OO Contracts in Wales

Object-Oriented (OO)
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 55 51
Rank change year-on-year +15 -4 -8
Contract jobs citing OO 3 8 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 0.80% 1.29% 2.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 1.48% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 13
10th Percentile - £560 -
25th Percentile £566 £594 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 £650 £543
Median % change year-on-year -10.38% +19.82% +14.21%
75th Percentile £599 - £638
90th Percentile - - £652
UK median daily rate £566 £625 £590
% change year-on-year -9.40% +5.93% +21.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

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 advertised in Wales with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 288 540 811
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 77.21% 87.38% 84.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 413 592
10th Percentile £162 £188 £213
25th Percentile £357 £350 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £563 £580 £575
90th Percentile £672 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 27 29
10th Percentile £11.51 £14.70 £14.05
25th Percentile £13.06 £16.98 £18.13
Median hourly rate £19.17 £18.14 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.68% -19.38% +9.49%
75th Percentile £51.75 £24.38 £31.00
90th Percentile £86.72 £49.25 £47.40
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

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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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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 12 May 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
South Wales +11 3 £583 -10.38% 8
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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 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Full Stack Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Mobile Applications Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Mobile Developer
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Xamarin Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
2 2 (66.67%) .NET Framework
3 1 (33.33%) .NET Core
3 1 (33.33%) Xamarin.iOS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Android
1 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
1 2 (66.67%) OOD
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) SOLID
2 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Full Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) Mobile Application Development
2 1 (33.33%) MVC
2 1 (33.33%) MVVM
2 1 (33.33%) OOP
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) Xamarin