OOP Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring OOP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OOP 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 318 312 388
Rank change year-on-year -6 +76 -97
Contract jobs citing OOP 18 87 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.42% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.49% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 67 53
10th Percentile £446 £385 £400
25th Percentile £456 £474 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £638 £550
Median % change year-on-year -25.49% +15.91% +25.71%
75th Percentile £711 £700 £630
90th Percentile £751 £703 £692
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £593
% change year-on-year -6.82% -7.17% +12.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £60.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £60.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year - +71.43% -38.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

OOP 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%

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 1 May 2025.

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
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 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 +45 6 £475 -13.64% 100
North of England +2 6 £463 -6.57% 115
Yorkshire +6 3 - - 22
North West +2 3 £463 -9.31% 69
Midlands +20 2 £413 -8.33% 28
West Midlands +12 2 £413 -8.33% 16
Scotland +10 2 £674 +68.50% 10
East of England +26 1 - - 23
South West +6 1 £875 +27.27% 37
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 5 (27.78%) Confluence
2 4 (22.22%) Apache
2 4 (22.22%) CMS
2 4 (22.22%) Drupal
2 4 (22.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) AWS
1 5 (27.78%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) GCP
2 2 (11.11%) GitHub
2 2 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) Internet
2 1 (5.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) MySQL
1 5 (27.78%) SQL Server
2 4 (22.22%) Relational Database
3 2 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (11.11%) ObjectStore
Development Applications
1 11 (61.11%) Git
2 5 (27.78%) JIRA
3 4 (22.22%) Bitbucket Server
4 2 (11.11%) Cucumber
4 2 (11.11%) GitLab
4 2 (11.11%) Postman
4 2 (11.11%) SoapUI
5 1 (5.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket
General
1 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Law
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Developer
2 5 (27.78%) Senior
3 4 (22.22%) Architect
3 4 (22.22%) PHP Software Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Consultant
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Software Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Solutions Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Software Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Technical Consultant
4 2 (11.11%) Test Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) ABAP Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Applications Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Programmer
5 1 (5.56%) SAP Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (38.89%) AngularJS
1 7 (38.89%) CSS
1 7 (38.89%) HTML
2 5 (27.78%) Ajax
2 5 (27.78%) RESTful
2 5 (27.78%) Web Services
3 4 (22.22%) CodeIgniter
3 4 (22.22%) jQuery
3 4 (22.22%) LAMP
3 4 (22.22%) React
3 4 (22.22%) SOAP
4 2 (11.11%) Blazor
4 2 (11.11%) Playwright
4 2 (11.11%) REST
4 2 (11.11%) Ruby on Rails
4 2 (11.11%) Vue
5 1 (5.56%) .NET Framework
5 1 (5.56%) Django
5 1 (5.56%) FastAPI
5 1 (5.56%) Web Dynpro
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Linux
2 4 (22.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (88.89%) OO
2 8 (44.44%) Agile
3 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 5 (27.78%) API Design
4 5 (27.78%) Scrum
4 5 (27.78%) TDD
5 4 (22.22%) Design Patterns
5 4 (22.22%) Kanban
5 4 (22.22%) MVC
5 4 (22.22%) Secure Coding
5 4 (22.22%) Test Automation
6 3 (16.67%) Containerisation
6 3 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
7 2 (11.11%) CI/CD
7 2 (11.11%) Critical Thinking
7 2 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
7 2 (11.11%) Digital Twin
7 2 (11.11%) RBAC
7 2 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (27.78%) Java
2 5 (27.78%) Python
3 4 (22.22%) PHP
4 3 (16.67%) C++
5 2 (11.11%) Ruby
5 2 (11.11%) SQL
5 2 (11.11%) TypeScript
6 1 (5.56%) ABAP
6 1 (5.56%) Bash
6 1 (5.56%) C#
6 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Degree
1 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.56%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
1 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
1 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
1 4 (22.22%) Zend
2 1 (5.56%) Atlassian
2 1 (5.56%) SAP
2 1 (5.56%) VMware