OOP Contracts in Berkshire

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring OOP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OOP over the 6 months leading up to 27 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 94 110
Rank change year-on-year +6 +16 +22
Contract jobs citing OOP 7 15 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.58% 0.83% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.96% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 5
10th Percentile £271 £513 -
25th Percentile £365 £524 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £375
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +43.33% -30.23%
75th Percentile £575 £581 £388
90th Percentile £588 £596 £508
South East median daily rate £475 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

OOP 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 1,117 1,561 1,633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 92.24% 86.20% 89.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 679 808 1,037
10th Percentile £350 £313 £317
25th Percentile £413 £447 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.76% +2.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £678 £688 £719
South East median daily rate £500 £520 £515
% change year-on-year -3.85% +0.97% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 86 56
10th Percentile £14.75 £16.50 £17.17
25th Percentile £18.48 £41.25 £24.13
Median hourly rate £37.28 £61.33 £59.38
Median % change year-on-year -39.21% +3.29% +163.89%
75th Percentile £68.75 £71.75 £70.90
90th Percentile £87.43 £87.46 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £21.99 £55.04 £50.00
% change year-on-year -60.05% +10.08% +100.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for OOP in Berkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for OOP in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OOP in Berkshire over the 6 months to 27 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OOP in Berkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for OOP in Berkshire

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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 OOP within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 27 July 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
Reading +20 4 £550 -
Windsor - 2 £361 - 1
OOP
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 1 (14.29%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
1 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
2 1 (14.29%) MySQL
2 1 (14.29%) RDBMS
2 1 (14.29%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3 (42.86%) Telecoms
2 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Python Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Python Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Gen AI Developer
3 2 (28.57%) React Developer
4 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (14.29%) C# Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Developer
4 1 (14.29%) IT Support
4 1 (14.29%) Python Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Salesforce Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) REST
2 3 (42.86%) FastAPI
3 2 (28.57%) React
4 1 (14.29%) .NET
4 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
4 1 (14.29%) Entity Framework
4 1 (14.29%) HTML
4 1 (14.29%) jQuery
4 1 (14.29%) JSON
4 1 (14.29%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (14.29%) PyQt
4 1 (14.29%) Qt
4 1 (14.29%) RESTful
4 1 (14.29%) SOAP
4 1 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) Algorithms
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) OO
2 3 (42.86%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (42.86%) Design Patterns
2 3 (42.86%) Generative AI
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
3 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (28.57%) SOLID
4 1 (14.29%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Case Management
4 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 1 (14.29%) Clean Code
4 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
4 1 (14.29%) Microservices
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) Apex Code
3 1 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) Perl
3 1 (14.29%) SOQL
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Databricks
1 3 (42.86%) Virgin Media
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce