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 4 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 311 309 372
Rank change year-on-year -2 +63 -53
Contract jobs citing OOP 29 85 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.22% 0.41% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.49% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 65 50
10th Percentile £381 £378 £398
25th Percentile £456 £485 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £531
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +12.94% +18.06%
75th Percentile £500 £700 £675
90th Percentile £644 - £702
UK median daily rate £513 £545 £575
% change year-on-year -5.96% -5.22% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £60.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £60.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year - +71.43% -32.50%

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 11,744 17,263 20,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.60% 83.19% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,276 10,230 14,016
10th Percentile £235 £246 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 870 2,129 1,241
10th Percentile £13.81 £12.41 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £15.21
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +8.91% +75.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £61.30 £64.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -24.66% +1.39% +40.19%

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 June 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 4 June 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 +51 13 £475 +26.67% 311
North of England -3 8 £463 -7.50% 236
North West 0 4 £463 -9.31% 114
West Midlands +13 3 £413 -8.33% 95
Yorkshire +13 3 - - 86
Midlands +10 3 £413 -8.33% 174
Scotland +8 2 £674 +68.50% 38
South West +1 2 £378 -45.59% 120
East of England +22 1 - - 143
North East - 1 - - 38
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 4 (13.79%) Apache
1 4 (13.79%) CMS
1 4 (13.79%) Confluence
1 4 (13.79%) Drupal
1 4 (13.79%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (44.83%) Azure
2 9 (31.03%) AWS
3 3 (10.34%) GitHub
4 2 (6.90%) GCP
4 2 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.45%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (3.45%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (3.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.79%) Internet
2 1 (3.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (31.03%) Relational Database
2 4 (13.79%) MySQL
2 4 (13.79%) SQL Server
3 2 (6.90%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (6.90%) ObjectStore
4 1 (3.45%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 13 (44.83%) Git
2 4 (13.79%) Bitbucket Server
2 4 (13.79%) JIRA
3 2 (6.90%) Cucumber
3 2 (6.90%) GitLab
3 2 (6.90%) Postman
3 2 (6.90%) SoapUI
4 1 (3.45%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3 (10.34%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.90%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.45%) Banking
3 1 (3.45%) Law
3 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (44.83%) Developer
2 6 (20.69%) Senior
3 5 (17.24%) Software Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Architect
4 4 (13.79%) PHP Software Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (10.34%) Cloud Developer
6 2 (6.90%) .NET Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Consultant
6 2 (6.90%) Lead
6 2 (6.90%) Python Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Software Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Solutions Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Software Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Technical Consultant
6 2 (6.90%) Technical Leader
6 2 (6.90%) Test Consultant
7 1 (3.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (41.38%) HTML
2 11 (37.93%) CSS
3 8 (27.59%) AngularJS
4 7 (24.14%) RESTful
5 6 (20.69%) .NET
5 6 (20.69%) React
6 5 (17.24%) Ajax
6 5 (17.24%) jQuery
6 5 (17.24%) SOAP
6 5 (17.24%) Web Services
7 4 (13.79%) .NET Framework
7 4 (13.79%) CodeIgniter
7 4 (13.79%) LAMP
7 4 (13.79%) REST
8 3 (10.34%) ARM Templates
8 3 (10.34%) Node.js
9 2 (6.90%) Blazor
9 2 (6.90%) FastAPI
9 2 (6.90%) Playwright
9 2 (6.90%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Legacy Code
2 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.45%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.69%) Linux
2 4 (13.79%) Unix
3 1 (3.45%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (86.21%) OO
2 11 (37.93%) Design Patterns
3 10 (34.48%) TDD
4 9 (31.03%) Agile
4 9 (31.03%) SOLID
5 7 (24.14%) Software Engineering
6 6 (20.69%) BDD
6 6 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (17.24%) API Design
7 5 (17.24%) MVC
7 5 (17.24%) Secure Coding
8 4 (13.79%) CI/CD
8 4 (13.79%) ERP
8 4 (13.79%) Full-Stack Development
8 4 (13.79%) Kanban
8 4 (13.79%) Scrum
8 4 (13.79%) Test Automation
9 3 (10.34%) Clean Code
9 3 (10.34%) Collaborative Culture
9 3 (10.34%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 14 (48.28%) JavaScript
2 7 (24.14%) Java
3 6 (20.69%) C#
3 6 (20.69%) Python
3 6 (20.69%) SQL
4 5 (17.24%) TypeScript
5 4 (13.79%) PHP
6 3 (10.34%) C++
7 2 (6.90%) Ruby
8 1 (3.45%) ABAP
8 1 (3.45%) Apex Code
8 1 (3.45%) SOQL
8 1 (3.45%) Swift
Qualifications
1 2 (6.90%) AWS Certification
1 2 (6.90%) Degree
1 2 (6.90%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) Accessibility
1 2 (6.90%) QA
2 1 (3.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (6.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.45%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.79%) Zend
3 1 (3.45%) Databricks
3 1 (3.45%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.45%) SAP
3 1 (3.45%) Virgin Media