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 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 85 116
Rank change year-on-year -20 +31 -31
DemandTrendContract jobs citing OO 17 35 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.93% 1.70% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 1.85% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 25 35
10th Percentile £433 £363 £461
25th Percentile £513 £425 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £525 £675
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -22.22% +3.85%
75th Percentile £700 £838 £828
90th Percentile £850 £920 £875
Central London median daily rate £631 £525 £688
% change year-on-year +20.24% -23.69% +5.85%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,730 1,890 2,895
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.23% 91.88% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,136 1,254 1,990
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £425 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £713
90th Percentile £775 £788 £820
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £598
% change year-on-year -4.35% -3.77% +3.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 16 15
10th Percentile £17.62 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.21 £19.79 £14.75
Median hourly rate £28.15 £26.63 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.73% -3.18% -36.40%
75th Percentile £50.25 £82.19 £47.41
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £62.45
Central London median hourly rate £28.79 £26.78 £35.00
% change year-on-year +7.49% -23.49% -17.65%

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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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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing OO.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing OO

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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 23 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OO in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing OO.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing OO

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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:

Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) SAP Convergent Charging
1 1 (5.88%) SAP CRM
1 1 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) Amazon S3
1 3 (17.65%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) Azure
2 2 (11.76%) GCP
2 2 (11.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) DNS
2 1 (5.88%) Ethernet
2 1 (5.88%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) Relational Database
2 3 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (11.76%) Big Data
3 2 (11.76%) BigQuery
3 2 (11.76%) KDB
3 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.88%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (5.88%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Git
General
1 9 (52.94%) Finance
2 5 (29.41%) Front Office
3 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Advertising
5 1 (5.88%) Banking
5 1 (5.88%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (64.71%) Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Python Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Senior
2 3 (17.65%) Senior Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (11.76%) GCP Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Java Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Ruby Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Security Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Ruby Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) .NET Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) CRM Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Electronic Trading Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Java Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) SAP CRM Developer
4 1 (5.88%) SAP Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) .NET
2 3 (17.65%) Kafka
2 3 (17.65%) Web Services
3 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET
3 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET Core
3 2 (11.76%) Blazor
3 2 (11.76%) CSS
3 2 (11.76%) HTML
3 2 (11.76%) Node.js
3 2 (11.76%) REST
3 2 (11.76%) Ruby on Rails
3 2 (11.76%) Spring
3 2 (11.76%) Vue
4 1 (5.88%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (5.88%) Middleware
4 1 (5.88%) RESTful
4 1 (5.88%) SAP BSP
4 1 (5.88%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Cloud Native
1 3 (17.65%) Fixed Income
1 3 (17.65%) Hedge funds
2 2 (11.76%) Algorithms
2 2 (11.76%) Data Structures
2 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (5.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (5.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Agile
1 8 (47.06%) Design Patterns
2 7 (41.18%) OOP
3 6 (35.29%) CI/CD
4 5 (29.41%) Software Engineering
5 4 (23.53%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (23.53%) Low Latency
5 4 (23.53%) OOD
6 3 (17.65%) Computer Science
6 3 (17.65%) Electronic Trading
6 3 (17.65%) Enterprise Architecture
6 3 (17.65%) Multithreading
6 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (17.65%) Technical Leadership
7 2 (11.76%) Asset Management
7 2 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (11.76%) ETL
7 2 (11.76%) MVC
7 2 (11.76%) OOA/OOD
7 2 (11.76%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) Python
2 4 (23.53%) C#
2 4 (23.53%) Java
3 2 (11.76%) ABAP
3 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
3 2 (11.76%) Ruby
3 2 (11.76%) SQL
4 1 (5.88%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (17.65%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) CISSP
3 1 (5.88%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Progress Chef
1 2 (11.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) DevExpress
1 2 (11.76%) Google
1 2 (11.76%) ION Trading
1 2 (11.76%) SAP