AOP Contract Job Trends in England

Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring AOP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 525 492 534
Rank change year-on-year -33 +42 +92
Contract jobs citing AOP 17 12 29
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.054% 0.041% 0.078%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.061% 0.047% 0.088%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 22
10th Percentile £258 £528 £358
25th Percentile £270 £531 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £290 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -47.27% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £310 £569 £538
90th Percentile £322 £573 £685
UK median daily rate £290 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -47.27% +10.00% -4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

AOP 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 27,756 25,643 33,123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.83% 88.51% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,663 15,859 22,544
10th Percentile £300 £310 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £544
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,804 849 1,407
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £14.68
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.75 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%
75th Percentile £54.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.25 £74.89 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.33
% change year-on-year -22.62% -24.99% +23.80%

AOP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

AOP job vacancy trend in England

AOP
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing AOP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing AOP

AOP
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing AOP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing AOP

AOP
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AOP within the England region over the 6 months to 18 December 2025. 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
London +5 17 £290 -47.27%
AOP
UK

AOP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 (5.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) AWS
1 4 (23.53%) Azure
2 3 (17.65%) GCP
3 2 (11.76%) Snowflake
4 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
1 1 (5.88%) SD-WAN
1 1 (5.88%) VPN
1 1 (5.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (41.18%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (17.65%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (5.88%) Power BI
3 1 (5.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 15 (88.24%) Finance
2 13 (76.47%) Social Skills
3 8 (47.06%) Documentation Skills
3 8 (47.06%) Financial Institution
4 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Consultant
1 7 (41.18%) Developer
1 7 (41.18%) Oracle Consultant
2 4 (23.53%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Linux Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Unix Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Cloud Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Integration Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Network Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Network Project Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Portfolio Management Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.88%) SailPoint Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Network Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Network Project Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (52.94%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (23.53%) Node.js
2 4 (23.53%) React
3 3 (17.65%) AngularJS
3 3 (17.65%) CSS
3 3 (17.65%) Electron
3 3 (17.65%) HTML
3 3 (17.65%) JNI
4 2 (11.76%) REST
4 2 (11.76%) SOAP
4 2 (11.76%) Web Services
5 1 (5.88%) Express.js
5 1 (5.88%) SailPoint
5 1 (5.88%) Spring
5 1 (5.88%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (41.18%) Hedge funds
2 2 (11.76%) AI Agents
3 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.88%) Operational Technology
3 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) CentOS
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
1 3 (17.65%) Mac OS
1 3 (17.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) Agile
1 12 (70.59%) AI
1 12 (70.59%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (58.82%) Cost Optimisation
3 8 (47.06%) Visualisation
3 8 (47.06%) Waterfall
3 8 (47.06%) Workshop Facilitation
4 7 (41.18%) Actionable Insight
4 7 (41.18%) Cost Management
4 7 (41.18%) Data Integration
4 7 (41.18%) Data Management
4 7 (41.18%) Knowledge Transfer
4 7 (41.18%) Validation
5 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
5 4 (23.53%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (23.53%) Roadmaps
6 3 (17.65%) Business Analysis
6 3 (17.65%) Data Transformation
6 3 (17.65%) Design Patterns
7 2 (11.76%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) Groovy
2 5 (29.41%) Java
3 4 (23.53%) JavaScript
3 4 (23.53%) Python
4 3 (17.65%) C
4 3 (17.65%) Perl
5 1 (5.88%) BeanShell
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) CCNA
1 1 (5.88%) CCNP
1 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (5.88%) CSPO
1 1 (5.88%) PMI Certification
1 1 (5.88%) PMP
1 1 (5.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) PMO
2 1 (5.88%) QA
Vendors
1 13 (76.47%) Oracle
2 3 (17.65%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.88%) Anaplan
3 1 (5.88%) Aruba
3 1 (5.88%) CheckPoint
3 1 (5.88%) Cisco
3 1 (5.88%) Fortinet
3 1 (5.88%) Juniper
3 1 (5.88%) Meraki
3 1 (5.88%) Palo Alto
3 1 (5.88%) Zscaler