OO Contracts in the West Midlands

Object-Oriented (OO)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 95 117 100
Rank change year-on-year +22 -17 -41
Contract jobs citing OO 11 12 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.58% 0.53% 2.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.60% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 52
10th Percentile £270 £466 £415
25th Percentile £384 - £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £516
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -3.10% +27.41%
75th Percentile £520 £580 £543
90th Percentile £602 £598 £599
England median daily rate £575 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £65.67 £55.00
% change year-on-year +2.03% +19.40% +15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,582 1,992 3,203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.70% 88.26% 90.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,054 1,359 2,336
10th Percentile £272 £263 £273
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £493
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +4.52% +15.94%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £576
90th Percentile £750 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 51 65
10th Percentile £11.08 £12.50 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.03 £13.51 £13.87
Median hourly rate £22.50 £20.97 £16.83
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% +24.64% +0.03%
75th Percentile £40.38 £28.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £58.00 £47.50 £22.15
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.29% +45.58% +8.70%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing OO as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for OO in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for OO in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for OO in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for OO in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OO within the West Midlands 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
Birmingham - 7 £450 - 16
Coventry - 2 £450 - 1
Herefordshire - 1 £400 - 4
Staffordshire - 1 - - 6
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) SAP MDG
1 1 (9.09%) SAP MDG-BP
1 1 (9.09%) SAP MDG-F
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Relational Database
2 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
2 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Developer
2 5 (45.45%) Java Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Full Stack Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Integration Architect
4 1 (9.09%) .NET Developer
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Integration Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Full Stack .NET Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Functional Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) PHP Developer
4 1 (9.09%) React Developer
4 1 (9.09%) SAP Architect
4 1 (9.09%) SAP Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) SAP Enterprise Architect
4 1 (9.09%) SAP Functional Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) SAP MDG Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) Spring
2 3 (27.27%) Hibernate
3 1 (9.09%) .NET
3 1 (9.09%) Blazor
3 1 (9.09%) CSS
3 1 (9.09%) Guice
3 1 (9.09%) HTML
3 1 (9.09%) IDoc
3 1 (9.09%) OpenAPI
3 1 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (9.09%) REST
3 1 (9.09%) SAP ALE
3 1 (9.09%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (9.09%) Swagger
3 1 (9.09%) Web Dynpro
3 1 (9.09%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Data Structures
2 2 (18.18%) Algorithms
2 2 (18.18%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (9.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Agile
2 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
2 4 (36.36%) OOP
3 3 (27.27%) Computer Science
3 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
3 3 (27.27%) Microservices
3 3 (27.27%) Multithreading
4 2 (18.18%) Data Management
4 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
4 2 (18.18%) E-Commerce
4 2 (18.18%) IT Strategy
4 2 (18.18%) Migration
4 2 (18.18%) OOD
4 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (18.18%) Product Roadmap
4 2 (18.18%) Scrum
4 2 (18.18%) SOA
4 2 (18.18%) Strategic Planning
4 2 (18.18%) Technology Strategy
4 2 (18.18%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Java
2 4 (36.36%) Python
3 3 (27.27%) SQL
4 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
4 2 (18.18%) Perl
5 1 (9.09%) ABAP
5 1 (9.09%) C#
5 1 (9.09%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (27.27%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
1 3 (27.27%) SAP