OOP Contract Job Trends in East London

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in East London requiring OOP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 22 24
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 +11
Contract jobs citing OOP 2 1 6
As % of all contract jobs in East London 1.80% 0.89% 3.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% 0.94% 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £608 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £415 £300
Median % change year-on-year +48.19% +38.33% -40.00%
75th Percentile £623 - -
90th Percentile - - £456
London median daily rate £538 £580 £520
% change year-on-year -7.33% +11.54% -10.54%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East 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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 100 106 150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 90.09% 94.64% 97.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 88 132
10th Percentile £210 £190 £301
25th Percentile £400 £313 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £516 £521
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% -0.96% -3.47%
75th Percentile £731 £589 £596
90th Percentile £788 £706 £685
London median daily rate £550 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 2
10th Percentile £15.09 £23.33 £21.11
25th Percentile £16.44 £23.79 £21.13
Median hourly rate £18.00 £28.58 £21.80
Median % change year-on-year -37.01% +31.11% +21.83%
75th Percentile £23.02 £54.88 £23.09
90th Percentile £24.89 £84.82 £23.48
London median hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +9.38% -8.57% -12.50%

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

OOP job vacancy trend in East London

OOP
Daily Rate Trend in East London

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

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

OOP
Contract Job Locations in East 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 East London region over the 6 months to 11 September 2026. 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
Tower Hamlets - 1 - -
OOP
London

OOP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East London 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Python Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) pytest
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) NumPy
2 1 (50.00%) Pandas
2 1 (50.00%) Plotly
2 1 (50.00%) Polars
2 1 (50.00%) REST
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Bash