OO Contracts in Central London

Object-Oriented (OO)
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 104 97
Rank change year-on-year +3 -7 +16
Contract jobs citing OO 32 66 102
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.33% 1.77% 2.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.47% 1.93% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 33 83
10th Percentile £363 £513 £413
25th Percentile £425 £518 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £700 £625
Median % change year-on-year -25.89% +12.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £775 £813 £744
90th Percentile £875 £875 £833
London median daily rate £620 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -4.62% - +10.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 advertised in Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,175 3,413 4,157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.63% 91.28% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,546 2,322 3,182
10th Percentile £350 £325 £369
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
London median daily rate £550 £593 £575
% change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 29 44
10th Percentile £20.22 £15.05 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.63 £18.50 £23.44
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%
75th Percentile £28.98 £53.75 £55.38
90th Percentile £40.00 £88.30 £64.78
London median hourly rate £27.84 £37.34 £37.50
% change year-on-year -25.44% -0.43% +14.77%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for OO in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for OO in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OO in Central London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OO in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for OO in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OO within the Central London region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
City of London +5 30 £519 -25.23% 7
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London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 1 (3.13%) CMS
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 15 (46.88%) Azure
2 8 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (18.75%) Azure Monitor
4 5 (15.63%) AWS
5 4 (12.50%) Amazon S3
5 4 (12.50%) Azure Pipelines
6 3 (9.38%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (9.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (9.38%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.13%) Azure Functions
7 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
7 1 (3.13%) GCP
7 1 (3.13%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 6 (18.75%) NoSQL
3 4 (12.50%) KDB
4 3 (9.38%) MySQL
5 2 (6.25%) Oracle Database
5 2 (6.25%) Relational Database
6 1 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (21.88%) Git
2 4 (12.50%) Postman
2 4 (12.50%) Selenium
3 3 (9.38%) PHPUnit
3 3 (9.38%) SpecFlow
4 1 (3.13%) Burp Suite
4 1 (3.13%) Gradle
4 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.13%) JMeter
4 1 (3.13%) Maven
4 1 (3.13%) Mercurial
4 1 (3.13%) Mockito
4 1 (3.13%) Pylint
4 1 (3.13%) SoapUI
4 1 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (3.13%) Subversion
General
1 12 (37.50%) Banking
2 11 (34.38%) Finance
3 9 (28.13%) Investment Banking
4 5 (15.63%) Social Skills
5 4 (12.50%) Back Office
6 3 (9.38%) Corporate Banking
6 3 (9.38%) Retail
6 3 (9.38%) Retail Banking
7 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
8 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (3.13%) International Banking
8 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 21 (65.63%) Developer
2 7 (21.88%) Senior
3 5 (15.63%) C# Developer
4 4 (12.50%) Full Stack Developer
4 4 (12.50%) Lead
4 4 (12.50%) PHP Developer
4 4 (12.50%) Senior Developer
5 3 (9.38%) AWS Developer
6 2 (6.25%) .NET Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) C# .NET Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (6.25%) Java Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Java Software Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Python Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Software Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Technical Leader
6 2 (6.25%) Test Leader
7 1 (3.13%) ABAP Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Agile C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (40.63%) .NET
2 9 (28.13%) HTML
3 7 (21.88%) .NET Core
3 7 (21.88%) CSS
4 6 (18.75%) REST
5 5 (15.63%) Laravel
5 5 (15.63%) Vue
6 4 (12.50%) ASP.NET
6 4 (12.50%) React
7 3 (9.38%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (9.38%) Kafka
7 3 (9.38%) Node.js
7 3 (9.38%) Playwright
7 3 (9.38%) Symfony
7 3 (9.38%) Web Services
7 3 (9.38%) Yii
8 2 (6.25%) FIX Protocol
8 2 (6.25%) Middleware
8 2 (6.25%) Rendezvous
9 1 (3.13%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (6.25%) Fixed Income
2 2 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (6.25%) Market Risk
3 1 (3.13%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.13%) Contactless
3 1 (3.13%) Derivative
3 1 (3.13%) Equities
3 1 (3.13%) Interest Rate Derivative
3 1 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Linux
2 2 (6.25%) Unix
2 2 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (50.00%) OOP
2 10 (31.25%) Agile
3 9 (28.13%) Design Patterns
3 9 (28.13%) DevOps
3 9 (28.13%) TDD
4 8 (25.00%) OOD
5 7 (21.88%) Clean Code
6 5 (15.63%) API Management
6 5 (15.63%) Architectural Patterns
6 5 (15.63%) CI/CD
6 5 (15.63%) Containerisation
6 5 (15.63%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (15.63%) Test Automation
6 5 (15.63%) Unit Testing
7 4 (12.50%) Event-Driven
7 4 (12.50%) Functional Programming
7 4 (12.50%) Low Latency
7 4 (12.50%) MVC
7 4 (12.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (56.25%) C#
2 13 (40.63%) SQL
3 7 (21.88%) Java
3 7 (21.88%) JavaScript
4 6 (18.75%) Python
5 5 (15.63%) Bicep
6 4 (12.50%) PHP
7 2 (6.25%) PL/SQL
7 2 (6.25%) R
7 2 (6.25%) T-SQL
7 2 (6.25%) TypeScript
8 1 (3.13%) ABAP
8 1 (3.13%) C++
8 1 (3.13%) Go
8 1 (3.13%) Jython
8 1 (3.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (9.38%) Degree
2 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) ISEB
3 1 (3.13%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.63%) Accessibility
1 5 (15.63%) WCAG
2 3 (9.38%) QA
System Software
1 6 (18.75%) Docker
2 2 (6.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.38%) Oracle
3 2 (6.25%) Bloomberg
3 2 (6.25%) Citrix
3 2 (6.25%) Solace
3 2 (6.25%) TIBCO