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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 226 201 268
Rank change year-on-year -25 +67 -79
Contract jobs citing OO 114 196 182
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.88% 0.96% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 1.14% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 126 120
10th Percentile £359 £356 £400
25th Percentile £450 £469 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £566
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -2.83% +13.20%
75th Percentile £525 £675 £630
90th Percentile £583 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £563 £625
% change year-on-year -6.76% -10.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 13 15
10th Percentile - £54.00 £48.04
25th Percentile - £60.00 £51.19
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year - +17.19% +16.36%
75th Percentile - £85.00 £70.59
90th Percentile - - £77.00
UK median hourly rate - £67.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year - +19.11% +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 11,760 17,139 20,553
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.52% 84.34% 89.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,326 10,219 14,173
10th Percentile £235 £250 £256
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £600
90th Percentile £653 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 850 2,064 1,258
10th Percentile £14.12 £12.35 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.66 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.72
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £35.65
% change year-on-year -22.32% +1.11% +38.82%

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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 18 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 18 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 +26 31 £500 -7.83% 139
Scotland -3 29 £450 -2.70% 39
Midlands +22 18 £511 +13.44% 39
West Midlands +12 18 £511 +13.44% 17
North of England +7 18 £500 -1.96% 129
North West -2 15 £500 -1.96% 69
South West -4 7 £425 -38.18% 59
East of England +17 5 £490 -10.91% 45
Northern Ireland -5 4 £325 - 11
Yorkshire +16 3 £464 -4.77% 45
Wales +2 2 £570 -2.15% 11
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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 (5.26%) CMS
2 4 (3.51%) Apache
2 4 (3.51%) Confluence
2 4 (3.51%) Drupal
2 4 (3.51%) WordPress
3 2 (1.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.88%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.88%) Mule
4 1 (0.88%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (1.75%) SAP ERP
1 2 (1.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.88%) SAP EWM
2 1 (0.88%) SAP GTS
2 1 (0.88%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 31 (27.19%) Azure
2 17 (14.91%) AWS
3 13 (11.40%) GCP
4 12 (10.53%) Power Platform
4 12 (10.53%) PowerApps
5 7 (6.14%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (4.39%) GitHub
7 3 (2.63%) SaaS
8 2 (1.75%) Adobe Analytics
8 2 (1.75%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.75%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.75%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.75%) Azure AKS
8 2 (1.75%) Azure Stack
8 2 (1.75%) CloudBees
8 2 (1.75%) Google Analytics
8 2 (1.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (1.75%) OpenShift
8 2 (1.75%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.26%) Internet
2 4 (3.51%) Wireless
3 2 (1.75%) SAN
4 1 (0.88%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.88%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (15.79%) Relational Database
2 11 (9.65%) MySQL
3 9 (7.89%) SAP HANA
4 8 (7.02%) MongoDB
5 7 (6.14%) NoSQL
6 5 (4.39%) SQL Server
7 4 (3.51%) Redis
8 3 (2.63%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (2.63%) DB2
9 2 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.75%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.75%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.75%) ObjectStore
9 2 (1.75%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.88%) Apache Accumulo
10 1 (0.88%) Big Data
10 1 (0.88%) KDB
10 1 (0.88%) Kdb+
10 1 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 34 (29.82%) Git
2 14 (12.28%) Jenkins
3 11 (9.65%) JIRA
3 11 (9.65%) Subversion
4 6 (5.26%) Bitbucket
4 6 (5.26%) GoogleTest
4 6 (5.26%) Rational DOORS
4 6 (5.26%) TestRail
5 4 (3.51%) Ant
5 4 (3.51%) Bitbucket Server
5 4 (3.51%) Maven
5 4 (3.51%) Postman
6 3 (2.63%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.63%) Cypress.io
6 3 (2.63%) GitLab
6 3 (2.63%) Visual Studio
6 3 (2.63%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (1.75%) Codeception
7 2 (1.75%) Moq
7 2 (1.75%) SoapUI
General
1 19 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 13 (11.40%) Finance
3 7 (6.14%) Public Sector
4 5 (4.39%) Banking
4 5 (4.39%) Front Office
4 5 (4.39%) Telecoms
5 4 (3.51%) Manufacturing
5 4 (3.51%) Wholesale Banking
6 3 (2.63%) Electronics
6 3 (2.63%) Marketing
7 1 (0.88%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.88%) Automotive
7 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.88%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.88%) Law
Job Titles
1 52 (45.61%) Developer
2 24 (21.05%) Software Engineer
3 18 (15.79%) Senior
4 12 (10.53%) ABAP Developer
4 12 (10.53%) Lead
4 12 (10.53%) Linux Engineer
4 12 (10.53%) Programmer
4 12 (10.53%) SAP Developer
5 11 (9.65%) Analyst
5 11 (9.65%) Python Programmer
5 11 (9.65%) Technical Analyst
6 10 (8.77%) .NET Developer
7 9 (7.89%) C# Developer
7 9 (7.89%) Senior Developer
7 9 (7.89%) Technical Leader
8 8 (7.02%) C# .NET Developer
8 8 (7.02%) C++ Software Engineer
8 8 (7.02%) Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (7.02%) Senior Software Engineer
9 6 (5.26%) Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (20.18%) Web Services
2 18 (15.79%) .NET
3 17 (14.91%) HTML
3 17 (14.91%) RESTful
4 16 (14.04%) CSS
5 13 (11.40%) REST
6 12 (10.53%) BAPI
7 10 (8.77%) AngularJS
7 10 (8.77%) React
8 7 (6.14%) Laravel
8 7 (6.14%) SOAP
8 7 (6.14%) Vue
9 6 (5.26%) Kafka
10 5 (4.39%) .NET Core
10 5 (4.39%) Ajax
10 5 (4.39%) Phalcon
11 4 (3.51%) CodeIgniter
11 4 (3.51%) jQuery
11 4 (3.51%) LAMP
11 4 (3.51%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.40%) Management Information System
2 11 (9.65%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.39%) Equities
4 4 (3.51%) Derivative
4 4 (3.51%) Equity Derivative
4 4 (3.51%) Legacy Code
5 3 (2.63%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.75%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.75%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.88%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.88%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.88%) N-Tier
7 1 (0.88%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 47 (41.23%) Linux
2 29 (25.44%) Unix
3 7 (6.14%) Windows
4 6 (5.26%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.88%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (42.98%) Agile
2 37 (32.46%) Software Engineering
3 31 (27.19%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (25.44%) Design Patterns
5 26 (22.81%) Test Automation
6 24 (21.05%) CI/CD
6 24 (21.05%) Scrum
7 22 (19.30%) DevOps
8 21 (18.42%) Process Improvement
8 21 (18.42%) TDD
9 20 (17.54%) OOP
10 18 (15.79%) SOLID
11 17 (14.91%) Containerisation
11 17 (14.91%) Problem Management
12 16 (14.04%) Full-Stack Development
12 16 (14.04%) Multithreading
12 16 (14.04%) SDLC
13 12 (10.53%) Concurrent Programming
13 12 (10.53%) Microservices
13 12 (10.53%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (35.96%) Python
2 36 (31.58%) SQL
3 33 (28.95%) JavaScript
4 24 (21.05%) C#
5 20 (17.54%) Java
6 17 (14.91%) Perl
7 13 (11.40%) ABAP
7 13 (11.40%) C++
8 11 (9.65%) PHP
9 8 (7.02%) TypeScript
10 4 (3.51%) PowerShell
11 3 (2.63%) Kotlin
11 3 (2.63%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.75%) COBOL
12 2 (1.75%) Fortran
12 2 (1.75%) Ruby
13 1 (0.88%) C
13 1 (0.88%) DataWeave
13 1 (0.88%) Groovy
13 1 (0.88%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 21 (18.42%) Security Cleared
2 17 (14.91%) SC Cleared
3 11 (9.65%) Degree
4 10 (8.77%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (7.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (3.51%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.88%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.88%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.75%) QA
2 1 (0.88%) Accessibility
System Software
1 16 (14.04%) Docker
2 2 (1.75%) GPFS
3 1 (0.88%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.88%) Firmware
3 1 (0.88%) NFS
Systems Management
1 23 (20.18%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.63%) Terraform
3 2 (1.75%) Grafana
3 2 (1.75%) Progress Chef
3 2 (1.75%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.75%) Veritas Storage Foundation
4 1 (0.88%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 18 (15.79%) SAP
2 17 (14.91%) Microsoft
3 15 (13.16%) Google
4 10 (8.77%) Zend
5 4 (3.51%) Adobe
5 4 (3.51%) Sybase
6 2 (1.75%) Brocade
6 2 (1.75%) EMC
6 2 (1.75%) IBM
6 2 (1.75%) NetApp
6 2 (1.75%) Veritas
7 1 (0.88%) Intel
7 1 (0.88%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.88%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.88%) Salesforce