OO Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Object-Oriented (OO)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring OO skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 51 47
Rank change year-on-year -15 -4 +28
Contract jobs citing OO 8 30 32
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 1.11% 3.69% 3.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 3.94% 3.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 8
10th Percentile £476 £331 £388
25th Percentile £516 £401 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £461 £463
Median % change year-on-year +27.44% -0.32% -36.21%
75th Percentile £666 £652 £722
90th Percentile £709 £711 £745
Scotland median daily rate £556 £461 £440
% change year-on-year +20.50% +4.77% -39.31%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 593 762 859
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 82.36% 93.61% 92.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 492 555
10th Percentile £310 £308 £313
25th Percentile £375 £382 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £588
90th Percentile £675 £602 £688
Scotland median daily rate £450 £461 £475
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.89% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 9 40
10th Percentile £16.11 £16.18 £13.75
25th Percentile £16.17 £16.75 £16.00
Median hourly rate £16.25 £19.83 £21.13
Median % change year-on-year -18.05% -6.14% +56.50%
75th Percentile £46.61 £65.00 £44.14
90th Percentile £54.00 £76.83 £63.75
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £22.44 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.86% +15.06% +10.05%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

OO job vacancy trend in Glasgow

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Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing OO.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing OO

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Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OO in Glasgow over the 6 months to 17 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for OO in Glasgow

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Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing OO.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing OO

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
1 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Analyst
1 5 (62.50%) Programmer
1 5 (62.50%) Python Programmer
1 5 (62.50%) Technical Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (25.00%) Spring
1 2 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
2 1 (12.50%) JPA
2 1 (12.50%) Middleware
2 1 (12.50%) OpenAPI
2 1 (12.50%) React
2 1 (12.50%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) RESTful
2 1 (12.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
1 5 (62.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Storage Management
2 5 (62.50%) Capacity Management
2 5 (62.50%) Technical Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Design Patterns
3 2 (25.00%) Microservices
4 1 (12.50%) API Development
4 1 (12.50%) Architectural Design
4 1 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
4 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Observability
4 1 (12.50%) OOD
4 1 (12.50%) OOP
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
4 1 (12.50%) Server Management
4 1 (12.50%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Perl
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle