OO Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Object-Oriented (OO)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring OO skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 94 116
Rank change year-on-year -2 +22 +13
Contract jobs citing OO 15 17 5
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.09% 1.05% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 1.19% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 9 5
10th Percentile £204 £200 £323
25th Percentile £213 £422 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £580 £350
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +65.71% -47.17%
75th Percentile £613 £582 -
90th Percentile £684 £598 £500
South East median daily rate £208 £223 £510
% change year-on-year -6.74% -56.37% -14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

OO falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,233 1,431 1,617
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 90.00% 88.77% 91.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 801 775 973
10th Percentile £313 £325 £213
25th Percentile £413 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -0.15%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £623
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £520
% change year-on-year -2.91% -0.96% +1.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 46 74
10th Percentile £14.75 £26.13 £19.64
25th Percentile £18.87 £43.69 £46.01
Median hourly rate £40.44 £59.47 £61.65
Median % change year-on-year -32.01% -3.52% +29.78%
75th Percentile £80.00 £64.73 £70.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £80.74 £75.97
South East median hourly rate £21.79 £57.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -62.11% +9.52% +20.03%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OO relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

OO job vacancy trend in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing OO.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing OO

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OO in Berkshire over the 6 months to 24 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OO in Berkshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing OO.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing OO

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OO within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 24 November 2025. 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
Windsor -7 4 £361 +80.63% 1
Bracknell - 3 £208 -
Reading +16 2 £622 +7.14% 3
Slough - 2 £596 -
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South East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) NetWeaver
2 1 (6.67%) CMS
2 1 (6.67%) Drupal
2 1 (6.67%) Jupyter
2 1 (6.67%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) SAP MDG
1 2 (13.33%) SAP MDG-F
1 2 (13.33%) SAP MDG-M
1 2 (13.33%) SAP MDG-S
1 2 (13.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (13.33%) AWS
3 2 (13.33%) GitHub
3 2 (13.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (6.67%) GCP
4 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
4 1 (6.67%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 2 (13.33%) MySQL
2 2 (13.33%) SAP Data Services
2 2 (13.33%) SAP HANA
3 1 (6.67%) Power BI
3 1 (6.67%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Browser DevTools
1 3 (20.00%) Firebug
1 3 (20.00%) Git
2 2 (13.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Developer
2 5 (33.33%) Technical Support
3 3 (20.00%) Support Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Technical Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Technical Support Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) ABAP Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Cloud Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Lead
4 2 (13.33%) Salesforce Developer
4 2 (13.33%) SAP Developer
5 1 (6.67%) .NET Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (6.67%) IT Support
5 1 (6.67%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Python Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Python Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) SAP Financial Leader
5 1 (6.67%) Senior
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) HTML
1 5 (33.33%) Web Services
1 5 (33.33%) XML
2 3 (20.00%) CSS
2 3 (20.00%) REST
2 3 (20.00%) RESTful
3 2 (13.33%) BAPI
3 2 (13.33%) jQuery
3 2 (13.33%) JSON
3 2 (13.33%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (13.33%) SAP Smart Forms
3 2 (13.33%) SOAP
4 1 (6.67%) .NET
4 1 (6.67%) .NET Framework
4 1 (6.67%) Entity Framework
4 1 (6.67%) FastAPI
4 1 (6.67%) NumPy
4 1 (6.67%) Pandas
4 1 (6.67%) Plotly
4 1 (6.67%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Client/Server
2 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
1 2 (13.33%) Unix
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) OOP
2 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (26.67%) DevOps
3 3 (20.00%) Agile
3 3 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 3 (20.00%) Unit Testing
4 2 (13.33%) Case Management
4 2 (13.33%) Data Design
4 2 (13.33%) Data Modelling
4 2 (13.33%) Microservices
4 2 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (13.33%) Requirements Gathering
5 1 (6.67%) Analytics
5 1 (6.67%) API Design
5 1 (6.67%) Backlog Refinement
5 1 (6.67%) Data Visualisation
5 1 (6.67%) Process Improvement
5 1 (6.67%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (6.67%) SFIA
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) JavaScript
2 6 (40.00%) Java
3 5 (33.33%) SQL
4 4 (26.67%) ABAP
4 4 (26.67%) Python
5 2 (13.33%) Apex Code
5 2 (13.33%) C#
5 2 (13.33%) Perl
5 2 (13.33%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.67%) Degree
3 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) SAP
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle
2 2 (13.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (6.67%) Databricks
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) Virgin Media