OO Contracts in the UK excluding London

Object-Oriented (OO)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for OO skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OO over the 6 months to 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 215 261 192
Rank change year-on-year +46 -69 -43
Contract jobs citing OO 193 181 416
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.95% 0.79% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 0.88% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 121 254
10th Percentile £366 £400 £400
25th Percentile £473 £500 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +13.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £675 £630 £550
90th Percentile £700 £675 £626
UK median daily rate £566 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -9.40% +4.17% +20.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 15 21
10th Percentile £54.75 £48.04 £43.67
25th Percentile £60.00 £51.19 £47.93
Median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.47% +16.36% +15.79%
75th Percentile £83.75 £70.59 £56.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £77.00 £58.75
UK median hourly rate £65.50 £56.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +16.44% +2.27% +22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

OO 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,041 20,494 27,367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.15% 89.42% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,189 14,100 19,120
10th Percentile £250 £259 £236
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,063 1,256 1,368
10th Percentile £12.35 £10.63 £12.30
25th Percentile £15.34 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.21%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.29
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.73 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.76% +40.19% +7.00%

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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 21 May 2024.

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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Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing OO in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 21 May 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
South West +21 50 £688 +9.13% 23
South East -4 46 £543 -4.15% 50
Scotland +58 33 £463 -11.90% 22
North of England +37 33 £510 -8.31% 68
North West +45 29 £510 -18.40% 32
East of England +17 14 £550 +9.13% 26
Midlands +22 13 £450 -10.00% 49
West Midlands +14 11 £450 -10.00% 32
Yorkshire +12 4 £488 -11.36% 26
Wales +15 3 £583 -10.38% 12
Northern Ireland -2 1 - - 10
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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 31 (16.06%) Confluence
2 8 (4.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (3.11%) Apache
3 6 (3.11%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.59%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (2.07%) SAS
6 3 (1.55%) IIS
7 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.52%) nginx
7 1 (0.52%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (4.15%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.52%) InfoPath
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.52%) Simulink
3 1 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.52%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (3.63%) Temenos T24
2 3 (1.55%) Maximo
2 3 (1.55%) SAP MDG
2 3 (1.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (1.04%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.52%) Magento
4 1 (0.52%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.52%) SAP GTS
4 1 (0.52%) SAP MDG-BP
4 1 (0.52%) SAP MDG-F
Cloud Services
1 39 (20.21%) Azure
2 35 (18.13%) AWS
3 20 (10.36%) Serverless
4 13 (6.74%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (5.18%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (4.66%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (4.66%) Amazon S3
7 8 (4.15%) Azure Functions
7 8 (4.15%) Azure Logic Apps
8 7 (3.63%) Apigee
8 7 (3.63%) Kong
9 5 (2.59%) Amazon EMR
9 5 (2.59%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (2.59%) Azure API Management
9 5 (2.59%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (2.59%) npm
9 5 (2.59%) Snowflake
10 4 (2.07%) OpenShift
10 4 (2.07%) Power Automate
10 4 (2.07%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.11%) FTP
1 6 (3.11%) HTTP
1 6 (3.11%) Kerberos
1 6 (3.11%) Tactical Data Link
2 4 (2.07%) Fibre Channel
2 4 (2.07%) iSCSI
2 4 (2.07%) Link 16
2 4 (2.07%) SAN
3 3 (1.55%) BGP
3 3 (1.55%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (1.55%) IOS XR
3 3 (1.55%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.04%) Broadband
5 1 (0.52%) 5G
5 1 (0.52%) DHCP
5 1 (0.52%) DNS
5 1 (0.52%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.52%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.52%) VPN
5 1 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.88%) SQL Server
2 15 (7.77%) Relational Database
3 8 (4.15%) MongoDB
4 7 (3.63%) OLAP
4 7 (3.63%) OLTP
4 7 (3.63%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.11%) Oracle OLAP
6 5 (2.59%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (2.59%) Big Data
6 5 (2.59%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.59%) SQLite
7 4 (2.07%) DB2
7 4 (2.07%) MySQL
7 4 (2.07%) Redis
7 4 (2.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.55%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (1.04%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (1.04%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
9 2 (1.04%) Lumira
9 2 (1.04%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 51 (26.42%) JIRA
2 42 (21.76%) Git
3 34 (17.62%) Jenkins
4 31 (16.06%) Bitbucket
5 23 (11.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 8 (4.15%) Rational DOORS
7 5 (2.59%) Checkstyle
7 5 (2.59%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.59%) Visual Studio
7 5 (2.59%) webpack
8 4 (2.07%) Jasmine
8 4 (2.07%) Karma Test Runner
8 4 (2.07%) Mocha
8 4 (2.07%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (1.55%) ClearCase
9 3 (1.55%) ClearQuest
9 3 (1.55%) IntelliJ
9 3 (1.55%) Subversion
10 2 (1.04%) NUnit
10 2 (1.04%) TestComplete
General
1 59 (30.57%) Social Skills
2 29 (15.03%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (11.92%) Aerospace
4 20 (10.36%) Finance
5 13 (6.74%) Banking
6 12 (6.22%) Public Sector
7 8 (4.15%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.59%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (2.59%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.55%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.55%) Marketing
10 2 (1.04%) Electronics
10 2 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.04%) Retail
11 1 (0.52%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 95 (49.22%) Developer
2 23 (11.92%) Software Engineer
3 15 (7.77%) Architect
3 15 (7.77%) Full Stack Developer
4 14 (7.25%) Senior
5 13 (6.74%) Linux Engineer
5 13 (6.74%) Python Engineer
6 12 (6.22%) Java Developer
7 11 (5.70%) .NET Developer
7 11 (5.70%) Software Developer
8 10 (5.18%) Network Engineer
8 10 (5.18%) Senior Software Engineer
9 8 (4.15%) Linux Scripter
10 7 (3.63%) AWS Architect
10 7 (3.63%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (3.63%) Unix Engineer
10 7 (3.63%) Unix Linux Engineer
11 6 (3.11%) C# Developer
11 6 (3.11%) DevOps Engineer
11 6 (3.11%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (31.61%) .NET
2 43 (22.28%) .NET Core
3 33 (17.10%) JSON
4 28 (14.51%) Spring
5 22 (11.40%) .NET Framework
5 22 (11.40%) XML
6 21 (10.88%) REST
7 20 (10.36%) React
8 18 (9.33%) Web Services
9 17 (8.81%) AngularJS
10 13 (6.74%) Kafka
10 13 (6.74%) RESTful
10 13 (6.74%) SOAP
11 9 (4.66%) CSS
11 9 (4.66%) HTML
11 9 (4.66%) OpenID
12 8 (4.15%) ASP.NET
12 8 (4.15%) RabbitMQ
12 8 (4.15%) Spring Boot
13 7 (3.63%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.29%) Algorithms
2 13 (6.74%) Data Structures
3 12 (6.22%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (5.18%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (4.15%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (4.15%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.63%) DataPower
6 7 (3.63%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (3.11%) Enterprise Cloud
7 6 (3.11%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (2.07%) Client/Server
8 4 (2.07%) NVMe
8 4 (2.07%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.55%) ASIC
9 3 (1.55%) Derivative
9 3 (1.55%) FPGA
9 3 (1.55%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.55%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.55%) Replication
9 3 (1.55%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 76 (39.38%) Linux
2 25 (12.95%) Unix
3 18 (9.33%) Windows
4 7 (3.63%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.07%) Data ONTAP
5 4 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.55%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.52%) Android
7 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.52%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (38.34%) Agile
1 74 (38.34%) OOP
2 63 (32.64%) Problem-Solving
3 55 (28.50%) CI/CD
4 49 (25.39%) Scrum
5 46 (23.83%) Software Engineering
6 45 (23.32%) DevOps
7 34 (17.62%) Continuous Integration
7 34 (17.62%) Design Patterns
8 31 (16.06%) Task Automation
9 30 (15.54%) OOD
10 29 (15.03%) Deployment Automation
10 29 (15.03%) Test Automation
11 26 (13.47%) Infrastructure Automation
12 25 (12.95%) Configuration Management
13 23 (11.92%) SOLID
14 22 (11.40%) SDLC
14 22 (11.40%) Unit Testing
15 21 (10.88%) Full Stack Development
16 20 (10.36%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 82 (42.49%) Python
2 65 (33.68%) Java
3 49 (25.39%) C#
4 45 (23.32%) SQL
5 35 (18.13%) C
6 31 (16.06%) JavaScript
7 29 (15.03%) PowerShell
8 26 (13.47%) C++
9 24 (12.44%) Perl
10 13 (6.74%) Bash
11 7 (3.63%) Go
12 6 (3.11%) ABAP
13 4 (2.07%) Assembly Language
13 4 (2.07%) F#
13 4 (2.07%) Scala
13 4 (2.07%) Shell Script
13 4 (2.07%) T-SQL
14 3 (1.55%) SystemVerilog
14 3 (1.55%) Tcl
15 2 (1.04%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 68 (35.23%) Security Cleared
2 53 (27.46%) SC Cleared
3 22 (11.40%) Degree
4 13 (6.74%) DV Cleared
5 11 (5.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.59%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.55%) HND
8 1 (0.52%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.52%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.33%) QA
2 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.52%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (0.52%) HL7
2 1 (0.52%) IEC 61508
2 1 (0.52%) MISRA
2 1 (0.52%) MISRA C
System Software
1 10 (5.18%) Docker
2 8 (4.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.11%) Active Directory
4 4 (2.07%) GPFS
4 4 (2.07%) NFS
5 2 (1.04%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.52%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 26 (13.47%) Ansible
2 23 (11.92%) PowerCLI
3 8 (4.15%) Kubernetes
3 8 (4.15%) Terraform
4 6 (3.11%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (2.07%) Dell DRAC
5 4 (2.07%) Veritas Storage Foundation
6 3 (1.55%) HP ALM
7 2 (1.04%) Puppet
8 1 (0.52%) Istio
8 1 (0.52%) Kiali
8 1 (0.52%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (12.95%) HP
2 23 (11.92%) Atlassian
3 22 (11.40%) Dell
3 22 (11.40%) Microsoft
4 14 (7.25%) IBM
5 13 (6.74%) SAP
6 9 (4.66%) Cadence
7 8 (4.15%) Oracle
7 8 (4.15%) VMware
8 7 (3.63%) TSYS
9 6 (3.11%) Google
10 5 (2.59%) Informatica
10 5 (2.59%) Salesforce
10 5 (2.59%) Talend
11 4 (2.07%) Brocade
11 4 (2.07%) EMC
11 4 (2.07%) NetApp
11 4 (2.07%) Sybase
11 4 (2.07%) Veritas
12 3 (1.55%) Xilinx