OO Contracts in Wales

Object-Oriented (OO)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales requiring OO skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OO 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 39 43 53
Rank change year-on-year +4 +10 -1
Contract jobs citing OO 4 1 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 1.37% 0.25% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 0.32% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 5
10th Percentile £201 - £560
25th Percentile £209 £566 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £376 £583 £650
Median % change year-on-year -35.38% -10.38% +7.62%
75th Percentile £555 £599 -
90th Percentile £582 - -
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £627
% change year-on-year -8.70% -8.22% +6.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

OO 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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 255 311 549
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 87.03% 78.73% 86.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 212 421
10th Percentile £185 £168 £183
25th Percentile £285 £356 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +5.26% -2.48%
75th Percentile £525 £571 £573
90th Percentile £625 £667 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 31 28
10th Percentile £15.60 £11.75 £14.78
25th Percentile £20.12 £14.78 £16.98
Median hourly rate £21.01 £22.50 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year -6.62% +19.59% -16.38%
75th Percentile £35.25 £51.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £45.00 £86.00 £49.13
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing OO as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for OO in Wales

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for OO in Wales

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Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OO in Wales over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OO in Wales

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for OO in Wales

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Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OO within the Wales region 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
South Wales +9 4 £376 -35.38% 9
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Relational Database
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Software Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Concurrent Programming
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Multithreading
2 2 (50.00%) OOD
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Web Development
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Informatics
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) SOA
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes