AOP Contracts

Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for AOP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited AOP over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 559 586 701
Rank change year-on-year +27 +115 -5
Contract jobs citing AOP 16 96 137
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.037% 0.17% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.043% 0.19% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 77 29
10th Percentile £440 £450 £463
25th Percentile £538 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £520 £586
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% -11.26% -21.87%
75th Percentile - £600 £675
90th Percentile - £694 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

AOP 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

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
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AOP over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram 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

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Top 6 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 June 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
England +4 14 £550 +5.77% 1
London +47 13 £550 +10.00% 1
Work from Home +103 7 £550 +10.00% 1
North of England +17 1 £500 -16.67%
UK excluding London +3 1 £500 -16.67% 1
North West - 1 £500 -

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%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (18.75%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) AWS
2 6 (37.50%) Azure
3 3 (18.75%) Entra ID
4 1 (6.25%) GCP
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (6.25%) Supabase
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) Cisco Nexus
1 6 (37.50%) Firewall
1 6 (37.50%) Internet
2 2 (12.50%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.25%) MySQL
2 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (31.25%) JIRA
3 3 (18.75%) Git
3 3 (18.75%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (12.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 12 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (62.50%) Finance
2 10 (62.50%) Financial Institution
3 6 (37.50%) Banking
3 6 (37.50%) Retail
4 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Automation Engineer
1 6 (37.50%) Network Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) FMCG Manager
2 3 (18.75%) SAP Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Security Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Security Project Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Technical Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) JDBC
1 3 (18.75%) REST
1 3 (18.75%) SailPoint
2 1 (6.25%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (6.25%) JPA
2 1 (6.25%) Kafka
2 1 (6.25%) Node.js
2 1 (6.25%) Spring
2 1 (6.25%) Spring MVC
2 1 (6.25%) Svelte
2 1 (6.25%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 10 (62.50%) Hedge funds
2 3 (18.75%) FMCG
2 3 (18.75%) Onboarding
3 2 (12.50%) Management Information System
4 1 (6.25%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 7 (43.75%) Unix
2 6 (37.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Agile
2 9 (56.25%) DevOps
3 6 (37.50%) Application Security
3 6 (37.50%) Deployment Automation
3 6 (37.50%) Wealth Management
4 5 (31.25%) Cost Optimisation
4 5 (31.25%) Identity Access Management
4 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (31.25%) Project Delivery
4 5 (31.25%) Project Management
5 4 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (25.00%) Test Automation
6 3 (18.75%) BPR
6 3 (18.75%) Computer Science
6 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (18.75%) Decision-Making
6 3 (18.75%) PRINCE2
6 3 (18.75%) Programme Management
6 3 (18.75%) Test Scripting
6 3 (18.75%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) Python
2 4 (25.00%) Java
2 4 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.25%) Perl
3 1 (6.25%) Scala
3 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) AWS Certification
2 5 (31.25%) Degree
3 3 (18.75%) CISSP
3 3 (18.75%) PMI Certification
3 3 (18.75%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) QA
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) Ansible
1 6 (37.50%) Puppet
2 4 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (18.75%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Cisco
1 6 (37.50%) F5
1 6 (37.50%) Fortinet
1 6 (37.50%) Juniper
1 6 (37.50%) Palo Alto
2 3 (18.75%) CyberArk
2 3 (18.75%) ForgeRock
2 3 (18.75%) Okta
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle
2 3 (18.75%) SAP
3 1 (6.25%) Bloomberg
3 1 (6.25%) Google
3 1 (6.25%) ION Trading
3 1 (6.25%) Tradeweb