OOP Contracts

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 368 386 349
Rank change year-on-year +18 -37 -13
Contract jobs citing OOP 223 344 647
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.62% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.69% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 246 513
10th Percentile £363 £400 £381
25th Percentile £459 £488 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £533
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +7.98% +6.50%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £660
90th Percentile £700 £763 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £551 £531 £450
% change year-on-year +3.76% +18.06% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 5
10th Percentile £47.50 - £42.79
25th Percentile £56.25 - £43.23
Median hourly rate £60.00 £35.00 £46.20
Median % change year-on-year +71.43% -24.24% -21.31%
75th Percentile - - £61.25
90th Percentile £72.00 - £69.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 - £45.60
% change year-on-year - - -23.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing OOP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for OOP in the UK

OOP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for OOP in the UK

OOP
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for OOP in the UK

OOP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for OOP in the UK

OOP
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing OOP over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for OOP in the UK

OOP
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OOP within the UK 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
England +13 194 £525 -8.70% 170
London -9 108 £525 -12.50% 71
UK excluding London +42 79 £551 +3.76% 114
Work from Home +74 77 £500 -13.04% 119
South West +14 30 £700 +5.66% 9
North of England +25 24 £500 +1.01% 28
North West +24 20 £510 +3.03% 13
South East +6 12 £510 -1.92% 32
West Midlands +22 6 £450 -33.33% 16
Midlands +20 6 £450 -33.33% 20
East of England +6 6 £325 -35.52% 9
Yorkshire +14 4 £475 +5.56% 11
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 9

OOP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 20 (8.97%) Confluence
2 8 (3.59%) Apache
3 6 (2.69%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.24%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.45%) IIS
6 1 (0.45%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.14%) Trello
3 1 (0.45%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.45%) InfoPath
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.45%) ION MarketView
2 1 (0.45%) SAP CAR
2 1 (0.45%) SAP EWM
2 1 (0.45%) SAP POS DM
2 1 (0.45%) SAP R/3
2 1 (0.45%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 58 (26.01%) Azure
2 41 (18.39%) AWS
3 15 (6.73%) GCP
4 14 (6.28%) SaaS
5 13 (5.83%) PaaS
5 13 (5.83%) Snowflake
6 12 (5.38%) Amazon S3
7 11 (4.93%) Serverless
8 10 (4.48%) Amazon SQS
9 9 (4.04%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (3.59%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (3.14%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (3.14%) Miro
11 7 (3.14%) Power Platform
12 6 (2.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 6 (2.69%) GitHub
12 6 (2.69%) Microsoft 365
13 5 (2.24%) Azure Service Bus
13 5 (2.24%) npm
13 5 (2.24%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.04%) SSH
2 6 (2.69%) FTP
3 1 (0.45%) 5G
3 1 (0.45%) DHCP
3 1 (0.45%) DNS
3 1 (0.45%) HTTP
3 1 (0.45%) LTE
3 1 (0.45%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.45%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.45%) VPN
3 1 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (13.90%) SQL Server
2 17 (7.62%) MySQL
2 17 (7.62%) NoSQL
3 16 (7.17%) Big Data
3 16 (7.17%) Oracle Database
4 9 (4.04%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (3.14%) Power BI
5 7 (3.14%) Tableau
6 6 (2.69%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.69%) Tableau Server
7 5 (2.24%) Redis
8 4 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (1.79%) BigQuery
8 4 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.90%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.90%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.90%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.45%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.45%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.45%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 48 (21.52%) JIRA
2 31 (13.90%) Jenkins
3 28 (12.56%) Git
4 21 (9.42%) Bitbucket
5 20 (8.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 14 (6.28%) Cucumber
6 14 (6.28%) JUnit
7 8 (3.59%) Selenium
8 7 (3.14%) Maven
8 7 (3.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 5 (2.24%) GitLab
9 5 (2.24%) Mocha
9 5 (2.24%) Postman
9 5 (2.24%) webpack
10 4 (1.79%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.79%) Jasmine
10 4 (1.79%) Karma Test Runner
10 4 (1.79%) SoapUI
10 4 (1.79%) TeamCity
10 4 (1.79%) TestNG
General
1 77 (34.53%) Social Skills
2 63 (28.25%) Finance
3 44 (19.73%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (11.66%) Banking
5 20 (8.97%) Aerospace
6 16 (7.17%) Investment Banking
7 13 (5.83%) Front Office
8 8 (3.59%) Public Sector
9 7 (3.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (3.14%) Retail
10 6 (2.69%) Manufacturing
11 5 (2.24%) Electronics
11 5 (2.24%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.79%) Corporate Banking
12 4 (1.79%) Retail Banking
13 3 (1.35%) Back Office
13 3 (1.35%) Tech for Good
14 2 (0.90%) Law
15 1 (0.45%) Marketing
15 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 127 (56.95%) Developer
2 30 (13.45%) Java Developer
3 26 (11.66%) .NET Developer
4 21 (9.42%) C# Developer
5 19 (8.52%) Full Stack Developer
5 19 (8.52%) Senior
6 15 (6.73%) C# .NET Developer
7 13 (5.83%) Software Engineer
8 12 (5.38%) React Developer
9 11 (4.93%) Cloud Engineer
9 11 (4.93%) DevOps Engineer
10 10 (4.48%) Data Engineer
10 10 (4.48%) Senior Developer
10 10 (4.48%) Tester
11 8 (3.59%) Lead
11 8 (3.59%) PHP Developer
11 8 (3.59%) Site Engineer
11 8 (3.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 7 (3.14%) AWS Engineer
13 6 (2.69%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (36.32%) .NET
2 39 (17.49%) CSS
2 39 (17.49%) HTML
3 33 (14.80%) Spring
4 32 (14.35%) .NET Core
4 32 (14.35%) React
5 31 (13.90%) REST
6 30 (13.45%) Web Services
7 28 (12.56%) .NET Framework
8 19 (8.52%) JSON
9 18 (8.07%) Vue
10 16 (7.17%) AngularJS
10 16 (7.17%) Node.js
10 16 (7.17%) XML
11 15 (6.73%) ASP.NET
11 15 (6.73%) Hibernate
12 14 (6.28%) Kafka
12 14 (6.28%) SOAP
13 12 (5.38%) ASP.NET Core
13 12 (5.38%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.42%) Data Structures
2 18 (8.07%) Algorithms
3 15 (6.73%) Derivative
3 15 (6.73%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (5.83%) Enterprise Software
4 13 (5.83%) Fixed Income
5 11 (4.93%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (4.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 9 (4.04%) Linux Command Line
7 8 (3.59%) Management Information System
8 7 (3.14%) Hedge funds
9 5 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (2.24%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.79%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.79%) Video\Live Streaming
11 3 (1.35%) Product Ownership
12 2 (0.90%) Market Risk
13 1 (0.45%) Mobile App
13 1 (0.45%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 48 (21.52%) Linux
2 34 (15.25%) Windows
3 14 (6.28%) Unix
4 11 (4.93%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.24%) CentOS
5 5 (2.24%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (2.24%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (1.79%) Android
6 4 (1.79%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (76.23%) OO
2 86 (38.57%) Agile
3 79 (35.43%) Problem-Solving
4 66 (29.60%) CI/CD
5 60 (26.91%) Scrum
6 51 (22.87%) Continuous Integration
7 48 (21.52%) DevOps
8 46 (20.63%) Design Patterns
9 37 (16.59%) Computer Science
10 36 (16.14%) Test Automation
11 32 (14.35%) Software Engineering
12 29 (13.00%) TDD
13 27 (12.11%) SOLID
14 25 (11.21%) Configuration Management
14 25 (11.21%) Deployment Automation
14 25 (11.21%) Full Stack Development
15 24 (10.76%) Microservices
15 24 (10.76%) MVC
15 24 (10.76%) Web Development
16 22 (9.87%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 83 (37.22%) Java
2 82 (36.77%) SQL
3 80 (35.87%) Python
4 77 (34.53%) C#
5 46 (20.63%) JavaScript
6 34 (15.25%) PowerShell
7 20 (8.97%) PL/SQL
8 13 (5.83%) PHP
9 12 (5.38%) VB
9 12 (5.38%) VBA
10 9 (4.04%) Perl
10 9 (4.04%) VB.NET
11 8 (3.59%) T-SQL
12 7 (3.14%) Bash
12 7 (3.14%) F#
13 6 (2.69%) C
13 6 (2.69%) Scala
13 6 (2.69%) TypeScript
14 5 (2.24%) Shell Script
15 4 (1.79%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 53 (23.77%) Security Cleared
2 47 (21.08%) Degree
3 41 (18.39%) SC Cleared
4 15 (6.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.59%) DV Cleared
6 7 (3.14%) Numerate Degree
7 6 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.79%) CISSP
8 4 (1.79%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.45%) ISEB
9 1 (0.45%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.45%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (14.35%) QA
2 3 (1.35%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.35%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.90%) WCAG
4 1 (0.45%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.45%) HL7
System Software
1 17 (7.62%) Docker
2 5 (2.24%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.45%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (12.56%) Ansible
2 25 (11.21%) Terraform
3 20 (8.97%) PowerCLI
4 15 (6.73%) Kubernetes
5 4 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.35%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (0.90%) Puppet
8 1 (0.45%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.45%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.45%) SCOM
8 1 (0.45%) systemd
Vendors
1 26 (11.66%) Microsoft
2 20 (8.97%) Atlassian
2 20 (8.97%) HP
3 19 (8.52%) Dell
3 19 (8.52%) Oracle
4 10 (4.48%) Google
5 7 (3.14%) Cloudera
5 7 (3.14%) Dynatrace
5 7 (3.14%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.14%) Splunk
6 6 (2.69%) SAP
7 5 (2.24%) Informatica
7 5 (2.24%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.24%) Talend
8 4 (1.79%) Okta
8 4 (1.79%) Roku
9 3 (1.35%) Citrix
10 2 (0.90%) Ariba
10 2 (0.90%) ION Trading
10 2 (0.90%) OpenAI