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 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 597 463 535
Rank change year-on-year -134 +72 +8
Contract jobs citing AOP 10 21 15
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.023% 0.085% 0.040%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.028% 0.093% 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 8
10th Percentile £374 £414 £440
25th Percentile £391 £453 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.60% -2.27% +5.77%
75th Percentile £463 £597 -
90th Percentile £466 £621 -
UK median daily rate £438 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -18.60% -2.27% +5.77%

All Process & 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 36,362 22,469 32,040
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.16% 91.35% 85.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,009 14,533 20,781
10th Percentile £325 £304 £300
25th Percentile £415 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,276 1,038 2,365
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.79 £18.13 £16.02
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.85 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +68.76% -25.73% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £58.66 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.13 £36.50
% change year-on-year +62.06% -25.68% +1.67%

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 13 June 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
London -76 4 - - 1
South East - 4 £450 -
South West -19 2 £375 -30.23%
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 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) GCP
2 4 (40.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (10.00%) Lucidchart
3 1 (10.00%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 4 (40.00%) Couchbase
1 4 (40.00%) Data Lake
1 4 (40.00%) MySQL
1 4 (40.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Git
1 4 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (40.00%) JUnit
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (60.00%) Finance
2 5 (50.00%) Banking
3 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Business Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Data Business Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Java Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Java Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Project Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Documentation Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Documentation Writer
4 1 (10.00%) Head of IT
4 1 (10.00%) Head of IT Operations
4 1 (10.00%) Head of Operations
4 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) JPA
1 6 (60.00%) Spring
1 6 (60.00%) Spring Boot
2 4 (40.00%) CSS
2 4 (40.00%) Hibernate
2 4 (40.00%) HTML
2 4 (40.00%) jQuery
2 4 (40.00%) Spring MVC
3 2 (20.00%) JAX-RS
3 2 (20.00%) OAuth
3 2 (20.00%) OAuth2
3 2 (20.00%) RESTful
3 2 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) AI
2 6 (60.00%) Agile
2 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (60.00%) Design Patterns
2 6 (60.00%) Microservices
2 6 (60.00%) Multithreading
3 5 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (40.00%) Analytics
4 4 (40.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 4 (40.00%) Digital Banking
4 4 (40.00%) Inversion of Control
4 4 (40.00%) MVC
4 4 (40.00%) System Testing
4 4 (40.00%) Web Development
5 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (20.00%) DevOps
6 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
6 2 (20.00%) Project Management
6 2 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Java
2 5 (50.00%) SQL
3 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (40.00%) PL/SQL
3 4 (40.00%) Shell Script
4 2 (20.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Google
2 4 (40.00%) Oracle