OOP Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring OOP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 66 80
Rank change year-on-year -7 +14 +42
Contract jobs citing OOP 5 6 4
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.55% 0.78% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.90% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 4
10th Percentile - £533 -
25th Percentile £586 £638 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £598 £700 £375
Median % change year-on-year -14.64% +86.67% -16.67%
75th Percentile £609 £750 £441
90th Percentile - - £446
Yorkshire median daily rate £438 £688 £375
% change year-on-year -36.36% +83.33% -16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

OOP 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 784 665 1,111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 86.25% 86.25% 90.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 520 410 716
10th Percentile £285 £299 £308
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.77% -1.90%
75th Percentile £575 £567 £600
90th Percentile £650 £681 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 24 14
10th Percentile £14.33 £15.38 £13.82
25th Percentile £19.36 £18.14 £17.00
Median hourly rate £22.14 £30.00 £19.85
Median % change year-on-year -26.20% +51.11% -5.46%
75th Percentile £46.56 £39.44 £23.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £84.52 £29.09
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £20.50 £21.66
% change year-on-year +22.68% -5.33% +13.97%

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

OOP job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

OOP
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

OOP
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

OOP
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 OOP within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 28 November 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
Bradford - 4 - - 1
Leeds -15 1 £598 -14.64% 4
OOP
Yorkshire

OOP
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) NoSQL
2 4 (80.00%) MongoDB
2 4 (80.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Git
2 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (20.00%) Gradle
3 1 (20.00%) JUnit
3 1 (20.00%) Log4j
3 1 (20.00%) Maven
3 1 (20.00%) Mockito
3 1 (20.00%) Subversion
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Architect
1 4 (80.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Kafka
1 5 (100.00%) RESTful
2 4 (80.00%) Celery
2 4 (80.00%) Django
2 4 (80.00%) FastAPI
2 4 (80.00%) Flask
2 4 (80.00%) GraphQL
2 4 (80.00%) gRPC
2 4 (80.00%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (80.00%) WebSockets
3 1 (20.00%) PowerMock
3 1 (20.00%) Spring
3 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (20.00%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 5 (100.00%) Microservices
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) AI
2 4 (80.00%) Clean Code
2 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (80.00%) Machine Learning
2 4 (80.00%) Mentoring
2 4 (80.00%) TOGAF
3 3 (60.00%) Asynchronous Programming
3 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (60.00%) Risk Management
3 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (60.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (20.00%) Concurrent Programming
4 1 (20.00%) Garbage Collection
4 1 (20.00%) Memory Management
4 1 (20.00%) Multithreading
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes