OOP Contracts in Northern Ireland

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
UK > Northern Ireland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland with a requirement for OOP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OOP over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 18 29
Rank change year-on-year -6 +11 -6
Contract jobs citing OOP 1 9 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 0.68% 4.41% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 5.70% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.92%
75th Percentile - - £525
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £553 £590 £500
% change year-on-year -6.36% +18.00% +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

OOP is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 112 158 167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 75.68% 77.45% 82.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 78 87
10th Percentile £210 £169 £145
25th Percentile £328 £278 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £406 £445
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -8.71% +9.88%
75th Percentile £581 £500 £500
90th Percentile £663 £607 £543
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 11 9
10th Percentile - £13.25 £10.16
25th Percentile £12.25 £13.92 £10.29
Median hourly rate £13.94 £15.50 £15.74
Median % change year-on-year -10.06% -1.52% -0.76%
75th Percentile £23.54 £17.13 £21.00
90th Percentile £31.88 £18.43 £21.65
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £36.31 £25.00
% change year-on-year -3.59% +45.22% -

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing OOP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for OOP in Northern Ireland

OOP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OOP in Northern Ireland.

Daily rate trend for OOP in Northern Ireland

OOP
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OOP within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. 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
County Antrim -5 1 - - 8
OOP
UK

OOP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) InfoPath
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) FTP
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Electronics
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) COM
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) SAP