OOP Contracts in England

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for OOP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OOP over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 357 350 327
Rank change year-on-year -7 -23 +8
Contract jobs citing OOP 176 314 575
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.48% 0.65% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.72% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 223 457
10th Percentile £385 £400 £385
25th Percentile £463 £486 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.13% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £670
90th Percentile £724 £748 £800
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 9
10th Percentile £46.25 - £42.33
25th Percentile £54.38 - £43.23
Median hourly rate £60.00 £35.00 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year +71.43% -38.05% -3.76%
75th Percentile - - £62.15
90th Percentile £75.00 - £64.72
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £35.00 £56.50
% change year-on-year +71.43% -38.05% +8.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

OOP is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,464 43,415 63,929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.38% 90.10% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,624 30,476 45,458
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £448 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,526 1,738
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.95 £16.20 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +45.58% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing OOP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for OOP in England

OOP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OOP in England.

Daily rate trend for OOP in England

OOP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OOP in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OOP in England

OOP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OOP in England.

Hourly rate trend for OOP in England

OOP
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing OOP in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for OOP in England

OOP
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OOP within the England region over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. 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
London -28 90 £533 -9.66% 125
South West +27 40 £694 +6.73% 12
North of England +38 21 £500 +11.11% 24
North West +27 17 £510 +21.43% 9
South East +19 7 £550 +5.77% 62
East of England +5 6 £400 -20.63% 21
West Midlands +25 4 £450 -33.33% 26
Midlands +24 4 £450 -33.33% 40
Yorkshire +14 4 £475 -1.30% 11
OOP
UK

