OOP Contracts in London

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 304 263 317
Rank change year-on-year -41 +54 -34
Contract jobs citing OOP 91 242 328
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.52% 0.92% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 1.01% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 162 262
10th Percentile £385 £400 £406
25th Percentile £449 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £590 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.02% -1.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £690 £688 £775
90th Percentile £829 £804 £800
England median daily rate £550 £583 £525
% change year-on-year -5.66% +11.05% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - - £45.95
25th Percentile - - £48.88
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - -39.13% -2.06%
75th Percentile - - £68.13
90th Percentile - - £72.25
England median hourly rate £60.00 £35.00 £56.50
% change year-on-year +71.43% -38.05% -3.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,657 23,997 35,658
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.72% 90.95% 92.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,215 17,295 26,043
10th Percentile £341 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 313 273 419
10th Percentile £15.96 £18.50 £17.56
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £24.08
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% +5.41% +13.85%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.00 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.40 £81.80 £68.88
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.38% +49.28% +6.38%

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for OOP in London

OOP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for OOP in London

OOP
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OOP in London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OOP in London

OOP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for OOP in London

OOP
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OOP within the London region over the 6 months to 12 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
Central London +28 19 £500 -23.08% 4
South London +6 1 £800 +21.21%
East London -8 1 £575 +43.75% 4
OOP
England

