Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 24 August 2017

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for OO skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OO over the 6 months to 24 August 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Object-Oriented (OO)
UK
6 months to
24 Aug 2017		 Same period 2016 Same period 2015
Rank 71 73 58
Rank change year-on-year +2 -15 -3
Contract jobs citing OO 2982 3149 3523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 3.10% 2.91% 3.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.67% 3.49% 3.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2160 2288 2476
UK median daily rate £450 £425 £400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -
10th Percentile £325 £305 £288
90th Percentile £625 £600 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £375 £365
% change year-on-year +6.67% +2.74% +4.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 61 83
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £42.25 £40.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +6.51% +5.63% -
10th Percentile £32.50 £20.78 £30.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £52.17 £43.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £42.25 £39.63
% change year-on-year +6.51% +6.62% +1.60%

OO 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.

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK
Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 81146 90299 91124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.39% 83.55% 80.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 53265 59626 58246
UK median daily rate £450 £425 £400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -
10th Percentile £281 £263 £260
90th Percentile £625 £600 £591
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £400 £375
% change year-on-year - +6.67% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2009 2222 2608
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £22.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year - +13.64% +9.22%
10th Percentile £11.70 £11.50 £11.25
90th Percentile £50.00 £48.38 £47.83
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year - +11.11% +7.14%

OO
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing OO as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for OO in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing OO.

Contractor daily rate trend for OO in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing OO over the 6 months to 24 August 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for OO in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing OO.

Contractor hourly rate trend for OO in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing OO over the 6 months to 24 August 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for OO in the UK

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Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OO within the UK over the 6 months to 24 August 2017. 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
Job
Vacancies
England +2 2675 £475 +11.76% 755
London -7 1686 £500 +11.11% 316
UK excluding London +14 1274 £400 +6.67% 468
South East +36 352 £425 +13.33% 100
North of England +4 262 £400 +4.58% 131
Midlands -7 150 £350 -13.63% 71
Northern Ireland +18 134 £413 +87.50% 3
Scotland -3 123 £385 +7.69% 23
South West -14 110 £350 - 55
Yorkshire -3 108 £400 +3.23% 50
North West -8 107 £400 +2.89% 76
East of England -20 107 £350 -12.50% 81
East Midlands -1 87 £363 -3.33% 41
West Midlands -4 62 £325 -26.39% 30
North East +49 47 £380 +8.57% 5
Wales -32 39 £407 +8.40% 4

For the 6 months to 24 August 2017, IT contractor jobs citing OO also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads with a requirement for OO.

1 1586 (53.19%) Agile Software Development
2 1331 (44.63%) Java
3 1266 (42.45%) JavaScript
4 1103 (36.99%) TDD
5 919 (30.82%) HTML
6 836 (28.03%) CSS
7 744 (24.95%) SQL
8 688 (23.07%) Finance
9 659 (22.10%) C#
10 637 (21.36%) AngularJS
11 584 (19.58%) Scrum
12 580 (19.45%) Git (software)
13 568 (19.05%) HTML5
14 566 (18.98%) Continuous Integration
15 536 (17.97%) OOD
16 513 (17.20%) .NET
17 477 (16.00%) Web Services
17 477 (16.00%) Test Automation
18 456 (15.29%) Linux
19 455 (15.26%) OOP
20 452 (15.16%) Banking
21 451 (15.12%) Spring
22 443 (14.86%) Software Engineering
23 406 (13.62%) Oracle
24 402 (13.48%) BDD
25 398 (13.35%) Node.js
26 397 (13.31%) React
27 395 (13.25%) CSS3
28 390 (13.08%) XML
29 381 (12.78%) SQL Server

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Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 130 (4.36%) Tomcat
2 129 (4.33%) WebSphere
3 97 (3.25%) WebLogic
4 93 (3.12%) Confluence
5 86 (2.88%) JBoss
6 73 (2.45%) Apache
6 73 (2.45%) CMS
7 63 (2.11%) OpenStack
8 62 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
9 45 (1.51%) Apache Spark
9 45 (1.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 29 (0.97%) WebSphere Application Server
11 27 (0.91%) IIS
12 26 (0.87%) Mule
13 24 (0.80%) Drupal
14 23 (0.77%) nginx
14 23 (0.77%) WordPress
15 22 (0.74%) SharePoint
16 19 (0.64%) NServiceBus
17 18 (0.60%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 26 (0.87%) Photoshop
2 11 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.34%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.23%) Doxygen
5 6 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
5 6 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (0.17%) Pipeline Pilot
6 5 (0.17%) Simulink
7 4 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 3 (0.10%) InVision
Business Applications
1 38 (1.27%) Magento
2 13 (0.44%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
3 11 (0.37%) Actimize
4 10 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
5 9 (0.30%) Endur
5 9 (0.30%) ION MarketView
5 9 (0.30%) Pega PRPC
6 6 (0.20%) Fredhopper
6 6 (0.20%) OpenText Process Suite
6 6 (0.20%) SAP WM
7 5 (0.17%) SAP Hybris
8 4 (0.13%) RMDS
8 4 (0.13%) WebTrends
9 3 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
9 3 (0.10%) SAP HCM
10 2 (0.067%) Bloomberg TOMS
10 2 (0.067%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 2 (0.067%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 2 (0.067%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 181 (6.07%) Amazon AWS
2 151 (5.06%) Microsoft Azure
3 54 (1.81%) GitHub
4 38 (1.27%) Cloud Computing
5 18 (0.60%) SaaS
6 17 (0.57%) IaaS
7 16 (0.54%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 16 (0.54%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 15 (0.50%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (0.44%) Heroku
10 11 (0.37%) Google Analytics
11 10 (0.34%) Google Cloud Platform
12 8 (0.27%) Amazon S3
13 7 (0.23%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (0.23%) PaaS
14 6 (0.20%) Dynamics 365
15 5 (0.17%) Force.com
15 5 (0.17%) SuccessFactors
16 4 (0.13%) Amazon SQS
16 4 (0.13%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 79 (2.65%) HTTP
2 46 (1.54%) Internet
3 37 (1.24%) LDAP
4 35 (1.17%) TCP/IP
5 28 (0.94%) SSL
6 23 (0.77%) DNS
7 20 (0.67%) Network Security
8 14 (0.47%) Diameter Protocol
9 12 (0.40%) Wireshark
10 11 (0.37%) SNMP
11 10 (0.34%) IMAP
11 10 (0.34%) Kerberos
11 10 (0.34%) Link 16
11 10 (0.34%) SMTP
12 8 (0.27%) VoIP
12 8 (0.27%) X.21
13 7 (0.23%) INAP
13 7 (0.23%) RTP
13 7 (0.23%) SS7
13 7 (0.23%) UMTS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 381 (12.78%) SQL Server
2 360 (12.07%) Relational Database
3 329 (11.03%) NoSQL
4 255 (8.55%) MySQL
5 166 (5.57%) MongoDB
6 143 (4.80%) PostgreSQL
7 137 (4.59%) Big Data
8 124 (4.16%) RDBMS
9 87 (2.92%) Hadoop
10 84 (2.82%) Oracle Database
11 61 (2.05%) Apache Cassandra
12 45 (1.51%) DB2
13 44 (1.48%) HBase
14 43 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 38 (1.27%) Apache Hive
16 37 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
16 37 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 32 (1.07%) RavenDB
18 30 (1.01%) KDB
19 28 (0.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 580 (19.45%) Git (software)
2 324 (10.87%) Jenkins
3 246 (8.25%) Subversion
4 235 (7.88%) Maven
5 230 (7.71%) JIRA
6 205 (6.87%) JUnit
7 126 (4.23%) Eclipse
8 110 (3.69%) Selenium
8 110 (3.69%) TeamCity
8 110 (3.69%) Visual Studio
9 105 (3.52%) NUnit
10 102 (3.42%) Grunt
11 96 (3.22%) Gradle
12 95 (3.19%) Jasmine
13 90 (3.02%) gulp
14 81 (2.72%) Cucumber
15 70 (2.35%) Mockito
16 66 (2.21%) Ant
17 63 (2.11%) Mercurial
18 61 (2.05%) WebDriver
General
1 688 (23.07%) Finance
2 452 (15.16%) Banking
3 256 (8.58%) Front Office
4 213 (7.14%) Investment Banking
5 106 (3.55%) Retail
6 80 (2.68%) Marketing
7 50 (1.68%) Telecoms
8 49 (1.64%) Publishing
9 45 (1.51%) Electronics
10 43 (1.44%) Back Office
11 39 (1.31%) Games
11 39 (1.31%) Manufacturing
12 31 (1.04%) Advertising
13 26 (0.87%) Automotive
14 10 (0.34%) Avionics
14 10 (0.34%) Billing
14 10 (0.34%) Financial Institution
14 10 (0.34%) Legal
14 10 (0.34%) Military
15 9 (0.30%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 2402 (80.55%) Developer
2 759 (25.45%) Java Developer
3 370 (12.41%) Senior Developer
4 352 (11.80%) JavaScript Developer
5 280 (9.39%) C# Developer
6 259 (8.69%) .NET Developer
7 195 (6.54%) Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 179 (6.00%) Senior Java Developer
9 172 (5.77%) Full Stack Developer
10 167 (5.60%) Agile Developer
11 140 (4.69%) Angular Developer
11 140 (4.69%) C# .NET Developer
12 136 (4.56%) Software Engineer
13 121 (4.06%) Node.js Developer
14 113 (3.79%) Architect
14 113 (3.79%) PHP Developer
15 109 (3.66%) UI Developer
16 102 (3.42%) Python Developer
17 99 (3.32%) iOS Developer
18 97 (3.25%) C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 919 (30.82%) HTML
2 836 (28.03%) CSS
3 637 (21.36%) AngularJS
4 568 (19.05%) HTML5
5 513 (17.20%) .NET
6 477 (16.00%) Web Services
7 451 (15.12%) Spring
8 398 (13.35%) Node.js
9 397 (13.31%) React
10 395 (13.25%) CSS3
11 390 (13.08%) XML
12 381 (12.78%) RESTful
13 360 (12.07%) REST
14 298 (9.99%) jQuery
15 284 (9.52%) JSON
16 270 (9.05%) SOAP
17 222 (7.44%) Hibernate
18 176 (5.90%) Sass
19 168 (5.63%) ASP.NET
20 146 (4.90%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 283 (9.49%) Analytical Skills
2 219 (7.34%) Computer Science
3 195 (6.54%) Greenfield Project
4 193 (6.47%) User Experience
5 184 (6.17%) Data Structures
6 162 (5.43%) Algorithms
7 83 (2.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 78 (2.62%) Mobile App
9 77 (2.58%) Derivative
10 76 (2.55%) Equities
11 61 (2.05%) iPad
12 58 (1.95%) Fintech
13 54 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
13 54 (1.81%) iPhone
14 51 (1.71%) Fixed Income
15 44 (1.48%) N-Tier
16 39 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
17 33 (1.11%) Hedge funds
18 30 (1.01%) Client/Server
19 28 (0.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 456 (15.29%) Linux
2 322 (10.80%) Unix
3 189 (6.34%) Windows
4 124 (4.16%) Apple iOS
5 64 (2.15%) Android
6 44 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 23 (0.77%) Solaris
8 19 (0.64%) AIX
9 15 (0.50%) CentOS
10 13 (0.44%) Mac OS X
11 9 (0.30%) Mac OS
11 9 (0.30%) VMS
12 6 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
13 5 (0.17%) HPUX
14 4 (0.13%) Windows Server
14 4 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
14 4 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
15 3 (0.10%) VxWorks
15 3 (0.10%) Windows 10
15 3 (0.10%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1586 (53.19%) Agile Software Development
2 1103 (36.99%) TDD
3 584 (19.58%) Scrum
4 566 (18.98%) Continuous Integration
5 536 (17.97%) OOD
6 477 (16.00%) Test Automation
7 455 (15.26%) OOP
8 443 (14.86%) Software Engineering
9 402 (13.48%) BDD
10 379 (12.71%) MVC
11 317 (10.63%) Unit Testing
12 271 (9.09%) Front End Development
13 244 (8.18%) Web Development
14 240 (8.05%) SDLC
15 208 (6.98%) SOLID
16 204 (6.84%) DevOps
17 203 (6.81%) SOA
18 180 (6.04%) Open Source
19 178 (5.97%) E-Commerce
20 173 (5.80%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 1331 (44.63%) Java
2 1266 (42.45%) JavaScript
3 744 (24.95%) SQL
4 659 (22.10%) C#
5 338 (11.33%) Python
6 278 (9.32%) C++
7 178 (5.97%) PHP
8 144 (4.83%) ES6
9 116 (3.89%) Perl
10 100 (3.35%) Objective-C
11 92 (3.09%) Ruby
12 91 (3.05%) Apple Swift
13 88 (2.95%) TypeScript
14 87 (2.92%) T-SQL
15 78 (2.62%) Scala
16 77 (2.58%) C
17 65 (2.18%) PL/SQL
18 63 (2.11%) Shell Script
19 44 (1.48%) Groovy
20 28 (0.94%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 235 (7.88%) Degree
2 162 (5.43%) Security Cleared
3 124 (4.16%) SC Cleared
4 84 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (1.14%) Master's Degree
6 18 (0.60%) PhD
7 14 (0.47%) ISEB
7 14 (0.47%) ISTQB
8 12 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (0.40%) Numerate Degree
9 11 (0.37%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.17%) Sun Certification
11 3 (0.10%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.10%) CFA
11 3 (0.10%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.067%) PMP
12 2 (0.067%) Postgraduate
12 2 (0.067%) SAP Certification
13 1 (0.034%) MCSA
13 1 (0.034%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (3.05%) QA
2 45 (1.51%) MiFID
3 15 (0.50%) WCAG
4 14 (0.47%) Dodd-Frank
5 13 (0.44%) EMIR
5 13 (0.44%) HL7
6 10 (0.34%) MIL-STD-1553
6 10 (0.34%) MISRA
6 10 (0.34%) MISRA C
7 9 (0.30%) WAI
8 8 (0.27%) Def Stans
9 6 (0.20%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.10%) Disclosure Scotland
10 3 (0.10%) GDPR
10 3 (0.10%) SLA
11 2 (0.067%) GxP
11 2 (0.067%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.067%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 2 (0.067%) UCITS
12 1 (0.034%) PMO
System Software
1 57 (1.91%) Docker
2 24 (0.80%) Active Directory
3 16 (0.54%) HDFS
4 15 (0.50%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 5 (0.17%) Apache Flume
6 4 (0.13%) NFS
6 4 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.067%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.034%) RACF
Systems Management
1 139 (4.66%) Puppet
2 137 (4.59%) Opscode Chef
3 103 (3.45%) Ansible
4 33 (1.11%) Terraform
5 19 (0.64%) Kubernetes
6 18 (0.60%) Oozie
7 17 (0.57%) logstash
8 13 (0.44%) Control-M
9 9 (0.30%) Kibana
10 8 (0.27%) BladeLogic
11 5 (0.17%) HP Fortify
12 4 (0.13%) Ambari
12 4 (0.13%) Forum Sentry
12 4 (0.13%) HP Operations Orchestration
13 3 (0.10%) Grafana
13 3 (0.10%) Hadoop YARN
13 3 (0.10%) Packer
13 3 (0.10%) WebSphere Cast Iron
14 2 (0.067%) Mesos
14 2 (0.067%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 406 (13.62%) Oracle
2 222 (7.44%) Microsoft
3 116 (3.89%) Sybase
4 79 (2.65%) SAP
5 74 (2.48%) IBM
6 52 (1.74%) Google
7 44 (1.48%) Apple
7 44 (1.48%) Perforce
8 42 (1.41%) Adobe
9 40 (1.34%) Red Hat
10 29 (0.97%) Salesforce.com
11 27 (0.91%) Zend
12 26 (0.87%) HP
13 25 (0.84%) hybris
13 25 (0.84%) TIBCO
14 23 (0.77%) Sitecore
15 21 (0.70%) Atlassian
16 19 (0.64%) Bloomberg
17 18 (0.60%) CA Agile Central
18 15 (0.50%) webMethods
790 OO job vacancies Nationwide