OOP Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring OOP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 46 73
Rank change year-on-year -1 +27 -2
Contract jobs citing OOP 12 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 2.27% 0.84% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.46% 1.01% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £530 £538
25th Percentile £475 £538 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% -20.00%
75th Percentile £525 £613 £631
90th Percentile - £620 £643
East of England median daily rate £525 £525 £600
% change year-on-year - -12.50% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £64.00 £53.25 -
25th Percentile £66.25 £54.38 -
Median hourly rate £67.00 £57.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +16.52% - -
75th Percentile - £59.38 -
90th Percentile £70.20 £59.75 -
East of England median hourly rate £67.00 £57.50 -
% change year-on-year +16.52% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 487 395 665
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 92.06% 82.64% 88.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 152 365
10th Percentile £195 £250 £273
25th Percentile £400 £313 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year +24.24% -22.73% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £675
90th Percentile £700 £636 £775
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 94 155
10th Percentile £16.45 £15.10 £18.85
25th Percentile £18.09 £31.25 £43.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £61.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.80% -5.77% +8.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £71.88 £75.00 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £27.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -23.64% +37.50% -5.88%

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

OOP job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

OOP
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing OOP

OOP
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing OOP

OOP
Hourly Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing OOP in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 2 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for OOP in Hertfordshire

OOP
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 OOP within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 2 November 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 +7 11 - -
Hemel Hempstead 0 1 £500 -13.04%
OOP
East of England

OOP
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 (16.67%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 9 (75.00%) npm
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) dbt
2 1 (8.33%) Snowflake
Development Applications
1 9 (75.00%) Artifactory
1 9 (75.00%) GitLab
1 9 (75.00%) JIRA
1 9 (75.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Law
3 1 (8.33%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Software Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 4 (33.33%) Developer
3 4 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (25.00%) Development Engineer
4 3 (25.00%) Software Development Engineer
5 2 (16.67%) Software Developer
6 1 (8.33%) CUDA Engineer
6 1 (8.33%) CUDA Software Engineer
6 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
6 1 (8.33%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 1 (8.33%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (75.00%) .NET
1 9 (75.00%) .NET Framework
1 9 (75.00%) AngularJS
1 9 (75.00%) CSS
1 9 (75.00%) HTML
1 9 (75.00%) Node.js
1 9 (75.00%) React
1 9 (75.00%) Svelte
1 9 (75.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 9 (75.00%) Algorithms
1 9 (75.00%) Data Structures
1 9 (75.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (16.67%) CUDA
Operating Systems
1 7 (58.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 9 (75.00%) Agile
2 9 (75.00%) Computer Science
2 9 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 9 (75.00%) Design Patterns
2 9 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 9 (75.00%) Microservices
2 9 (75.00%) SDLC
2 9 (75.00%) Software Testing
2 9 (75.00%) TDD
3 7 (58.33%) DevOps
4 5 (41.67%) Software Engineering
5 3 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (25.00%) OO
6 2 (16.67%) Digital Signal Processing
6 2 (16.67%) Memory Management
6 2 (16.67%) Signal Processing
7 1 (8.33%) Analytics
7 1 (8.33%) Data Engineering
7 1 (8.33%) Kimball Methodology
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) C#
1 9 (75.00%) C++
1 9 (75.00%) JavaScript
1 9 (75.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (16.67%) C
2 2 (16.67%) MATLAB
3 1 (8.33%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 9 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (75.00%) Kubernetes