OO Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Object-Oriented (OO)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring OO skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 - 52
Rank change year-on-year - - +15
Contract jobs citing OO 6 0 13
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.87% - 2.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% - 2.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 13
10th Percentile £425 - £484
25th Percentile £495 - £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 - £510
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.31%
75th Percentile £569 - £515
90th Percentile £590 - £575
North West median daily rate £425 £498 £510
% change year-on-year -14.57% -2.45% -20.31%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheshire

OO falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 608 401 456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 88.24% 95.02% 86.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 455 259 309
10th Percentile £313 £300 £305
25th Percentile £363 £356 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £564 £560
90th Percentile £653 £638 £616
North West median daily rate £455 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -4.21% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 34 34
10th Percentile £14.49 £19.61 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.36 £24.18 £16.61
Median hourly rate £22.85 £32.95 £21.84
Median % change year-on-year -30.65% +50.87% -4.13%
75th Percentile £37.08 £83.31 £38.00
90th Percentile £60.63 £86.00 £43.75
North West median hourly rate £45.00 £32.00 £23.53
% change year-on-year +40.63% +36.00% -36.92%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OO relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

OO job vacancy trend in Cheshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing OO.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing OO

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OO in Cheshire over the 6 months to 17 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for OO in Cheshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing OO.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing OO

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Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OO within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 17 March 2026. 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
Knutsford - 6 £516 - 1
OO
North West

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
1 5 (83.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Big Data
1 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (16.67%) DataStage
1 1 (16.67%) Hadoop
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 5 (83.33%) Banking
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Architect
1 5 (83.33%) Solutions Architect
2 4 (66.67%) Payments Architect
2 4 (66.67%) Payments Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Ab Initio Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Spring
1 5 (83.33%) Spring Boot
2 1 (16.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 6 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 6 (100.00%) Microservices
2 5 (83.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 5 (83.33%) OOA/OOD
2 5 (83.33%) UML
3 4 (66.67%) Logical Data Model
3 4 (66.67%) Mentoring
3 4 (66.67%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (16.67%) Architectural Design
4 1 (16.67%) Architecture Roadmap
4 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (16.67%) Data Integration
4 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
4 1 (16.67%) OOP
4 1 (16.67%) Parallel Processing
4 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (83.33%) ISO 20022
2 4 (66.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Ab Initio
2 1 (16.67%) Informatica