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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 45 66
Rank change year-on-year -17 +21 0
Contract jobs citing OO 1 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 0.16% 0.27% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.31% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £538
25th Percentile £475 £525 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% -20.00%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £631
90th Percentile - - £643
East of England median daily rate £438 £225 £495
% change year-on-year +94.44% -54.55% -17.50%

All Process & 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 553 325 607
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 86.81% 87.13% 87.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 134 303
10th Percentile £194 £270 £285
25th Percentile £411 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% -1.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £604 £600 £650
90th Percentile £713 £684 £760
East of England median daily rate £475 £478 £500
% change year-on-year -0.58% -4.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 78 157
10th Percentile £16.48 £17.95 £37.91
25th Percentile £18.50 £47.50 £49.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £66.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.61% +1.54% -
75th Percentile £67.50 £75.19 £73.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.75 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £20.33 £37.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -45.80% +70.45% -

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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 14 January 2026. 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
Hemel Hempstead 0 1 £500 -9.09% 1
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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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Kimball Methodology
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification