OOP Contracts in the South East

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 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 194 191 219
Rank change year-on-year -3 +28 -26
Contract jobs citing OOP 7 21 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.12% 0.37% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.42% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 14 24
10th Percentile £321 £374 £189
25th Percentile £336 £406 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -27.88% +4.00% +23.08%
75th Percentile £481 £547 £525
90th Percentile £538 £568 £575
England median daily rate £545 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -5.22% +9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £45.12
25th Percentile - - £47.96
Median hourly rate - - £54.18
75th Percentile - - £58.91
90th Percentile - - £60.85
England median hourly rate £60.00 £35.00 £56.50
% change year-on-year +71.43% -38.05% -4.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,683 5,022 6,900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.99% 89.03% 89.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,708 3,452 4,710
10th Percentile £260 £250 £231
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £504 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.29% +0.70% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 451 220 272
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.21 £12.25
25th Percentile £18.26 £22.47 £15.38
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.99
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +138.80% -20.05%
75th Percentile £62.60 £65.00 £47.77
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £63.15
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing OOP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for OOP in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OOP in the South East.

Daily rate trend for OOP in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OOP in the South East over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OOP in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OOP in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for OOP in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OOP within the South East region 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
Thames Valley +16 4 £550 +4.76% 5
Berkshire -6 4 £550 +46.67% 1
Surrey +16 2 £348 - 2
Home Counties - 1 - -
OOP
England

OOP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) PaaS
2 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) SaaS
2 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (14.29%) Big Data
2 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Power BI
2 1 (14.29%) Tableau
2 1 (14.29%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) JIRA
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (14.29%) Appium
2 1 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) MSTest
2 1 (14.29%) NUnit
2 1 (14.29%) Selenium
2 1 (14.29%) SpecFlow
2 1 (14.29%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Site Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) C# Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) .NET Core
1 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
1 1 (14.29%) ARM Templates
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) RESTful
1 1 (14.29%) Spring
1 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) OO
2 5 (71.43%) Computer Science
2 5 (71.43%) Scrum
3 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (57.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 4 (57.14%) Systems Engineering
4 3 (42.86%) Data Protection
4 3 (42.86%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
6 1 (14.29%) Agile
6 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
6 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
6 1 (14.29%) ITSM
6 1 (14.29%) Mathematics
6 1 (14.29%) Service Management
6 1 (14.29%) Statistics
6 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
6 1 (14.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) C#
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 4 (57.14%) F#
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) Progress Chef
1 1 (14.29%) Puppet
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Cloudera
1 1 (14.29%) Google
1 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow