OO Contracts in Hertfordshire

Object-Oriented (OO)
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 60 74
Rank change year-on-year +22 +14 -23
Contract jobs citing OO 6 8 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 1.65% 0.94% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.80% 1.08% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £465 £575 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -18.33% -7.69% +39.19%
75th Percentile £515 £625 £700
90th Percentile - - £715
East of England median daily rate £500 £600 £583
% change year-on-year -16.67% +2.92% -0.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 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 334 743 671
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 92.01% 87.51% 86.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 257 368
10th Percentile £248 £225 £260
25th Percentile £431 £313 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £413 £521
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -20.86% +4.25%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £676
90th Percentile £664 £700 £738
East of England median daily rate £500 £440 £500
% change year-on-year +13.77% -12.10% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 317 147
10th Percentile £16.95 £37.17 £18.34
25th Percentile £29.02 £39.55 £49.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £50.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £70.63 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £70.00 £87.50
East of England median hourly rate £31.64 £40.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -20.90% +90.48% +7.69%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Job postings citing OO as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for OO in Hertfordshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OO in Hertfordshire.

Daily rate trend for OO in Hertfordshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OO in Hertfordshire.

Hourly rate trend for OO in Hertfordshire

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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 1 July 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 +21 2 - - 16
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East of England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Wireless
General
1 1 (16.67%) Law
1 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Backend Developer
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Applications Developer
3 1 (16.67%) C# Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Developer
3 1 (16.67%) CUDA Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) CUDA Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Linux Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Programmer
3 1 (16.67%) Telecoms Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) CUDA
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 4 (66.67%) TDD
2 3 (50.00%) OOP
2 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (33.33%) Digital Signal Processing
3 2 (33.33%) Memory Management
3 2 (33.33%) Multithreading
3 2 (33.33%) Signal Processing
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) C#
1 4 (66.67%) C++
1 4 (66.67%) Java
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) C
2 2 (33.33%) MATLAB
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes