OLE Contracts in the UK excluding London

Object Linking and Embedding (OLE)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for OLE skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OLE over the 6 months to 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 393 435 504
Rank change year-on-year +42 +69 -66
Contract jobs citing OLE 2 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.010% 0.009% 0.007%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.062% 0.048% 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £556 - -
25th Percentile £566 £469 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £488 £535
Median % change year-on-year +20.51% -8.88% -
75th Percentile £616 £506 -
90th Percentile £629 - -
UK median daily rate £510 £488 £535
% change year-on-year +4.62% -8.88% +45.08%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

OLE is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,247 4,185 6,097
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.03% 18.26% 19.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,133 3,127 4,351
10th Percentile £320 £354 £363
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.36%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £694 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 87 147
10th Percentile £21.96 £22.20 £20.25
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.13 £65.65
90th Percentile £74.48 £79.19 £76.79
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

OLE
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing OLE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for OLE in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OLE in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for OLE in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OLE in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for OLE in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OLE within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 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
Yorkshire - 1 £625 - 1
Midlands - 1 £550 -
West Midlands - 1 £550 -
North of England - 1 £625 - 4
OLE
UK

OLE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) BIG-IP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 1 (50.00%) HTTP
2 1 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (50.00%) SSL
2 1 (50.00%) tcpdump
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (50.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (50.00%) CircleCI
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) IDA Disassembler
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Travis CI
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Security Incident Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Security Incident Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) XML
1 1 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (50.00%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Use Case
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) API Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Inversion of Control
2 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Reverse Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) ActionScript
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) Snort
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kibana
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) logstash
2 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (50.00%) Puppet
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk
2 1 (50.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) Google