OO Contracts in England

Object-Oriented (OO)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for OO skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OO over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 217 176 149
Rank change year-on-year -41 -27 +17
Contract jobs citing OO 395 760 1,334
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.07% 1.50% 1.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 1.67% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 297 521 931
10th Percentile £385 £400 £400
25th Percentile £463 £513 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £628 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.44% +4.67% +20.52%
75th Percentile £700 £750 £738
90th Percentile £825 £875 £813
UK median daily rate £575 £625 £586
% change year-on-year -8.00% +6.66% +22.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 15 22
10th Percentile - £47.89 £43.70
25th Percentile £60.00 £51.19 £47.75
Median hourly rate £71.00 £67.34 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.44% +22.44% +10.00%
75th Percentile £83.75 £70.59 £59.69
90th Percentile £85.00 £77.00 £61.13
UK median hourly rate £71.00 £56.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +26.22% +2.27% +22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

OO is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,985 45,619 64,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.25% 90.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,974 32,022 45,804
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,225 1,607 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.94 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.15
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for OO in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for OO in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OO in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OO in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for OO in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing OO in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for OO in England

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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 OO within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 -56 232 £625 -3.85% 106
South West +22 50 £688 +9.13% 26
South East +6 47 £520 -13.42% 57
North of England +40 31 £510 -9.33% 67
North West +33 28 £510 -19.37% 33
Midlands +17 12 £450 -13.46% 41
West Midlands +24 10 £450 -16.67% 25
East of England +17 10 £475 +11.76% 36
Yorkshire +10 3 £475 -13.64% 24
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 31 (7.85%) Confluence
2 14 (3.54%) CMS
3 10 (2.53%) Apache
3 10 (2.53%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.77%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.52%) IIS
6 5 (1.27%) SAS
7 1 (0.25%) JBoss
7 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.25%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (1.27%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.25%) Simulink
3 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.27%) Endur
1 5 (1.27%) Temenos T24
2 4 (1.01%) Distributed Ledger
2 4 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.01%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (0.76%) Maximo
3 3 (0.76%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 3 (0.76%) SAP EWM
3 3 (0.76%) SAP MDG
3 3 (0.76%) Shopify
4 2 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.51%) SAP R/3
5 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.25%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.25%) Magento
5 1 (0.25%) SAP Convergent Charging
5 1 (0.25%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.25%) SAP GTS
5 1 (0.25%) SAP MDG-BP
5 1 (0.25%) SAP MDG-F
Cloud Services
1 123 (31.14%) Azure
2 77 (19.49%) Azure DevOps
3 56 (14.18%) AWS
4 44 (11.14%) Azure Service Bus
5 39 (9.87%) Azure Monitor
6 36 (9.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 30 (7.59%) Serverless
8 18 (4.56%) Azure Pipelines
9 17 (4.30%) Amazon S3
9 17 (4.30%) Azure Logic Apps
10 15 (3.80%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (3.29%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (3.29%) Azure Data Factory
12 11 (2.78%) Azure API Management
12 11 (2.78%) Azure Functions
12 11 (2.78%) GCP
13 9 (2.28%) PaaS
14 8 (2.03%) GitHub
15 7 (1.77%) Amazon SQS
15 7 (1.77%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.04%) FTP
2 5 (1.27%) HTTP
2 5 (1.27%) Tactical Data Link
3 3 (0.76%) BGP
3 3 (0.76%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (0.76%) IOS XR
3 3 (0.76%) Link 16
4 2 (0.51%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.25%) Internet
5 1 (0.25%) NFC
5 1 (0.25%) PPP
5 1 (0.25%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.25%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (23.80%) SQL Server
2 39 (9.87%) NoSQL
3 28 (7.09%) Relational Database
4 17 (4.30%) KDB
5 15 (3.80%) Azure SQL Database
6 14 (3.54%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (2.78%) Oracle Database
8 10 (2.53%) MongoDB
9 9 (2.28%) Big Data
10 7 (1.77%) MySQL
11 6 (1.52%) Geospatial Data
12 5 (1.27%) OLAP
12 5 (1.27%) OLTP
12 5 (1.27%) Oracle OLAP
12 5 (1.27%) SQLite
13 4 (1.01%) BigQuery
13 4 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (1.01%) Redis
14 3 (0.76%) BusinessObjects
14 3 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 109 (27.59%) Git
2 58 (14.68%) JIRA
3 38 (9.62%) Jenkins
4 32 (8.10%) Bitbucket
5 23 (5.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 17 (4.30%) TeamCity
7 14 (3.54%) Cucumber
7 14 (3.54%) Visual Studio
8 12 (3.04%) NUnit
9 11 (2.78%) webpack
10 10 (2.53%) Moq
10 10 (2.53%) Rational DOORS
11 9 (2.28%) Postman
11 9 (2.28%) Selenium
12 7 (1.77%) SonarQube