OOP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 23 (13.07%) Confluence
2 8 (4.55%) Apache
3 6 (3.41%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.84%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.57%) IIS
5 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.57%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (3.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.57%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.57%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.14%) SAP EWM
1 2 (1.14%) SAP R/3
1 2 (1.14%) Shopify
2 1 (0.57%) ION MarketView
2 1 (0.57%) Magento
2 1 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 38 (21.59%) Azure
2 30 (17.05%) AWS
3 12 (6.82%) Serverless
4 10 (5.68%) Amazon S3
4 10 (5.68%) GCP
5 9 (5.11%) Amazon SQS
6 8 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (3.41%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (3.41%) Snowflake
8 5 (2.84%) Amazon EMR
8 5 (2.84%) npm
9 4 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (2.27%) WhatsApp
9 4 (2.27%) Yarn
10 3 (1.70%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (1.14%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (1.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (1.14%) Figma
11 2 (1.14%) GitHub
11 2 (1.14%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.98%) SSH
2 5 (2.84%) FTP
3 1 (0.57%) 5G
3 1 (0.57%) DHCP
3 1 (0.57%) DNS
3 1 (0.57%) LTE
3 1 (0.57%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.57%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (0.57%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.57%) VPN
3 1 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 16 (9.09%) NoSQL
3 13 (7.39%) MySQL
4 10 (5.68%) Oracle Database
5 9 (5.11%) Big Data
6 5 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (2.84%) Redis
6 5 (2.84%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.27%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.14%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.14%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.14%) Data Mart
8 2 (1.14%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.14%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (1.14%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.14%) Power BI
8 2 (1.14%) SAP HANA
8 2 (1.14%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 46 (26.14%) JIRA
2 31 (17.61%) Jenkins
3 25 (14.20%) Git
4 24 (13.64%) Bitbucket
5 23 (13.07%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 11 (6.25%) Cucumber
6 11 (6.25%) JUnit
7 7 (3.98%) webpack
8 6 (3.41%) Selenium
8 6 (3.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 5 (2.84%) Maven
9 5 (2.84%) Mocha
10 4 (2.27%) GitLab
10 4 (2.27%) Jasmine
10 4 (2.27%) Karma Test Runner
10 4 (2.27%) Postman
10 4 (2.27%) SoapUI
11 3 (1.70%) TeamCity
11 3 (1.70%) TestNG
11 3 (1.70%) WebDriver
General
1 60 (34.09%) Social Skills
2 44 (25.00%) Finance
3 40 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (13.07%) Banking
5 19 (10.80%) Aerospace
6 13 (7.39%) Investment Banking
7 12 (6.82%) Front Office
8 5 (2.84%) Back Office
8 5 (2.84%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.84%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (2.84%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.84%) Retail
9 3 (1.70%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.70%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.14%) Law
10 2 (1.14%) Marketing
11 1 (0.57%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 112 (63.64%) Developer
2 26 (14.77%) Java Developer
3 24 (13.64%) Full Stack Developer
4 17 (9.66%) .NET Developer
5 14 (7.95%) C# Developer
6 11 (6.25%) React Developer
6 11 (6.25%) Senior
7 10 (5.68%) C# .NET Developer
8 8 (4.55%) PHP Developer
9 7 (3.98%) Cloud Engineer
9 7 (3.98%) Data Engineer
9 7 (3.98%) Senior Developer
9 7 (3.98%) Site Engineer
9 7 (3.98%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 6 (3.41%) Lead
10 6 (3.41%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 6 (3.41%) Software Engineer
11 5 (2.84%) Front Office Developer
11 5 (2.84%) Python Developer
11 5 (2.84%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (36.36%) .NET
2 39 (22.16%) HTML
3 35 (19.89%) CSS
3 35 (19.89%) React
4 32 (18.18%) .NET Core
5 31 (17.61%) Spring
6 28 (15.91%) REST
7 26 (14.77%) Web Services
8 19 (10.80%) Vue
9 18 (10.23%) AngularJS
10 16 (9.09%) .NET Framework
10 16 (9.09%) ASP.NET
10 16 (9.09%) JSON
11 15 (8.52%) Kafka
12 14 (7.95%) Node.js
12 14 (7.95%) XML
13 12 (6.82%) ASP.NET Core
13 12 (6.82%) SOAP
14 10 (5.68%) Hibernate
15 8 (4.55%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.52%) Data Structures
2 14 (7.95%) Algorithms
3 13 (7.39%) Derivative
4 11 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (5.11%) Fixed Income
6 8 (4.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 8 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (3.98%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (3.98%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (3.41%) Hedge funds
9 5 (2.84%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (2.27%) Management Information System
10 4 (2.27%) Market Risk
10 4 (2.27%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.57%) Distributed Applications
11 1 (0.57%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.57%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.57%) Virtual Reality
11 1 (0.57%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 39 (22.16%) Linux
2 19 (10.80%) Windows
3 10 (5.68%) Windows Server
4 9 (5.11%) Unix
5 4 (2.27%) CentOS
5 4 (2.27%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (2.27%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.14%) Android
6 2 (1.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (78.41%) OO
2 72 (40.91%) Agile
2 72 (40.91%) Problem-Solving
3 51 (28.98%) CI/CD
4 50 (28.41%) Continuous Integration
5 40 (22.73%) Design Patterns
5 40 (22.73%) Scrum
6 34 (19.32%) DevOps
7 28 (15.91%) Deployment Automation
8 27 (15.34%) Full Stack Development
9 25 (14.20%) Task Automation
9 25 (14.20%) Unit Testing
10 24 (13.64%) Configuration Management
11 23 (13.07%) Test Automation
12 22 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
12 22 (12.50%) Software Engineering
12 22 (12.50%) SOLID
13 20 (11.36%) SDLC
13 20 (11.36%) TDD
13 20 (11.36%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 86 (48.86%) Python
2 70 (39.77%) Java
3 63 (35.80%) SQL
4 58 (32.95%) C#
5 50 (28.41%) JavaScript
6 31 (17.61%) PowerShell
7 13 (7.39%) PHP
8 11 (6.25%) C
9 10 (5.68%) PL/SQL
10 7 (3.98%) Perl
10 7 (3.98%) T-SQL
11 6 (3.41%) Bash
11 6 (3.41%) F#
11 6 (3.41%) VB
11 6 (3.41%) VB.NET
11 6 (3.41%) VBA
12 4 (2.27%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.70%) ABAP
13 3 (1.70%) R
13 3 (1.70%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 44 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 34 (19.32%) SC Cleared
3 24 (13.64%) Degree
4 9 (5.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (4.55%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.27%) CISSP
6 4 (2.27%) Numerate Degree
7 3 (1.70%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.57%) ISEB
8 1 (0.57%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (17.05%) QA
2 3 (1.70%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.14%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.57%) HL7
4 1 (0.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (7.39%) Docker
2 2 (1.14%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.57%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (13.64%) Ansible
2 23 (13.07%) PowerCLI
3 14 (7.95%) Terraform
4 4 (2.27%) Kubernetes
5 3 (1.70%) Puppet
6 1 (0.57%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.57%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.57%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.57%) systemd
Vendors
1 23 (13.07%) Atlassian
1 23 (13.07%) HP
2 22 (12.50%) Dell
3 14 (7.95%) Microsoft
4 11 (6.25%) Oracle
5 6 (3.41%) Google
6 5 (2.84%) Informatica
6 5 (2.84%) Talend
7 4 (2.27%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.70%) Citrix
8 3 (1.70%) SAP
9 2 (1.14%) Adobe
9 2 (1.14%) Databricks
9 2 (1.14%) ESRI
9 2 (1.14%) ION Trading
9 2 (1.14%) VMware
9 2 (1.14%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.57%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.57%) New Relic
10 1 (0.57%) OpenAI