OO Contracts in England

Object-Oriented (OO)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 247 216 172
Rank change year-on-year -31 -44 -24
Contract jobs citing OO 254 404 757
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.04% 1.09% 1.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 1.25% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 302 516
10th Percentile £398 £385 £400
25th Percentile £465 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £588 £630
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -6.75% +5.00%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £750
90th Percentile £850 £825 £875
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £627
% change year-on-year -8.70% -8.22% +6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 14 15
10th Percentile - - £47.89
25th Percentile £60.50 £60.00 £51.19
Median hourly rate £61.00 £71.00 £67.34
Median % change year-on-year -14.08% +5.44% +22.44%
75th Percentile £61.50 £83.75 £70.59
90th Percentile - £85.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £71.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year -14.08% +26.22% +2.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for OO in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OO in England.

Daily rate trend for OO in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OO in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OO in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OO in England.

Hourly rate trend for OO in England

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Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London -13 170 £627 +0.32% 276
South East +30 31 £500 -3.75% 118
Midlands +29 19 £511 +13.44% 45
West Midlands +23 19 £511 +13.44% 20
North of England +5 17 £500 -1.96% 131
North West +3 14 £500 -1.96% 77
South West +3 7 £425 -38.18% 48
East of England +24 4 £490 +3.16% 46
Yorkshire +8 3 £464 -2.26% 36
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 7 (2.76%) Apache
2 6 (2.36%) CMS
2 6 (2.36%) Confluence
3 4 (1.57%) Drupal
3 4 (1.57%) WordPress
4 3 (1.18%) IIS
4 3 (1.18%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.79%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.79%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.39%) nginx
6 1 (0.39%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (2.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.39%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 11 (4.33%) BASE24
2 7 (2.76%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.79%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.79%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.39%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle TCA
4 1 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.39%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.39%) SAP GTS
4 1 (0.39%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 51 (20.08%) Azure
2 27 (10.63%) Azure DevOps
3 26 (10.24%) AWS
4 19 (7.48%) GCP
5 12 (4.72%) Power Platform
5 12 (4.72%) PowerApps
6 10 (3.94%) Apple Pay
6 10 (3.94%) GitHub
7 7 (2.76%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (2.36%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (1.57%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.57%) SaaS
10 3 (1.18%) Amazon Bedrock
10 3 (1.18%) Amazon SageMaker
10 3 (1.18%) Serverless
11 2 (0.79%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (0.79%) Azure AKS
11 2 (0.79%) Azure Stack
11 2 (0.79%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (0.79%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.94%) ATM
2 4 (1.57%) Internet
2 4 (1.57%) Wireless
3 2 (0.79%) Firewall
3 2 (0.79%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.79%) VPN
4 1 (0.39%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (11.02%) Relational Database
2 22 (8.66%) SQL Server
3 20 (7.87%) MySQL
4 16 (6.30%) NoSQL
5 13 (5.12%) SAP HANA
6 12 (4.72%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (3.94%) NonStop SQL
8 8 (3.15%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.57%) Big Data
9 4 (1.57%) BigQuery
9 4 (1.57%) Redis
10 3 (1.18%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (1.18%) ClickHouse
10 3 (1.18%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.18%) KDB
10 3 (1.18%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.79%) IDOL
11 2 (0.79%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.79%) ObjectStore
Development Applications
1 70 (27.56%) Git
2 27 (10.63%) JIRA
3 23 (9.06%) Bitbucket
4 20 (7.87%) Jenkins
5 16 (6.30%) TeamCity
6 9 (3.54%) Subversion
7 8 (3.15%) Cypress.io
8 7 (2.76%) GoogleTest
8 7 (2.76%) Rational DOORS
8 7 (2.76%) TestRail
9 6 (2.36%) HP UFT
9 6 (2.36%) Selenium
10 4 (1.57%) Bitbucket Server
10 4 (1.57%) GitLab
10 4 (1.57%) IntelliJ
10 4 (1.57%) JUnit
10 4 (1.57%) Maven
10 4 (1.57%) Postman
10 4 (1.57%) TestComplete
10 4 (1.57%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 90 (35.43%) Social Skills
2 57 (22.44%) Finance
3 50 (19.69%) Front Office
4 37 (14.57%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (14.57%) Banking
5 19 (7.48%) Investment Banking
6 18 (7.09%) Public Sector
7 13 (5.12%) Back Office
8 9 (3.54%) Financial Institution
9 8 (3.15%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.97%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.18%) Electronics
11 3 (1.18%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.18%) Marketing
12 2 (0.79%) Games
12 2 (0.79%) Legal
13 1 (0.39%) Advertising
13 1 (0.39%) Automotive
13 1 (0.39%) Law
Job Titles
1 135 (53.15%) Developer
2 44 (17.32%) Senior
2 44 (17.32%) Software Engineer
3 37 (14.57%) C# Developer
3 37 (14.57%) Lead
4 30 (11.81%) Senior Developer
5 23 (9.06%) .NET Developer
5 23 (9.06%) C# .NET Developer
6 21 (8.27%) Technical Leader
7 20 (7.87%) Full-Stack Developer
8 17 (6.69%) Python Developer
9 16 (6.30%) ABAP Developer
9 16 (6.30%) SAP Developer
10 13 (5.12%) C++ Software Engineer
10 13 (5.12%) Development Engineer
10 13 (5.12%) Electronic Trading Developer
10 13 (5.12%) Software Development Engineer
11 12 (4.72%) Analyst
11 12 (4.72%) C# Developer - Electronic Trading
11 12 (4.72%) Real Time Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (30.31%) .NET
2 49 (19.29%) HTML
3 43 (16.93%) CSS
4 40 (15.75%) Web Services
5 33 (12.99%) AngularJS
5 33 (12.99%) React
6 25 (9.84%) RESTful
7 23 (9.06%) ASP.NET
8 20 (7.87%) Vue
9 19 (7.48%) Kafka
10 17 (6.69%) REST
11 16 (6.30%) .NET Core
11 16 (6.30%) HTML5
12 15 (5.91%) BAPI
12 15 (5.91%) Node.js
13 14 (5.51%) Laravel
14 13 (5.12%) .NET Framework
15 12 (4.72%) Reactive Extensions
16 11 (4.33%) Sass
17 9 (3.54%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.06%) Algorithms
2 19 (7.48%) Enterprise Software
3 16 (6.30%) Product Ownership
4 14 (5.51%) Data Structures
4 14 (5.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 14 (5.51%) Greenfield Project
5 12 (4.72%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (4.72%) Hedge funds
6 5 (1.97%) Equities
6 5 (1.97%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.57%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.18%) Credit Risk
8 3 (1.18%) Derivative
8 3 (1.18%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.18%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.79%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.79%) Equity Derivative
9 2 (0.79%) Reference Data
9 2 (0.79%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 39 (15.35%) Linux
2 21 (8.27%) Windows
3 12 (4.72%) Unix
4 7 (2.76%) Embedded Linux
5 3 (1.18%) Android
5 3 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (42.52%) Agile
2 87 (34.25%) OOP
3 68 (26.77%) Design Patterns
3 68 (26.77%) Software Engineering
4 62 (24.41%) DevOps
5 54 (21.26%) Problem-Solving
6 53 (20.87%) CI/CD
7 45 (17.72%) Scrum
8 43 (16.93%) TDD
9 40 (15.75%) Test Automation
10 38 (14.96%) Clean Code
11 37 (14.57%) Full-Stack Development
12 32 (12.60%) OOD
13 31 (12.20%) Computer Science
14 29 (11.42%) Microservices
15 28 (11.02%) Continuous Integration
16 24 (9.45%) Multithreading
16 24 (9.45%) SOA
16 24 (9.45%) SOLID
17 23 (9.06%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 90 (35.43%) C#
2 89 (35.04%) SQL
3 84 (33.07%) JavaScript
4 80 (31.50%) Java
5 71 (27.95%) Python
6 39 (15.35%) C++
7 35 (13.78%) TypeScript
8 22 (8.66%) PHP
9 20 (7.87%) ABAP
9 20 (7.87%) PowerShell
10 9 (3.54%) C
11 7 (2.76%) Kotlin
11 7 (2.76%) Ruby
12 5 (1.97%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.97%) VBA
13 4 (1.57%) Scala
13 4 (1.57%) T-SQL
14 3 (1.18%) Go
14 3 (1.18%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.79%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 36 (14.17%) Security Cleared
2 34 (13.39%) Degree
3 26 (10.24%) SC Cleared
4 23 (9.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (4.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (3.54%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.97%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.57%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.18%) SAP Certification
10 1 (0.39%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.33%) ISO 8583
2 10 (3.94%) PSD2
3 8 (3.15%) PCI DSS
4 7 (2.76%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.97%) QA
6 2 (0.79%) WCAG
7 1 (0.39%) MiFID
System Software
1 24 (9.45%) Docker
2 1 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.39%) Firmware
2 1 (0.39%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (10.63%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.54%) Terraform
3 3 (1.18%) Ansible
4 2 (0.79%) Grafana
4 2 (0.79%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.39%) PowerCLI
5 1 (0.39%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 36 (14.17%) Microsoft
2 25 (9.84%) Oracle
2 25 (9.84%) SAP
3 15 (5.91%) Google
4 10 (3.94%) HP
4 10 (3.94%) Zend
5 4 (1.57%) Bloomberg
5 4 (1.57%) Reuters
6 3 (1.18%) TOWER Software
7 2 (0.79%) Adobe
7 2 (0.79%) Dataiku
7 2 (0.79%) DataRobot
7 2 (0.79%) ION Trading
7 2 (0.79%) Samsung
7 2 (0.79%) Spotify
7 2 (0.79%) Sybase
8 1 (0.39%) Ariba
8 1 (0.39%) Intel
8 1 (0.39%) OutSystems
8 1 (0.39%) VMware