OO Contracts in the UK excluding London

Object-Oriented (OO)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 220 219 274
Rank change year-on-year -1 +55 -93
Contract jobs citing OO 116 188 194
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.91% 0.91% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 1.07% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 124 126
10th Percentile £338 £354 £406
25th Percentile £423 £473 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £525 £675 £630
90th Percentile £594 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £627
% change year-on-year -8.70% -8.22% +6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 16
10th Percentile - - £49.24
25th Percentile - £60.00 £52.09
Median hourly rate - £77.50 £65.67
Median % change year-on-year - +18.01% +19.40%
75th Percentile - £85.00 £70.29
90th Percentile - - £76.75
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
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing OO as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for OO in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OO in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for OO in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for OO in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OO in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for OO in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OO within the UK excluding London 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
South East +30 31 £500 -3.75% 119
Scotland +7 30 £450 -2.70% 42
Midlands +29 19 £511 +13.44% 45
West Midlands +23 19 £511 +13.44% 20
North of England +5 17 £500 -1.96% 130
North West +3 14 £500 -1.96% 76
South West +3 7 £425 -38.18% 49
East of England +24 4 £490 +3.16% 46
Wales +4 4 £376 -35.38% 13
Northern Ireland -5 4 £325 - 12
Yorkshire +8 3 £464 -2.26% 36
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (5.17%) CMS
2 5 (4.31%) Confluence
3 4 (3.45%) Apache
3 4 (3.45%) Drupal
3 4 (3.45%) WordPress
4 2 (1.72%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.86%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.86%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (1.72%) SAP ERP
1 2 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.86%) SAP EWM
2 1 (0.86%) SAP GTS
2 1 (0.86%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 27 (23.28%) Azure
2 15 (12.93%) AWS
3 13 (11.21%) GCP
4 12 (10.34%) Power Platform
4 12 (10.34%) PowerApps
5 6 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (4.31%) GitHub
7 4 (3.45%) SaaS
8 2 (1.72%) Adobe Analytics
8 2 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.72%) Azure AKS
8 2 (1.72%) Azure Stack
8 2 (1.72%) CloudBees
8 2 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.72%) Google Analytics
8 2 (1.72%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (1.72%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.86%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.86%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.86%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.17%) Internet
2 4 (3.45%) Wireless
3 2 (1.72%) SAN
4 1 (0.86%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.86%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.86%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (15.52%) Relational Database
2 12 (10.34%) MySQL
3 10 (8.62%) NoSQL
4 9 (7.76%) SAP HANA
5 8 (6.90%) MongoDB
6 6 (5.17%) SQL Server
7 4 (3.45%) Redis
8 3 (2.59%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (2.59%) DB2
9 2 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.72%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.72%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.72%) ObjectStore
9 2 (1.72%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.86%) Apache Accumulo
10 1 (0.86%) Big Data
10 1 (0.86%) KDB
10 1 (0.86%) Kdb+
10 1 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 39 (33.62%) Git
2 14 (12.07%) Jenkins
3 13 (11.21%) JIRA
4 11 (9.48%) Subversion
5 8 (6.90%) Bitbucket
6 7 (6.03%) GoogleTest
6 7 (6.03%) Rational DOORS
6 7 (6.03%) TestRail
7 4 (3.45%) Ant
7 4 (3.45%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (3.45%) Cypress.io
7 4 (3.45%) Maven
7 4 (3.45%) Postman
7 4 (3.45%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (2.59%) Cucumber
8 3 (2.59%) Selenium
8 3 (2.59%) Visual Studio
9 2 (1.72%) Codeception
9 2 (1.72%) Moq
9 2 (1.72%) SoapUI
General
1 20 (17.24%) Social Skills
2 12 (10.34%) Finance
3 6 (5.17%) Public Sector
4 5 (4.31%) Banking
4 5 (4.31%) Front Office
5 4 (3.45%) Wholesale Banking
6 3 (2.59%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.59%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.86%) Automotive
7 1 (0.86%) Electronics
7 1 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.86%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.86%) Law
7 1 (0.86%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.86%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 51 (43.97%) Developer
2 26 (22.41%) Software Engineer
3 17 (14.66%) Senior
4 14 (12.07%) Linux Engineer
5 12 (10.34%) ABAP Developer
5 12 (10.34%) Programmer
5 12 (10.34%) SAP Developer
6 11 (9.48%) Analyst
6 11 (9.48%) Python Programmer
6 11 (9.48%) Technical Analyst
7 10 (8.62%) Lead
8 9 (7.76%) C++ Software Engineer
8 9 (7.76%) Senior Software Engineer
9 8 (6.90%) Full-Stack Developer
9 8 (6.90%) Senior Developer
9 8 (6.90%) Technical Leader
10 7 (6.03%) Embedded Engineer
10 7 (6.03%) Embedded Linux Engineer
10 7 (6.03%) Linux Scripter
10 7 (6.03%) Senior Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (18.97%) Web Services
2 19 (16.38%) HTML
3 18 (15.52%) CSS
4 17 (14.66%) RESTful
5 16 (13.79%) .NET
6 13 (11.21%) REST
7 12 (10.34%) BAPI
8 11 (9.48%) AngularJS
8 11 (9.48%) React
9 10 (8.62%) Laravel
10 9 (7.76%) Vue
11 7 (6.03%) SOAP
12 5 (4.31%) Ajax
12 5 (4.31%) Kafka
12 5 (4.31%) Phalcon
13 4 (3.45%) .NET Core
13 4 (3.45%) CodeIgniter
13 4 (3.45%) jQuery
13 4 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
13 4 (3.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.07%) Management Information System
2 10 (8.62%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.31%) Equities
4 4 (3.45%) Derivative
4 4 (3.45%) Equity Derivative
4 4 (3.45%) Legacy Code
5 2 (1.72%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.72%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.72%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.86%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.86%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.86%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.86%) N-Tier
6 1 (0.86%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 49 (42.24%) Linux
2 30 (25.86%) Unix
3 9 (7.76%) Windows
4 7 (6.03%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.86%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (43.10%) Agile
2 39 (33.62%) Software Engineering
3 34 (29.31%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (26.72%) Design Patterns
5 29 (25.00%) Test Automation
6 28 (24.14%) Scrum
7 25 (21.55%) CI/CD
8 21 (18.10%) DevOps
8 21 (18.10%) Process Improvement
9 17 (14.66%) Containerisation
9 17 (14.66%) Multithreading
9 17 (14.66%) Problem Management
10 16 (13.79%) Full-Stack Development
10 16 (13.79%) OOP
10 16 (13.79%) SDLC
10 16 (13.79%) TDD
11 15 (12.93%) MVC
12 14 (12.07%) Computer Science
12 14 (12.07%) OOD
13 13 (11.21%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 43 (37.07%) Python
2 36 (31.03%) JavaScript
3 35 (30.17%) SQL
4 21 (18.10%) C#
5 18 (15.52%) Java
5 18 (15.52%) Perl
6 15 (12.93%) PHP
7 14 (12.07%) C++
8 13 (11.21%) ABAP
9 7 (6.03%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.59%) Kotlin
10 3 (2.59%) PowerShell
10 3 (2.59%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.72%) COBOL
11 2 (1.72%) Fortran
11 2 (1.72%) Ruby
12 1 (0.86%) Bash
12 1 (0.86%) C
12 1 (0.86%) Groovy
12 1 (0.86%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 22 (18.97%) Security Cleared
2 18 (15.52%) SC Cleared
3 15 (12.93%) Degree
4 10 (8.62%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (8.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.45%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.86%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.86%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.86%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.31%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.72%) QA
System Software
1 16 (13.79%) Docker
2 2 (1.72%) GPFS
3 1 (0.86%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.86%) Firmware
3 1 (0.86%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.86%) NFS
3 1 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (19.83%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.72%) Grafana
2 2 (1.72%) Prometheus
2 2 (1.72%) Veritas Storage Foundation
3 1 (0.86%) PowerCLI
3 1 (0.86%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (13.79%) Google
1 16 (13.79%) SAP
2 15 (12.93%) Microsoft
3 10 (8.62%) Zend
4 4 (3.45%) Adobe
4 4 (3.45%) Sybase
5 2 (1.72%) Brocade
5 2 (1.72%) EMC
5 2 (1.72%) IBM
5 2 (1.72%) NetApp
5 2 (1.72%) Veritas
6 1 (0.86%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.86%) Intel
6 1 (0.86%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.86%) VMware