OO Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Object-Oriented (OO)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring OO skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 61 77
Rank change year-on-year -25 +16 +33
Contract jobs citing OO 1 8 2
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.11% 1.13% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 1.30% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 2
10th Percentile - £613 £416
25th Percentile £585 £619 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £596 £688 £438
Median % change year-on-year -13.38% +57.14% -14.63%
75th Percentile £606 £744 £447
90th Percentile - £750 £449
Yorkshire median daily rate £438 £675 £438
% change year-on-year -35.19% +54.29% -20.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 787 617 1,056
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 85.82% 86.78% 90.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 532 387 677
10th Percentile £288 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £384 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.32% -2.38%
75th Percentile £575 £564 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.47% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 22 13
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.27 £13.60
25th Percentile £15.59 £17.43 £16.92
Median hourly rate £22.14 £32.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.88% +71.05% -11.63%
75th Percentile £40.63 £40.81 £21.97
90th Percentile £81.25 £92.60 £29.42
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £21.75 £21.31
% change year-on-year +15.63% +2.06% +1.48%

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Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

OO job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing OO

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Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing OO

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Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
Leeds -23 1 £596 -13.38% 2
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Yorkshire

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Bundler
1 1 (100.00%) ESLint
1 1 (100.00%) Jasmine
1 1 (100.00%) Karma Test Runner
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (100.00%) webpack
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Developer
1 1 (100.00%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Bootstrap
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
1 1 (100.00%) DOM
1 1 (100.00%) Enzyme
1 1 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (100.00%) Handlebars
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) Jest
1 1 (100.00%) Mustache
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Backends for Frontends
1 1 (100.00%) Code Coverage
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Progressive Web App
1 1 (100.00%) SEO
1 1 (100.00%) SOLID
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility