OO Contracts in the North West

Object-Oriented (OO)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 106 109 146
Rank change year-on-year +3 +37 -34
Contract jobs citing OO 14 28 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.71% 1.02% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 1.18% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 23 2
10th Percentile £456 £463 £615
25th Percentile £460 £472 £619
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £633
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -19.37% +48.82%
75th Percentile - £575 £639
90th Percentile - £585 £640
England median daily rate £540 £588 £630
% change year-on-year -8.09% -6.75% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for OO in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for OO in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for OO in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for OO in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +9 3 £463 -13.95% 61
Cheshire -12 2 £459 -8.61% 4
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (7.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) AWS
2 2 (14.29%) GitHub
2 2 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
3 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (64.29%) SAP HANA
2 2 (14.29%) ObjectStore
3 1 (7.14%) Apache Accumulo
3 1 (7.14%) Big Data
3 1 (7.14%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Git
1 2 (14.29%) GitLab
General
1 1 (7.14%) Law
Job Titles
1 12 (85.71%) Developer
2 10 (71.43%) ABAP Developer
2 10 (71.43%) SAP Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Software Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Software Developer
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Java Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) SAP HR Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (71.43%) BAPI
1 10 (71.43%) Web Services
2 3 (21.43%) RESTful
3 2 (14.29%) AngularJS
3 2 (14.29%) React
4 1 (7.14%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (7.14%) SAP Smart Forms
4 1 (7.14%) Web Dynpro
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
1 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
1 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Performance Tuning
1 9 (64.29%) Process Improvement
2 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
2 3 (21.43%) Containerisation
2 3 (21.43%) OOP
3 2 (14.29%) Analytics
3 2 (14.29%) API Design
3 2 (14.29%) Continuous Deployment
3 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (14.29%) Digital Twin
3 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (14.29%) Integration Testing
3 2 (14.29%) RBAC
3 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
3 2 (14.29%) Unit Testing
3 2 (14.29%) Visualisation
4 1 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (7.14%) SDLC
4 1 (7.14%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) ABAP
2 2 (14.29%) Java
2 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 2 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 9 (64.29%) SC Cleared
3 8 (57.14%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
4 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 10 (71.43%) SAP
2 1 (7.14%) Red Hat