OOP Contracts in the North of England

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring OOP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OOP over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 161 186 172
Rank change year-on-year +25 -14 -15
Contract jobs citing OOP 24 16 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.50% 0.29% 1.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.33% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 10 72
10th Percentile £358 £407 £381
25th Percentile £463 £414 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £438
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% +13.14% +9.38%
75th Percentile £515 £528 £481
90th Percentile £656 £559 £550
England median daily rate £525 £575 £545
% change year-on-year -8.70% +5.50% +9.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

OOP falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,055 4,902 6,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 83.69% 90.08% 88.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,411 3,372 4,591
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £669 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 395 209 251
10th Percentile £11.09 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.55 £15.75 £13.57
Median hourly rate £21.00 £25.00 £19.09
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +30.96% +7.43%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.39 £34.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £56.38 £63.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing OOP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for OOP in the North of England

OOP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OOP in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for OOP in the North of England

OOP
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OOP in the North of England over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OOP in the North of England

OOP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OOP in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for OOP in the North of England

OOP
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OOP within the North of England region over the 6 months to 13 June 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
North West +24 20 £510 +3.03% 13
Yorkshire +14 4 £475 +5.56% 11
OOP
England

OOP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (20.83%) Apache
1 5 (20.83%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (20.83%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (25.00%) Serverless
2 5 (20.83%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (20.83%) Amazon EMR
2 5 (20.83%) Amazon S3
2 5 (20.83%) Amazon SQS
2 5 (20.83%) AWS
2 5 (20.83%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (20.83%) Snowflake
3 4 (16.67%) npm
3 4 (16.67%) Yarn
4 1 (4.17%) Azure
4 1 (4.17%) GitHub
4 1 (4.17%) SAP Fieldglass
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.83%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) Big Data
1 5 (20.83%) Redis
2 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.17%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (29.17%) Git
2 5 (20.83%) JIRA
3 4 (16.67%) Jasmine
3 4 (16.67%) Karma Test Runner
3 4 (16.67%) Mocha
3 4 (16.67%) webpack
4 2 (8.33%) TestComplete
5 1 (4.17%) Artifactory
5 1 (4.17%) Cucumber
5 1 (4.17%) GitLab
5 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
5 1 (4.17%) JMeter
5 1 (4.17%) JUnit
5 1 (4.17%) Maven
5 1 (4.17%) Mercurial
5 1 (4.17%) Postman
5 1 (4.17%) Selenium
5 1 (4.17%) SoapUI
5 1 (4.17%) SpecFlow
5 1 (4.17%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (20.83%) Finance
1 5 (20.83%) Manufacturing
1 5 (20.83%) Pharmaceutical
2 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (50.00%) Developer
2 5 (20.83%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Data Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Java Developer
2 5 (20.83%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Snowflake Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Tester
3 3 (12.50%) .NET Developer
3 3 (12.50%) Automation Tester
4 2 (8.33%) Senior
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (4.17%) .NET Software Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) C# Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Electronic Trading Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Low Latency Java Developer
5 1 (4.17%) PHP Developer
5 1 (4.17%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (33.33%) JSON
2 6 (25.00%) Spring
3 5 (20.83%) .NET
3 5 (20.83%) .NET Core
3 5 (20.83%) Kafka
3 5 (20.83%) XML
4 4 (16.67%) .NET Framework
4 4 (16.67%) AngularJS
4 4 (16.67%) React
4 4 (16.67%) RESTful
4 4 (16.67%) Web Services
5 3 (12.50%) REST
6 2 (8.33%) ASP.NET
6 2 (8.33%) SOAP
6 2 (8.33%) Spring Boot
7 1 (4.17%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (4.17%) Java EE
7 1 (4.17%) JMS
7 1 (4.17%) jQuery
7 1 (4.17%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 8 (33.33%) Data Structures
2 7 (29.17%) Algorithms
3 4 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (12.50%) Derivative
5 2 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (4.17%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Linux
1 4 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (83.33%) OO
2 14 (58.33%) Agile
3 12 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 11 (45.83%) Design Patterns
4 11 (45.83%) Test Automation
5 9 (37.50%) Performance Tuning
5 9 (37.50%) Scrum
6 7 (29.17%) Multithreading
7 6 (25.00%) Low Latency
7 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (25.00%) Software Engineering
8 5 (20.83%) Containerisation
8 5 (20.83%) Data Engineering
8 5 (20.83%) Data Management
8 5 (20.83%) Data Pipeline
8 5 (20.83%) Deployment Automation
8 5 (20.83%) ETL
8 5 (20.83%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 5 (20.83%) SOLID
8 5 (20.83%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 15 (62.50%) Java
2 14 (58.33%) C#
3 10 (41.67%) Python
3 10 (41.67%) SQL
4 7 (29.17%) JavaScript
5 2 (8.33%) C++
5 2 (8.33%) Delphi
5 2 (8.33%) VBScript
6 1 (4.17%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) HL7
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) Informatica
1 5 (20.83%) Talend