OO Contracts in the East of England

Object-Oriented (OO)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 24 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 74 110
Rank change year-on-year -5 +36 -11
DemandTrendContract jobs citing OO 12 24 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.94% 1.54% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 1.86% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 7
10th Percentile £434 - £459
25th Percentile £465 £213 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £650
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -26.92% +25.73%
75th Percentile £548 £634 £675
90th Percentile £548 £638 £695
England median daily rate £500 £525 £625
% change year-on-year -4.76% -16.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 0
Median hourly rate £75.00 £60.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £62.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +20.97% -4.62% +18.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,134 1,291 1,671
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.08% 82.70% 87.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 503 495 934
10th Percentile £200 £195 £225
25th Percentile £363 £306 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £655 £638 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 440 348
10th Percentile £14.84 £14.81 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £31.20 £43.00 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year -27.44% +117.06% -2.17%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.20 £70.00 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +56.36%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing OO as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for OO in the East of England

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Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing OO.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing OO

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OO in the East of England over the 6 months to 24 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OO in the East of England

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Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing OO.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing OO

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DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OO within the East of England region over the 6 months to 24 August 2025. 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire +11 5 £490 -18.33% 2
Norfolk - 3 £545 - 4
Bedfordshire -10 2 £500 +5.26% 6
Essex -2 1 - - 6
Suffolk - 1 £375 - 2
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 2 (16.67%) Anypoint
1 2 (16.67%) Mule
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) GitLab
1 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) Rational DOORS
General
1 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Electronics
2 1 (8.33%) Law
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Backend Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
3 2 (16.67%) Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) .NET Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Angular Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Applications Developer
4 1 (8.33%) C# Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Developer
4 1 (8.33%) CUDA Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) CUDA Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Linux Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Principal Systems Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Programmer
4 1 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Telecoms Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Workday Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (66.67%) REST
2 5 (41.67%) SOAP
3 4 (33.33%) Web Services
4 3 (25.00%) RESTful
5 2 (16.67%) JWT
5 2 (16.67%) Kafka
5 2 (16.67%) MUnit
5 2 (16.67%) OAuth
6 1 (8.33%) .NET
6 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
6 1 (8.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) CUDA
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) OOP
2 4 (33.33%) API Development
2 4 (33.33%) TDD
2 4 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 3 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (16.67%) Agile
4 2 (16.67%) API Design
4 2 (16.67%) Batch Processing
4 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (16.67%) Data Transformation
4 2 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (16.67%) Digital Signal Processing
4 2 (16.67%) Memory Management
4 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 2 (16.67%) Migration
4 2 (16.67%) Multithreading
4 2 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) Signal Processing
4 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) Java
2 3 (25.00%) C#
2 3 (25.00%) C++
2 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (25.00%) Python
3 2 (16.67%) C
3 2 (16.67%) DataWeave
3 2 (16.67%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (16.67%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Workday
2 2 (16.67%) MuleSoft
2 2 (16.67%) Salesforce
3 1 (8.33%) IBM