OO Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Object-Oriented (OO)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring OO skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 66 59
Rank change year-on-year +4 -7 +28
Contract jobs citing OO 8 3 17
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.98% 0.42% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 0.48% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 5
10th Percentile £207 £352 -
25th Percentile £314 £353 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 £354 £650
Median % change year-on-year -5.37% -45.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £355 £355 £800
90th Percentile £430 £355 -
South West median daily rate £335 £500 £589
% change year-on-year -33.00% -15.07% -1.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 10
10th Percentile - - £69.25
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £70.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £75.00 - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +21.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 706 622 880
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 86.31% 87.98% 86.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 360 344 546
10th Percentile £263 £222 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £484 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.17% -12.05% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £610 £650
90th Percentile £725 £742 £703
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 88 117
10th Percentile £15.00 £44.05 £34.20
25th Percentile £18.87 £60.75 £56.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% +0.38% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.25 £76.25
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £29.40 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -54.78% +8.33% -7.69%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

OO job vacancy trend in Bristol

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Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing OO

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Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OO in Bristol over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OO in Bristol

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Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing OO

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) Azure
2 6 (75.00%) Power Automate
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (87.50%) Git
2 6 (75.00%) JIRA
3 1 (12.50%) CMake
3 1 (12.50%) GoogleTest
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) AngularJS
1 6 (75.00%) JMS
1 6 (75.00%) React
1 6 (75.00%) SOAP
1 6 (75.00%) XML
1 6 (75.00%) XSD
2 1 (12.50%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 1 (12.50%) OpenCV
2 1 (12.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) CUDA
2 1 (12.50%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Raspberry Pi
2 1 (12.50%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Android
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Robot Operating System
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Agile
1 7 (87.50%) OOP
1 7 (87.50%) Test Automation
2 6 (75.00%) Scrum
3 5 (62.50%) Project Delivery
4 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (12.50%) DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) Digital Signal Processing
5 1 (12.50%) Kalman Filter
5 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
5 1 (12.50%) Memory Management
5 1 (12.50%) OOD
5 1 (12.50%) Sensor Fusion
5 1 (12.50%) Signal Processing
5 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) C++
3 1 (12.50%) C
3 1 (12.50%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Blue Prism
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (75.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) NVIDIA