.16%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (4.23%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (4.23%) Fixed Income
5 8 (3.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 8 (3.76%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.76%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.82%) Hedge funds
7 5 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.35%) Distributed Architecture
7 5 (2.35%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.88%) Market Risk
8 4 (1.88%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.88%) Video\Live Streaming
9 3 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.41%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.94%) Blockchain
10 2 (0.94%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 40 (18.78%) Linux
2 28 (13.15%) Windows
3 10 (4.69%) Windows Server
4 9 (4.23%) Unix
5 4 (1.88%) Android
5 4 (1.88%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.88%) CentOS
5 4 (1.88%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (1.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (75.59%) OO
2 91 (42.72%) Agile
3 86 (40.38%) Problem-Solving
4 64 (30.05%) CI/CD
5 49 (23.00%) Continuous Integration
6 47 (22.07%) Scrum
7 46 (21.60%) DevOps
8 41 (19.25%) Design Patterns
9 34 (15.96%) Full Stack Development
10 32 (15.02%) Test Automation
11 29 (13.62%) Software Engineering
11 29 (13.62%) SOLID
12 28 (13.15%) Computer Science
12 28 (13.15%) Deployment Automation
12 28 (13.15%) MVC
13 27 (12.68%) Unit Testing
14 26 (12.21%) SDLC
15 25 (11.74%) Task Automation
16 24 (11.27%) TDD
16 24 (11.27%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 93 (43.66%) Python
2 89 (41.78%) Java
3 69 (32.39%) C#
4 66 (30.99%) SQL
5 63 (29.58%) JavaScript
6 32 (15.02%) PowerShell
7 15 (7.04%) C
7 15 (7.04%) PHP
8 9 (4.23%) PL/SQL
9 8 (3.76%) Scala
9 8 (3.76%) T-SQL
10 7 (3.29%) F#
10 7 (3.29%) Perl
10 7 (3.29%) TypeScript
11 6 (2.82%) Bash
11 6 (2.82%) Shell Script
11 6 (2.82%) VB
11 6 (2.82%) VBA
12 5 (2.35%) VB.NET
13 3 (1.41%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 59 (27.70%) Security Cleared
2 44 (20.66%) SC Cleared
3 40 (18.78%) Degree
4 17 (7.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (5.63%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.88%) CISSP
7 4 (1.88%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (1.41%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.47%) ISEB
9 1 (0.47%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.47%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (16.43%) QA
2 5 (2.35%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.41%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (6.57%) Docker
2 6 (2.82%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.94%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.47%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (11.74%) Ansible
2 23 (10.80%) PowerCLI
3 22 (10.33%) Terraform
4 6 (2.82%) Kubernetes
5 4 (1.88%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.41%) Puppet
7 1 (0.47%) Dell DRAC
7 1 (0.47%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.47%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.47%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.47%) SCOM
7 1 (0.47%) systemd
Vendors
1 24 (11.27%) HP
1 24 (11.27%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.80%) Atlassian
3 22 (10.33%) Dell
4 16 (7.51%) Oracle
5 10 (4.69%) Google
6 7 (3.29%) Dynatrace
6 7 (3.29%) Splunk
7 6 (2.82%) SAP
8 5 (2.35%) Informatica
8 5 (2.35%) Talend
9 4 (1.88%) Okta
9 4 (1.88%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.88%) Roku
10 3 (1.41%) Citrix
10 3 (1.41%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.94%) Adobe
11 2 (0.94%) ESRI
11 2 (0.94%) IBM
11 2 (0.94%) VMware