OO Contracts in the Midlands

Object-Oriented (OO)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring OO skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OO over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 122 147
Rank change year-on-year +6 +25 -49
Contract jobs citing OO 15 15 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.67% 0.51% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 0.63% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 8
10th Percentile £379 £416 £420
25th Percentile £445 £450 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £517 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% +3.40% -3.29%
75th Percentile £527 £586 -
90th Percentile £538 £645 £526
England median daily rate £540 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -1.82% -12.00% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £40.00 -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £64.00 £68.67
% change year-on-year +17.19% -6.80% +24.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,975 2,375 2,808
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.41% 80.26% 87.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,265 1,577 1,984
10th Percentile £207 £246 £257
25th Percentile £356 £360 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -2.50% +4.17%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £640 £688 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 178 97
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £21.28 £18.99 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +12.06% -24.81% +29.49%
75th Percentile £28.18 £35.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +44.23%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing OO as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for OO in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OO in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for OO in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OO in the Midlands over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OO in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OO in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for OO in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OO within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +11 14 £524 +2.75% 63
East Midlands - 1 £276 - 56
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 13 (86.67%) Azure
1 13 (86.67%) Power Platform
2 12 (80.00%) PowerApps
3 1 (6.67%) AWS
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) IntelliJ
2 1 (6.67%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) Maven
2 1 (6.67%) SonarQube
2 1 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (6.67%) TeamCity
General
1 12 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Automotive
2 1 (6.67%) Finance
2 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Lead
1 9 (60.00%) Technical Leader
2 6 (40.00%) Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Power Platform Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Java Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) RESTful
2 1 (6.67%) .NET
2 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
2 1 (6.67%) ARM Templates
2 1 (6.67%) HTML
2 1 (6.67%) J2EE
2 1 (6.67%) Laravel
2 1 (6.67%) Node.js
2 1 (6.67%) React
2 1 (6.67%) REST
2 1 (6.67%) Spring
2 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (6.67%) Vue
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) Agile
2 13 (86.67%) DevOps
2 13 (86.67%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (80.00%) Configuration Management
3 12 (80.00%) Data Modelling
3 12 (80.00%) Problem Management
3 12 (80.00%) Process Improvement
3 12 (80.00%) Test Strategy
4 3 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (13.33%) Design Patterns
5 2 (13.33%) TDD
6 1 (6.67%) BDD
6 1 (6.67%) Coaching
6 1 (6.67%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (6.67%) Mentoring
6 1 (6.67%) MVC
6 1 (6.67%) OOP
6 1 (6.67%) Risk Management
6 1 (6.67%) Software Engineering
6 1 (6.67%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 13 (86.67%) SQL
2 2 (13.33%) Java
2 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
3 1 (6.67%) C#
3 1 (6.67%) PHP
3 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
1 1 (6.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (6.67%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes