OO Contracts

Object-Oriented (OO)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 199 184 158
Rank change year-on-year -15 -26 +17
Contract jobs citing OO 503 801 1,554
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.17% 1.43% 1.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 1.59% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 525 1,084
10th Percentile £375 £400 £400
25th Percentile £463 £505 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £700 £750 £738
90th Percentile £825 £875 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £565 £500
% change year-on-year -2.65% +13.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 20 22
10th Percentile £51.65 - £44.35
25th Percentile £60.00 £47.50 £51.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.64 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.77% +4.80% +22.22%
75th Percentile £80.00 £76.13 £57.25
90th Percentile £85.00 £79.20 £61.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.50 £64.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +0.78% +16.36% +15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for OO in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for OO in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for OO in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for OO in the UK

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Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Hourly rate histogram for OO in the UK

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Top 15 Contract Locations

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 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
England -29 422 £553 -12.02% 318
London -38 250 £600 -7.69% 124
UK excluding London +62 193 £550 -2.65% 221
Work from Home -24 166 £538 -16.67% 185
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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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 34 (6.76%) Confluence
2 14 (2.78%) CMS
3 13 (2.58%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.99%) Apache
5 9 (1.79%) SAS
6 8 (1.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 6 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.80%) IIS
9 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.20%) JBoss
10 1 (0.20%) nginx
10 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.20%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.59%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.40%) Trello
5 1 (0.20%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.20%) InfoPath
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.20%) Simulink
5 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
1 7 (1.39%) Temenos T24
2 5 (0.99%) Endur
3 4 (0.80%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.60%) Distributed Ledger
4 3 (0.60%) Maximo
4 3 (0.60%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 3 (0.60%) SAP EWM
4 3 (0.60%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.40%) SAP R/3
6 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.20%) ION MarketView
6 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.20%) SAP CAR
6 1 (0.20%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.20%) SAP GTS
6 1 (0.20%) SAP MDG-BP
6 1 (0.20%) SAP MDG-F
6 1 (0.20%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 137 (27.24%) Azure
2 77 (15.31%) AWS
3 73 (14.51%) Azure DevOps
4 43 (8.55%) Azure Service Bus
5 42 (8.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 38 (7.55%) Azure Monitor
7 31 (6.16%) Serverless
8 21 (4.17%) Amazon S3
8 21 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
9 18 (3.58%) Azure Pipelines
10 15 (2.98%) Amazon EC2
11 14 (2.78%) GCP
12 13 (2.58%) Azure Logic Apps
13 12 (2.39%) Snowflake
14 11 (2.19%) PaaS
15 9 (1.79%) Amazon SQS
15 9 (1.79%) Power Platform
16 8 (1.59%) Amazon EMR
16 8 (1.59%) Azure Data Factory
16 8 (1.59%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.58%) FTP
2 6 (1.19%) HTTP
2 6 (1.19%) Kerberos
2 6 (1.19%) Tactical Data Link
3 4 (0.80%) Link 16
4 3 (0.60%) BGP
4 3 (0.60%) Cisco IOS
4 3 (0.60%) IOS XR
4 3 (0.60%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.40%) Broadband
5 2 (0.40%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (0.40%) iSCSI
5 2 (0.40%) SAN
6 1 (0.20%) DHCP
6 1 (0.20%) DNS
6 1 (0.20%) Firewall
6 1 (0.20%) Internet
6 1 (0.20%) LTE
6 1 (0.20%) VPN
6 1 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (19.28%) SQL Server
2 40 (7.95%) NoSQL
3 35 (6.96%) Relational Database
4 23 (4.57%) KDB
5 19 (3.78%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (2.98%) Big Data
7 13 (2.58%) MongoDB
8 12 (2.39%) Oracle Database
9 11 (2.19%) Azure SQL Database
9 11 (2.19%) MySQL
10 8 (1.59%) Power BI
11 7 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (1.39%) OLAP
11 7 (1.39%) OLTP
12 6 (1.19%) Oracle OLAP
12 6 (1.19%) Tableau
13 5 (0.99%) Geospatial Data
13 5 (0.99%) SQLite
13 5 (0.99%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 123 (24.45%) Git
2 75 (14.91%) JIRA
3 47 (9.34%) Jenkins
4 41 (8.15%) Bitbucket
5 26 (5.17%) Cucumber
6 23 (4.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 16 (3.18%) TeamCity
8 10 (1.99%) NUnit
8 10 (1.99%) Visual Studio
9 9 (1.79%) Rational DOORS
10 8 (1.59%) Moq
10 8 (1.59%) Selenium
11 7 (1.39%) Jasmine
11 7 (1.39%) Maven
11 7 (1.39%) Postman
11 7 (1.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 7 (1.39%) webpack
12 6 (1.19%) Karma Test Runner
12 6 (1.19%) SonarQube
13 5 (0.99%) SpecFlow
General
1 139 (27.63%) Social Skills
2 100 (19.88%) Finance
3 63 (12.52%) Banking
4 62 (12.33%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (8.15%) Back Office
6 36 (7.16%) Public Sector
7 29 (5.77%) Investment Banking
8 23 (4.57%) Aerospace
9 22 (4.37%) Front Office
10 11 (2.19%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.59%) Retail
12 7 (1.39%) Electronics
12 7 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.19%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.19%) Marketing
13 6 (1.19%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.80%) Corporate Banking
15 4 (0.80%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 297 (59.05%) Developer
2 84 (16.70%) Senior
3 57 (11.33%) Senior Developer
4 46 (9.15%) Software Engineer
5 43 (8.55%) Java Developer
6 37 (7.36%) Lead
7 36 (7.16%) C# Developer
8 33 (6.56%) Full Stack Developer
9 27 (5.37%) Scala Developer
10 26 (5.17%) .NET Developer
11 21 (4.17%) Data Engineer
12 19 (3.78%) Senior Software Engineer
13 18 (3.58%) Technical Leader
14 17 (3.38%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 17 (3.38%) Senior Java Developer
15 16 (3.18%) C# .NET Developer
16 15 (2.98%) Architect
16 15 (2.98%) Software Developer
17 13 (2.58%) Python Engineer
18 12 (2.39%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (34.79%) .NET
2 110 (21.87%) .NET Core
3 73 (14.51%) REST
4 58 (11.53%) React
5 57 (11.33%) HTML
6 53 (10.54%) CSS
7 52 (10.34%) Spring
8 47 (9.34%) JSON
9 46 (9.15%) ASP.NET
10 40 (7.95%) Web Services
11 36 (7.16%) .NET Framework
12 35 (6.96%) XML
13 33 (6.56%) Kafka
14 30 (5.96%) RESTful
15 29 (5.77%) AngularJS
16 26 (5.17%) Middleware
17 22 (4.37%) YAML
18 21 (4.17%) jQuery
18 21 (4.17%) Node.js
19 20 (3.98%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 38 (7.55%) Algorithms
2 37 (7.36%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (7.16%) Data Structures
4 25 (4.97%) Product Ownership
4 25 (4.97%) Self-Motivation
5 23 (4.57%) Derivative
6 21 (4.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 18 (3.58%) Management Information System
8 17 (3.38%) Enterprise Software
9 16 (3.18%) Data Protection Act
9 16 (3.18%) Fixed Income
10 11 (2.19%) Linux Command Line
11 10 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (1.59%) Market Risk
13 7 (1.39%) Client/Server
13 7 (1.39%) DataPower
13 7 (1.39%) Hedge funds
13 7 (1.39%) iPad
13 7 (1.39%) iPhone
13 7 (1.39%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 115 (22.86%) Linux
2 46 (9.15%) Unix
3 35 (6.96%) Windows
4 12 (2.39%) Apple iOS
5 8 (1.59%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.99%) Android
7 3 (0.60%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.40%) Data ONTAP
8 2 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.20%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (38.57%) Agile
2 165 (32.80%) OOP
3 135 (26.84%) DevOps
4 129 (25.65%) CI/CD
5 117 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
6 112 (22.27%) Design Patterns
7 106 (21.07%) OOD
8 97 (19.28%) TDD
9 96 (19.09%) Software Engineering
10 82 (16.30%) Continuous Integration
11 80 (15.90%) Scrum
12 75 (14.91%) Test Automation
13 66 (13.12%) Unit Testing
14 59 (11.73%) Clean Code
15 58 (11.53%) Computer Science
16 57 (11.33%) API Management
17 50 (9.94%) SOLID
18 48 (9.54%) SDLC
19 45 (8.95%) MVC
20 43 (8.55%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 179 (35.59%) C#
2 153 (30.42%) Java
3 145 (28.83%) Python
4 144 (28.63%) SQL
5 91 (18.09%) JavaScript
6 61 (12.13%) C++
7 48 (9.54%) Bicep
8 47 (9.34%) C
9 40 (7.95%) PowerShell
10 35 (6.96%) Scala
11 34 (6.76%) Perl
12 27 (5.37%) TypeScript
13 19 (3.78%) ABAP
14 17 (3.38%) PL/SQL
15 14 (2.78%) Bash
16 12 (2.39%) T-SQL
17 10 (1.99%) Go
18 9 (1.79%) VBA
19 8 (1.59%) VB
20 7 (1.39%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 76 (15.11%) Security Cleared
2 65 (12.92%) Degree
3 57 (11.33%) SC Cleared
4 31 (6.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (2.78%) DV Cleared
6 8 (1.59%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.80%) CISSP
9 3 (0.60%) HND
10 1 (0.20%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.20%) ISEB
10 1 (0.20%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.20%) PhD
10 1 (0.20%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (6.16%) QA
2 28 (5.57%) Accessibility
3 23 (4.57%) WCAG
4 6 (1.19%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.19%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.80%) MiFID
6 1 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.20%) GDPR
6 1 (0.20%) HL7
6 1 (0.20%) IEC 61508
6 1 (0.20%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.20%) MISRA
6 1 (0.20%) MISRA C
System Software
1 43 (8.55%) Docker
2 41 (8.15%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.40%) GPFS
5 2 (0.40%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.40%) NFS
6 1 (0.20%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 45 (8.95%) Ansible
2 34 (6.76%) Terraform
3 25 (4.97%) Kubernetes
4 23 (4.57%) PowerCLI
5 10 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.99%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.80%) Dell DRAC
8 3 (0.60%) Puppet
9 2 (0.40%) Podman
9 2 (0.40%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.40%) Veritas Storage Foundation
10 1 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.20%) Grafana
10 1 (0.20%) Istio
10 1 (0.20%) Kiali
10 1 (0.20%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.20%) SCOM
10 1 (0.20%) systemd
Vendors
1 76 (15.11%) Microsoft
2 31 (6.16%) Oracle
3 27 (5.37%) HP
4 23 (4.57%) Atlassian
5 22 (4.37%) Dell
6 21 (4.17%) SAP
7 15 (2.98%) TIBCO
8 14 (2.78%) Google
9 13 (2.58%) IBM
10 9 (1.79%) Cadence
10 9 (1.79%) ION Trading
10 9 (1.79%) VMware
11 7 (1.39%) Solace
11 7 (1.39%) TSYS
12 6 (1.19%) Cloudera
12 6 (1.19%) Salesforce
12 6 (1.19%) ServiceNow
12 6 (1.19%) Xamarin
13 5 (0.99%) Informatica
13 5 (0.99%) Talend