OOP Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring OOP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 74 75
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 -
Contract jobs citing OOP 1 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.14% 0.39% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.43% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - £537 -
25th Percentile - £575 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £674 £400
Median % change year-on-year -19.44% +68.50% -
75th Percentile - £711 £563
90th Percentile - - £660
Scotland median daily rate £525 £674 £400
% change year-on-year -22.11% +68.50% -5.88%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 588 705 841
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 85.22% 91.80% 92.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 425 550
10th Percentile £302 £313 £343
25th Percentile £400 £363 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £562 £545 £606
90th Percentile £639 £625 £700
Scotland median daily rate £455 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +1.00% -7.69% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 12 24
10th Percentile £14.09 £16.75 £11.50
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.88 £14.57
Median hourly rate £23.75 £24.17 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.72% +51.03% +50.52%
75th Percentile £52.50 £36.50 £19.50
90th Percentile £61.74 £62.75 £75.00
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.59 £19.50
% change year-on-year -15.22% +20.97% +12.54%

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

OOP job vacancy trend in Glasgow

OOP
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing OOP

OOP
Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing OOP

OOP
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 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (100.00%) boto
1 1 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (100.00%) JWT
1 1 (100.00%) NumPy
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OpenCV
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Community of Practice
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) OCR
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes