OO Contracts in Scotland

Object-Oriented (OO)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for OO skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OO 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 86 149 125
Rank change year-on-year +63 -24 -10
Contract jobs citing OO 37 15 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.73% 0.56% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.96% 0.60% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 18
10th Percentile £275 £356 £364
25th Percentile £341 £438 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% +16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £722 £688 £528
90th Percentile £745 £738 £614
UK median daily rate £563 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -10.00% +4.17% +23.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - £50.06
25th Percentile - - £53.25
Median hourly rate - £59.03 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year - +8.31% -
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £56.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +19.11% +2.27% +22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

OO 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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,884 2,495 3,172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.04% 92.48% 93.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,158 1,766 2,240
10th Percentile £219 £260 £250
25th Percentile £369 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 55 48
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.92 £11.25 £17.67
Median hourly rate £19.50 £15.99 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -57.28% -6.43%
75th Percentile £42.71 £50.74 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.13 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing OO as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for OO in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OO in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for OO in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for OO in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OO in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for OO in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OO within the Scotland 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
Glasgow +27 29 £693 +32.00% 6
Edinburgh - 6 £375 - 5
Renfrewshire - 1 - -
West Lothian - 1 - -
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 4 (10.81%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 9 (24.32%) AWS
2 4 (10.81%) Azure
2 4 (10.81%) OpenShift
3 3 (8.11%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (8.11%) Serverless
4 2 (5.41%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (5.41%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 6 (16.22%) Kerberos
2 4 (10.81%) Fibre Channel
2 4 (10.81%) iSCSI
2 4 (10.81%) SAN
3 2 (5.41%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.81%) DB2
2 2 (5.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (21.62%) Git
2 6 (16.22%) Bitbucket
2 6 (16.22%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (24.32%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.81%) Banking
2 4 (10.81%) Finance
3 3 (8.11%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Automotive
4 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (40.54%) Developer
2 13 (35.14%) Python Engineer
3 12 (32.43%) Linux Engineer
4 9 (24.32%) Linux Scripter
5 8 (21.62%) Network Engineer
5 8 (21.62%) Platform Engineer
5 8 (21.62%) Unix Engineer
5 8 (21.62%) Unix Linux Engineer
6 6 (16.22%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (16.22%) Virtualisation Engineer
6 6 (16.22%) VMware Engineer
7 5 (13.51%) Unix Scripter
7 5 (13.51%) Unix Scripting Engineer
8 4 (10.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (10.81%) Java Developer
8 4 (10.81%) Java Scala Developer
8 4 (10.81%) Linux Developer
8 4 (10.81%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (10.81%) Scala Developer
8 4 (10.81%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (21.62%) JSON
2 6 (16.22%) LDAP
2 6 (16.22%) Middleware
2 6 (16.22%) OpenID
2 6 (16.22%) RESTful
2 6 (16.22%) Web Services
2 6 (16.22%) XML
3 4 (10.81%) Flash
3 4 (10.81%) POSIX
4 3 (8.11%) .NET
4 3 (8.11%) .NET Core
5 2 (5.41%) Java EE
5 2 (5.41%) Spring
6 1 (2.70%) Guice
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Algorithms
1 6 (16.22%) Enterprise Cloud
2 4 (10.81%) Client/Server
2 4 (10.81%) NVMe
3 3 (8.11%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (5.41%) Data Structures
4 2 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (5.41%) Product Ownership
4 2 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.70%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 24 (64.86%) Linux
2 18 (48.65%) Unix
3 4 (10.81%) Data ONTAP
3 4 (10.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (10.81%) Windows
3 4 (10.81%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (21.62%) Platform Engineering
2 7 (18.92%) Data Modelling
2 7 (18.92%) DevOps
3 6 (16.22%) Computer Science
3 6 (16.22%) Containerisation
3 6 (16.22%) Continuous Integration
3 6 (16.22%) Design Patterns
3 6 (16.22%) OOD
3 6 (16.22%) Task Automation
3 6 (16.22%) Test Automation
4 5 (13.51%) OOA/OOD
5 4 (10.81%) Capacity Management
5 4 (10.81%) High Availability
5 4 (10.81%) Infrastructure Automation
5 4 (10.81%) Observability
5 4 (10.81%) Preventative Maintenance
5 4 (10.81%) Problem Management
5 4 (10.81%) Scrum
5 4 (10.81%) Software Engineering
5 4 (10.81%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (54.05%) Perl
2 19 (51.35%) Python
3 12 (32.43%) Java
4 7 (18.92%) SQL
5 6 (16.22%) C
5 6 (16.22%) Go
6 4 (10.81%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (5.41%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.70%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 6 (16.22%) Active Directory
1 6 (16.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (10.81%) Docker
2 4 (10.81%) GPFS
2 4 (10.81%) NFS
Systems Management
1 4 (10.81%) Kubernetes
1 4 (10.81%) Veritas Storage Foundation
2 3 (8.11%) Dell DRAC
2 3 (8.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (16.22%) Cadence
1 6 (16.22%) VMware
2 4 (10.81%) Brocade
2 4 (10.81%) EMC
2 4 (10.81%) Google
2 4 (10.81%) IBM
2 4 (10.81%) NetApp
2 4 (10.81%) Sybase
2 4 (10.81%) Veritas
3 3 (8.11%) BMC