13 6 (1.52%) SpecFlow
13 6 (1.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 5 (1.27%) Checkstyle
14 5 (1.27%) Jasmine
14 5 (1.27%) WiX
General
1 113 (28.61%) Social Skills
2 85 (21.52%) Finance
3 49 (12.41%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (10.38%) Back Office
4 41 (10.38%) Banking
5 29 (7.34%) Public Sector
6 22 (5.57%) Aerospace
7 21 (5.32%) Front Office
8 10 (2.53%) Investment Banking
9 8 (2.03%) Manufacturing
10 7 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.52%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.27%) Marketing
12 5 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (1.27%) Retail
13 4 (1.01%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.76%) Electronics
14 3 (0.76%) Local Government
15 2 (0.51%) Corporate Banking
15 2 (0.51%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 223 (56.46%) Developer
2 77 (19.49%) Senior
3 51 (12.91%) Senior Developer
4 40 (10.13%) Software Engineer
5 35 (8.86%) Lead
6 32 (8.10%) C# Developer
7 31 (7.85%) Java Developer
8 30 (7.59%) Full Stack Developer
9 24 (6.08%) .NET Developer
10 18 (4.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 18 (4.56%) Technical Leader
11 16 (4.05%) Senior Software Engineer
12 14 (3.54%) Data Engineer
12 14 (3.54%) Senior Java Developer
13 13 (3.29%) Azure Developer
13 13 (3.29%) C# .NET Developer
14 12 (3.04%) Architect
14 12 (3.04%) Python Developer
15 11 (2.78%) Consultant
15 11 (2.78%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (42.28%) .NET
2 107 (27.09%) .NET Core
3 65 (16.46%) REST
4 60 (15.19%) React
5 51 (12.91%) HTML
6 49 (12.41%) ASP.NET
7 46 (11.65%) CSS
8 36 (9.11%) JSON
8 36 (9.11%) Spring
9 29 (7.34%) Web Services
10 28 (7.09%) .NET Framework
10 28 (7.09%) Kafka
11 24 (6.08%) AngularJS
11 24 (6.08%) XML
12 22 (5.57%) ASP.NET Core
12 22 (5.57%) SOAP
13 21 (5.32%) RESTful
13 21 (5.32%) Vue
14 19 (4.81%) Middleware
15 18 (4.56%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 31 (7.85%) Distributed Systems
2 27 (6.84%) Algorithms
3 25 (6.33%) Data Structures
4 23 (5.82%) Product Ownership
5 21 (5.32%) Derivative
6 17 (4.30%) Self-Motivation
7 16 (4.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 14 (3.54%) Fixed Income
9 13 (3.29%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (3.04%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (3.04%) Greenfield Project
10 12 (3.04%) Management Information System
11 10 (2.53%) Linux Command Line
12 9 (2.28%) Market Risk
13 6 (1.52%) iPad
13 6 (1.52%) iPhone
13 6 (1.52%) Public Cloud
14 5 (1.27%) Credit Risk
14 5 (1.27%) DataPower
14 5 (1.27%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 83 (21.01%) Linux
2 29 (7.34%) Windows
3 25 (6.33%) Unix
4 8 (2.03%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.52%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.01%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (0.51%) Android
8 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.25%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (45.32%) Agile
2 139 (35.19%) OOP
3 121 (30.63%) DevOps
4 111 (28.10%) CI/CD
5 102 (25.82%) Problem-Solving
6 93 (23.54%) OOD
7 89 (22.53%) TDD
8 84 (21.27%) Design Patterns
9 81 (20.51%) Software Engineering
10 63 (15.95%) Continuous Integration
10 63 (15.95%) Scrum
11 61 (15.44%) Test Automation
12 59 (14.94%) Clean Code
13 56 (14.18%) API Management
14 55 (13.92%) Unit Testing
15 49 (12.41%) SOLID
16 44 (11.14%) SDLC
17 41 (10.38%) Multithreading
18 40 (10.13%) MVC
19 39 (9.87%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 180 (45.57%) C#
2 123 (31.14%) Python
3 119 (30.13%) Java
4 118 (29.87%) SQL
5 82 (20.76%) JavaScript
6 48 (12.15%) Bicep
6 48 (12.15%) C++
7 40 (10.13%) PowerShell
8 38 (9.62%) C
9 20 (5.06%) TypeScript
10 17 (4.30%) Perl
11 12 (3.04%) Bash
12 11 (2.78%) ABAP
12 11 (2.78%) T-SQL
13 9 (2.28%) Scala
14 8 (2.03%) PL/SQL
15 6 (1.52%) Objective-C
15 6 (1.52%) PHP
15 6 (1.52%) R
15 6 (1.52%) VBA
Qualifications
1 73 (18.48%) Security Cleared
2 53 (13.42%) SC Cleared
3 49 (12.41%) Degree
4 23 (5.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (4.05%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.03%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.01%) CISSP
8 3 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.51%) HND
9 2 (0.51%) ISEB
9 2 (0.51%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (7.09%) QA
2 27 (6.84%) Accessibility
3 19 (4.81%) WCAG
4 6 (1.52%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.27%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.01%) MiFID
7 1 (0.25%) GDPR
7 1 (0.25%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.25%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.25%) MISRA
7 1 (0.25%) MISRA C
System Software
1 38 (9.62%) Docker
2 35 (8.86%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.51%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 28 (7.09%) Ansible
2 25 (6.33%) Terraform
3 23 (5.82%) PowerCLI
4 19 (4.81%) Kubernetes
5 5 (1.27%) HP ALM
6 4 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.76%) Puppet
8 2 (0.51%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.25%) Dell DRAC
9 1 (0.25%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.25%) Grafana
9 1 (0.25%) Istio
9 1 (0.25%) Kiali
9 1 (0.25%) Podman
9 1 (0.25%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.25%) systemd
Vendors
1 66 (16.71%) Microsoft
2 29 (7.34%) Oracle
3 28 (7.09%) HP
4 23 (5.82%) Atlassian
5 22 (5.57%) Dell
6 17 (4.30%) SAP
7 15 (3.80%) TIBCO
8 9 (2.28%) IBM
8 9 (2.28%) Salesforce
9 8 (2.03%) Google
10 7 (1.77%) ION Trading
11 5 (1.27%) Informatica
11 5 (1.27%) Solace
11 5 (1.27%) Talend
11 5 (1.27%) TSYS
12 4 (1.01%) Adobe
12 4 (1.01%) Sparx
13 3 (0.76%) Cisco
13 3 (0.76%) Citrix
13 3 (0.76%) PeopleSoft