OOP Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring OOP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 121 132
Rank change year-on-year -33 +11 +62
Contract jobs citing OOP 6 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.19% 0.043% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.050% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £414 - £293
25th Percentile £432 - £343
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.00%
75th Percentile £601 - £481
90th Percentile £670 - £485
England median daily rate £475 £495 £550
% change year-on-year -4.04% -10.00% -8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,694 2,005 2,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 86.57% 85.87% 84.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,699 1,258 1,523
10th Percentile £250 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -1.52%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £595
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 72 97
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £13.15
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £17.07
Median hourly rate £18.87 £23.05 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.13% +0.22% +36.66%
75th Percentile £25.15 £33.75 £51.50
90th Percentile £31.00 £52.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.90% +18.63%

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

OOP job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing OOP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing OOP

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OOP in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OOP in the Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing OOP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing OOP

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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 OOP within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 December 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 -33 4 £439 - 12
East Midlands - 2 £710 - 12
OOP
England

OOP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Drupal
2 1 (16.67%) Apache
2 1 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (16.67%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Kong
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 2 (33.33%) MySQL
1 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (33.33%) SAP BW
2 1 (16.67%) Big Data
2 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (16.67%) Hadoop
2 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
2 1 (16.67%) JUnit
2 1 (16.67%) Mockito
2 1 (16.67%) Postman
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Backend Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Integration Architect
1 2 (33.33%) SAP Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Drupal Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Lead Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) PHP Developer
2 1 (16.67%) PHP Drupal Developer
2 1 (16.67%) SAP Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Web Services
2 3 (50.00%) RESTful
3 2 (33.33%) Drush
3 2 (33.33%) Node.js
3 2 (33.33%) SAP Fiori
3 2 (33.33%) SAP PI
3 2 (33.33%) SAP XI
4 1 (16.67%) Apache Camel
4 1 (16.67%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (16.67%) BAPI
4 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (16.67%) IDoc
4 1 (16.67%) SOAP
4 1 (16.67%) Spring
4 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
4 1 (16.67%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) OO
2 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (50.00%) Microservices
4 2 (33.33%) Clean Code
4 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
4 2 (33.33%) Scrum
4 2 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
5 1 (16.67%) Architectural Design
5 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
5 1 (16.67%) Data Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Data Science
5 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
5 1 (16.67%) Front End Development
5 1 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
5 1 (16.67%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (33.33%) ABAP
3 2 (33.33%) PHP
3 2 (33.33%) Ruby
4 1 (16.67%) Scala
4 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
4 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Google
2 2 (33.33%) SAP