OOP Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring OOP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 - 89
Rank change year-on-year - - +34
Contract jobs citing OOP 11 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 1.79% - 0.099%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.88% - 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £488 - -
25th Percentile £493 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £547 - -
90th Percentile £555 - -
Scotland median daily rate £525 £525 £413
% change year-on-year - +27.27% +3.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

OOP 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 584 715 927
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 94.81% 86.04% 91.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 379 573
10th Percentile £300 £213 £213
25th Percentile £413 £343 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -5.26% -2.06%
75th Percentile £550 £531 £538
90th Percentile £600 £619 £600
Scotland median daily rate £470 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 23 6
10th Percentile - £13.27 £12.41
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.50 £20.18
Median hourly rate £17.87 £22.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.77% -53.68% +153.33%
75th Percentile £42.90 £24.18 £53.74
90th Percentile £64.25 £48.84 £58.13
Scotland median hourly rate £19.97 £19.59 £18.93
% change year-on-year +1.94% +3.49% -2.30%

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

OOP job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

OOP
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing OOP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing OOP

OOP
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing OOP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing OOP

OOP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 4 (36.36%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (18.18%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (63.64%) Amazon S3
2 7 (63.64%) AWS Lambda
2 7 (63.64%) Serverless
3 6 (54.55%) Amazon ECS
3 6 (54.55%) Amazon EKS
4 5 (45.45%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (36.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (18.18%) Dagster
7 1 (9.09%) Azure
7 1 (9.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) MLflow
General
1 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Python Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) .NET Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Python Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (81.82%) Pandas
1 9 (81.82%) PyTorch
1 9 (81.82%) SQLAlchemy
2 8 (72.73%) Hugging Face
2 8 (72.73%) NumPy
2 8 (72.73%) OpenCV
3 7 (63.64%) AWS CDK
3 7 (63.64%) boto
4 6 (54.55%) FastAPI
5 4 (36.36%) JWT
5 4 (36.36%) OAuth
6 3 (27.27%) REST
7 1 (9.09%) .NET
7 1 (9.09%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Algorithms
1 5 (45.45%) Data Structures
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Agile
1 9 (81.82%) Artificial Intelligence
1 9 (81.82%) LLM
1 9 (81.82%) Machine Learning
2 8 (72.73%) OO
3 7 (63.64%) Async-Await
3 7 (63.64%) OCR
4 6 (54.55%) API Development
4 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (54.55%) TDD
5 5 (45.45%) API Integration
5 5 (45.45%) Computer Vision
5 5 (45.45%) Data Cleansing
5 5 (45.45%) Deep Learning
6 4 (36.36%) Code Quality
6 4 (36.36%) Community of Practice
6 4 (36.36%) Containerisation
6 4 (36.36%) Pair Programming
6 4 (36.36%) Scrum
6 4 (36.36%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) Accessibility
2 1 (9.09%) DICOM
2 1 (9.09%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (9.09%) HL7
2 1 (9.09%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Kubernetes
2 4 (36.36%) Grafana