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

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 344 342 384
Rank change year-on-year -2 +42 -48
DemandTrendContract jobs citing OOP 169 191 242
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.61% 0.58% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.67% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 139 201
10th Percentile £303 £312 £356
25th Percentile £375 £393 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -6.18%
75th Percentile £628 £606 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 5
10th Percentile £64.38 £56.25 £65.50
25th Percentile £66.63 - -
Median hourly rate £67.00 £60.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.67% -14.29% +33.33%
75th Percentile £69.00 - -
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 -
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £60.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +11.67% -14.29% +33.33%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 25,010 28,449 38,723
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.76% 85.74% 89.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,918 18,264 26,994
10th Percentile £300 £313 £325
25th Percentile £404 £421 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £753 £756
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,465 1,500 1,379
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.80 £18.08 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% - +54.55%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.29 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.90% -4.71% +54.55%

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
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing OOP

OOP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OOP in England over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OOP in England

OOP
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing OOP

OOP
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing OOP in England over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for OOP in England

OOP
DemandTrendContract 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 28 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
London -16 83 £567 +9.04% 37
North of England -20 28 £481 -12.50% 28
South East +9 21 £475 -9.52% 33
East of England +10 17 £535 -2.73% 7
Yorkshire -1 17 £400 -40.74% 5
South West +29 10 £355 -34.86% 10
North West -15 10 £550 +12.24% 16
Midlands -9 3 £710 +38.00% 14
East Midlands - 2 £710 - 4
West Midlands -7 1 - - 10
North East - 1 - - 7
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 2 (1.18%) Apache Spark
1 2 (1.18%) Appian
1 2 (1.18%) Camunda
1 2 (1.18%) CICS
1 2 (1.18%) Confluence
1 2 (1.18%) Oracle Workflow
1 2 (1.18%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.59%) IIS
2 1 (0.59%) JBoss
2 1 (0.59%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (1.78%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (1.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.18%) OpenText MBPM
2 2 (1.18%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (1.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 52 (30.77%) Azure
2 32 (18.93%) AWS
3 16 (9.47%) Serverless
4 14 (8.28%) GCP
5 9 (5.33%) npm
6 8 (4.73%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (4.14%) Amazon ECS
7 7 (4.14%) Amazon SQS
7 7 (4.14%) Power Automate
8 6 (3.55%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (3.55%) Amazon EventBridge
8 6 (3.55%) Azure Service Bus
8 6 (3.55%) GitHub
9 5 (2.96%) Amazon EMR
9 5 (2.96%) AWS Fargate
9 5 (2.96%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (2.96%) Datadog
9 5 (2.96%) Loggly
9 5 (2.96%) PaaS
9 5 (2.96%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.73%) HTTP
2 2 (1.18%) DNS
2 2 (1.18%) tcpdump
3 1 (0.59%) FTP
3 1 (0.59%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (26.63%) Relational Database
2 18 (10.65%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (10.06%) MySQL
4 16 (9.47%) SQL Server
5 14 (8.28%) NoSQL
6 8 (4.73%) MongoDB
6 8 (4.73%) RDBMS
7 7 (4.14%) BigQuery
7 7 (4.14%) DynamoDB
8 5 (2.96%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (2.96%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (2.96%) Redis
9 3 (1.78%) Big Data
9 3 (1.78%) ClickHouse
9 3 (1.78%) KDB
9 3 (1.78%) SQLite
10 2 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.18%) DB2
10 2 (1.18%) SAP BW
11 1 (0.59%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 70 (41.42%) Git
2 22 (13.02%) JIRA
3 20 (11.83%) Jenkins
4 12 (7.10%) Visual Studio
5 11 (6.51%) GitLab
6 10 (5.92%) Bitbucket
6 10 (5.92%) TeamCity
7 9 (5.33%) Artifactory
8 8 (4.73%) Selenium
9 7 (4.14%) Maven
10 6 (3.55%) Gradle
11 5 (2.96%) Cypress.io
11 5 (2.96%) JUnit
11 5 (2.96%) SonarLint
11 5 (2.96%) SonarQube
12 4 (2.37%) HP UFT
12 4 (2.37%) TestComplete
13 3 (1.78%) Cucumber
13 3 (1.78%) Postman
13 3 (1.78%) TestNG
General
1 56 (33.14%) Social Skills
2 35 (20.71%) Finance
3 22 (13.02%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (10.06%) Banking
4 17 (10.06%) Front Office
5 13 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 11 (6.51%) Investment Banking
7 9 (5.33%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (4.73%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.96%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.78%) Law
11 3 (1.78%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.78%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.59%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.59%) Back Office
12 1 (0.59%) Digital Health
12 1 (0.59%) French Language
Job Titles
1 84 (49.70%) Developer
2 22 (13.02%) Full-Stack Developer
3 20 (11.83%) Python Developer
3 20 (11.83%) Software Engineer
4 18 (10.65%) Architect
5 12 (7.10%) Senior
6 11 (6.51%) .NET Developer
6 11 (6.51%) Technical Architect
7 10 (5.92%) C# Developer
8 9 (5.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 9 (5.33%) Technical Support
9 8 (4.73%) C# .NET Developer
10 7 (4.14%) Java Architect
10 7 (4.14%) Java Technical Architect
10 7 (4.14%) Lead
11 6 (3.55%) Senior Developer
11 6 (3.55%) Solutions Architect
12 5 (2.96%) Java Developer
12 5 (2.96%) Software Developer
12 5 (2.96%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (36.09%) .NET
2 41 (24.26%) HTML
3 40 (23.67%) CSS
4 38 (22.49%) React
5 30 (17.75%) RESTful
6 26 (15.38%) .NET Framework
6 26 (15.38%) AngularJS
6 26 (15.38%) Node.js
6 26 (15.38%) REST
7 22 (13.02%) ASP.NET Web API
8 19 (11.24%) SOAP
9 18 (10.65%) ASP.NET
9 18 (10.65%) Web Services
10 17 (10.06%) Kafka
11 15 (8.88%) Vue
12 12 (7.10%) Spring Boot
13 11 (6.51%) jQuery
13 11 (6.51%) Sass
13 11 (6.51%) Spring
13 11 (6.51%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (13.61%) Data Structures
2 22 (13.02%) Algorithms
3 18 (10.65%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (10.06%) Product Ownership
5 13 (7.69%) N-Tier
6 11 (6.51%) Cloud Native
7 8 (4.73%) Hedge funds
8 6 (3.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (3.55%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (2.96%) Fixed Income
9 5 (2.96%) Management Information System
10 4 (2.37%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (2.37%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.78%) CUDA
11 3 (1.78%) Equities
11 3 (1.78%) Virtual Team
12 2 (1.18%) DataPower
12 2 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (1.18%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 32 (18.93%) Linux
2 27 (15.98%) Windows
3 13 (7.69%) Unix
4 2 (1.18%) zOS
5 1 (0.59%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (65.09%) OO
2 80 (47.34%) Agile
3 62 (36.69%) CI/CD
4 51 (30.18%) DevOps
5 47 (27.81%) Design Patterns
6 43 (25.44%) Microservices
7 41 (24.26%) Full-Stack Development
7 41 (24.26%) Problem-Solving
8 40 (23.67%) Clean Code
9 39 (23.08%) TDD
10 34 (20.12%) Scrum
11 30 (17.75%) Software Engineering
12 29 (17.16%) Computer Science
12 29 (17.16%) SOLID
13 27 (15.98%) Test Automation
14 23 (13.61%) BDD
15 22 (13.02%) MVC
15 22 (13.02%) SDLC
16 21 (12.43%) Containerisation
17 17 (10.06%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 70 (41.42%) JavaScript
1 70 (41.42%) Python
2 59 (34.91%) C#
3 56 (33.14%) Java
4 53 (31.36%) SQL
5 29 (17.16%) C++
6 28 (16.57%) TypeScript
7 12 (7.10%) T-SQL
8 8 (4.73%) Perl
9 7 (4.14%) C
9 7 (4.14%) Go
10 6 (3.55%) Shell Script
11 5 (2.96%) Kotlin
11 5 (2.96%) Ruby
12 3 (1.78%) ABAP
12 3 (1.78%) MATLAB
12 3 (1.78%) PHP
12 3 (1.78%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.78%) XPath
13 2 (1.18%) VBA
Qualifications
1 25 (14.79%) Security Cleared
2 23 (13.61%) Degree
3 16 (9.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (9.47%) SC Cleared
4 10 (5.92%) Master's Degree
5 5 (2.96%) MCPD
5 5 (2.96%) MCSD
5 5 (2.96%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.18%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.18%) CISSP
6 2 (1.18%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.59%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.59%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.06%) QA
2 5 (2.96%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.78%) WCAG
4 1 (0.59%) HL7
4 1 (0.59%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 26 (15.38%) Docker
2 1 (0.59%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 31 (18.34%) Kubernetes
2 15 (8.88%) Terraform
3 3 (1.78%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.18%) Ansible
4 2 (1.18%) CA Endevor
5 1 (0.59%) Grafana
5 1 (0.59%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (10.65%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.10%) Oracle
3 7 (4.14%) Blue Prism
3 7 (4.14%) GoldenSource
3 7 (4.14%) ServiceNow
4 6 (3.55%) Gigya
5 5 (2.96%) Workday
6 4 (2.37%) Bloomberg
6 4 (2.37%) Reuters
6 4 (2.37%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.78%) Databricks
7 3 (1.78%) SAP
7 3 (1.78%) Virgin Media
8 2 (1.18%) Google
8 2 (1.18%) IBM
9 1 (0.59%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.59%) OpenText
9 1 (0.59%) Splunk