OO Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Object-Oriented (OO)
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring OO skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 44 69
Rank change year-on-year -9 +25 -8
Contract jobs citing OO 3 5 5
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 0.60% 0.97% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 1.16% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - £530 £565
25th Percentile £475 £538 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -11.54% -13.33%
75th Percentile £525 £613 £675
90th Percentile - £620 £705
East of England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £75.00 £60.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - -
East of England median hourly rate £75.00 £60.00 -
% change year-on-year +25.00% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 461 432 665
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 92.38% 83.56% 88.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 159 363
10th Percentile £194 £240 £273
25th Percentile £400 £313 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year +24.24% -22.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £583 £575 £681
90th Percentile £700 £628 £775
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 108 152
10th Percentile £16.45 £15.10 £17.75
25th Percentile £18.40 £35.00 £42.25
Median hourly rate £43.00 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.33% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £65.13 £65.00 £72.81
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £21.14 £27.67 £19.81
% change year-on-year -23.60% +39.68% -5.67%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OO relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

OO job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing OO.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing OO

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Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing OO.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing OO

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Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OO within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 20 October 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
Stevenage -3 2 - -
Hemel Hempstead +2 1 £500 -13.04% 2
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East of England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) dbt
1 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
General
1 1 (33.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) CUDA Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) CUDA Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Snowflake Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) CUDA
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (100.00%) OOP
2 2 (66.67%) Digital Signal Processing
2 2 (66.67%) Memory Management
2 2 (66.67%) Signal Processing
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Kimball Methodology
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C
1 2 (66.67%) C++
1 2 (66.67%) MATLAB
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification