OOP Contracts in the North West

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
England > North West

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 139 137
Rank change year-on-year +24 -2 -26
Contract jobs citing OOP 20 12 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.73% 0.39% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 0.44% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 7 37
10th Percentile £338 - £380
25th Percentile £463 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.08% -2.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £539 £500 £544
90th Percentile £656 £523 £599
England median daily rate £545 £575 £528
% change year-on-year -5.22% +9.00% +5.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

OOP 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 North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,330 2,732 3,596
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 85.07% 89.66% 88.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,452 1,918 2,617
10th Percentile £308 £313 £240
25th Percentile £401 £413 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.50%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 142 158
10th Percentile £11.00 £16.02 £10.63
25th Percentile £14.00 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £26.66 £35.00 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -23.83% +50.72% +29.34%
75th Percentile £46.18 £45.90 £52.67
90th Percentile £66.61 £65.98 £75.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for OOP in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for OOP in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OOP in the North West over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OOP in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for OOP in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 2 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
Manchester +15 12 £495 +1.02% 8
Cheshire - 6 £510 - 1
Cumbria - 1 - - 1
Lancashire - 1 - - 1
OOP
England

OOP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (25.00%) Apache
1 5 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) Serverless
2 5 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (25.00%) Amazon EMR
2 5 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 5 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
2 5 (25.00%) AWS
2 5 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (25.00%) Snowflake
3 4 (20.00%) npm
3 4 (20.00%) Yarn
4 1 (5.00%) Azure
4 1 (5.00%) GitHub
4 1 (5.00%) SAP Fieldglass
Communications & Networking
1 5 (25.00%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) Big Data
1 5 (25.00%) Redis
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (35.00%) Git
2 5 (25.00%) JIRA
3 4 (20.00%) Jasmine
3 4 (20.00%) Karma Test Runner
3 4 (20.00%) Mocha
3 4 (20.00%) webpack
4 2 (10.00%) TestComplete
5 1 (5.00%) Artifactory
5 1 (5.00%) Cucumber
5 1 (5.00%) GitLab
5 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
5 1 (5.00%) JMeter
5 1 (5.00%) JUnit
5 1 (5.00%) Maven
5 1 (5.00%) Mercurial
5 1 (5.00%) Postman
5 1 (5.00%) Selenium
5 1 (5.00%) SoapUI
5 1 (5.00%) SpecFlow
5 1 (5.00%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (25.00%) Finance
1 5 (25.00%) Manufacturing
1 5 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Banking
2 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (60.00%) Developer
2 5 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 5 (25.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Snowflake Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) .NET Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Tester
5 1 (5.00%) C# Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Electronic Trading Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Low Latency Java Developer
5 1 (5.00%) PHP Developer
5 1 (5.00%) QA Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) Spring
2 5 (25.00%) JSON
2 5 (25.00%) Kafka
2 5 (25.00%) XML
3 4 (20.00%) .NET
3 4 (20.00%) .NET Core
3 4 (20.00%) .NET Framework
3 4 (20.00%) AngularJS
3 4 (20.00%) React
3 4 (20.00%) RESTful
3 4 (20.00%) Web Services
4 2 (10.00%) SOAP
4 2 (10.00%) Spring Boot
5 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET
5 1 (5.00%) Entity Framework
5 1 (5.00%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (5.00%) Node.js
5 1 (5.00%) OpenAPI
5 1 (5.00%) Playwright
5 1 (5.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (40.00%) Data Structures
2 7 (35.00%) Algorithms
3 4 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (15.00%) Derivative
5 2 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (5.00%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Linux
1 4 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (80.00%) OO
2 10 (50.00%) Agile
2 10 (50.00%) Design Patterns
3 9 (45.00%) CI/CD
3 9 (45.00%) Performance Tuning
3 9 (45.00%) Scrum
4 8 (40.00%) Test Automation
5 7 (35.00%) Multithreading
6 6 (30.00%) Low Latency
7 5 (25.00%) Containerisation
7 5 (25.00%) Data Engineering
7 5 (25.00%) Data Management
7 5 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
7 5 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
7 5 (25.00%) ETL
7 5 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 5 (25.00%) Software Engineering
7 5 (25.00%) SOLID
7 5 (25.00%) TDD
8 4 (20.00%) Asynchronous Programming
Programming Languages
1 13 (65.00%) C#
2 12 (60.00%) Java
3 10 (50.00%) SQL
4 7 (35.00%) JavaScript
4 7 (35.00%) Python
5 2 (10.00%) C++
5 2 (10.00%) Delphi
5 2 (10.00%) VBScript
6 1 (5.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Informatica
1 5 (25.00%) Talend