OO Contracts in Scotland

Object-Oriented (OO)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring OO skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OO over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 88 149 134
Rank change year-on-year +61 -15 -11
Contract jobs citing OO 27 15 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.26% 0.56% 1.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.45% 0.61% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 13
10th Percentile - £368 £336
25th Percentile £275 £456 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +10.53% +13.10%
75th Percentile £434 £638 £610
90th Percentile £496 £738 £621
UK median daily rate £550 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - £50.06
25th Percentile - - £53.25
Median hourly rate - £59.03 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year - +8.31% -
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
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
Scotland

OO 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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,857 2,457 3,193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 86.65% 91.95% 93.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,150 1,716 2,260
10th Percentile £221 £258 £250
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £573 £550 £550
90th Percentile £638 £638 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 57 54
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.07 £11.25 £17.56
Median hourly rate £19.50 £15.99 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -57.28% -6.43%
75th Percentile £42.71 £43.75 £50.27
90th Percentile £60.75 £65.63 £57.05
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for OO in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for OO in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OO in Scotland over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OO in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for OO in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OO within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 12 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
Glasgow +24 21 - - 6
Edinburgh - 5 £350 - 7
West Lothian - 1 - -
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (14.81%) AWS
2 2 (7.41%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (7.41%) Amazon S3
2 2 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (7.41%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (22.22%) Kerberos
2 2 (7.41%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (29.63%) Git
2 6 (22.22%) Bitbucket
2 6 (22.22%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (14.81%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (44.44%) Developer
2 8 (29.63%) Python Engineer
3 7 (25.93%) Linux Engineer
3 7 (25.93%) Linux Scripter
3 7 (25.93%) Network Engineer
3 7 (25.93%) Platform Engineer
3 7 (25.93%) Unix Engineer
3 7 (25.93%) Unix Linux Engineer
4 5 (18.52%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (18.52%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 5 (18.52%) VMware Engineer
5 4 (14.81%) Unix Scripter
5 4 (14.81%) Unix Scripting Engineer
6 3 (11.11%) Java Developer
6 3 (11.11%) Java Scala Developer
6 3 (11.11%) Linux Developer
6 3 (11.11%) Scala Developer
7 2 (7.41%) .NET Developer
7 2 (7.41%) AWS Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (29.63%) JSON
2 6 (22.22%) LDAP
2 6 (22.22%) OpenID
2 6 (22.22%) RESTful
2 6 (22.22%) Web Services
2 6 (22.22%) XML
3 5 (18.52%) Middleware
4 2 (7.41%) .NET
4 2 (7.41%) .NET Core
4 2 (7.41%) Java EE
4 2 (7.41%) Spring
5 1 (3.70%) Guice
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Enterprise Cloud
2 5 (18.52%) Algorithms
3 3 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (7.41%) Data Structures
4 2 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
4 2 (7.41%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.70%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 17 (62.96%) Linux
2 12 (44.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (25.93%) Platform Engineering
2 6 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
2 6 (22.22%) Data Modelling
2 6 (22.22%) Test Automation
3 5 (18.52%) Containerisation
3 5 (18.52%) Design Patterns
3 5 (18.52%) DevOps
3 5 (18.52%) Task Automation
4 4 (14.81%) OOA/OOD
4 4 (14.81%) OOD
4 4 (14.81%) Scrum
5 3 (11.11%) Data Protection
5 3 (11.11%) Software Engineering
6 2 (7.41%) Agile
6 2 (7.41%) Computer Science
6 2 (7.41%) CRM
6 2 (7.41%) Data Design
6 2 (7.41%) E-Commerce
6 2 (7.41%) Migration
6 2 (7.41%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 14 (51.85%) Perl
2 12 (44.44%) Python
3 7 (25.93%) Java
4 6 (22.22%) C
4 6 (22.22%) Go
5 3 (11.11%) Scala
6 2 (7.41%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (7.41%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 6 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 5 (18.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) Dell DRAC
2 2 (7.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (22.22%) Cadence
2 5 (18.52%) VMware
3 3 (11.11%) BMC