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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 101 118
Rank change year-on-year +9 +17 -20
Contract jobs citing OO 14 13 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.93% 0.63% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 0.78% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 7
10th Percentile £441 £413 £466
25th Percentile £483 £450 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.75% +2.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £531 £578 -
90th Percentile £538 £650 £535
England median daily rate £540 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -1.82% -12.00% +2.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £40.00 -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £64.00 £68.67
% change year-on-year +17.19% -6.80% +24.85%

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 1,335 1,672 1,941
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.76% 80.93% 87.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 844 1,112 1,334
10th Percentile £203 £263 £263
25th Percentile £366 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +0.81%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £623
90th Percentile £674 £731 £706
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 114 48
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.15 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.78 £14.16 £15.38
Median hourly rate £24.28 £21.23 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.39% -15.10% +44.93%
75th Percentile £34.16 £37.50 £30.00
90th Percentile £50.00 £58.00 £49.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +44.23%

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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 3 July 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 +6 11 £523 +2.45% 3
Warwickshire - 1 - - 4
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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:

Cloud Services
1 13 (92.86%) Azure
1 13 (92.86%) Power Platform
2 12 (85.71%) PowerApps
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 12 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Automotive
2 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) Lead
1 9 (64.29%) Technical Leader
2 5 (35.71%) Developer
3 4 (28.57%) Power Platform Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) .NET
1 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
1 1 (7.14%) ARM Templates
1 1 (7.14%) HTML
1 1 (7.14%) Laravel
1 1 (7.14%) Node.js
1 1 (7.14%) React
1 1 (7.14%) REST
1 1 (7.14%) RESTful
1 1 (7.14%) Spring
1 1 (7.14%) Vue
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Agile
2 13 (92.86%) DevOps
2 13 (92.86%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (85.71%) Configuration Management
3 12 (85.71%) Data Modelling
3 12 (85.71%) Problem Management
3 12 (85.71%) Process Improvement
3 12 (85.71%) Test Strategy
4 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (14.29%) TDD
5 1 (7.14%) Architectural Design
5 1 (7.14%) Clean Code
5 1 (7.14%) Code Quality
5 1 (7.14%) Collaborative Culture
5 1 (7.14%) Design Patterns
5 1 (7.14%) Mentoring
5 1 (7.14%) Microservices
5 1 (7.14%) MVC
5 1 (7.14%) SOLID
5 1 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 13 (92.86%) SQL
2 1 (7.14%) C#
2 1 (7.14%) Java
2 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.14%) PHP
2 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
2 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
1 1 (7.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
1 1 (7.14%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (7.14%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes