OO Contracts in Edinburgh

Object-Oriented (OO)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring OO skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OO over the 6 months leading up to 27 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 69 102
Rank change year-on-year +9 +33 +24
Contract jobs citing OO 4 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.63% 0.35% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.42% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £472 £411 -
25th Percentile £477 £428 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.76% -11.90% +44.83%
75th Percentile £505 £503 -
90th Percentile £506 £524 -
Scotland median daily rate £500 £420 £525
% change year-on-year +19.05% -20.00% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - £57.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £60.00
75th Percentile £72.50 - £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £70.00 - £59.03
% change year-on-year - - +8.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 605 717 1,060
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 94.98% 84.75% 92.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 312 398 724
10th Percentile £250 £212 £213
25th Percentile £406 £358 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -5.26% -1.04%
75th Percentile £532 £550 £538
90th Percentile £598 £650 £600
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.89% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 23 5
10th Percentile £16.93 £13.22 £16.40
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.37 £21.26
Median hourly rate £17.59 £18.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% -57.65% +89.31%
75th Percentile £32.73 £24.18 £53.75
90th Percentile £62.50 £38.00 £59.00
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £20.29 £18.33
% change year-on-year -1.40% +10.70% -51.04%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for OO in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for OO in Edinburgh

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for OO in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 1 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Dagster
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) C++ Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (25.00%) boto
1 1 (25.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (25.00%) FHIR
1 1 (25.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (25.00%) JWT
1 1 (25.00%) NumPy
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth
1 1 (25.00%) OpenCV
1 1 (25.00%) Pandas
1 1 (25.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) OOP
2 2 (50.00%) API Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) OOD
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) API Design
3 1 (25.00%) API Development
3 1 (25.00%) Async-Await
3 1 (25.00%) Coaching
3 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (25.00%) Community of Practice
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Vision
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) LLM
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) OCR
3 1 (25.00%) Service Design
3 1 (25.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) C
2 1 (25.00%) C++
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) DICOM
1 1 (25.00%) HL7
1 1 (25.00%) ISO 13485
1 1 (25.00%) MISRA
1 1 (25.00%) MISRA C
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) IBM