OO Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Object-Oriented (OO)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring OO skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 74 96
Rank change year-on-year -12 +22 +32
Contract jobs citing OO 5 9 10
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.44% 0.79% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.89% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 3
10th Percentile - £404 £405
25th Percentile £313 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -25.67% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £396 £496 £525
90th Percentile £488 £498 £555
North West median daily rate £440 £425 £488
% change year-on-year +3.53% -12.82% +2.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,015 1,014 1,418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.66% 88.71% 88.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 684 597 1,026
10th Percentile £300 £294 £285
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £588
90th Percentile £661 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 41 48
10th Percentile £17.26 £16.00 £15.74
25th Percentile £19.07 £22.00 £17.37
Median hourly rate £22.32 £32.50 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -31.34% +64.56% -43.57%
75th Percentile £31.40 £45.00 £51.25
90th Percentile £56.00 £65.00 £74.28
North West median hourly rate £29.60 £32.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year -8.92% -8.45% +46.15%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

OO job vacancy trend in Manchester

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Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing OO

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OO in Manchester over the 6 months to 8 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OO in Manchester

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Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing OO

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Ant
1 1 (20.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (20.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (20.00%) JUnit
1 1 (20.00%) NUnit
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Engineering Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Hibernate
1 4 (80.00%) Kafka
1 4 (80.00%) Spring
2 3 (60.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (60.00%) React
2 3 (60.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (20.00%) .NET
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Core
3 1 (20.00%) ADO.NET
3 1 (20.00%) Ajax
3 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (20.00%) EJB
3 1 (20.00%) HTML
3 1 (20.00%) J2EE
3 1 (20.00%) JDBC
3 1 (20.00%) JSP
3 1 (20.00%) JSTL
3 1 (20.00%) Struts
3 1 (20.00%) Web Services
3 1 (20.00%) WinForms
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Microservices
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 3 (60.00%) Design Patterns
2 3 (60.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (60.00%) OOP
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) B2B
3 1 (20.00%) B2C
3 1 (20.00%) Coaching
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
3 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Kanban
3 1 (20.00%) OOD
3 1 (20.00%) Open Source
3 1 (20.00%) SOA
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
3 2 (40.00%) C#
4 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared