OO Contracts in the City of London

Object-Oriented (OO)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 97 108
Rank change year-on-year -11 +11 -11
Contract jobs citing OO 15 30 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.85% 1.37% 1.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 1.51% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 23 32
10th Percentile £388 £363 £513
25th Percentile £463 £425 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £694
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -24.32% +15.58%
75th Percentile £691 £820 £766
90th Percentile £695 £878 £849
Central London median daily rate £500 £525 £700
% change year-on-year -4.76% -25.00% +16.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,638 1,985 3,341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.28% 90.56% 91.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,037 1,404 2,250
10th Percentile £363 £356 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £809 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 25
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.35
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -15.66%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -15.66%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for OO in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OO in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for OO in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OO in the City of London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OO in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OO in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for OO in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) KDB
1 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
1 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Bitbucket
1 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (20.00%) TeamCity
2 1 (6.67%) Git
General
1 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (33.33%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Banking
3 3 (20.00%) Investment Banking
4 2 (13.33%) Front Office
5 1 (6.67%) Advertising
5 1 (6.67%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Analyst
1 6 (40.00%) Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Pensions Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Angular Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Software Engineer
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%) C++ Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) C++/C# Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Development Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Java Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Lead Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior C# Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) HTML
2 3 (20.00%) .NET
2 3 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (20.00%) HTML5
2 3 (20.00%) RxJS
3 2 (13.33%) ASP.NET
3 2 (13.33%) Web Services
4 1 (6.67%) .NET Core
4 1 (6.67%) .NET Framework
4 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (6.67%) CSS
4 1 (6.67%) Kafka
4 1 (6.67%) Node.js
4 1 (6.67%) REST
4 1 (6.67%) Spring
4 1 (6.67%) Vue
4 1 (6.67%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Credit Risk
1 3 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (13.33%) Algorithms
2 2 (13.33%) Equities
2 2 (13.33%) Reference Data
3 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
3 1 (6.67%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.67%) Fixed Income
3 1 (6.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (6.67%) Hedge funds
3 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Unix
2 2 (13.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) OOP
2 5 (33.33%) Agile
2 5 (33.33%) Low Latency
3 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (26.67%) Code Quality
3 4 (26.67%) Data Migration
3 4 (26.67%) Migration
3 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 3 (20.00%) Clean Code
4 3 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 3 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
4 3 (20.00%) Functional Programming
4 3 (20.00%) Mathematics
4 3 (20.00%) Prototyping
4 3 (20.00%) Rapid Prototyping
4 3 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
4 3 (20.00%) Sprint Retrospective
4 3 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) SQL
2 5 (33.33%) Python
3 3 (20.00%) C
3 3 (20.00%) C#
3 3 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 2 (13.33%) C++
4 2 (13.33%) Java
5 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 3 (20.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) TOWER Software
2 1 (6.67%) ION Trading
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle