Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for AOP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited AOP over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 566 586 715
Rank change year-on-year +20 +129 -41
Contract jobs citing AOP 13 108 148
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.031% 0.19% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.035% 0.21% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 88 29
10th Percentile £520 £450 £473
25th Percentile - £488 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £586
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -8.28% -21.87%
75th Percentile - £600 £675
90th Percentile - £694 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

AOP 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

AOP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing AOP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AOP in the UK

AOP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for AOP in the UK

AOP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for AOP in the UK

AOP
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AOP within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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
England +18 11 £550 +2.33% 1
London +45 10 £550 +10.00% 1
Work from Home +100 6 £550 +10.00% 1
North of England +22 1 £500 -16.67%
UK excluding London +11 1 £500 -16.67% 1
North West - 1 £500 -

AOP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (15.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (23.08%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) AWS
3 3 (23.08%) Entra ID
4 1 (7.69%) GCP
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (7.69%) Supabase
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) Cisco Nexus
1 4 (30.77%) Firewall
1 4 (30.77%) Internet
2 2 (15.38%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.69%) MySQL
2 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) JIRA
2 4 (30.77%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (23.08%) Git
3 3 (23.08%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (15.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 10 (76.92%) Social Skills
2 8 (61.54%) Finance
2 8 (61.54%) Financial Institution
3 4 (30.77%) Banking
3 4 (30.77%) Retail
4 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Automation Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Network Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) FMCG Manager
2 3 (23.08%) SAP Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Project Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Security Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Security Project Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Technical Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Technical Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) JDBC
1 3 (23.08%) REST
1 3 (23.08%) SailPoint
2 1 (7.69%) Node.js
2 1 (7.69%) Svelte
2 1 (7.69%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 8 (61.54%) Hedge funds
2 3 (23.08%) FMCG
2 3 (23.08%) Onboarding
3 2 (15.38%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Linux
1 4 (30.77%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Agile
2 7 (53.85%) DevOps
3 5 (38.46%) Cost Optimisation
3 5 (38.46%) Identity Access Management
3 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (38.46%) Project Delivery
3 5 (38.46%) Project Management
4 4 (30.77%) Application Security
4 4 (30.77%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (30.77%) Deployment Automation
4 4 (30.77%) Wealth Management
5 3 (23.08%) Analytics
5 3 (23.08%) Coaching
5 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
5 3 (23.08%) Conflict Resolution
5 3 (23.08%) Decision-Making
5 3 (23.08%) Privileged Access Management
5 3 (23.08%) Test Automation
5 3 (23.08%) Test Scripting
5 3 (23.08%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) Java
2 3 (23.08%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Degree
2 4 (30.77%) AWS Certification
3 3 (23.08%) CISSP
3 3 (23.08%) PMI Certification
3 3 (23.08%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) QA
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Ansible
1 4 (30.77%) Puppet
1 4 (30.77%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (23.08%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Cisco
1 4 (30.77%) F5
1 4 (30.77%) Fortinet
1 4 (30.77%) Juniper
1 4 (30.77%) Palo Alto
2 3 (23.08%) CyberArk
2 3 (23.08%) ForgeRock
2 3 (23.08%) Okta
2 3 (23.08%) Oracle
2 3 (23.08%) SAP
3 1 (7.69%) Google