AOP Contract Job Trends in the South East

Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring AOP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AOP 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.067% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.082% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £423 - -
25th Percentile £428 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £466 - -
90th Percentile £468 - -
England median daily rate £438 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -18.60% -2.27% +5.77%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

AOP 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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,854 2,696 4,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.74% 91.33% 82.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,096 1,725 2,696
10th Percentile £280 £250 £255
25th Percentile £412 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £509
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% -1.67% +0.20%
75th Percentile £607 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £660 £700
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 462 184 455
10th Percentile £15.05 £13.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £15.00 £18.26
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +108.75% -47.05% -9.52%
75th Percentile £82.25 £59.06 £62.60
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £76.86
England median hourly rate £47.50 £28.53 £37.50
% change year-on-year +66.52% -23.93% +1.99%

AOP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AOP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

AOP job vacancy trend in the South East

AOP
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing AOP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing AOP

AOP
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing AOP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing AOP

AOP
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AOP within the South East region over the 6 months to 6 June 2026. 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
West Sussex - 4 £450 -
AOP
England

AOP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
1 4 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 4 (100.00%) Couchbase
1 4 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 4 (100.00%) MySQL
1 4 (100.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (100.00%) JUnit
General
1 4 (100.00%) Banking
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Senior
2 3 (75.00%) Java Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) Senior Java Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
1 4 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) JPA
1 4 (100.00%) jQuery
1 4 (100.00%) Spring
1 4 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 4 (100.00%) Spring MVC
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) AI
1 4 (100.00%) Analytics
1 4 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 4 (100.00%) Digital Banking
1 4 (100.00%) Inversion of Control
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
1 4 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 4 (100.00%) MVC
1 4 (100.00%) System Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 4 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Google
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle