OOP Contracts in England

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring OOP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OOP 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 380 366 348
Rank change year-on-year -14 -18 -18
Contract jobs citing OOP 105 178 342
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.43% 0.48% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.55% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 138 240
10th Percentile £354 £363 £400
25th Percentile £418 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £551 £590
Median % change year-on-year -5.67% -6.57% +12.38%
75th Percentile £690 £700 £688
90th Percentile £825 £722 £776
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £593
% change year-on-year -6.82% -7.17% +12.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 2
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - +71.43% -38.05%
UK median hourly rate - £60.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year - +71.43% -38.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 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%

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for OOP in England

OOP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for OOP in England

OOP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for OOP in England

OOP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for OOP in England

OOP
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 OOP 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 +37 89 £540 +2.08% 180
South East +45 6 £475 -13.64% 100
North of England +2 6 £463 -6.57% 115
Yorkshire +6 3 - - 22
North West +2 3 £463 -9.31% 69
Midlands +20 2 £413 -8.33% 28
West Midlands +12 2 £413 -8.33% 16
East of England +26 1 - - 23
South West +6 1 £875 +27.27% 37
OOP
UK

OOP
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 (6.67%) Confluence
2 5 (4.76%) Apache
3 4 (3.81%) CMS
3 4 (3.81%) Drupal
3 4 (3.81%) IIS
3 4 (3.81%) WordPress
4 2 (1.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (1.90%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.95%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.95%) CICS
5 1 (0.95%) nginx
5 1 (0.95%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (3.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.90%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.95%) BASE24
3 1 (0.95%) Oracle TCA
3 1 (0.95%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.95%) SAP Convergent Charging
3 1 (0.95%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.95%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 19 (18.10%) Azure
2 15 (14.29%) AWS
3 6 (5.71%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (5.71%) Azure Service Bus
4 4 (3.81%) Amazon S3
4 4 (3.81%) GitHub
5 3 (2.86%) GCP
6 2 (1.90%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.90%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.95%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (0.95%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.95%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.95%) Azure Service Fabric
7 1 (0.95%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (0.95%) Serverless
7 1 (0.95%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.81%) Internet
2 1 (0.95%) HTTP
2 1 (0.95%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (19.05%) SQL Server
2 14 (13.33%) Relational Database
3 12 (11.43%) MySQL
4 7 (6.67%) NoSQL
5 6 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.86%) ClickHouse
6 3 (2.86%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.90%) MariaDB
7 2 (1.90%) ObjectStore
8 1 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.95%) Big Data
8 1 (0.95%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.95%) DB2
8 1 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.95%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.95%) KDB
8 1 (0.95%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 38 (36.19%) Git
2 14 (13.33%) Bitbucket
3 12 (11.43%) TeamCity
4 8 (7.62%) Jenkins
4 8 (7.62%) JIRA
5 4 (3.81%) Bitbucket Server
5 4 (3.81%) Cypress.io
5 4 (3.81%) GitLab
5 4 (3.81%) HP UFT
5 4 (3.81%) Selenium
5 4 (3.81%) TestComplete
6 3 (2.86%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.86%) JUnit
6 3 (2.86%) PHPUnit
7 2 (1.90%) Postman
7 2 (1.90%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.95%) Gatling
8 1 (0.95%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.95%) ScalaTest
8 1 (0.95%) WebDriver
General
1 37 (35.24%) Social Skills
2 27 (25.71%) Finance
3 20 (19.05%) Banking
4 19 (18.10%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (18.10%) Front Office
5 18 (17.14%) Investment Banking
6 8 (7.62%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (5.71%) Financial Institution
8 4 (3.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.81%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.90%) Legal
10 1 (0.95%) Aviation
10 1 (0.95%) Law
Job Titles
1 56 (53.33%) Developer
2 21 (20.00%) Senior
3 18 (17.14%) C# Developer
4 15 (14.29%) Software Engineer
5 13 (12.38%) Senior Developer
6 11 (10.48%) Full-Stack Developer
7 9 (8.57%) .NET Developer
8 8 (7.62%) C# .NET Developer
8 8 (7.62%) Lead
9 6 (5.71%) Analyst
9 6 (5.71%) Data Engineer
10 5 (4.76%) Full-Stack C# Developer
10 5 (4.76%) Java Developer
10 5 (4.76%) Lead Developer
10 5 (4.76%) Senior C# Developer
10 5 (4.76%) Senior Data Engineer
11 4 (3.81%) Algorithm Engineer
11 4 (3.81%) Java Automation Tester
11 4 (3.81%) PHP Software Engineer
11 4 (3.81%) Software Engineer - Algorithmic Trading
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (39.05%) .NET
2 35 (33.33%) HTML
3 29 (27.62%) CSS
4 23 (21.90%) ASP.NET
5 20 (19.05%) React
5 20 (19.05%) Web Services
6 18 (17.14%) AngularJS
7 17 (16.19%) .NET Framework
8 15 (14.29%) ASP.NET Web API
9 14 (13.33%) .NET Core
9 14 (13.33%) HTML5
9 14 (13.33%) Kafka
9 14 (13.33%) RESTful
10 13 (12.38%) Node.js
11 11 (10.48%) REST
11 11 (10.48%) Sass
11 11 (10.48%) Vue
12 8 (7.62%) LESS
12 8 (7.62%) Tailwind CSS
12 8 (7.62%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 16 (15.24%) Algorithms
2 12 (11.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 11 (10.48%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (8.57%) Data Structures
4 9 (8.57%) Hedge funds
5 6 (5.71%) N-Tier
6 4 (3.81%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (3.81%) Legacy Code
7 3 (2.86%) Credit Risk
7 3 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.90%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.90%) Spread Betting
9 1 (0.95%) Equities
9 1 (0.95%) Equity Derivative
9 1 (0.95%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.95%) PKI
9 1 (0.95%) Replication
9 1 (0.95%) W3C
9 1 (0.95%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 18 (17.14%) Windows
2 16 (15.24%) Linux
3 4 (3.81%) Unix
4 1 (0.95%) Android
4 1 (0.95%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.95%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (82.86%) OO
2 46 (43.81%) Agile
3 27 (25.71%) CI/CD
3 27 (25.71%) Scrum
4 24 (22.86%) Software Engineering
5 22 (20.95%) Design Patterns
5 22 (20.95%) DevOps
6 21 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 20 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (19.05%) TDD
8 17 (16.19%) MVC
9 16 (15.24%) Continuous Integration
9 16 (15.24%) SOA
10 15 (14.29%) Clean Code
10 15 (14.29%) Unit Testing
11 14 (13.33%) Computer Science
12 13 (12.38%) Microservices
13 12 (11.43%) Test Automation
14 11 (10.48%) Web Development
15 10 (9.52%) Continuous Deployment
Programming Languages
1 45 (42.86%) C#
2 39 (37.14%) Java
3 38 (36.19%) JavaScript
4 36 (34.29%) SQL
5 31 (29.52%) Python
6 29 (27.62%) C++
7 17 (16.19%) TypeScript
8 10 (9.52%) T-SQL
9 9 (8.57%) PHP
10 6 (5.71%) Ruby
11 5 (4.76%) ABAP
11 5 (4.76%) C
11 5 (4.76%) VBA
12 3 (2.86%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.90%) Bash
13 2 (1.90%) Go
13 2 (1.90%) PowerShell
13 2 (1.90%) Shell Script
13 2 (1.90%) VB
14 1 (0.95%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 22 (20.95%) Degree
2 11 (10.48%) Security Cleared
3 10 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (7.62%) Master's Degree
5 7 (6.67%) SC Cleared
6 6 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (4.76%) MCPD
7 5 (4.76%) MCSD
8 2 (1.90%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.95%) MCAD
9 1 (0.95%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.86%) QA
2 2 (1.90%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.90%) WCAG
3 1 (0.95%) HL7
3 1 (0.95%) ISO 8583
3 1 (0.95%) MiFID
System Software
1 5 (4.76%) Docker
2 1 (0.95%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.95%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (5.71%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.86%) Ansible
3 1 (0.95%) CA Endevor
3 1 (0.95%) PowerCLI
3 1 (0.95%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.57%) Oracle
3 5 (4.76%) SAP
4 4 (3.81%) Bloomberg
4 4 (3.81%) Reuters
4 4 (3.81%) Zend
5 1 (0.95%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.95%) Databricks
5 1 (0.95%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.95%) Google
5 1 (0.95%) IBM
5 1 (0.95%) OutSystems
5 1 (0.95%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.95%) Splunk
5 1 (0.95%) VMware
5 1 (0.95%) Xamarin