OOP Contracts in Manchester

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring OOP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OOP over the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 73 106
Rank change year-on-year -7 +33 +15
DemandTrendContract jobs citing OOP 7 15 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.69% 1.25% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 1.44% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 12 5
10th Percentile £528 £463 £491
25th Percentile £548 £479 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.09% +10.00% -5.88%
75th Percentile £584 £623 -
90th Percentile £586 £656 £534
North West median daily rate £550 £550 £500
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -5.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 902 1,041 1,549
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 88.87% 86.53% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 574 652 1,134
10th Percentile £307 £339 £285
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £582 £600 £600
90th Percentile £667 £713 £675
North West median daily rate £455 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -9.10% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 47 53
10th Percentile £16.79 £15.97 £15.72
25th Percentile £19.07 £24.43 £16.29
Median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +79.49% +11.43%
75th Percentile £56.62 £62.50 £38.75
90th Percentile £75.25 £87.00 £69.20
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.76
% change year-on-year -28.14% +13.80% +41.21%

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing OOP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for OOP in Manchester

OOP
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing OOP

OOP
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing OOP

OOP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
1 7 (100.00%) GCP
1 7 (100.00%) Serverless
2 6 (85.71%) Amazon ECS
2 6 (85.71%) Amazon EventBridge
2 6 (85.71%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (71.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (71.43%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (71.43%) Amazon EMR
3 5 (71.43%) Apigee
3 5 (71.43%) AWS Fargate
3 5 (71.43%) Azure
3 5 (71.43%) Datadog
3 5 (71.43%) GitHub
3 5 (71.43%) Loggly
3 5 (71.43%) Route 53
4 4 (57.14%) AWS Step Functions
4 4 (57.14%) PaaS
4 4 (57.14%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 7 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (85.71%) NoSQL
3 5 (71.43%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (71.43%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (71.43%) BigQuery
3 5 (71.43%) MySQL
3 5 (71.43%) RDBMS
3 5 (71.43%) Redis
3 5 (71.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) Git
1 7 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (71.43%) Gradle
2 5 (71.43%) Maven
2 5 (71.43%) SonarLint
2 5 (71.43%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Architect
1 7 (100.00%) Java Architect
1 7 (100.00%) Java Technical Architect
1 7 (100.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) RESTful
2 6 (85.71%) Dropwizard
2 6 (85.71%) J2EE
2 6 (85.71%) JWT
2 6 (85.71%) Micronaut
2 6 (85.71%) Spring Boot
3 5 (71.43%) Celery
4 4 (57.14%) GraphQL
5 1 (14.29%) OAuth
5 1 (14.29%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Cloud Native
1 6 (85.71%) N-Tier
2 4 (57.14%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) API Design
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 7 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 7 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 7 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 7 (100.00%) Microservices
1 7 (100.00%) TOGAF
2 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 6 (85.71%) Asynchronous Programming
2 6 (85.71%) BDD
2 6 (85.71%) Domain-Driven Design
2 6 (85.71%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 6 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (85.71%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (85.71%) TDD
2 6 (85.71%) Waterfall
3 5 (71.43%) Artificial Intelligence
3 5 (71.43%) CQRS
3 5 (71.43%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (85.71%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 1 (14.29%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 7 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Gigya