OO Contracts in the West Midlands

Object-Oriented (OO)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 78 101 124
Rank change year-on-year +23 +23 -30
Contract jobs citing OO 19 10 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.41% 0.51% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 0.61% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 12
10th Percentile £421 £270 £469
25th Percentile £451 £384 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £450 £520
Median % change year-on-year +13.44% -13.46% -1.89%
75th Percentile £534 £520 £590
90th Percentile £539 £602 £600
England median daily rate £540 £588 £630
% change year-on-year -8.09% -6.75% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £40.00 -
England median hourly rate £61.00 £71.00 £67.34
% change year-on-year -14.08% +5.44% +22.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing OO as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for OO in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OO in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for OO in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OO in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for OO in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OO within the West Midlands 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
Shropshire - 11 £523 - 2
Birmingham +14 4 £500 +11.11% 13
Coventry +8 2 £413 -8.33%
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (10.53%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 14 (73.68%) Azure
2 12 (63.16%) Power Platform
2 12 (63.16%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Git
2 2 (10.53%) Postman
3 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 12 (63.16%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Automotive
2 1 (5.26%) Finance
2 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Developer
2 8 (42.11%) Lead
2 8 (42.11%) Technical Leader
3 4 (21.05%) Power Platform Developer
4 2 (10.53%) ABAP Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (10.53%) SAP Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior
5 1 (5.26%) Ruby on Rails Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) RESTful
2 4 (21.05%) REST
3 3 (15.79%) HTML
3 3 (15.79%) SOAP
4 2 (10.53%) BAPI
4 2 (10.53%) Blazor
4 2 (10.53%) CSS
4 2 (10.53%) IDoc
4 2 (10.53%) Ruby on Rails
4 2 (10.53%) SAP Smart Forms
4 2 (10.53%) Web Services
5 1 (5.26%) Laravel
5 1 (5.26%) React
5 1 (5.26%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (78.95%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (68.42%) Agile
3 12 (63.16%) Configuration Management
3 12 (63.16%) Data Modelling
3 12 (63.16%) DevOps
3 12 (63.16%) Problem Management
3 12 (63.16%) Process Improvement
3 12 (63.16%) Test Strategy
4 3 (15.79%) API Development
5 2 (10.53%) API Design
5 2 (10.53%) Computer Science
5 2 (10.53%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 2 (10.53%) ERP
5 2 (10.53%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (10.53%) OOP
5 2 (10.53%) Open Source
5 2 (10.53%) SAP Implementation
5 2 (10.53%) Web Development
6 1 (5.26%) Design Patterns
6 1 (5.26%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (68.42%) SQL
2 4 (21.05%) JavaScript
3 2 (10.53%) ABAP
3 2 (10.53%) COBOL
3 2 (10.53%) PHP
3 2 (10.53%) Ruby
4 1 (5.26%) C#
4 1 (5.26%) Java
4 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (5.26%) Firmware
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Adobe
1 2 (10.53%) SAP