OO Contracts in Scotland

Object-Oriented (OO)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 86 93 149
Rank change year-on-year +7 +56 -24
Contract jobs citing OO 30 36 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.85% 1.62% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.98% 1.83% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 4
10th Percentile £344 £275 £443
25th Percentile £393 £341 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -26.00% +38.89%
75th Percentile £593 £722 £738
90th Percentile £711 £745 -
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £627
% change year-on-year -8.70% -8.22% +6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £52.03
25th Percentile - - £53.20
Median hourly rate - - £55.77
75th Percentile - - £57.71
90th Percentile - - £58.50
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £71.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year -14.08% +26.22% +2.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing OO as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for OO in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OO in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for OO in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for OO in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OO in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for OO in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OO within the Scotland 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
Glasgow +5 30 £450 -35.06% 12
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (6.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 2 (6.67%) CMS
2 1 (3.33%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 5 (16.67%) AWS
1 5 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (6.67%) Adobe Analytics
2 2 (6.67%) GCP
2 2 (6.67%) Google Analytics
3 1 (3.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) Internet
1 2 (6.67%) SAN
2 1 (3.33%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (3.33%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) DB2
1 3 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (6.67%) MongoDB
2 2 (6.67%) RDBMS
2 2 (6.67%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.33%) Hadoop
3 1 (3.33%) KDB
3 1 (3.33%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (3.33%) Git
1 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.33%) JUnit
1 1 (3.33%) Mercurial
1 1 (3.33%) Selenium
1 1 (3.33%) Subversion
General
1 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.33%) Banking
3 1 (3.33%) Front Office
3 1 (3.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (36.67%) Analyst
1 11 (36.67%) Programmer
1 11 (36.67%) Python Programmer
1 11 (36.67%) Technical Analyst
2 7 (23.33%) Linux Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) Linux Scripter
3 6 (20.00%) Network Engineer
3 6 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
3 6 (20.00%) Unix Engineer
3 6 (20.00%) Unix Linux Engineer
3 6 (20.00%) Unix Scripter
3 6 (20.00%) Unix Scripting Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Architect
5 3 (10.00%) Python Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Software Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Python Software Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Java Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Java Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) Spring
2 2 (6.67%) CSS
2 2 (6.67%) HTML
2 2 (6.67%) J2EE
2 2 (6.67%) Java EE
2 2 (6.67%) JMS
3 1 (3.33%) DOM
3 1 (3.33%) EJB
3 1 (3.33%) Flash
3 1 (3.33%) JAX-RS
3 1 (3.33%) JDBC
3 1 (3.33%) JPA
3 1 (3.33%) JSON
3 1 (3.33%) Kafka
3 1 (3.33%) POSIX
3 1 (3.33%) REST
3 1 (3.33%) RESTful
3 1 (3.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (36.67%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (6.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (3.33%) Client/Server
3 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.33%) Equities
3 1 (3.33%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 25 (83.33%) Linux
2 21 (70.00%) Unix
3 2 (6.67%) Windows
4 1 (3.33%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (40.00%) Capacity Management
1 12 (40.00%) Storage Management
2 11 (36.67%) Technical Analysis
3 7 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (20.00%) Agile
4 6 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
4 6 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 4 (13.33%) OOD
5 4 (13.33%) SDLC
6 3 (10.00%) Architectural Patterns
6 3 (10.00%) Containerisation
6 3 (10.00%) Critical Thinking
6 3 (10.00%) Design Patterns
6 3 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
6 3 (10.00%) Preventative Maintenance
6 3 (10.00%) Problem Management
6 3 (10.00%) Scrum
7 2 (6.67%) Content Management
7 2 (6.67%) Decision-Making
7 2 (6.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 25 (83.33%) Python
2 18 (60.00%) Perl
3 6 (20.00%) SQL
4 4 (13.33%) Java
4 4 (13.33%) JavaScript
5 3 (10.00%) C++
6 1 (3.33%) C#
6 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.33%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 2 (6.67%) Docker
1 2 (6.67%) GPFS
2 1 (3.33%) NFS
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.67%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 4 (13.33%) Google
1 4 (13.33%) Sybase
2 2 (6.67%) Adobe
2 2 (6.67%) Brocade
2 2 (6.67%) EMC
2 2 (6.67%) IBM
2 2 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.67%) NetApp
2 2 (6.67%) Veritas