OO Contracts in London

Object-Oriented (OO)
England > London

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 188 175 122
Rank change year-on-year -13 -53 +5
Contract jobs citing OO 170 241 556
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.35% 1.35% 2.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.47% 1.53% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 178 375
10th Percentile £395 £400 £419
25th Percentile £500 £463 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £627 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year +0.32% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £825 £775 £809
90th Percentile £853 £875 £900
England median daily rate £540 £588 £630
% change year-on-year -8.09% -6.75% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £64.53 -
25th Percentile £60.50 £64.94 -
Median hourly rate £61.00 £66.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.92% - -
75th Percentile £61.50 £66.94 -
90th Percentile - £66.98 -
England median hourly rate £61.00 £71.00 £67.34
% change year-on-year -14.08% +5.44% +22.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for OO in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for OO in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OO in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OO in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for OO in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OO within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Central London -10 17 £500 -8.05% 34
South London +15 10 £925 +30.28% 3
East London +10 1 £538 -15.98% 6
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.76%) Apache
1 3 (1.76%) IIS
1 3 (1.76%) Jupyter
2 2 (1.18%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (1.18%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.59%) CMS
3 1 (0.59%) Confluence
3 1 (0.59%) nginx
3 1 (0.59%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (3.53%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (6.47%) BASE24
2 5 (2.94%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.18%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.59%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.59%) Oracle TCA
4 1 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 29 (17.06%) Azure
2 21 (12.35%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (8.82%) AWS
4 10 (5.88%) Apple Pay
5 7 (4.12%) Cloud Computing
5 7 (4.12%) GCP
6 5 (2.94%) GitHub
7 4 (2.35%) Amazon S3
7 4 (2.35%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.76%) Amazon Bedrock
8 3 (1.76%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (1.18%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (1.18%) Serverless
10 1 (0.59%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.59%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.59%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.59%) IaaS
10 1 (0.59%) NuGet
10 1 (0.59%) PaaS
10 1 (0.59%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.88%) ATM
2 1 (0.59%) Firewall
2 1 (0.59%) HTTP
2 1 (0.59%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.59%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.24%) SQL Server
2 13 (7.65%) Relational Database
3 10 (5.88%) NonStop SQL
3 10 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (5.29%) NoSQL
5 8 (4.71%) MySQL
6 4 (2.35%) SAP HANA
7 3 (1.76%) Big Data
7 3 (1.76%) ClickHouse
7 3 (1.76%) KDB
7 3 (1.76%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.18%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.18%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.18%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.18%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.59%) Apache Ignite
9 1 (0.59%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 35 (20.59%) Git
2 16 (9.41%) TeamCity
3 15 (8.82%) Bitbucket
4 14 (8.24%) JIRA
5 11 (6.47%) Jenkins
6 5 (2.94%) HP UFT
7 4 (2.35%) Cypress.io
7 4 (2.35%) IntelliJ
7 4 (2.35%) Maven
7 4 (2.35%) Selenium
7 4 (2.35%) TestComplete
8 3 (1.76%) Gradle
8 3 (1.76%) JUnit
8 3 (1.76%) MLflow
8 3 (1.76%) PHPUnit
8 3 (1.76%) Subversion
9 2 (1.18%) Eclipse
9 2 (1.18%) GitLab
10 1 (0.59%) Ant
10 1 (0.59%) LoadRunner
General
1 75 (44.12%) Social Skills
2 52 (30.59%) Finance
3 50 (29.41%) Front Office
4 37 (21.76%) Banking
5 35 (20.59%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (11.18%) Investment Banking
7 13 (7.65%) Back Office
7 13 (7.65%) Public Sector
8 9 (5.29%) Financial Institution
9 8 (4.71%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.18%) Electronics
11 2 (1.18%) Games
11 2 (1.18%) Legal
11 2 (1.18%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.18%) Marketing
11 2 (1.18%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.59%) Advertising
12 1 (0.59%) Local Government
12 1 (0.59%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 93 (54.71%) Developer
2 34 (20.00%) C# Developer
3 28 (16.47%) Lead
4 27 (15.88%) Senior
5 23 (13.53%) Software Engineer
6 22 (12.94%) Senior Developer
7 21 (12.35%) .NET Developer
7 21 (12.35%) C# .NET Developer
8 17 (10.00%) Python Developer
9 13 (7.65%) Electronic Trading Developer
9 13 (7.65%) Technical Leader
10 12 (7.06%) Analyst
10 12 (7.06%) C# Developer - Electronic Trading
10 12 (7.06%) Development Engineer
10 12 (7.06%) Full-Stack Developer
10 12 (7.06%) Real Time Developer
10 12 (7.06%) Software Development Engineer
11 10 (5.88%) Senior Python Developer
12 9 (5.29%) Java Developer
12 9 (5.29%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (38.82%) .NET
2 32 (18.82%) HTML
3 27 (15.88%) CSS
4 22 (12.94%) AngularJS
5 21 (12.35%) React
6 20 (11.76%) ASP.NET
7 19 (11.18%) Web Services
8 15 (8.82%) Kafka
9 14 (8.24%) Node.js
10 13 (7.65%) HTML5
11 12 (7.06%) .NET Core
11 12 (7.06%) .NET Framework
11 12 (7.06%) Reactive Extensions
12 11 (6.47%) Sass
12 11 (6.47%) Vue
13 9 (5.29%) ASP.NET Web API
13 9 (5.29%) RESTful
14 8 (4.71%) ASP.NET Core
14 8 (4.71%) LESS
14 8 (4.71%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 22 (12.94%) Algorithms
2 18 (10.59%) Enterprise Software
3 14 (8.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 14 (8.24%) Greenfield Project
4 13 (7.65%) Data Structures
5 12 (7.06%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (7.06%) Hedge funds
6 10 (5.88%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.94%) Equities
7 5 (2.94%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.76%) Credit Risk
8 3 (1.76%) Derivative
8 3 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.76%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.18%) Equity Derivative
9 2 (1.18%) Reference Data
9 2 (1.18%) Spread Betting
10 1 (0.59%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.59%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.59%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 19 (11.18%) Windows
2 17 (10.00%) Linux
3 7 (4.12%) Unix
4 3 (1.76%) Android
5 1 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (42.94%) OOP
2 64 (37.65%) Agile
3 44 (25.88%) Design Patterns
4 42 (24.71%) DevOps
5 38 (22.35%) Software Engineering
6 30 (17.65%) CI/CD
6 30 (17.65%) Clean Code
7 27 (15.88%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (15.88%) TDD
8 23 (13.53%) OOD
9 21 (12.35%) Full-Stack Development
9 21 (12.35%) Low Latency
9 21 (12.35%) Scrum
10 19 (11.18%) Computer Science
10 19 (11.18%) Electronic Trading
11 18 (10.59%) Microservices
12 17 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
13 16 (9.41%) SOA
14 15 (8.82%) Technical Leadership
15 14 (8.24%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 72 (42.35%) C#
2 65 (38.24%) Java
3 63 (37.06%) SQL
4 52 (30.59%) JavaScript
5 51 (30.00%) Python
6 28 (16.47%) C++
6 28 (16.47%) TypeScript
7 18 (10.59%) PowerShell
8 8 (4.71%) C
9 7 (4.12%) ABAP
10 6 (3.53%) PHP
11 5 (2.94%) Ruby
11 5 (2.94%) VBA
12 4 (2.35%) Kotlin
12 4 (2.35%) Scala
12 4 (2.35%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.76%) Go
13 3 (1.76%) PL/SQL
14 2 (1.18%) Shell Script
14 2 (1.18%) VB
Qualifications
1 19 (11.18%) Degree
2 13 (7.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (7.06%) Security Cleared
4 8 (4.71%) Master's Degree
5 7 (4.12%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.76%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.76%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.76%) SAP Certification
7 1 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.59%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.47%) ISO 8583
2 10 (5.88%) PSD2
3 8 (4.71%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.76%) QA
5 2 (1.18%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.18%) WCAG
6 1 (0.59%) MiFID
System Software
1 9 (5.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (4.71%) Terraform
2 6 (3.53%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.76%) Ansible
Vendors
1 27 (15.88%) Microsoft
2 24 (14.12%) Oracle
3 10 (5.88%) HP
4 9 (5.29%) SAP
5 4 (2.35%) Bloomberg
5 4 (2.35%) Reuters
6 3 (1.76%) Google
6 3 (1.76%) TOWER Software
7 2 (1.18%) Dataiku
7 2 (1.18%) DataRobot
7 2 (1.18%) ION Trading
7 2 (1.18%) Samsung
7 2 (1.18%) Spotify
7 2 (1.18%) Sybase
8 1 (0.59%) Ariba
8 1 (0.59%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.59%) OutSystems
8 1 (0.59%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.59%) Xamarin