OOP Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring OOP skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 - 33
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OOP 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 0.51% - 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% - 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £400
South Wales median daily rate £375 - £400

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 177 173 201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 89.85% 75.88% 90.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 119 154
10th Percentile £228 £140 £204
25th Percentile £303 £200 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.29% -2.78% -6.15%
75th Percentile £501 £550 £561
90th Percentile £675 £638 £638
South Wales median daily rate £403 £412 £475
% change year-on-year -2.37% -13.21% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 10 6
10th Percentile £12.21 - £19.13
25th Percentile - £15.48 £21.25
Median hourly rate £13.08 £20.08 £24.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.86% -17.20% +34.72%
75th Percentile £17.00 £25.60 £26.38
90th Percentile £22.04 £25.79 £34.50
South Wales median hourly rate £14.61 £25.36 £26.00
% change year-on-year -42.39% -2.46% +30.00%

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for OOP in Cardiff

OOP
Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing OOP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing OOP

OOP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) BrowserStack
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) WebDriver
1 1 (100.00%) Zephyr
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cross-Browser Testing
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA