OO Contracts in the North of England

Object-Oriented (OO)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 154 196
Rank change year-on-year +5 +42 -71
Contract jobs citing OO 17 31 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.52% 0.65% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.76% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 26 11
10th Percentile £456 - £506
25th Percentile £458 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £563
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -9.33% +25.00%
75th Percentile - £566 £569
90th Percentile - £581 £638
England median daily rate £540 £588 £630
% change year-on-year -8.09% -6.75% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
England median hourly rate £61.00 £71.00 £67.34
% change year-on-year -14.08% +5.44% +22.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for OO 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 OO in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for OO in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OO in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OO 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 OO in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for OO 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 OO within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 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 +3 14 £500 -1.96% 77
Yorkshire +8 3 £464 -2.26% 36
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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 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) GitHub
2 3 (17.65%) AWS
3 2 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (11.76%) Azure AKS
3 2 (11.76%) CloudBees
3 2 (11.76%) GCP
3 2 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (11.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (52.94%) SAP HANA
2 2 (11.76%) BigQuery
2 2 (11.76%) ObjectStore
3 1 (5.88%) Apache Accumulo
3 1 (5.88%) Big Data
3 1 (5.88%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Git
2 2 (11.76%) GitLab
2 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (5.88%) Law
1 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
1 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (70.59%) Developer
2 10 (58.82%) ABAP Developer
2 10 (58.82%) SAP Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Software Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Java Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) JavaScript Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Python Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) SAP HR Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (58.82%) BAPI
1 10 (58.82%) Web Services
2 3 (17.65%) AngularJS
2 3 (17.65%) React
2 3 (17.65%) RESTful
3 1 (5.88%) Ajax
3 1 (5.88%) CSS
3 1 (5.88%) Django
3 1 (5.88%) FastAPI
3 1 (5.88%) Flask
3 1 (5.88%) HTML
3 1 (5.88%) REST
3 1 (5.88%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (5.88%) SAP Smart Forms
3 1 (5.88%) Vue
3 1 (5.88%) Web Dynpro
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
1 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
1 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Performance Tuning
1 9 (52.94%) Process Improvement
2 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
2 5 (29.41%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (23.53%) Agile
3 4 (23.53%) OOP
4 3 (17.65%) API Design
4 3 (17.65%) Containerisation
4 3 (17.65%) Design Patterns
4 3 (17.65%) Scrum
4 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
4 3 (17.65%) TDD
5 2 (11.76%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (11.76%) Continuous Deployment
5 2 (11.76%) DevOps
5 2 (11.76%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (11.76%) RBAC
5 2 (11.76%) SDLC
5 2 (11.76%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) ABAP
2 5 (29.41%) JavaScript
2 5 (29.41%) Python
3 4 (23.53%) Java
4 2 (11.76%) Kotlin
4 2 (11.76%) Shell Script
5 1 (5.88%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 13 (76.47%) Security Cleared
2 9 (52.94%) SC Cleared
3 8 (47.06%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.76%) Grafana
2 2 (11.76%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.88%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) SAP
2 2 (11.76%) Google
3 1 (5.88%) Red Hat