OOP Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring OOP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 59 68
Rank change year-on-year -15 +9 +47
Contract jobs citing OOP 1 6 4
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.14% 0.90% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 1.05% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 4
10th Percentile - £533 -
25th Percentile £586 £638 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £598 £700 £375
Median % change year-on-year -14.64% +86.67% -16.67%
75th Percentile £609 £750 £441
90th Percentile - - £446
West Yorkshire median daily rate £598 £700 £375
% change year-on-year -14.64% +86.67% -16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 647 572 853
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 88.75% 86.14% 89.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 356 583
10th Percentile £300 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -7.62% -
75th Percentile £575 £573 £619
90th Percentile £650 £684 £702
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £515
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.77% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 20 7
10th Percentile - £15.70 £18.50
25th Percentile £14.25 £18.14 £18.97
Median hourly rate £25.00 £32.50 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +52.51% +0.28%
75th Percentile £26.50 £41.50 £22.86
90th Percentile £27.85 £97.18 £39.05
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £30.00 £19.85
% change year-on-year -26.20% +51.11% -5.46%

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

OOP job vacancy trend in Leeds

OOP
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing OOP

OOP
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing OOP

OOP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Gradle
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Log4j
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Mockito
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) PowerMock
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (100.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Concurrent Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Cache
1 1 (100.00%) Garbage Collection
1 1 (100.00%) Memory Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java