OLE Contracts in the North of England

Object Linking and Embedding (OLE)
England > North of England

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

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 165 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OLE 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.030% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £500 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £600 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 £335 £488
% change year-on-year +56.72% -31.28% -8.88%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

OLE falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 691 899 1,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 20.93% 18.91% 19.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 495 614 876
10th Percentile £359 £350 £366
25th Percentile £400 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £554 £597 £596
90th Percentile £650 £692 £675
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 29 10
10th Percentile £65.25 £13.87 £44.28
25th Percentile £68.81 £21.25 £45.88
Median hourly rate £86.46 £46.18 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +87.22% -26.11% +48.81%
75th Percentile £99.42 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £72.50 £71.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

OLE
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing OLE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for OLE in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OLE in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for OLE in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OLE in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for OLE in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OLE within the North of England region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
North West - 1 £550 - 2
OLE
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Anthropic Claude
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Google Gemini
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (100.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Vision
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Feature Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Linear Algebra
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (100.00%) Multi-Agent System
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Pattern Recognition
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) RDF
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) R
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Ariba
1 1 (100.00%) SAP