OOP Contract Job Trends in Central London

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring OOP skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 110 138
Rank change year-on-year -9 +28 +26
Contract jobs citing OOP 8 20 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.41% 0.87% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.94% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 21
10th Percentile £564 £363 £430
25th Percentile £611 £378 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £513 £650
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -21.15% +15.04%
75th Percentile £664 £759 £788
90th Percentile £690 £925 £875
London median daily rate £614 £506 £600
% change year-on-year +21.23% -15.63% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £38.50 -
London median hourly rate - £38.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,828 2,117 2,920
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.89% 92.04% 90.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,226 1,370 2,025
10th Percentile £318 £375 £358
25th Percentile £418 £475 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £774 £787 £813
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 26 17
10th Percentile £18.96 £17.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.50 £22.28 £16.61
Median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +34.62% -38.82%
75th Percentile £50.75 £41.75 £42.32
90th Percentile £63.75 £115.00 £59.30
London median hourly rate £31.50 £35.00 £39.63
% change year-on-year -10.00% -11.67% +7.82%

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for OOP in Central London

OOP
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

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

OOP
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OOP in Central London over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OOP in Central London

OOP
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

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

OOP
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 OOP within the Central London region over the 6 months to 17 September 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 -4 8 £625 +21.95% 11
OOP
London

OOP
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 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon S3
3 2 (25.00%) Azure
3 2 (25.00%) GCP
3 2 (25.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (25.00%) Big Data
2 2 (25.00%) BigQuery
2 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
1 1 (12.50%) Cypress.io
1 1 (12.50%) Gatling
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
1 1 (12.50%) Hamcrest
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
1 1 (12.50%) JUnit
1 1 (12.50%) Postman
1 1 (12.50%) Selenium
1 1 (12.50%) Serenity BDD
1 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Front Office
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Python Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (25.00%) GCP Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Security Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Kafka
2 2 (25.00%) .NET
2 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET Core
2 2 (25.00%) CSS
2 2 (25.00%) HTML
2 2 (25.00%) Node.js
2 2 (25.00%) REST
2 2 (25.00%) Vue
2 2 (25.00%) Web Services
3 1 (12.50%) RESTful
3 1 (12.50%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) OO
2 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (62.50%) Design Patterns
4 4 (50.00%) Agile
5 3 (37.50%) DevOps
5 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Architecture
5 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (37.50%) SOLID
6 2 (25.00%) Cloud Operations
6 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
6 2 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
6 2 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (25.00%) Data Science
6 2 (25.00%) DevSecOps
6 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (25.00%) MLOps
6 2 (25.00%) MVVM
6 2 (25.00%) SDLC
6 2 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) C#
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) CISSP
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Progress Chef
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Splunk