OO Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Object-Oriented (OO)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring OO skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 77 117
Rank change year-on-year -41 +40 -27
Contract jobs citing OO 10 39 6
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.52% 2.07% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 2.50% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 30 6
10th Percentile £476 £425 £428
25th Percentile £497 £500 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £550 £460
Median % change year-on-year -4.73% +19.57% -14.81%
75th Percentile £553 £703 £490
90th Percentile £561 £765 £539
England median daily rate £464 £500 £600
% change year-on-year -7.25% -16.67% -4.00%

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 1,723 1,561 1,732
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 90.26% 82.99% 85.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,093 988 1,168
10th Percentile £263 £231 £263
25th Percentile £400 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £620 £600
90th Percentile £683 £725 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 39 57
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.61 £15.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £16.38 £20.85
Median hourly rate £23.05 £23.60 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -14.18% +55.19%
75th Percentile £31.00 £35.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £53.05 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -39.40% -7.78% +28.77%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OO relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

OO job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing OO.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing OO

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Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing OO.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing OO

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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 19 October 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 -23 7 £524 +2.75%
Warwickshire - 3 - - 1
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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) Drupal
2 1 (10.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 6 (60.00%) AWS
3 4 (40.00%) Power Platform
4 3 (30.00%) PowerApps
5 2 (20.00%) GCP
6 1 (10.00%) Kong
6 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (20.00%) MySQL
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Git
2 4 (40.00%) Cucumber
2 4 (40.00%) JUnit
2 4 (40.00%) Mockito
3 3 (30.00%) GitLab
3 3 (30.00%) Maven
3 3 (30.00%) Selenium
4 2 (20.00%) JIRA
5 1 (10.00%) Postman
General
1 9 (90.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Lead
2 4 (40.00%) Technical Leader
3 3 (30.00%) Java Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Backend Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Senior
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Drupal Developer
5 1 (10.00%) PHP Developer
5 1 (10.00%) PHP Drupal Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) Spring
2 4 (40.00%) React
2 4 (40.00%) Spring Boot
3 3 (30.00%) Gherkin
3 3 (30.00%) GraalVM
3 3 (30.00%) HTML
3 3 (30.00%) JDBC
3 3 (30.00%) JPA
3 3 (30.00%) JSON
3 3 (30.00%) Node.js
3 3 (30.00%) OAuth
3 3 (30.00%) OAuth2
3 3 (30.00%) OpenID
3 3 (30.00%) Playwright
3 3 (30.00%) RESTful
4 2 (20.00%) .NET
4 2 (20.00%) Drush
4 2 (20.00%) Web Services
5 1 (10.00%) Apache Camel
5 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Agile
2 7 (70.00%) Microservices
2 7 (70.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 5 (50.00%) Scrum
4 4 (40.00%) DevOps
4 4 (40.00%) OOP
4 4 (40.00%) Software Engineering
5 3 (30.00%) Clean Code
5 3 (30.00%) Coaching
5 3 (30.00%) Configuration Management
5 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
5 3 (30.00%) OOD
5 3 (30.00%) Problem Management
5 3 (30.00%) Process Improvement
5 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (30.00%) Test Strategy
6 2 (20.00%) BDD
6 2 (20.00%) Code Quality
6 2 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Java
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) PHP
3 2 (20.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) Ruby
4 1 (10.00%) C#
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) WCAG
2 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (70.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (30.00%) Grafana
2 3 (30.00%) Kibana
3 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Google
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle