OOP Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring OOP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 83 116
Rank change year-on-year +1 +33 +13
Contract jobs citing OOP 18 8 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.27% 0.60% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.42% 0.75% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 2
10th Percentile £348 £477 £538
25th Percentile £419 £492 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £548 £588 £631
90th Percentile £549 £610 £643
England median daily rate £475 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £64.00 £53.25 -
25th Percentile £66.25 £54.38 -
Median hourly rate £67.00 £57.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +16.52% - -
75th Percentile - £59.38 -
90th Percentile £70.20 £59.75 -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £45.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +48.89% -35.71% +40.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,269 1,062 1,642
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.49% 80.15% 87.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 548 422 897
10th Percentile £195 £225 £225
25th Percentile £371 £316 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £555 £600
90th Percentile £688 £650 £725
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 344 229 373
10th Percentile £13.89 £15.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £27.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% +37.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.63 £70.00 £77.20
England median hourly rate £25.15 £39.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -35.51% -12.36% +27.14%

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

OOP job vacancy trend in the East of England

OOP
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

OOP
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OOP in the East of England over the 6 months to 2 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OOP in the East of England

OOP
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

OOP
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing OOP in the East of England over the 6 months to 2 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for OOP in the East of England

OOP
Contract 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 OOP within the East of England region over the 6 months to 2 November 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire -1 12 £500 -13.04% 2
Norfolk - 4 £545 -
Cambridgeshire -2 1 £325 -34.01% 2
Suffolk - 1 £375 - 1
OOP
England

OOP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) npm
2 2 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (5.56%) AWS
3 1 (5.56%) dbt
3 1 (5.56%) Snowflake
Development Applications
1 9 (50.00%) Artifactory
1 9 (50.00%) GitLab
1 9 (50.00%) JIRA
1 9 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Law
4 1 (5.56%) Aerospace
4 1 (5.56%) Finance
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Software Engineer
2 7 (38.89%) Developer
3 5 (27.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 5 (27.78%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 4 (22.22%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (16.67%) Development Engineer
5 3 (16.67%) Software Development Engineer
6 2 (11.11%) Software Developer
6 2 (11.11%) Workday Developer
7 1 (5.56%) .NET Developer
7 1 (5.56%) .NET Software Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) Angular Developer
7 1 (5.56%) C# Software Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) CUDA Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) CUDA Software Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) Data Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (61.11%) .NET
2 10 (55.56%) .NET Framework
2 10 (55.56%) AngularJS
2 10 (55.56%) React
3 9 (50.00%) CSS
3 9 (50.00%) HTML
3 9 (50.00%) Node.js
3 9 (50.00%) Svelte
3 9 (50.00%) Vue
4 4 (22.22%) REST
4 4 (22.22%) SOAP
5 2 (11.11%) RESTful
5 2 (11.11%) Web Services
6 1 (5.56%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 10 (55.56%) Algorithms
2 9 (50.00%) Data Structures
2 9 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (11.11%) CUDA
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 7 (38.89%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) CI/CD
1 11 (61.11%) Microservices
2 10 (55.56%) Agile
2 10 (55.56%) Full-Stack Development
2 10 (55.56%) SDLC
2 10 (55.56%) TDD
3 9 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 9 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 9 (50.00%) Design Patterns
3 9 (50.00%) Software Testing
4 8 (44.44%) DevOps
5 7 (38.89%) OO
6 6 (33.33%) Software Engineering
7 3 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (16.67%) Mentoring
7 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (11.11%) API Development
8 2 (11.11%) Digital Signal Processing
8 2 (11.11%) Memory Management
8 2 (11.11%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 13 (72.22%) JavaScript
2 10 (55.56%) C#
3 9 (50.00%) C++
3 9 (50.00%) TypeScript
4 2 (11.11%) C
4 2 (11.11%) MATLAB
5 1 (5.56%) Python
5 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 5 (27.78%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 9 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Workday