OOP Contracts in Scotland

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 162 152
Rank change year-on-year +39 -10 -15
Contract jobs citing OOP 5 1 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.23% 0.035% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.038% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 16
10th Percentile - - £385
25th Percentile - £513 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £525 £406
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +29.23% -1.52%
75th Percentile £563 £538 £500
90th Percentile £660 - £610
UK median daily rate £551 £593 £525
% change year-on-year -6.96% +12.86% +10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,967 2,651 3,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.60% 92.63% 92.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,198 1,908 2,312
10th Percentile £229 £263 £240
25th Percentile £400 £408 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £624
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 54 46
10th Percentile £12.36 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £16.00 £11.51 £18.35
Median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% -55.69% -0.01%
75th Percentile £40.94 £53.75 £49.34
90th Percentile £60.75 £66.09 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for OOP in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for OOP in Scotland

OOP
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OOP in Scotland over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OOP in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for OOP 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 OOP within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 29 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
Glasgow +4 4 £400 -23.81% 3
OOP
UK

OOP
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) DB2
2 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) CircleCI
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (40.00%) Law
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Lead
2 2 (40.00%) Scala Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) EJB
2 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (60.00%) Microservices
3 3 (60.00%) SDLC
4 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
4 2 (40.00%) Domain-Driven Design
4 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (40.00%) Refactoring
4 2 (40.00%) Scrum
4 2 (40.00%) SOLID
4 2 (40.00%) TDD
4 2 (40.00%) Thought Leadership
5 1 (20.00%) OO
5 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (20.00%) Re-Platforming
5 1 (20.00%) SOA
5 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Scala
2 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Greenplum
1 2 (40.00%) Sybase
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft