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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 205 178 127
Rank change year-on-year -27 -51 -3
Contract jobs citing OO 147 243 518
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.18% 1.39% 2.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.28% 1.57% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 174 344
10th Percentile £400 £400 £419
25th Percentile £500 £468 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £620 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.84% -4.62% -
75th Percentile £838 £775 £779
90th Percentile £850 £875 £900
England median daily rate £530 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -7.83% -8.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £66.25 £90.00
Median % change year-on-year - -26.39% +75.61%
England median hourly rate - £67.00 £65.67
% change year-on-year - +2.03% +19.40%

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 11,457 15,493 23,519
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.21% 88.65% 90.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,746 11,112 16,978
10th Percentile £350 £343 £375
25th Percentile £435 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £593
Median % change year-on-year - -7.17% +3.04%
75th Percentile £688 £680 £700
90th Percentile £808 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 307 266
10th Percentile £16.17 £15.77 £18.25
25th Percentile £22.75 £20.00 £22.43
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.84 £37.17
Median % change year-on-year +22.13% -25.10% +0.46%
75th Percentile £50.75 £48.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £66.85 £82.38
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.40
% change year-on-year -21.23% +0.29% +45.58%

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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 19 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 19 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 -14 16 £569 +9.64% 53
South London +9 8 £925 +68.18% 4
West London +7 2 £402 -18.73% 10
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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 4 (2.72%) Jupyter
2 2 (1.36%) Apache
2 2 (1.36%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.36%) IIS
2 2 (1.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.68%) CMS
3 1 (0.68%) nginx
3 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.68%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (3.40%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (4.76%) BASE24
2 5 (3.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle TCA
3 1 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.68%) SAP Convergent Charging
3 1 (0.68%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.68%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 22 (14.97%) Azure
2 16 (10.88%) AWS
3 13 (8.84%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (4.76%) GitHub
5 6 (4.08%) Apple Pay
5 6 (4.08%) GCP
6 5 (3.40%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (2.72%) Amazon Bedrock
7 4 (2.72%) Amazon S3
7 4 (2.72%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (1.36%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (1.36%) Serverless
9 1 (0.68%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.68%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.68%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.68%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.68%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.68%) NuGet
9 1 (0.68%) PaaS
9 1 (0.68%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.08%) ATM
2 1 (0.68%) Firewall
2 1 (0.68%) HTTP
2 1 (0.68%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.68%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.52%) SQL Server
2 13 (8.84%) Relational Database
3 12 (8.16%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (6.12%) MySQL
4 9 (6.12%) NoSQL
5 7 (4.76%) NonStop SQL
6 4 (2.72%) SAP HANA
7 3 (2.04%) Big Data
7 3 (2.04%) ClickHouse
7 3 (2.04%) KDB
7 3 (2.04%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.36%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.36%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.36%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.68%) Apache Ignite
9 1 (0.68%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.68%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.68%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 38 (25.85%) Git
2 15 (10.20%) TeamCity
3 14 (9.52%) Bitbucket
4 13 (8.84%) JIRA
5 10 (6.80%) Jenkins
6 5 (3.40%) HP UFT
7 4 (2.72%) Cypress.io
7 4 (2.72%) IntelliJ
7 4 (2.72%) Maven
7 4 (2.72%) MLflow
7 4 (2.72%) Selenium
7 4 (2.72%) TestComplete
8 3 (2.04%) Gradle
8 3 (2.04%) JUnit
8 3 (2.04%) Subversion
9 2 (1.36%) Eclipse
9 2 (1.36%) GitLab
9 2 (1.36%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.68%) Moq
10 1 (0.68%) WebDriver
General
1 63 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 46 (31.29%) Finance
3 43 (29.25%) Front Office
4 34 (23.13%) Banking
5 32 (21.77%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (12.24%) Investment Banking
7 13 (8.84%) Public Sector
8 8 (5.44%) Financial Institution
8 8 (5.44%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.72%) Back Office
9 4 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.04%) Electronics
10 3 (2.04%) Manufacturing
10 3 (2.04%) Marketing
10 3 (2.04%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.36%) Legal
12 1 (0.68%) Advertising
12 1 (0.68%) Aviation
12 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.68%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 88 (59.86%) Developer
2 31 (21.09%) C# Developer
3 25 (17.01%) Senior
4 22 (14.97%) .NET Developer
5 21 (14.29%) C# .NET Developer
5 21 (14.29%) Senior Developer
6 19 (12.93%) Lead
7 18 (12.24%) Software Engineer
8 16 (10.88%) Python Developer
9 13 (8.84%) Electronic Trading Developer
10 12 (8.16%) C# Developer - Electronic Trading
10 12 (8.16%) Full-Stack Developer
10 12 (8.16%) Real Time Developer
11 11 (7.48%) Analyst
12 10 (6.80%) Lead Developer
13 9 (6.12%) Java Developer
14 8 (5.44%) Development Engineer
14 8 (5.44%) Senior C# Developer
14 8 (5.44%) Senior Python Developer
14 8 (5.44%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (36.73%) .NET
2 29 (19.73%) HTML
3 27 (18.37%) CSS
4 22 (14.97%) AngularJS
5 21 (14.29%) React
6 17 (11.56%) ASP.NET
6 17 (11.56%) Web Services
7 14 (9.52%) Node.js
8 13 (8.84%) Kafka
9 12 (8.16%) HTML5
9 12 (8.16%) Reactive Extensions
10 11 (7.48%) .NET Core
10 11 (7.48%) Sass
10 11 (7.48%) Vue
11 10 (6.80%) .NET Framework
11 10 (6.80%) RESTful
12 9 (6.12%) ASP.NET Web API
13 8 (5.44%) LESS
13 8 (5.44%) Tailwind CSS
14 7 (4.76%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.61%) Algorithms
2 18 (12.24%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (8.84%) Data Structures
3 13 (8.84%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (8.16%) Hedge funds
5 11 (7.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 11 (7.48%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (4.76%) Product Ownership
7 5 (3.40%) Equities
7 5 (3.40%) Fixed Income
8 4 (2.72%) Derivative
9 3 (2.04%) Equity Derivative
9 3 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (2.04%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.36%) Credit Risk
10 2 (1.36%) Reference Data
10 2 (1.36%) Spread Betting
11 1 (0.68%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.68%) Replication
11 1 (0.68%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 19 (12.93%) Linux
2 18 (12.24%) Windows
3 8 (5.44%) Unix
4 2 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.68%) Android
5 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (41.50%) OOP
2 55 (37.41%) Agile
3 40 (27.21%) Design Patterns
4 33 (22.45%) DevOps
4 33 (22.45%) Software Engineering
5 30 (20.41%) CI/CD
6 24 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (14.97%) Microservices
8 21 (14.29%) Scrum
8 21 (14.29%) TDD
9 20 (13.61%) Clean Code
9 20 (13.61%) Computer Science
9 20 (13.61%) Full-Stack Development
9 20 (13.61%) Low Latency
10 19 (12.93%) Electronic Trading
10 19 (12.93%) OOD
11 15 (10.20%) Continuous Integration
12 14 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (9.52%) SOA
13 13 (8.84%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 61 (41.50%) C#
2 57 (38.78%) Java
3 54 (36.73%) SQL
4 50 (34.01%) Python
5 45 (30.61%) JavaScript
6 28 (19.05%) C++
6 28 (19.05%) TypeScript
7 9 (6.12%) PowerShell
8 7 (4.76%) ABAP
8 7 (4.76%) C
9 5 (3.40%) PHP
10 4 (2.72%) Ruby
10 4 (2.72%) Scala
10 4 (2.72%) VBA
11 3 (2.04%) Go
11 3 (2.04%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.36%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.36%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.68%) COBOL
13 1 (0.68%) VB
Qualifications
1 20 (13.61%) Degree
2 14 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (8.16%) Security Cleared
4 8 (5.44%) Master's Degree
4 8 (5.44%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.72%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.04%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.04%) SAP Certification
7 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.68%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.76%) ISO 8583
2 6 (4.08%) PSD2
3 5 (3.40%) QA
4 2 (1.36%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.36%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.36%) WCAG
5 1 (0.68%) ISO 15022
5 1 (0.68%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.68%) MiFID
System Software
1 12 (8.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (6.80%) Kubernetes
1 10 (6.80%) Terraform
2 2 (1.36%) Ansible
Vendors
1 24 (16.33%) Oracle
2 17 (11.56%) Microsoft
3 10 (6.80%) SAP
4 7 (4.76%) HP
5 4 (2.72%) Bloomberg
5 4 (2.72%) Reuters
6 3 (2.04%) Dataiku
6 3 (2.04%) DataRobot
7 2 (1.36%) ION Trading
7 2 (1.36%) Sybase
7 2 (1.36%) TOWER Software
8 1 (0.68%) Ariba
8 1 (0.68%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.68%) IBM
8 1 (0.68%) OutSystems
8 1 (0.68%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.68%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.68%) Xamarin