OO Contracts in Central London

Object-Oriented (OO)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring OO skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OO over the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 96 107
Rank change year-on-year -13 +11 -5
Contract jobs citing OO 15 32 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.77% 1.33% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 1.47% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 24 33
10th Percentile £388 £363 £513
25th Percentile £438 £425 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £519 £700
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% -25.89% +12.00%
75th Percentile £691 £775 £813
90th Percentile £695 £875 £875
London median daily rate £650 £620 £650
% change year-on-year +4.84% -4.62% -

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 1,829 2,175 3,462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.32% 90.63% 91.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,172 1,545 2,350
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £455 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.22%
75th Percentile £679 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £820
London median daily rate £550 £550 £593
% change year-on-year - -7.17% +3.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 22 29
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.22 £15.05
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.63 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -13.58%
75th Percentile £43.75 £28.98 £53.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £40.00 £88.30
London median hourly rate £34.00 £27.84 £37.34
% change year-on-year +22.13% -25.44% +2.55%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing OO as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for OO in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OO in Central London.

Daily rate trend for OO in Central London

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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 20 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OO in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OO in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for OO in Central London

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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 20 May 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 -10 14 £569 +9.64% 30
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London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) BASE24
1 1 (6.67%) SAP Convergent Charging
1 1 (6.67%) SAP CRM
1 1 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (6.67%) KDB
1 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
1 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Bitbucket
1 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (13.33%) TeamCity
2 1 (6.67%) Git
General
1 5 (33.33%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Banking
3 2 (13.33%) Front Office
3 2 (13.33%) Investment Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Advertising
4 1 (6.67%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Developer
2 5 (33.33%) Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Pensions Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Angular Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Business Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Business IT Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) C# Developer
4 2 (13.33%) IT Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) IT Business Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Lead
5 1 (6.67%) ABAP Developer
5 1 (6.67%) C++ Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (6.67%) SAP Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior
5 1 (6.67%) Senior C# Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior C++ Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) .NET
1 3 (20.00%) HTML
1 3 (20.00%) Web Services
2 2 (13.33%) AngularJS
2 2 (13.33%) ASP.NET
2 2 (13.33%) HTML5
2 2 (13.33%) RxJS
3 1 (6.67%) .NET Core
3 1 (6.67%) .NET Framework
3 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (6.67%) CSS
3 1 (6.67%) Kafka
3 1 (6.67%) Middleware
3 1 (6.67%) Node.js
3 1 (6.67%) REST
3 1 (6.67%) SAP BSP
3 1 (6.67%) SOAP
3 1 (6.67%) Spring
3 1 (6.67%) Vue
3 1 (6.67%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Algorithms
1 2 (13.33%) Credit Risk
1 2 (13.33%) Equities
1 2 (13.33%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (13.33%) Reference Data
2 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (6.67%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.67%) Fixed Income
2 1 (6.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (6.67%) Hedge funds
2 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Unix
2 2 (13.33%) Linux
3 1 (6.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) OOP
2 6 (40.00%) Agile
3 4 (26.67%) Low Latency
4 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (20.00%) Code Quality
4 3 (20.00%) Data Migration
4 3 (20.00%) Migration
4 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 2 (13.33%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (13.33%) Business Process Modelling
5 2 (13.33%) Business Strategy
5 2 (13.33%) Clean Code
5 2 (13.33%) Customer Requirements
5 2 (13.33%) Design Patterns
5 2 (13.33%) Project Delivery
5 2 (13.33%) Requirements Gathering
5 2 (13.33%) Scrum
5 2 (13.33%) Sprint Planning
5 2 (13.33%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) SQL
2 4 (26.67%) C#
2 4 (26.67%) Python
3 2 (13.33%) C
3 2 (13.33%) C++
3 2 (13.33%) Java
3 2 (13.33%) TypeScript
4 1 (6.67%) ABAP
4 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) ISO 8583
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) TOWER Software
2 1 (6.67%) ION Trading
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) SAP
2 1 (6.67%) Xamarin