OOP Contracts with Work from Home Options

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 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 264 338 329
Rank change year-on-year +74 -9 +13
Contract jobs citing OOP 77 119 322
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.52% 0.50% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.56% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 85 276
10th Percentile £319 £368 £372
25th Percentile £434 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +14.94% +0.05%
75th Percentile £600 £693 £621
90th Percentile £715 £763 £759
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £533
% change year-on-year -8.70% +7.98% +6.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £42.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £45.00
75th Percentile - - £47.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £35.00 £46.20
% change year-on-year +71.43% -24.24% -21.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,871 21,399 39,942
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.23% 89.63% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,673 15,206 29,099
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +5.42%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 495 518
10th Percentile £15.02 £18.49 £14.96
25th Percentile £24.00 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.13 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.51% +30.33% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.95 £78.45 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

OOP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing OOP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

OOP trend for jobs with a WFH option

OOP
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing OOP.

OOP daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

OOP
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing OOP over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

OOP daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

OOP
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing OOP.

OOP hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

OOP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (3.90%) Apache
2 1 (1.30%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.30%) Confluence
2 1 (1.30%) IIS
2 1 (1.30%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (9.09%) Trello
2 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.30%) SAP CAR
2 1 (1.30%) SAP POS DM
2 1 (1.30%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 29 (37.66%) Azure
2 20 (25.97%) AWS
3 10 (12.99%) PaaS
3 10 (12.99%) SaaS
4 7 (9.09%) Amazon S3
4 7 (9.09%) Miro
5 5 (6.49%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (6.49%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (5.19%) GCP
6 4 (5.19%) GitHub
6 4 (5.19%) Serverless
6 4 (5.19%) Snowflake
7 3 (3.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (3.90%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.60%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.60%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.60%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (2.60%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (2.60%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (2.60%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.30%) 5G
1 1 (1.30%) DHCP
1 1 (1.30%) DNS
1 1 (1.30%) LTE
1 1 (1.30%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (1.30%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.30%) VPN
1 1 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (19.48%) SQL Server
2 12 (15.58%) MySQL
2 12 (15.58%) NoSQL
3 7 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (7.79%) Oracle Database
5 4 (5.19%) Relational Database
6 3 (3.90%) Big Data
6 3 (3.90%) Power BI
6 3 (3.90%) Tableau
6 3 (3.90%) Tableau Server
7 2 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.60%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.30%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.30%) InfluxDB
8 1 (1.30%) SAP BW
8 1 (1.30%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 12 (15.58%) Git
2 9 (11.69%) JIRA
3 5 (6.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 4 (5.19%) PHPUnit
5 3 (3.90%) Cucumber
5 3 (3.90%) Jenkins
5 3 (3.90%) Selenium
6 2 (2.60%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.60%) GitLab
6 2 (2.60%) JMeter
6 2 (2.60%) JUnit
6 2 (2.60%) Maven
6 2 (2.60%) Mercurial
6 2 (2.60%) Postman
6 2 (2.60%) REST Assured
6 2 (2.60%) SoapUI
6 2 (2.60%) TeamCity
6 2 (2.60%) TestNG
6 2 (2.60%) WebDriver
7 1 (1.30%) SonarQube
General
1 28 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 16 (20.78%) Finance
3 10 (12.99%) Banking
4 8 (10.39%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (7.79%) Investment Banking
5 6 (7.79%) Retail
6 5 (6.49%) Front Office
7 4 (5.19%) Corporate Banking
7 4 (5.19%) Public Sector
7 4 (5.19%) Retail Banking
8 3 (3.90%) Tech for Good
9 2 (2.60%) Back Office
10 1 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (50.65%) Developer
2 11 (14.29%) Full Stack Developer
3 10 (12.99%) Senior
4 7 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (9.09%) Java Developer
5 6 (7.79%) .NET Developer
5 6 (7.79%) React Developer
6 5 (6.49%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (6.49%) C# Developer
6 5 (6.49%) Senior Developer
6 5 (6.49%) Site Engineer
6 5 (6.49%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 5 (6.49%) Software Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) Android Developer
7 4 (5.19%) iOS Developer
7 4 (5.19%) Java Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) Java Software Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) Mobile Developer
7 4 (5.19%) PHP Developer
7 4 (5.19%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (37.66%) .NET
2 23 (29.87%) CSS
3 21 (27.27%) HTML
4 14 (18.18%) REST
4 14 (18.18%) Web Services
5 12 (15.58%) Node.js
6 10 (12.99%) ASP.NET
6 10 (12.99%) React
7 9 (11.69%) .NET Framework
7 9 (11.69%) Vue
8 8 (10.39%) ASP.NET Core
8 8 (10.39%) jQuery
8 8 (10.39%) Spring
9 6 (7.79%) Kafka
9 6 (7.79%) RESTful
10 5 (6.49%) .NET Core
11 4 (5.19%) Entity Framework
11 4 (5.19%) Laravel
11 4 (5.19%) Symfony
11 4 (5.19%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.49%) Algorithms
1 5 (6.49%) Derivative
1 5 (6.49%) Fixed Income
1 5 (6.49%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (5.19%) Data Structures
2 4 (5.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.30%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.30%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.30%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.30%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (22.08%) Windows
2 8 (10.39%) Linux
3 5 (6.49%) Windows Server
4 4 (5.19%) Android
4 4 (5.19%) Apple iOS
5 2 (2.60%) Unix
6 1 (1.30%) CentOS
6 1 (1.30%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.30%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (68.83%) OO
2 30 (38.96%) Agile
3 21 (27.27%) Scrum
4 20 (25.97%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (23.38%) Design Patterns
5 18 (23.38%) Test Automation
6 17 (22.08%) MVC
7 15 (19.48%) DevOps
8 13 (16.88%) Full Stack Development
8 13 (16.88%) SOLID
9 12 (15.58%) CI/CD
9 12 (15.58%) Continuous Integration
10 11 (14.29%) Software Engineering
11 10 (12.99%) Computer Science
11 10 (12.99%) Microservices
11 10 (12.99%) Web Development
12 9 (11.69%) Analytics
12 9 (11.69%) MVVM
12 9 (11.69%) Unit Testing
13 8 (10.39%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 32 (41.56%) C#
2 27 (35.06%) SQL
3 26 (33.77%) Java
4 25 (32.47%) JavaScript
5 14 (18.18%) Python
6 6 (7.79%) PL/SQL
7 5 (6.49%) F#
7 5 (6.49%) PHP
8 4 (5.19%) VB
8 4 (5.19%) VBA
9 3 (3.90%) ABAP
9 3 (3.90%) PowerShell
9 3 (3.90%) TypeScript
10 2 (2.60%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (2.60%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.30%) Jython
11 1 (1.30%) Ruby
11 1 (1.30%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.30%) Smalltalk
11 1 (1.30%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 19 (24.68%) Degree
1 19 (24.68%) Security Cleared
2 15 (19.48%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.49%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.30%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.30%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (1.30%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.39%) QA
2 1 (1.30%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (12.99%) Docker
2 1 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (7.79%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.49%) Terraform
3 2 (2.60%) Ansible
4 1 (1.30%) PowerCLI
4 1 (1.30%) SCOM
Vendors
1 12 (15.58%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.39%) Oracle
3 7 (9.09%) Dynatrace
3 7 (9.09%) Splunk
4 4 (5.19%) SAP
5 3 (3.90%) Cloudera
5 3 (3.90%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.60%) Ariba
7 1 (1.30%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.30%) Citrix
7 1 (1.30%) Dell
7 1 (1.30%) Google
7 1 (1.30%) HP
7 1 (1.30%) New Relic
7 1 (1.30%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.30%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.30%) Xamarin