OOP Contracts in the UK excluding London

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 306 381 305
Rank change year-on-year +75 -76 +1
Contract jobs citing OOP 85 76 233
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.41% 0.32% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.36% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 55 181
10th Percentile £381 £400 £381
25th Percentile £468 £455 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £550 £438
Median % change year-on-year +15.91% +25.71% +9.38%
75th Percentile £700 £630 £525
90th Percentile £703 £697 £615
UK median daily rate £550 £590 £525
% change year-on-year -6.78% +12.38% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 6
10th Percentile £48.00 - £42.08
25th Percentile - - £42.68
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £51.35
75th Percentile - - £60.74
90th Percentile £78.00 - £62.15
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £35.00 £56.50
% change year-on-year +71.43% -38.05% +25.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,415 21,396 27,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.71% 89.54% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,404 14,848 19,199
10th Percentile £250 £256 £233
25th Percentile £375 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £689 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,049 1,314 1,359
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.17
25th Percentile £15.23 £15.63 £14.04
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.21
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.74 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for OOP in the UK excluding London

OOP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for OOP in the UK excluding London

OOP
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OOP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OOP in the UK excluding London

OOP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for OOP in the UK excluding London

OOP
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing OOP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for OOP in the UK excluding London

OOP
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 OOP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 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 +38 41 £688 +9.13% 5
North of England +32 22 £490 +8.89% 31
North West +25 17 £510 +21.43% 11
South East +10 7 £550 +7.84% 32
Yorkshire +21 5 £400 -16.88% 15
East of England +10 5 £400 -20.63% 16
Scotland +43 4 £400 -23.81% 11
Midlands +29 4 £450 -29.13% 37
West Midlands +26 4 £450 -33.33% 20
Northern Ireland +1 1 - - 6
Wales - 1 £583 - 1
OOP
UK

OOP
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 23 (27.06%) Confluence
2 6 (7.06%) Apache
2 6 (7.06%) Apache Spark
3 5 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.18%) InfoPath
1 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 20 (23.53%) AWS
2 15 (17.65%) Azure
3 7 (8.24%) Serverless
4 5 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (5.88%) Amazon EMR
4 5 (5.88%) Amazon S3
4 5 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
4 5 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (5.88%) npm
4 5 (5.88%) Snowflake
5 4 (4.71%) Yarn
6 2 (2.35%) GCP
7 1 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.18%) GitHub
7 1 (1.18%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.18%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.06%) FTP
2 1 (1.18%) HTTP
2 1 (1.18%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.76%) SQL Server
2 6 (7.06%) MySQL
3 5 (5.88%) Big Data
3 5 (5.88%) Redis
4 3 (3.53%) DB2
4 3 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.53%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.35%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (2.35%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 35 (41.18%) JIRA
2 26 (30.59%) Jenkins
3 23 (27.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 23 (27.06%) Bitbucket
4 14 (16.47%) Git
5 5 (5.88%) webpack
6 4 (4.71%) Jasmine
6 4 (4.71%) Karma Test Runner
6 4 (4.71%) Mocha
6 4 (4.71%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (3.53%) GitLab
8 2 (2.35%) CircleCI
8 2 (2.35%) IntelliJ
8 2 (2.35%) Selenium
8 2 (2.35%) SpecFlow
8 2 (2.35%) TeamCity
8 2 (2.35%) TestComplete
9 1 (1.18%) JMeter
9 1 (1.18%) JUnit
9 1 (1.18%) Mercurial
General
1 32 (37.65%) Social Skills
2 24 (28.24%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (22.35%) Aerospace
4 10 (11.76%) Finance
5 6 (7.06%) Manufacturing
6 5 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (3.53%) Banking
8 2 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.35%) Law
9 1 (1.18%) Aviation
9 1 (1.18%) Electronics
9 1 (1.18%) Marketing
9 1 (1.18%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.18%) Retail
9 1 (1.18%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 56 (65.88%) Developer
2 13 (15.29%) Full Stack Developer
3 7 (8.24%) Java Developer
4 5 (5.88%) .NET Developer
4 5 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (5.88%) Data Engineer
4 5 (5.88%) PHP Developer
4 5 (5.88%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 4 (4.71%) Site Engineer
5 4 (4.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 4 (4.71%) Software Engineer
5 4 (4.71%) Tester
6 3 (3.53%) Architect
6 3 (3.53%) Data Architect
6 3 (3.53%) Lead
6 3 (3.53%) Senior
7 2 (2.35%) Senior Developer
7 2 (2.35%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (2.35%) Software Developer
7 2 (2.35%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (37.65%) .NET
2 30 (35.29%) .NET Core
3 23 (27.06%) Spring
4 20 (23.53%) React
5 17 (20.00%) AngularJS
6 8 (9.41%) .NET Framework
7 7 (8.24%) JSON
7 7 (8.24%) Web Services
8 6 (7.06%) Kafka
9 5 (5.88%) XML
10 4 (4.71%) HTML
10 4 (4.71%) Node.js
10 4 (4.71%) REST
10 4 (4.71%) RESTful
11 3 (3.53%) CSS
11 3 (3.53%) Hibernate
11 3 (3.53%) SOAP
12 2 (2.35%) ASP.NET
12 2 (2.35%) jQuery
12 2 (2.35%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.59%) Data Structures
2 7 (8.24%) Algorithms
3 4 (4.71%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.71%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.53%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.53%) Derivative
4 3 (3.53%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.35%) Blockchain
5 2 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.35%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 25 (29.41%) Linux
2 5 (5.88%) Windows
3 4 (4.71%) Unix
4 3 (3.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (85.88%) OO
2 46 (54.12%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (43.53%) CI/CD
4 34 (40.00%) Agile
5 28 (32.94%) Deployment Automation
6 25 (29.41%) Task Automation
7 24 (28.24%) Configuration Management
8 23 (27.06%) Continuous Integration
9 22 (25.88%) Infrastructure Automation
10 20 (23.53%) Scrum
11 16 (18.82%) DevOps
12 15 (17.65%) Unit Testing
13 14 (16.47%) Programme Management
14 13 (15.29%) Change Management
14 13 (15.29%) Full Stack Development
14 13 (15.29%) Project Management
14 13 (15.29%) SDLC
14 13 (15.29%) Secure Coding
14 13 (15.29%) Software Architecture
15 12 (14.12%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 50 (58.82%) Python
2 36 (42.35%) Java
3 25 (29.41%) PowerShell
4 24 (28.24%) C#
5 22 (25.88%) SQL
6 20 (23.53%) JavaScript
7 13 (15.29%) C
8 6 (7.06%) PHP
9 4 (4.71%) F#
10 2 (2.35%) Bash
10 2 (2.35%) C++
10 2 (2.35%) Delphi
10 2 (2.35%) Shell Script
10 2 (2.35%) VBScript
11 1 (1.18%) R
11 1 (1.18%) Scala
11 1 (1.18%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 39 (45.88%) Security Cleared
2 29 (34.12%) SC Cleared
3 10 (11.76%) Degree
3 10 (11.76%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (21.18%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.35%) Docker
1 2 (2.35%) Hyper-V
1 2 (2.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.18%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 23 (27.06%) Ansible
1 23 (27.06%) PowerCLI
2 3 (3.53%) Terraform
3 2 (2.35%) Puppet
4 1 (1.18%) Dell DRAC
4 1 (1.18%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.18%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 23 (27.06%) Atlassian
2 22 (25.88%) Dell
2 22 (25.88%) HP
3 5 (5.88%) Informatica
3 5 (5.88%) Talend
4 4 (4.71%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.35%) Greenplum
5 2 (2.35%) VMware
6 1 (1.18%) Google
6 1 (1.18%) SAP
6 1 (1.18%) Sybase