OOP Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring OOP skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 88 76
Rank change year-on-year +13 -12 +50
Contract jobs citing OOP 4 2 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 0.42% 0.15% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.18% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 17
10th Percentile - - £513
25th Percentile £463 - £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.22%
75th Percentile £488 - £600
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £320 £525 £514
% change year-on-year -39.05% +2.24% +2.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 831 1,082 1,126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 86.29% 78.92% 87.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 565 674 622
10th Percentile £314 £363 £269
25th Percentile £450 £455 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £650 £718 £680
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £518
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.14% +1.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 101 114
10th Percentile - £26.25 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £52.50 £21.10
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.15% +4.27% +30.49%
75th Percentile £50.00 £75.00 £64.69
90th Percentile £62.03 £78.75 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £21.00 £57.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -63.38% +9.24% +64.53%

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for OOP in Hampshire

OOP
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing OOP

OOP
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing OOP

OOP
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OOP within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Southampton - 2 £475 - 1
OOP
South East

OOP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Relational Database
General
1 2 (50.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
1 4 (100.00%) HTML
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 4 (100.00%) ERP
1 4 (100.00%) OO
1 4 (100.00%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) SQL