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 22 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 90 104
Rank change year-on-year -69 +14 +14
Contract jobs citing OO 3 14 11
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.091% 0.95% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 1.07% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 9
10th Percentile £474 £441 £390
25th Percentile £491 £483 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £524 £505
Median % change year-on-year +0.19% +3.76% +1.00%
75th Percentile £553 £531 £575
90th Percentile £566 £538 £595
England median daily rate £453 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -13.71% -4.55% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
England median hourly rate £75.00 - £64.50
% change year-on-year - - -4.22%

All Process & 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 2,800 1,306 1,667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.82% 88.78% 80.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,842 825 1,099
10th Percentile £313 £200 £269
25th Percentile £405 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £481 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -3.80% -1.48%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £675 £658 £738
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 79 121
10th Percentile £14.82 £12.62 £11.13
25th Percentile £22.48 £14.60 £14.25
Median hourly rate £33.99 £24.22 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.34% +7.64% -8.16%
75th Percentile £61.00 £32.82 £40.00
90th Percentile £72.54 £50.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £47.50 £27.06 £38.12
% change year-on-year +75.52% -29.01% +8.82%

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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 22 June 2026. 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
Coventry - 3 £525 - 2
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England

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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 (66.67%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Boomi
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) ABAP Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Integration Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) iOS Developer
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Integration Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior ABAP Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Senior SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) SAP XI
2 1 (33.33%) IDoc
2 1 (33.33%) JDBC
2 1 (33.33%) JMS
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) SOAP
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Android
1 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) API Management
2 2 (66.67%) BPMN
2 2 (66.67%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) iOS Development
3 1 (33.33%) MVVM
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) SOA
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) ABAP
2 1 (33.33%) ActionScript
2 1 (33.33%) ActionScript 2.0
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Kotlin
2 1 (33.33%) Swift
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Dell
1 2 (66.67%) SAP
2 1 (33.33%) SEEBURGER