OO Contract Job Trends in the North West

Object-Oriented (OO)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring OO skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 89 126
Rank change year-on-year -32 +37 +36
Contract jobs citing OO 7 28 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.32% 1.18% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 1.41% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 24 7
10th Percentile £359 £368 £430
25th Percentile £377 £381 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -7.37% -2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £533 £489 £594
90th Percentile £563 £590 £639
England median daily rate £500 £517 £625
% change year-on-year -3.29% -17.28% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £40.05
25th Percentile - - £43.80
Median hourly rate - - £45.88
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £62.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +20.97% -4.62% +18.18%

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 1,924 1,990 2,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.62% 83.58% 88.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,258 1,188 1,703
10th Percentile £300 £308 £282
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £561 £588 £594
90th Percentile £665 £688 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 121 160
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.92 £15.75
25th Percentile £17.44 £23.65 £18.38
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.63% +18.60% +55.32%
75th Percentile £51.63 £55.79 £46.18
90th Percentile £71.87 £70.90 £63.88
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +46.55%

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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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Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing OO.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing OO

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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 7 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OO in the North West

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing OO.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing OO

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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 7 September 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
Cheshire -32 4 £389 -2.75% 3
Manchester -5 2 £550 +15.79% 8
Cumbria - 1 £470 -
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England

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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:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (28.57%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (14.29%) RDBMS
1 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Ant
1 1 (14.29%) Eclipse
1 1 (14.29%) IntelliJ
1 1 (14.29%) JUnit
1 1 (14.29%) NUnit
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Law
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) ABAP Developer
2 2 (28.57%) SAP Developer
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Engineering Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) SAP HR Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) RESTful
1 3 (42.86%) Web Services
2 2 (28.57%) .NET
2 2 (28.57%) .NET Core
2 2 (28.57%) BAPI
3 1 (14.29%) ADO.NET
3 1 (14.29%) Ajax
3 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
3 1 (14.29%) Hibernate
3 1 (14.29%) HTML
3 1 (14.29%) IDoc
3 1 (14.29%) J2EE
3 1 (14.29%) JSTL
3 1 (14.29%) Kafka
3 1 (14.29%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (14.29%) SAP Smart Forms
3 1 (14.29%) SAPUI5
3 1 (14.29%) Spring
3 1 (14.29%) Web Dynpro
3 1 (14.29%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
1 4 (57.14%) SOLID
1 4 (57.14%) TDD
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Design Patterns
3 2 (28.57%) Kanban
3 2 (28.57%) OOD
3 2 (28.57%) OOP
3 2 (28.57%) Pair Programming
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) SDLC
3 2 (28.57%) Secure Coding
3 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) BDD
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Deployment
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
4 1 (14.29%) Open Source
4 1 (14.29%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) C#
3 2 (28.57%) ABAP
4 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle