AOP Contracts

Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring AOP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AOP 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 504 574 597
Rank change year-on-year +70 +23 +117
Contract jobs citing AOP 16 8 121
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.055% 0.018% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.060% 0.021% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 97
10th Percentile £401 £505 £458
25th Percentile £420 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £533 £538 £600
90th Percentile £547 £545 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +7.50% -16.67% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

AOP 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

AOP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing AOP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AOP in the UK

AOP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AOP.

Daily rate trend for AOP in the UK

AOP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AOP.

Hourly rate trend for AOP in the UK

AOP
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AOP within the UK 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
England +66 15 £481 -8.33% 10
London +47 14 £425 -22.73% 7
Work from Home +39 3 £425 - 1
UK excluding London +63 1 £538 +7.50% 5
South West - 1 £538 - 2

AOP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (12.50%) JBoss
1 2 (12.50%) WebSphere
1 2 (12.50%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) AWS
1 3 (18.75%) Azure
1 3 (18.75%) GCP
2 2 (12.50%) SAP Fieldglass
3 1 (6.25%) IaaS
3 1 (6.25%) OCI
3 1 (6.25%) PaaS
3 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) HTTP
1 2 (12.50%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) DB2
2 2 (12.50%) IMS/DB
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database
3 1 (6.25%) Power BI
3 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Ant
1 1 (6.25%) Apache Ivy
1 1 (6.25%) Git
1 1 (6.25%) Gradle
1 1 (6.25%) Hudson
1 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
1 1 (6.25%) Maven
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle APEX
1 1 (6.25%) TeamCity
General
1 13 (81.25%) Finance
2 11 (68.75%) Social Skills
3 9 (56.25%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (56.25%) Financial Institution
4 3 (18.75%) Banking
5 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Developer
2 6 (37.50%) SailPoint Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Lead
3 2 (12.50%) SAP Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior
3 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Support Specialist
3 2 (12.50%) Technical Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Business Intelligence Lead
4 1 (6.25%) Lead Tester
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (6.25%) QA Leader
4 1 (6.25%) QA Tester
4 1 (6.25%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) SailPoint
2 4 (25.00%) SOAP
3 3 (18.75%) REST
3 3 (18.75%) Web Services
4 2 (12.50%) EJB
4 2 (12.50%) J2EE
4 2 (12.50%) JDBC
4 2 (12.50%) Middleware
4 2 (12.50%) RESTful
4 2 (12.50%) WebSphere MQ
4 2 (12.50%) XML
4 2 (12.50%) XSLT
5 1 (6.25%) Ajax
5 1 (6.25%) CSS
5 1 (6.25%) OAuth
5 1 (6.25%) OAuth2
5 1 (6.25%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Hedge funds
2 2 (12.50%) CMDB
2 2 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (12.50%) Private Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Unix
1 2 (12.50%) VMS
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Artificial Intelligence
2 9 (56.25%) Cost Optimisation
3 7 (43.75%) API Integration
4 6 (37.50%) Data Transformation
5 5 (31.25%) Agile
6 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (18.75%) Analytics
7 3 (18.75%) Data Modelling
7 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
8 2 (12.50%) Configuration Management
8 2 (12.50%) Incident Management
8 2 (12.50%) ITIL
8 2 (12.50%) ITSM
8 2 (12.50%) Problem Management
8 2 (12.50%) Process Improvement
8 2 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
8 2 (12.50%) Web Application Development
8 2 (12.50%) WFM
8 2 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) Java
1 8 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (37.50%) BeanShell
2 6 (37.50%) Python
3 5 (31.25%) SQL
4 3 (18.75%) PL/SQL
5 2 (12.50%) REXX
6 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
1 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Oracle
2 2 (12.50%) Google
2 2 (12.50%) IBM
2 2 (12.50%) MuleSoft
2 2 (12.50%) SAP
2 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow