OO Contracts in the UK excluding London

Object-Oriented (OO)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 214 276 198
Rank change year-on-year +62 -78 -50
Contract jobs citing OO 193 166 413
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.93% 0.73% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 0.82% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 113 257
10th Percentile £364 £400 £381
25th Percentile £463 £500 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +13.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £675 £630 £540
90th Percentile £700 £675 £624
UK median daily rate £550 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 13 19
10th Percentile £56.25 £48.20 £46.73
25th Percentile £60.00 £52.38 £52.25
Median hourly rate £64.50 £64.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +16.36% +15.79%
75th Percentile £81.25 £75.50 £56.38
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.00 £58.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.64 £55.00
% change year-on-year +12.77% +4.80% +22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,348 20,314 27,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.29% 89.18% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,293 13,939 19,042
10th Percentile £250 £260 £240
25th Percentile £375 £400 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,136 1,244 1,338
10th Percentile £12.45 £10.63 £12.47
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.72 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.70 £62.80
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for OO 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 OO in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for OO in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OO in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OO 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 OO in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for OO in the UK excluding London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing OO in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for OO 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 OO within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
South West +18 49 £688 +9.13% 19
South East -11 42 £550 -2.40% 48
North of England +46 41 £495 -9.06% 61
North West +47 37 £495 -20.88% 31
Scotland +52 29 £400 -23.81% 21
East of England +10 16 £563 +11.61% 22
Midlands +22 11 £500 - 38
West Midlands +12 9 £450 -10.00% 25
Yorkshire +15 4 £488 -7.14% 21
Wales +14 4 £583 -10.38% 8
Northern Ireland 0 1 - - 9
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UK

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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 31 (16.06%) Confluence
2 8 (4.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (3.11%) Apache
3 6 (3.11%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.59%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.55%) IIS
6 2 (1.04%) SAS
7 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.52%) nginx
7 1 (0.52%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (4.15%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.04%) Trello
4 1 (0.52%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.52%) Simulink
4 1 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (3.63%) Temenos T24
2 3 (1.55%) Maximo
2 3 (1.55%) SAP MDG
2 3 (1.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.52%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.52%) SAP GTS
3 1 (0.52%) SAP MDG-BP
3 1 (0.52%) SAP MDG-F
Cloud Services
1 35 (18.13%) Azure
2 34 (17.62%) AWS
3 18 (9.33%) Serverless
4 11 (5.70%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (4.66%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (4.66%) Amazon S3
5 9 (4.66%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (3.63%) Apigee
6 7 (3.63%) Kong
7 6 (3.11%) Snowflake
8 5 (2.59%) Amazon EMR
8 5 (2.59%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (2.59%) Azure Functions
8 5 (2.59%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (2.07%) npm
9 4 (2.07%) Power Automate
9 4 (2.07%) Yarn
10 3 (1.55%) GCP
10 3 (1.55%) SAP Fieldglass
11 2 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.11%) FTP
1 6 (3.11%) HTTP
1 6 (3.11%) Kerberos
1 6 (3.11%) Tactical Data Link
2 4 (2.07%) Link 16
3 3 (1.55%) BGP
3 3 (1.55%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (1.55%) IOS XR
3 3 (1.55%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.04%) Broadband
4 2 (1.04%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (1.04%) iSCSI
4 2 (1.04%) SAN
5 1 (0.52%) 5G
5 1 (0.52%) DHCP
5 1 (0.52%) LTE
5 1 (0.52%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.52%) RS-485
5 1 (0.52%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.52%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.84%) SQL Server
2 13 (6.74%) Relational Database
3 8 (4.15%) MongoDB
4 7 (3.63%) OLAP
4 7 (3.63%) OLTP
4 7 (3.63%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.11%) Big Data
5 6 (3.11%) Oracle OLAP
6 5 (2.59%) SQLite
7 4 (2.07%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.07%) Redis
8 3 (1.55%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.04%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (1.04%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
9 2 (1.04%) DB2
9 2 (1.04%) Lumira
9 2 (1.04%) MySQL
9 2 (1.04%) SAP BW
9 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 54 (27.98%) JIRA
2 44 (22.80%) Git
3 35 (18.13%) Jenkins
4 32 (16.58%) Bitbucket
5 23 (11.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 8 (4.15%) Rational DOORS
7 5 (2.59%) Checkstyle
7 5 (2.59%) SonarQube
8 4 (2.07%) Jasmine
8 4 (2.07%) Karma Test Runner
8 4 (2.07%) Mocha
8 4 (2.07%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 4 (2.07%) webpack
9 3 (1.55%) ClearCase
9 3 (1.55%) ClearQuest
9 3 (1.55%) IntelliJ
9 3 (1.55%) Subversion
10 2 (1.04%) NUnit
10 2 (1.04%) TestComplete
10 2 (1.04%) Visual Studio
General
1 55 (28.50%) Social Skills
2 29 (15.03%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (11.92%) Aerospace
4 22 (11.40%) Finance
5 13 (6.74%) Public Sector
6 11 (5.70%) Banking
7 8 (4.15%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.59%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (2.59%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.55%) Marketing
10 2 (1.04%) Electronics
10 2 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.52%) Aviation
11 1 (0.52%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 100 (51.81%) Developer
2 24 (12.44%) Software Engineer
3 16 (8.29%) Java Developer
4 15 (7.77%) Full Stack Developer
5 14 (7.25%) Senior
6 12 (6.22%) Architect
6 12 (6.22%) Software Developer
7 11 (5.70%) Linux Engineer
7 11 (5.70%) Python Engineer
8 10 (5.18%) .NET Developer
8 10 (5.18%) Network Engineer
8 10 (5.18%) Senior Software Engineer
9 7 (3.63%) AWS Architect
9 7 (3.63%) Linux Scripter
9 7 (3.63%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (3.63%) Unix Engineer
9 7 (3.63%) Unix Linux Engineer
10 6 (3.11%) Data Engineer
10 6 (3.11%) DevOps Engineer
10 6 (3.11%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (29.53%) .NET
2 42 (21.76%) .NET Core
3 36 (18.65%) Spring
4 30 (15.54%) JSON
5 23 (11.92%) .NET Framework
6 20 (10.36%) RESTful
7 19 (9.84%) React
7 19 (9.84%) REST
7 19 (9.84%) XML
8 18 (9.33%) Web Services
9 17 (8.81%) AngularJS
10 15 (7.77%) Spring Boot
11 13 (6.74%) Kafka
12 10 (5.18%) SOAP
13 9 (4.66%) Java EE
14 7 (3.63%) ASP.NET
14 7 (3.63%) HTML
14 7 (3.63%) IBM Integration Bus
14 7 (3.63%) J2EE
14 7 (3.63%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.77%) Algorithms
2 14 (7.25%) Data Structures
3 12 (6.22%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (5.18%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (4.15%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (4.15%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (3.63%) DataPower
6 7 (3.63%) Product Ownership
7 6 (3.11%) Enterprise Cloud
7 6 (3.11%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (2.07%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.55%) ASIC
9 3 (1.55%) Derivative
9 3 (1.55%) FPGA
9 3 (1.55%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.55%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.55%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.55%) Replication
9 3 (1.55%) Verilog
10 2 (1.04%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 75 (38.86%) Linux
2 23 (11.92%) Unix
3 16 (8.29%) Windows
4 5 (2.59%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.55%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (1.04%) Data ONTAP
6 2 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.52%) Android
7 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.52%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (39.38%) OOP
2 73 (37.82%) Agile
3 62 (32.12%) Problem-Solving
4 54 (27.98%) CI/CD
5 50 (25.91%) Scrum
6 49 (25.39%) Software Engineering
7 46 (23.83%) Continuous Integration
7 46 (23.83%) Design Patterns
8 41 (21.24%) DevOps
9 31 (16.06%) OOD
9 31 (16.06%) Task Automation
10 29 (15.03%) Deployment Automation
10 29 (15.03%) Test Automation
11 25 (12.95%) Configuration Management
12 24 (12.44%) Infrastructure Automation
13 23 (11.92%) Unit Testing
14 22 (11.40%) SOLID
15 21 (10.88%) SDLC
16 20 (10.36%) Computer Science
16 20 (10.36%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 81 (41.97%) Python
2 71 (36.79%) Java
3 44 (22.80%) C#
4 40 (20.73%) SQL
5 35 (18.13%) C
6 30 (15.54%) C++
6 30 (15.54%) JavaScript
7 27 (13.99%) PowerShell
8 22 (11.40%) Perl
9 13 (6.74%) Bash
10 7 (3.63%) Go
11 6 (3.11%) ABAP
12 4 (2.07%) Assembly Language
12 4 (2.07%) F#
12 4 (2.07%) Shell Script
12 4 (2.07%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.55%) Scala
13 3 (1.55%) SystemVerilog
13 3 (1.55%) Tcl
14 2 (1.04%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 69 (35.75%) Security Cleared
2 55 (28.50%) SC Cleared
3 24 (12.44%) Degree
4 12 (6.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (6.22%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.59%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.55%) HND
7 1 (0.52%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.52%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.33%) QA
2 1 (0.52%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (0.52%) HL7
2 1 (0.52%) IEC 61508
2 1 (0.52%) MISRA
2 1 (0.52%) MISRA C
System Software
1 8 (4.15%) Docker
1 8 (4.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (3.11%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.04%) GPFS
3 2 (1.04%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.04%) NFS
4 1 (0.52%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 26 (13.47%) Ansible
2 23 (11.92%) PowerCLI
3 8 (4.15%) Terraform
4 6 (3.11%) Kubernetes
4 6 (3.11%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (2.07%) Dell DRAC
6 3 (1.55%) HP ALM
7 2 (1.04%) Puppet
7 2 (1.04%) Veritas Storage Foundation
8 1 (0.52%) Istio
8 1 (0.52%) Kiali
8 1 (0.52%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (12.95%) HP
2 23 (11.92%) Atlassian
3 22 (11.40%) Dell
3 22 (11.40%) Microsoft
4 12 (6.22%) IBM
5 11 (5.70%) SAP
6 9 (4.66%) Cadence
7 8 (4.15%) Oracle
7 8 (4.15%) VMware
8 7 (3.63%) TSYS
9 5 (2.59%) Google
9 5 (2.59%) Informatica
9 5 (2.59%) Talend
10 4 (2.07%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.55%) BMC
11 3 (1.55%) Cisco
11 3 (1.55%) Pega
11 3 (1.55%) TOWER Software
11 3 (1.55%) Xamarin
11 3 (1.55%) Xilinx