OO Contract Job Trends in Central London

Object-Oriented (OO)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring OO skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 91 102
Rank change year-on-year -21 +11 -5
Contract jobs citing OO 17 36 43
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.85% 1.54% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 1.67% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 21 37
10th Percentile £353 £363 £440
25th Percentile £503 £450 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £688
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% -5.52% -1.71%
75th Percentile £734 £825 £800
90th Percentile £845 £925 £856
London median daily rate £500 £550 £650
% change year-on-year -9.09% -15.38% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £40.00 -
London median hourly rate £57.50 £43.25 £65.50
% change year-on-year +32.95% -33.97% -9.66%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,816 2,154 2,423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.57% 92.09% 89.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,269 1,350 1,739
10th Percentile £343 £363 £359
25th Percentile £425 £465 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £670 £679 £688
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.65% -4.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 27 16
10th Percentile £19.90 £18.34 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.31 £28.32 £18.93
Median hourly rate £26.31 £35.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.84% +37.25% -37.04%
75th Percentile £37.44 £52.50 £51.31
90th Percentile £51.88 £112.00 £69.38
London median hourly rate £30.00 £36.50 £32.69
% change year-on-year -17.81% +11.65% -15.91%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

OO job vacancy trend in Central London

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Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing OO.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing OO

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OO in Central London over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OO in Central London

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Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing OO.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing OO

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OO within the Central London region over the 6 months to 21 December 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
City of London -20 15 £575 -14.18% 12
West End of London +10 1 £750 -
City of Westminster - 1 £550 -
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London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 (11.76%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (5.88%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) AWS
2 3 (17.65%) GCP
3 2 (11.76%) Azure
3 2 (11.76%) Firebase
3 2 (11.76%) GitHub
3 2 (11.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Relational Database
2 2 (11.76%) Big Data
2 2 (11.76%) BigQuery
2 2 (11.76%) MongoDB
2 2 (11.76%) MySQL
2 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
2 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (11.76%) SQLite
3 1 (5.88%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (5.88%) KDB
3 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Git
2 3 (17.65%) Jenkins
3 2 (11.76%) CocoaPods
3 2 (11.76%) Crashlytics
3 2 (11.76%) fastlane
3 2 (11.76%) JIRA
3 2 (11.76%) Xcode
4 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
4 1 (5.88%) JUnit
4 1 (5.88%) Mockito
General
1 9 (52.94%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Financial Institution
3 1 (5.88%) Front Office
3 1 (5.88%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (64.71%) Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Java Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Senior
2 3 (17.65%) Senior Developer
3 2 (11.76%) .NET Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (11.76%) GCP Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) iOS Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Python Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Security Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior iOS Developer
4 1 (5.88%) .NET Architect
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Java Software Developer
4 1 (5.88%) PHP Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Quantitative Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior PHP Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Software Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Technical Writer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) .NET
1 3 (17.65%) RESTful
1 3 (17.65%) Spring
2 2 (11.76%) AVFoundation
2 2 (11.76%) Blazor
2 2 (11.76%) Core Animation
2 2 (11.76%) Core Data
2 2 (11.76%) CSS
2 2 (11.76%) HTML
2 2 (11.76%) React
2 2 (11.76%) REST
2 2 (11.76%) RxSwift
2 2 (11.76%) UIKit
3 1 (5.88%) .NET Core
3 1 (5.88%) OpenAPI
3 1 (5.88%) PyTorch
3 1 (5.88%) scikit-learn
3 1 (5.88%) Spring Boot
3 1 (5.88%) TensorFlow
3 1 (5.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Hedge funds
2 3 (17.65%) Data Structures
3 2 (11.76%) Animation
3 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
3 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (11.76%) Fixed Income
3 2 (11.76%) Mobile App
4 1 (5.88%) Algorithms
4 1 (5.88%) Credit Risk
4 1 (5.88%) Derivative
4 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.88%) e-Learning
4 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (5.88%) Market Risk
4 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Apple iOS
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Unix
2 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Design Patterns
2 8 (47.06%) CI/CD
3 7 (41.18%) OOP
4 6 (35.29%) Continuous Integration
4 6 (35.29%) SDLC
5 5 (29.41%) Agile
5 5 (29.41%) MVC
5 5 (29.41%) OOD
5 5 (29.41%) Software Engineering
6 4 (23.53%) Analytics
6 4 (23.53%) Continuous Delivery
6 4 (23.53%) DevOps
6 4 (23.53%) Multithreading
6 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (23.53%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (17.65%) Asset Management
7 3 (17.65%) Data Science
7 3 (17.65%) Machine Learning
7 3 (17.65%) MLOps
8 2 (11.76%) Cryptography
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) SQL
2 6 (35.29%) C#
2 6 (35.29%) Java
2 6 (35.29%) Python
3 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
3 2 (11.76%) Objective-C
3 2 (11.76%) Swift
4 1 (5.88%) C++
4 1 (5.88%) PHP
4 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
4 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) CISSP
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
1 2 (11.76%) Progress Chef
1 2 (11.76%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (11.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Google
2 2 (11.76%) Apple
2 2 (11.76%) DevExpress
2 2 (11.76%) ION Trading
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) Bloomberg
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle
3 1 (5.88%) Tradeweb