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 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 275 171 174
Rank change year-on-year -104 +3 -28
Contract jobs citing OO 258 484 644
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.93% 1.46% 1.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 1.70% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 359 471
10th Percentile £221 £328 £400
25th Percentile £387 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £538 £625
Median % change year-on-year -5.72% -14.00% +0.81%
75th Percentile £652 £713 £738
90th Percentile £838 £850 £875
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £625
% change year-on-year -4.76% -16.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 13 29
10th Percentile £61.88 £49.10 £45.88
25th Percentile £70.31 - £48.32
Median hourly rate £75.00 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -7.69% +18.18%
75th Percentile - £85.00 £71.17
90th Percentile - - £78.00
UK median hourly rate £72.50 £60.00 £59.84
% change year-on-year +20.83% +0.27% +8.80%

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 25,246 28,459 39,419
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.80% 85.86% 89.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,075 18,539 27,553
10th Percentile £300 £313 £320
25th Percentile £404 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £627 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £756 £759
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,446 1,610 1,372
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.16 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £18.25 £18.88
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £40.85
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +5.28% +54.13%
75th Percentile £50.69 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.94 £41.27
% change year-on-year -38.57% -0.80% +55.74%

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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 17 August 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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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing OO in England over the 6 months to 17 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 17 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -75 153 £625 +13.64% 209
South East -6 34 £223 -55.50% 92
North of England -32 18 £436 -10.79% 62
Midlands -23 16 £524 -4.73% 30
South West +15 15 £355 -49.29% 15
East of England -3 13 £500 - 41
Yorkshire -9 13 £463 -26.00% 19
West Midlands -24 13 £524 -4.73% 16
North West -32 5 £410 -13.68% 36
East Midlands - 3 £493 - 14
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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 5 (1.94%) Confluence
2 4 (1.55%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.55%) IIS
2 4 (1.55%) Jupyter
3 3 (1.16%) WordPress
4 2 (0.78%) Anypoint
4 2 (0.78%) Apache
4 2 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.78%) Appian
4 2 (0.78%) Camunda
4 2 (0.78%) Drupal
4 2 (0.78%) Mule
4 2 (0.78%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.39%) CMS
5 1 (0.39%) Luigi
5 1 (0.39%) nginx
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.39%) SAS
5 1 (0.39%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.16%) Simulink
2 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.78%) OpenText MBPM
2 2 (0.78%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.39%) SAP Convergent Charging
3 1 (0.39%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.39%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.39%) SAP GTS
3 1 (0.39%) SAP Travel Management
3 1 (0.39%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 64 (24.81%) Azure
2 37 (14.34%) AWS
3 20 (7.75%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (5.43%) GCP
4 14 (5.43%) Power Platform
5 12 (4.65%) GitHub
5 12 (4.65%) PowerApps
6 10 (3.88%) Serverless
7 7 (2.71%) Azure Service Bus
7 7 (2.71%) Power Automate
7 7 (2.71%) SaaS
8 6 (2.33%) Sauce Labs
9 5 (1.94%) Amazon Bedrock
9 5 (1.94%) Amazon SageMaker
9 5 (1.94%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (1.55%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.55%) Azure AKS
10 4 (1.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 3 (1.16%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (1.16%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.88%) Wireless
2 9 (3.49%) HTTP
3 6 (2.33%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.78%) DNS
5 1 (0.39%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.39%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (23.26%) Relational Database
2 27 (10.47%) MySQL
3 21 (8.14%) SQL Server
4 17 (6.59%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (5.43%) NoSQL
6 7 (2.71%) BigQuery
6 7 (2.71%) MariaDB
6 7 (2.71%) RDBMS
7 6 (2.33%) Big Data
8 5 (1.94%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (1.94%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.16%) ClickHouse
9 3 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.16%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.16%) KDB
10 2 (0.78%) NonStop SQL
10 2 (0.78%) SAP BW
10 2 (0.78%) SAP HANA
10 2 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.39%) Redis
Development Applications
1 71 (27.52%) Git
2 21 (8.14%) JIRA
3 16 (6.20%) TeamCity
4 12 (4.65%) Browser DevTools
5 11 (4.26%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.49%) Eclipse
6 9 (3.49%) Jenkins
6 9 (3.49%) JUnit
7 8 (3.10%) IntelliJ
7 8 (3.10%) Maven
8 7 (2.71%) Selenium
8 7 (2.71%) SonarQube
9 6 (2.33%) Android Studio
9 6 (2.33%) Firebug
9 6 (2.33%) Xcode
10 5 (1.94%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.94%) Cypress.io
10 5 (1.94%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (1.55%) MLflow
11 4 (1.55%) TestComplete
General
1 95 (36.82%) Social Skills
2 69 (26.74%) Finance
3 40 (15.50%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (15.50%) Front Office
4 31 (12.02%) Banking
5 24 (9.30%) Public Sector
6 14 (5.43%) Investment Banking
7 10 (3.88%) Financial Institution
7 10 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (3.49%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (3.10%) Manufacturing
9 8 (3.10%) Telecoms
10 6 (2.33%) Electronics
11 5 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.94%) Marketing
12 3 (1.16%) Law
13 2 (0.78%) Advertising
13 2 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.39%) Digital Health
14 1 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 143 (55.43%) Developer
2 29 (11.24%) .NET Developer
3 28 (10.85%) C# Developer
4 26 (10.08%) Senior
5 23 (8.91%) C# .NET Developer
5 23 (8.91%) Lead
6 22 (8.53%) Python Developer
7 20 (7.75%) Senior Developer
8 19 (7.36%) Technical Support
9 18 (6.98%) Full-Stack Developer
10 17 (6.59%) Software Engineer
11 16 (6.20%) Java Developer
12 14 (5.43%) Support Engineer
13 12 (4.65%) Architect
13 12 (4.65%) Technical Engineer
13 12 (4.65%) Technical Leader
13 12 (4.65%) Technical Support Engineer
14 9 (3.49%) Electronic Trading Developer
15 8 (3.10%) C# Developer - Electronic Trading
15 8 (3.10%) Real Time Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (28.29%) .NET
2 46 (17.83%) CSS
3 44 (17.05%) HTML
3 44 (17.05%) React
4 31 (12.02%) AngularJS
5 24 (9.30%) RESTful
6 23 (8.91%) Kafka
6 23 (8.91%) SOAP
7 21 (8.14%) XML
8 20 (7.75%) REST
9 19 (7.36%) .NET Core
9 19 (7.36%) Web Services
10 18 (6.98%) Node.js
11 16 (6.20%) ASP.NET Web API
11 16 (6.20%) Spring
12 15 (5.81%) ASP.NET
13 12 (4.65%) .NET Framework
13 12 (4.65%) JMS
13 12 (4.65%) jQuery
13 12 (4.65%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.91%) Algorithms
2 20 (7.75%) Data Structures
3 17 (6.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 14 (5.43%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (5.43%) Hedge funds
5 13 (5.04%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (5.04%) Fixed Income
5 13 (5.04%) Greenfield Project
6 12 (4.65%) Product Ownership
7 11 (4.26%) Derivative
8 7 (2.71%) Cloud Native
8 7 (2.71%) Management Information System
9 6 (2.33%) Equities
9 6 (2.33%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.55%) CUDA
10 4 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.55%) Replication
11 3 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.78%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.78%) OTC Derivatives
Operating Systems
1 49 (18.99%) Linux
2 33 (12.79%) Windows
3 30 (11.63%) Unix
4 9 (3.49%) Android
5 2 (0.78%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.39%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (45.35%) Agile
2 113 (43.80%) OOP
3 71 (27.52%) DevOps
4 65 (25.19%) CI/CD
5 56 (21.71%) Problem-Solving
6 48 (18.60%) Scrum
7 45 (17.44%) Design Patterns
8 43 (16.67%) Microservices
9 41 (15.89%) Software Engineering
10 40 (15.50%) Computer Science
10 40 (15.50%) TDD
10 40 (15.50%) Test Automation
11 39 (15.12%) Full-Stack Development
12 35 (13.57%) SOLID
13 34 (13.18%) OOD
14 28 (10.85%) Continuous Integration
15 26 (10.08%) Clean Code
16 24 (9.30%) Low Latency
17 20 (7.75%) BDD
17 20 (7.75%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 104 (40.31%) Java
2 102 (39.53%) JavaScript
2 102 (39.53%) SQL
3 97 (37.60%) Python
4 89 (34.50%) C#
5 38 (14.73%) C++
6 31 (12.02%) TypeScript
7 14 (5.43%) Perl
8 9 (3.49%) ABAP
8 9 (3.49%) Kotlin
8 9 (3.49%) Ruby
9 8 (3.10%) C
10 7 (2.71%) PowerShell
10 7 (2.71%) Shell Script
10 7 (2.71%) T-SQL
11 6 (2.33%) Scala
12 5 (1.94%) Go
13 3 (1.16%) Apex Code
13 3 (1.16%) Bash
13 3 (1.16%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 37 (14.34%) Degree
2 29 (11.24%) Security Cleared
3 28 (10.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (8.14%) SC Cleared
5 11 (4.26%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.94%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.78%) CISSP
8 2 (0.78%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.78%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.36%) QA
2 4 (1.55%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.16%) WCAG
4 2 (0.78%) ISO 15022
4 2 (0.78%) ISO 20022
4 2 (0.78%) SLA
5 1 (0.39%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.39%) HL7
5 1 (0.39%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 33 (12.79%) Docker
2 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (12.02%) Kubernetes
2 25 (9.69%) Terraform
3 4 (1.55%) Grafana
3 4 (1.55%) Progress Chef
4 3 (1.16%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.78%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.39%) HP Operations Orchestration
6 1 (0.39%) Puppet
6 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 38 (14.73%) Oracle
2 31 (12.02%) Microsoft
3 14 (5.43%) SAP
3 14 (5.43%) ServiceNow
4 12 (4.65%) Google
5 8 (3.10%) Splunk
6 7 (2.71%) Blue Prism
6 7 (2.71%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.33%) GoldenSource
8 4 (1.55%) Bloomberg
8 4 (1.55%) Reuters
8 4 (1.55%) TIBCO
8 4 (1.55%) Workday
9 3 (1.16%) Dataiku
9 3 (1.16%) DataRobot
9 3 (1.16%) IBM
10 2 (0.78%) Ariba
10 2 (0.78%) HP
10 2 (0.78%) ION Trading
10 2 (0.78%) Sybase