OOP Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring OOP skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 107 135
Rank change year-on-year -8 +28 +19
Contract jobs citing OOP 7 20 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.40% 0.97% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 1.05% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 19
10th Percentile £550 £363 £427
25th Percentile £610 £378 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £513 £675
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -24.07% +19.47%
75th Percentile £668 £759 £788
90th Percentile £695 £925 £875
Central London median daily rate £625 £513 £650
% change year-on-year +21.95% -21.15% +15.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £38.50 -
Central London median hourly rate - £38.50 -

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,657 1,905 2,747
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.20% 92.07% 90.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,207 1,901
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £415 £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 £706
90th Percentile £763 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 17 16
10th Percentile £17.35 £15.20 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.22 £16.02
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.91% +8.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile £53.50 £78.75 £44.87
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £60.88
Central London median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -10.71% +34.62% -38.82%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for OOP 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 OOP.

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OOP in the City of London over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OOP 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 OOP.

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

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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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Amazon S3
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) GCP
2 2 (28.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (28.57%) Big Data
2 2 (28.57%) BigQuery
2 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
1 3 (42.86%) Front Office
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Python Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (28.57%) GCP Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Kafka
2 2 (28.57%) .NET
2 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET
2 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET Core
2 2 (28.57%) CSS
2 2 (28.57%) HTML
2 2 (28.57%) Node.js
2 2 (28.57%) REST
2 2 (28.57%) Vue
2 2 (28.57%) Web Services
3 1 (14.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) OO
2 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 4 (57.14%) Design Patterns
4 3 (42.86%) Agile
4 3 (42.86%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (28.57%) Analytics
5 2 (28.57%) Big Data Analytics
5 2 (28.57%) Cloud Operations
5 2 (28.57%) Continuous Delivery
5 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (28.57%) Data Analytics
5 2 (28.57%) DevOps
5 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
5 2 (28.57%) MVVM
5 2 (28.57%) Responsive Web Design
5 2 (28.57%) SDLC
5 2 (28.57%) SOLID
5 2 (28.57%) Threat Modelling
5 2 (28.57%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) C#
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) CISSP
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Progress Chef
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Google