OOP Contracts in the North of England

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 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 160 162 204
Rank change year-on-year +2 +42 -84
Contract jobs citing OOP 6 23 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.18% 0.48% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.56% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 18 11
10th Percentile - £313 £375
25th Percentile £456 £463 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £495 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.57% +10.00% +2.86%
75th Percentile £522 £515 £500
90th Percentile £554 £599 £519
England median daily rate £520 £551 £590
% change year-on-year -5.67% -6.57% +12.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 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%

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

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

Daily rate trend for OOP in the North of England

OOP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for OOP 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 OOP 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
Yorkshire +6 3 - - 22
North West +2 3 £463 -9.31% 69
OOP
England

OOP
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 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) GitHub
1 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) ObjectStore
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
2 2 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 1 (16.67%) Law
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Senior
2 3 (50.00%) Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Software Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Solutions Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Software Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (16.67%) ABAP Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) JavaScript Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Python Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) SAP Developer
4 1 (16.67%) SAP HR Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (50.00%) React
2 2 (33.33%) RESTful
3 1 (16.67%) Ajax
3 1 (16.67%) BAPI
3 1 (16.67%) CSS
3 1 (16.67%) Django
3 1 (16.67%) FastAPI
3 1 (16.67%) Flask
3 1 (16.67%) HTML
3 1 (16.67%) REST
3 1 (16.67%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (16.67%) SAP Smart Forms
3 1 (16.67%) Vue
3 1 (16.67%) Web Dynpro
3 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) OO
2 3 (50.00%) API Design
2 3 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (33.33%) Digital Twin
3 2 (33.33%) Integration Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) RBAC
3 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Visualisation
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) C++
3 1 (16.67%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) SAP