AOP Contract Job Trends

Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring AOP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 623 499 568
Rank change year-on-year -124 +69 +14
Contract jobs citing AOP 10 19 17
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.020% 0.065% 0.039%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.024% 0.072% 0.046%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 8
10th Percentile £374 £414 £440
25th Percentile £391 £453 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.60% -2.27% +5.77%
75th Percentile £463 £597 -
90th Percentile £466 £621 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -18.60% +7.50% -16.67%

All Process & 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 41,843 26,418 36,777
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.72% 90.98% 85.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,135 16,804 23,539
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,505 1,141 2,540
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £27.76 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +58.36% -23.95% +1.39%
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.00 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.78 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +82.03% -34.02% +8.91%

AOP
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AOP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

AOP job vacancy trend in the UK

AOP
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing AOP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing AOP

AOP
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing AOP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing AOP

AOP
Top 6 Contract Job 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 6 June 2026. 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 -112 10 £438 -18.60% 2
UK excluding London -96 6 £438 -18.60% 1
London -84 4 - - 2
South East - 4 £450 -
South West -23 2 £375 -30.23%
Work from Home -44 2 - -

AOP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) GCP
2 4 (40.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (10.00%) Lucidchart
3 1 (10.00%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 4 (40.00%) Couchbase
1 4 (40.00%) Data Lake
1 4 (40.00%) MySQL
1 4 (40.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Git
1 4 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (40.00%) JUnit
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (60.00%) Finance
2 5 (50.00%) Banking
3 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Business Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Data Business Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Java Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Java Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Project Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Documentation Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Documentation Writer
4 1 (10.00%) Head of IT
4 1 (10.00%) Head of IT Operations
4 1 (10.00%) Head of Operations
4 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) JPA
1 6 (60.00%) Spring
1 6 (60.00%) Spring Boot
2 4 (40.00%) CSS
2 4 (40.00%) Hibernate
2 4 (40.00%) HTML
2 4 (40.00%) jQuery
2 4 (40.00%) Spring MVC
3 2 (20.00%) JAX-RS
3 2 (20.00%) OAuth
3 2 (20.00%) OAuth2
3 2 (20.00%) RESTful
3 2 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) AI
2 6 (60.00%) Agile
2 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (60.00%) Design Patterns
2 6 (60.00%) Microservices
2 6 (60.00%) Multithreading
3 5 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (40.00%) Analytics
4 4 (40.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 4 (40.00%) Digital Banking
4 4 (40.00%) Inversion of Control
4 4 (40.00%) MVC
4 4 (40.00%) System Testing
4 4 (40.00%) Web Development
5 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (20.00%) DevOps
6 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
6 2 (20.00%) Project Management
6 2 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Java
2 5 (50.00%) SQL
3 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (40.00%) PL/SQL
3 4 (40.00%) Shell Script
4 2 (20.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Google
2 4 (40.00%) Oracle