OOP Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring OOP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OOP 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 2.90% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.51% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £521 - -
25th Percentile £530 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 - -
75th Percentile £550 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South London median daily rate £543 £775 £500
% change year-on-year -30.00% +55.00% -33.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 114 72 87
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 82.61% 87.80% 91.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 50 51
10th Percentile £407 £308 £380
25th Percentile £493 £477 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £531 £510
Median % change year-on-year +0.71% +4.17% -2.86%
75th Percentile £555 £623 £545
90th Percentile £680 £708 £628
South London median daily rate £546 £520 £500
% change year-on-year +5.05% +4.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 4
10th Percentile £17.87 - -
25th Percentile £18.50 - £17.25
Median hourly rate £30.30 - £19.50
75th Percentile £33.60 - £35.06
90th Percentile - - £59.03
South London median hourly rate £31.95 £16.91 £19.50
% change year-on-year +88.94% -13.28% -62.64%

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OOP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

OOP job vacancy trend in Croydon

OOP
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing OOP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing OOP

OOP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 3 (75.00%) MySQL
2 3 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
1 4 (100.00%) Gradle
1 4 (100.00%) Maven
General
1 4 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
1 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) Java SE
1 4 (100.00%) RESTful
1 4 (100.00%) Spring
1 4 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 4 (100.00%) Spring MVC
2 2 (50.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) Jakarta EE
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
1 4 (100.00%) MVC
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 2 (50.00%) OO
3 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) Google