OOP Contracts with Work from Home Options

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 273 312 324
Rank change year-on-year +39 +12 +12
Contract jobs citing OOP 68 157 324
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.45% 0.63% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.70% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 104 273
10th Percentile £378 £371 £363
25th Percentile £455 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.35% +15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £610
90th Percentile £740 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £590 £525
% change year-on-year -6.78% +12.38% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £42.00
25th Percentile - - £42.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £56.50
75th Percentile - - £62.15
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £35.00 £56.50
% change year-on-year +71.43% -38.05% +25.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,268 22,513 39,948
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.01% 89.73% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,896 15,904 28,997
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 519 530
10th Percentile £15.03 £18.63 £13.73
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.06
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.63
90th Percentile £75.20 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

OOP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing OOP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

OOP trend for jobs with a WFH option

OOP
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing OOP.

OOP daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

OOP
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing OOP over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

OOP daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

OOP
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing OOP.

OOP hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

OOP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (4.41%) Apache
1 3 (4.41%) Confluence
2 1 (1.47%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.47%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (10.29%) Trello
2 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.47%) SAP CAR
1 1 (1.47%) SAP POS DM
1 1 (1.47%) SAP Retail
1 1 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.47%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 23 (33.82%) Azure
2 19 (27.94%) AWS
3 8 (11.76%) PaaS
4 7 (10.29%) Amazon S3
4 7 (10.29%) Miro
4 7 (10.29%) SaaS
5 5 (7.35%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (7.35%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (7.35%) Serverless
6 3 (4.41%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (4.41%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (4.41%) GitHub
7 2 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.47%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.47%) dbt
8 1 (1.47%) Figma
8 1 (1.47%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.47%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (16.18%) NoSQL
1 11 (16.18%) SQL Server
2 9 (13.24%) MySQL
3 4 (5.88%) Oracle Database
3 4 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.94%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.47%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.47%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.47%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 12 (17.65%) Git
2 9 (13.24%) JIRA
3 6 (8.82%) Jenkins
4 5 (7.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 4 (5.88%) Cucumber
5 4 (5.88%) JMeter
5 4 (5.88%) Selenium
6 3 (4.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (4.41%) Bitbucket
6 3 (4.41%) GitLab
6 3 (4.41%) PHPUnit
6 3 (4.41%) SoapUI
6 3 (4.41%) WebDriver
7 2 (2.94%) Cypress.io
7 2 (2.94%) Gradle
7 2 (2.94%) Maven
7 2 (2.94%) Mercurial
7 2 (2.94%) Mocha
7 2 (2.94%) SpecFlow
7 2 (2.94%) TestNG
General
1 26 (38.24%) Social Skills
2 13 (19.12%) Finance
3 9 (13.24%) Banking
4 7 (10.29%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.35%) Front Office
5 5 (7.35%) Investment Banking
6 4 (5.88%) Retail
7 3 (4.41%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (4.41%) Public Sector
7 3 (4.41%) Retail Banking
7 3 (4.41%) Tech for Good
8 2 (2.94%) Back Office
9 1 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 35 (51.47%) Developer
2 11 (16.18%) Full Stack Developer
3 10 (14.71%) Senior
4 7 (10.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (10.29%) Java Developer
5 6 (8.82%) React Developer
6 5 (7.35%) .NET Developer
6 5 (7.35%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (7.35%) C# Developer
6 5 (7.35%) Site Engineer
6 5 (7.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 5 (7.35%) Software Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) Android Developer
7 4 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) iOS Developer
7 4 (5.88%) Java Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) Java Software Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) Mobile Developer
7 4 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (5.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (36.76%) .NET
2 22 (32.35%) CSS
3 20 (29.41%) HTML
4 15 (22.06%) Web Services
5 14 (20.59%) REST
6 13 (19.12%) Node.js
7 11 (16.18%) ASP.NET
8 10 (14.71%) Vue
9 9 (13.24%) Spring
10 8 (11.76%) ASP.NET Core
10 8 (11.76%) React
11 7 (10.29%) jQuery
12 6 (8.82%) .NET Framework
12 6 (8.82%) Kafka
13 5 (7.35%) .NET Core
13 5 (7.35%) RESTful
13 5 (7.35%) SOAP
14 3 (4.41%) Grails
14 3 (4.41%) Lambda Expressions
14 3 (4.41%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.35%) Derivative
1 5 (7.35%) Fixed Income
2 4 (5.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (4.41%) Algorithms
3 3 (4.41%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.94%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.47%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.47%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.47%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (20.59%) Windows
2 9 (13.24%) Linux
3 5 (7.35%) Windows Server
4 4 (5.88%) Android
4 4 (5.88%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.47%) CentOS
5 1 (1.47%) Unix
5 1 (1.47%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (63.24%) OO
2 27 (39.71%) Agile
3 18 (26.47%) MVC
3 18 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (23.53%) Test Automation
5 15 (22.06%) Design Patterns
6 14 (20.59%) Scrum
7 13 (19.12%) DevOps
8 12 (17.65%) CI/CD
8 12 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
8 12 (17.65%) Full Stack Development
9 11 (16.18%) SOLID
10 10 (14.71%) Software Engineering
10 10 (14.71%) Web Development
11 9 (13.24%) MVVM
12 8 (11.76%) Performance Testing
12 8 (11.76%) Responsive Web Design
13 7 (10.29%) BDD
13 7 (10.29%) Computer Science
13 7 (10.29%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 27 (39.71%) C#
2 26 (38.24%) Java
2 26 (38.24%) JavaScript
3 20 (29.41%) SQL
4 16 (23.53%) Python
5 5 (7.35%) F#
5 5 (7.35%) PowerShell
6 4 (5.88%) PHP
7 3 (4.41%) PL/SQL
7 3 (4.41%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.94%) C
8 2 (2.94%) T-SQL
8 2 (2.94%) VB
8 2 (2.94%) VBA
9 1 (1.47%) ABAP
9 1 (1.47%) Delphi
9 1 (1.47%) Jython
9 1 (1.47%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.47%) Smalltalk
9 1 (1.47%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 20 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 17 (25.00%) Degree
2 17 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.47%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.47%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (1.47%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.29%) QA
2 1 (1.47%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.47%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (10.29%) Docker
2 1 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (7.35%) Terraform
2 4 (5.88%) Ansible
3 3 (4.41%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.41%) PowerCLI
4 1 (1.47%) SCOM
Vendors
1 11 (16.18%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.29%) Dynatrace
2 7 (10.29%) Splunk
3 6 (8.82%) Oracle
4 4 (5.88%) HP
5 3 (4.41%) Atlassian
5 3 (4.41%) Dell
5 3 (4.41%) SAP
6 2 (2.94%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.47%) Ariba
7 1 (1.47%) Citrix
7 1 (1.47%) IBM
7 1 (1.47%) New Relic
7 1 (1.47%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.47%) Xamarin