OOP Contracts in the City of London

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for OOP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OOP over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 146 165
Rank change year-on-year +39 +19 -42
Contract jobs citing OOP 19 31 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.86% 0.85% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 0.93% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 13 25
10th Percentile £363 £355 £350
25th Percentile £475 £513 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £650 £565
Median % change year-on-year -21.15% +15.04% +7.62%
75th Percentile £659 £700 £625
90th Percentile £749 £868 £796
Central London median daily rate £513 £650 £565
% change year-on-year -21.15% +15.04% +7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
Central London median hourly rate - £35.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

OOP 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 the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,993 3,347 3,888
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.51% 91.82% 91.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,405 2,259 2,945
10th Percentile £359 £355 £385
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 24 41
10th Percentile £19.13 £15.33 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.03 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -13.58% +125.31%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £48.57 £88.30 £62.50
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing OOP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for OOP in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OOP in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for OOP in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OOP in the City of London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OOP in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OOP in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for OOP in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) Azure
2 5 (26.32%) AWS
3 4 (21.05%) Amazon S3
4 3 (15.79%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Functions
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (5.26%) GCP
5 1 (5.26%) Serverless
5 1 (5.26%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) NoSQL
1 5 (26.32%) SQL Server
2 3 (15.79%) MySQL
3 2 (10.53%) Oracle Database
3 2 (10.53%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Git
1 2 (10.53%) Gradle
1 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
1 2 (10.53%) Maven
1 2 (10.53%) PHPUnit
1 2 (10.53%) Selenium
1 2 (10.53%) SoapUI
2 1 (5.26%) Burp Suite
2 1 (5.26%) Cucumber
2 1 (5.26%) Cypress.io
2 1 (5.26%) GitLab
2 1 (5.26%) JMeter
2 1 (5.26%) JUnit
2 1 (5.26%) Mercurial
2 1 (5.26%) Mocha
2 1 (5.26%) Mockito
2 1 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (5.26%) Subversion
2 1 (5.26%) TestNG
2 1 (5.26%) WebDriver
General
1 9 (47.37%) Finance
2 7 (36.84%) Banking
3 6 (31.58%) Investment Banking
4 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
5 2 (10.53%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 2 (10.53%) Retail
5 2 (10.53%) Retail Banking
6 1 (5.26%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 15 (78.95%) Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Full Stack Developer
3 3 (15.79%) C# Developer
3 3 (15.79%) PHP Developer
4 2 (10.53%) .NET Developer
4 2 (10.53%) AWS Developer
4 2 (10.53%) C# .NET Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Java Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Python Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Applications Support
5 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack C# Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Lead
5 1 (5.26%) React Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior C# Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Full Stack Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior React Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (36.84%) HTML
2 6 (31.58%) .NET
2 6 (31.58%) CSS
3 5 (26.32%) Vue
4 4 (21.05%) Laravel
4 4 (21.05%) Node.js
4 4 (21.05%) REST
5 3 (15.79%) ASP.NET
5 3 (15.79%) ASP.NET Core
5 3 (15.79%) Web Services
6 2 (10.53%) HTML5
6 2 (10.53%) Kafka
6 2 (10.53%) Spring
6 2 (10.53%) Spring Boot
6 2 (10.53%) Symfony
6 2 (10.53%) Yii
7 1 (5.26%) JAX-RS
7 1 (5.26%) JPA
7 1 (5.26%) OAuth
7 1 (5.26%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Market Risk
2 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Windows
2 1 (5.26%) CentOS
2 1 (5.26%) Linux
2 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
2 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (84.21%) OO
2 7 (36.84%) Design Patterns
3 5 (26.32%) Architectural Patterns
4 4 (21.05%) Agile
4 4 (21.05%) Computer Science
4 4 (21.05%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (21.05%) Full Stack Development
4 4 (21.05%) Test Automation
4 4 (21.05%) Unit Testing
5 3 (15.79%) Clean Code
5 3 (15.79%) Containerisation
5 3 (15.79%) Event-Driven
5 3 (15.79%) Functional Programming
5 3 (15.79%) MVC
5 3 (15.79%) MVVM
5 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (15.79%) Responsive Web Design
5 3 (15.79%) SOLID
5 3 (15.79%) Wealth Management
5 3 (15.79%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) SQL
2 8 (42.11%) C#
3 6 (31.58%) JavaScript
4 5 (26.32%) Java
5 4 (21.05%) PHP
5 4 (21.05%) Python
6 3 (15.79%) T-SQL
7 2 (10.53%) PL/SQL
7 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
8 1 (5.26%) Bash
8 1 (5.26%) Bicep
8 1 (5.26%) Go
8 1 (5.26%) Jython
8 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Degree
2 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.26%) ISEB
3 1 (5.26%) ISTQB
3 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) QA
2 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (26.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Oracle
2 2 (10.53%) Citrix
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) Red Hat