Object-Oriented (OO)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 215 184 164
Rank change year-on-year -31 -20 +11
Contract jobs citing OO 497 861 1,562
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.15% 1.45% 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 1.62% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 563 1,070
10th Percentile £385 £413 £400
25th Percentile £463 £513 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £590
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +5.93% +21.03%
75th Percentile £700 £750 £725
90th Percentile £825 £875 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% +21.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 23 28
10th Percentile - £47.50 £43.90
25th Percentile £60.00 £47.63 £47.89
Median hourly rate £71.00 £56.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.22% +2.27% +22.22%
75th Percentile £83.75 £70.00 £59.06
90th Percentile £85.00 £77.50 £60.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £77.50 £64.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +21.09% +16.36% +15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,452 53,231 80,444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.33% 89.85% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,130 36,930 56,488
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,454 1,752 1,920
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

OO
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for OO in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for OO in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OO over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OO in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for OO in the UK

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing OO over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for OO in the UK

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Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OO within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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 -32 409 £600 -4.00% 316
London -63 246 £625 -3.85% 104
UK excluding London +56 190 £550 -4.35% 239
Work from Home -38 167 £538 -14.68% 229
South West +22 50 £688 +9.13% 21
South East -1 48 £525 -8.70% 47
Scotland +59 36 £463 -26.00% 18
North of England +36 30 £510 -9.33% 62
North West +34 27 £510 -19.37% 28
Midlands +24 12 £450 -10.00% 44
East of England +17 11 £550 +29.41% 36
West Midlands +20 10 £450 -13.46% 24
Yorkshire +11 3 £475 -13.64% 24
Wales +14 2 £583 -10.38% 9
Northern Ireland +3 1 - - 7

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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 31 (6.24%) Confluence
2 14 (2.82%) CMS
3 12 (2.41%) Apache Spark
4 10 (2.01%) Apache
4 10 (2.01%) SAS
5 7 (1.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.21%) IIS
7 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.20%) JBoss
8 1 (0.20%) nginx
8 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.20%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.01%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.20%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.20%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.20%) Simulink
4 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.01%) Endur
2 5 (1.01%) Temenos T24
3 4 (0.80%) Distributed Ledger
3 4 (0.80%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.60%) Maximo
4 3 (0.60%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 3 (0.60%) SAP EWM
4 3 (0.60%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.60%) Shopify
5 2 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.40%) SAP R/3
6 1 (0.20%) ION MarketView
6 1 (0.20%) Magento
6 1 (0.20%) SAP CAR
6 1 (0.20%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.20%) SAP GTS
6 1 (0.20%) SAP MDG-BP
6 1 (0.20%) SAP MDG-F
6 1 (0.20%) SAP POS DM
Cloud Services
1 138 (27.77%) Azure
2 83 (16.70%) AWS
3 79 (15.90%) Azure DevOps
4 46 (9.26%) Azure Service Bus
5 41 (8.25%) Azure Monitor
6 38 (7.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 38 (7.65%) Serverless
7 23 (4.63%) AWS Lambda
8 20 (4.02%) Amazon S3
9 18 (3.62%) Azure Pipelines
10 17 (3.42%) Azure Logic Apps
11 16 (3.22%) GCP
12 15 (3.02%) Amazon EC2
13 13 (2.62%) Azure Data Factory
14 11 (2.21%) Azure API Management
14 11 (2.21%) Azure Functions
15 9 (1.81%) PaaS
16 8 (1.61%) Amazon SQS
16 8 (1.61%) GitHub
16 8 (1.61%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.62%) FTP
2 6 (1.21%) HTTP
2 6 (1.21%) Kerberos
3 5 (1.01%) Tactical Data Link
4 4 (0.80%) Fibre Channel
4 4 (0.80%) iSCSI
4 4 (0.80%) SAN
5 3 (0.60%) BGP
5 3 (0.60%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (0.60%) IOS XR
5 3 (0.60%) Link 16
6 2 (0.40%) Broadband
6 2 (0.40%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.20%) Internet
7 1 (0.20%) NFC
7 1 (0.20%) PPP
7 1 (0.20%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.20%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (20.52%) SQL Server
2 42 (8.45%) NoSQL
3 34 (6.84%) Relational Database
4 20 (4.02%) KDB
4 20 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (3.02%) Azure SQL Database
6 12 (2.41%) MySQL
6 12 (2.41%) Oracle Database
7 11 (2.21%) MongoDB
8 9 (1.81%) Big Data
9 8 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.21%) Geospatial Data
11 5 (1.01%) OLAP
11 5 (1.01%) OLTP
11 5 (1.01%) Oracle OLAP
11 5 (1.01%) SQLite
12 4 (0.80%) DB2
12 4 (0.80%) Redis
12 4 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 129 (25.96%) Git
2 69 (13.88%) JIRA
3 46 (9.26%) Jenkins
4 39 (7.85%) Bitbucket
5 28 (5.63%) Cucumber
6 23 (4.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 18 (3.62%) TeamCity
8 14 (2.82%) Visual Studio
9 12 (2.41%) NUnit
10 11 (2.21%) webpack
11 10 (2.01%) Moq
11 10 (2.01%) Rational DOORS
12 9 (1.81%) Postman
12 9 (1.81%) Selenium
13 7 (1.41%) SonarQube
13 7 (1.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 6 (1.21%) Jasmine
14 6 (1.21%) Maven
14 6 (1.21%) SpecFlow
14 6 (1.21%) Subversion
General
1 137 (27.57%) Social Skills
2 94 (18.91%) Finance
3 62 (12.47%) Banking
4 57 (11.47%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (8.45%) Back Office
6 34 (6.84%) Public Sector
7 28 (5.63%) Investment Banking
8 23 (4.63%) Front Office
9 22 (4.43%) Aerospace
10 10 (2.01%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.61%) Electronics
12 7 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.41%) Retail
13 6 (1.21%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.21%) Marketing
13 6 (1.21%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.60%) Local Government
15 3 (0.60%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 282 (56.74%) Developer
2 82 (16.50%) Senior
3 52 (10.46%) Senior Developer
4 45 (9.05%) Software Engineer
5 40 (8.05%) Lead
6 38 (7.65%) Java Developer
7 35 (7.04%) C# Developer
7 35 (7.04%) Full Stack Developer
8 29 (5.84%) .NET Developer
9 26 (5.23%) Scala Developer
10 20 (4.02%) Data Engineer
10 20 (4.02%) Senior Software Engineer
11 19 (3.82%) Technical Leader
12 18 (3.62%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 15 (3.02%) Architect
13 15 (3.02%) Python Engineer
13 15 (3.02%) Senior Java Developer
14 14 (2.82%) C# .NET Developer
14 14 (2.82%) Linux Engineer
14 14 (2.82%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (37.02%) .NET
2 115 (23.14%) .NET Core
3 75 (15.09%) REST
4 62 (12.47%) React
5 57 (11.47%) HTML
6 54 (10.87%) CSS
7 51 (10.26%) ASP.NET
8 47 (9.46%) JSON
9 43 (8.65%) Spring
10 42 (8.45%) Web Services
11 32 (6.44%) .NET Framework
12 31 (6.24%) Kafka
12 31 (6.24%) XML
13 30 (6.04%) AngularJS
14 27 (5.43%) Middleware
14 27 (5.43%) RESTful
15 25 (5.03%) Vue
16 24 (4.83%) ASP.NET Core
17 22 (4.43%) Node.js
17 22 (4.43%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 38 (7.65%) Distributed Systems
2 36 (7.24%) Algorithms
3 29 (5.84%) Data Structures
4 25 (5.03%) Product Ownership
5 22 (4.43%) Derivative
6 21 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
7 18 (3.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 17 (3.42%) Management Information System
9 16 (3.22%) Data Protection Act
10 15 (3.02%) Fixed Income
11 14 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (2.41%) Greenfield Project
13 11 (2.21%) Linux Command Line
14 9 (1.81%) Client/Server
14 9 (1.81%) Market Risk
15 6 (1.21%) Enterprise Cloud
15 6 (1.21%) Hedge funds
15 6 (1.21%) iPad
15 6 (1.21%) iPhone
15 6 (1.21%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 114 (22.94%) Linux
2 44 (8.85%) Unix
3 37 (7.44%) Windows
4 11 (2.21%) Apple iOS
5 10 (2.01%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.21%) Android
7 4 (0.80%) Data ONTAP
7 4 (0.80%) Embedded Linux
7 4 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.20%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (40.85%) Agile
2 161 (32.39%) OOP
3 144 (28.97%) DevOps
4 132 (26.56%) CI/CD
5 113 (22.74%) Problem-Solving
6 108 (21.73%) OOD
7 97 (19.52%) Design Patterns
8 95 (19.11%) TDD
9 90 (18.11%) Software Engineering
10 77 (15.49%) Scrum
10 77 (15.49%) Test Automation
11 72 (14.49%) Continuous Integration
12 63 (12.68%) Unit Testing
13 62 (12.47%) Clean Code
14 57 (11.47%) API Management
15 55 (11.07%) SOLID
16 54 (10.87%) Computer Science
16 54 (10.87%) SDLC
17 51 (10.26%) MVC
18 48 (9.66%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 194 (39.03%) C#
2 152 (30.58%) Python
3 150 (30.18%) Java
4 137 (27.57%) SQL
5 92 (18.51%) JavaScript
6 51 (10.26%) C++
7 50 (10.06%) Bicep
8 47 (9.46%) C
9 41 (8.25%) PowerShell
10 36 (7.24%) Perl
11 34 (6.84%) Scala
12 25 (5.03%) TypeScript
13 19 (3.82%) ABAP
14 14 (2.82%) Bash
15 12 (2.41%) T-SQL
16 10 (2.01%) Go
17 9 (1.81%) PL/SQL
18 7 (1.41%) F#
18 7 (1.41%) PHP
18 7 (1.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 77 (15.49%) Security Cleared
2 61 (12.27%) Degree
3 54 (10.87%) SC Cleared
4 32 (6.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (3.62%) DV Cleared
6 8 (1.61%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.80%) CISSP
9 2 (0.40%) HND
9 2 (0.40%) ISEB
9 2 (0.40%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.20%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (6.64%) QA
2 30 (6.04%) Accessibility
3 21 (4.23%) WCAG
4 6 (1.21%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.01%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.80%) MiFID
7 1 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.20%) GDPR
7 1 (0.20%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.20%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.20%) MISRA
7 1 (0.20%) MISRA C
System Software
1 44 (8.85%) Docker
2 42 (8.45%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.80%) GPFS
5 4 (0.80%) NFS
6 2 (0.40%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.20%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 41 (8.25%) Ansible
2 39 (7.85%) Terraform
3 24 (4.83%) Kubernetes
4 23 (4.63%) PowerCLI
5 8 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (1.01%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.80%) Veritas Storage Foundation
8 3 (0.60%) Dell DRAC
8 3 (0.60%) Puppet
9 2 (0.40%) Podman
9 2 (0.40%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.20%) Grafana
10 1 (0.20%) Istio
10 1 (0.20%) Kiali
10 1 (0.20%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.20%) SCOM
10 1 (0.20%) systemd
Vendors
1 73 (14.69%) Microsoft
2 31 (6.24%) Oracle
3 28 (5.63%) HP
4 23 (4.63%) Atlassian
5 22 (4.43%) Dell
5 22 (4.43%) SAP
6 16 (3.22%) Google
6 16 (3.22%) TIBCO
7 14 (2.82%) IBM
8 10 (2.01%) VMware
9 9 (1.81%) Cadence
9 9 (1.81%) Salesforce
10 8 (1.61%) ION Trading
11 6 (1.21%) Solace
12 5 (1.01%) Informatica
12 5 (1.01%) Talend
12 5 (1.01%) TSYS
13 4 (0.80%) Adobe
13 4 (0.80%) NetApp
13 4 (0.80%) Veritas