OOP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 2 (2.20%) Apache
2 1 (1.10%) IIS
2 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (6.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.10%) AutoCAD
2 1 (1.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.20%) SAP EWM
1 2 (2.20%) SAP R/3
1 2 (2.20%) Shopify
2 1 (1.10%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 21 (23.08%) Azure
2 12 (13.19%) AWS
3 7 (7.69%) GCP
4 5 (5.49%) Amazon S3
4 5 (5.49%) Serverless
5 4 (4.40%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (4.40%) WhatsApp
6 3 (3.30%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.20%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.20%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (2.20%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (2.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (2.20%) PaaS
7 2 (2.20%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.20%) SaaS
8 1 (1.10%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.10%) GitHub
8 1 (1.10%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.69%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 11 (12.09%) NoSQL
2 11 (12.09%) Oracle Database
3 9 (9.89%) MySQL
4 5 (5.49%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (4.40%) Big Data
5 4 (4.40%) BigQuery
5 4 (4.40%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.20%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.20%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.20%) Data Mart
6 2 (2.20%) Delta Lake
6 2 (2.20%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (2.20%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.20%) Power BI
6 2 (2.20%) SAP HANA
6 2 (2.20%) Star Schema
7 1 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (12.09%) Cucumber
2 10 (10.99%) Git
2 10 (10.99%) JIRA
2 10 (10.99%) JUnit
3 7 (7.69%) Jenkins
4 5 (5.49%) Selenium
5 4 (4.40%) Maven
5 4 (4.40%) Postman
5 4 (4.40%) WebDriver
6 3 (3.30%) GitLab
6 3 (3.30%) PHPUnit
6 3 (3.30%) SoapUI
6 3 (3.30%) TestNG
7 2 (2.20%) Babel
7 2 (2.20%) CircleCI
7 2 (2.20%) Gradle
7 2 (2.20%) JMeter
7 2 (2.20%) LSMW
7 2 (2.20%) webpack
7 2 (2.20%) Zephyr
General
1 38 (41.76%) Finance
2 29 (31.87%) Social Skills
3 20 (21.98%) Banking
4 18 (19.78%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (14.29%) Investment Banking
6 12 (13.19%) Front Office
7 5 (5.49%) Back Office
7 5 (5.49%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.30%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (3.30%) Retail
8 3 (3.30%) Retail Banking
9 2 (2.20%) Law
9 2 (2.20%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 57 (62.64%) Developer
2 20 (21.98%) Java Developer
3 12 (13.19%) C# Developer
4 11 (12.09%) .NET Developer
4 11 (12.09%) Full Stack Developer
4 11 (12.09%) React Developer
5 9 (9.89%) C# .NET Developer
6 8 (8.79%) Senior
7 6 (6.59%) Lead
8 5 (5.49%) Front Office Developer
8 5 (5.49%) PHP Developer
8 5 (5.49%) Python Developer
9 4 (4.40%) Applications Engineer
9 4 (4.40%) Applications Support
9 4 (4.40%) Applications Support Engineer
9 4 (4.40%) Full-Stack C# Developer
9 4 (4.40%) Security Engineer
9 4 (4.40%) Senior Developer
9 4 (4.40%) Support Engineer
10 3 (3.30%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (35.16%) HTML
2 29 (31.87%) .NET
3 28 (30.77%) CSS
4 20 (21.98%) REST
5 16 (17.58%) React
5 16 (17.58%) Web Services
6 14 (15.38%) Vue
7 13 (14.29%) Spring
8 10 (10.99%) ASP.NET
9 9 (9.89%) .NET Framework
9 9 (9.89%) ASP.NET Core
9 9 (9.89%) JSON
9 9 (9.89%) Kafka
9 9 (9.89%) Node.js
9 9 (9.89%) SOAP
9 9 (9.89%) XML
10 7 (7.69%) Hibernate
10 7 (7.69%) J2EE
10 7 (7.69%) JPA
11 5 (5.49%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.99%) Derivative
2 9 (9.89%) Fixed Income
3 8 (8.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (6.59%) Algorithms
5 6 (6.59%) Data Structures
5 6 (6.59%) Hedge funds
6 4 (4.40%) Management Information System
6 4 (4.40%) Market Risk
6 4 (4.40%) Security Posture
7 3 (3.30%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.10%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (1.10%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.10%) Mobile App
9 1 (1.10%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (16.48%) Windows
2 14 (15.38%) Linux
3 7 (7.69%) Unix
4 6 (6.59%) Windows Server
5 4 (4.40%) CentOS
5 4 (4.40%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (4.40%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (65.93%) OO
2 43 (47.25%) Agile
3 29 (31.87%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (29.67%) Design Patterns
5 24 (26.37%) Continuous Integration
6 22 (24.18%) Scrum
7 19 (20.88%) DevOps
8 17 (18.68%) TDD
9 15 (16.48%) Web Development
10 14 (15.38%) CI/CD
10 14 (15.38%) Full Stack Development
11 13 (14.29%) BDD
11 13 (14.29%) SDLC
12 12 (13.19%) Computer Science
12 12 (13.19%) SOLID
12 12 (13.19%) Test Automation
13 11 (12.09%) MVC
13 11 (12.09%) Unit Testing
13 11 (12.09%) User Acceptance Testing
14 10 (10.99%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 42 (46.15%) SQL
2 40 (43.96%) Java
3 35 (38.46%) Python
4 32 (35.16%) C#
5 29 (31.87%) JavaScript
6 10 (10.99%) PL/SQL
7 9 (9.89%) PHP
8 7 (7.69%) Perl
8 7 (7.69%) PowerShell
8 7 (7.69%) T-SQL
8 7 (7.69%) VB
8 7 (7.69%) VBA
9 6 (6.59%) VB.NET
10 4 (4.40%) Bash
10 4 (4.40%) Shell Script
11 3 (3.30%) Ruby
12 2 (2.20%) ABAP
12 2 (2.20%) R
12 2 (2.20%) SAPscript
12 2 (2.20%) Scala
Qualifications
1 15 (16.48%) Degree
2 7 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (6.59%) Security Cleared
4 4 (4.40%) CISSP
4 4 (4.40%) Numerate Degree
4 4 (4.40%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.10%) ISEB
5 1 (1.10%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.10%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.19%) QA
2 3 (3.30%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.30%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (10.99%) Docker
2 1 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (9.89%) Terraform
2 2 (2.20%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.10%) Ansible
3 1 (1.10%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (1.10%) HP ALM
3 1 (1.10%) Puppet
3 1 (1.10%) systemd
Vendors
1 12 (13.19%) Oracle
2 11 (12.09%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.40%) Google
3 4 (4.40%) Red Hat
4 3 (3.30%) Citrix
5 2 (2.20%) Adobe
5 2 (2.20%) Databricks
5 2 (2.20%) ESRI
5 2 (2.20%) HP
5 2 (2.20%) IBM
5 2 (2.20%) ION Trading
5 2 (2.20%) SAP
6 1 (1.10%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.10%) New Relic
6 1 (1.10%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.10%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.10%) Splunk
6 1 (1.10%) Xamarin