OOP Contracts in London

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring OOP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OOP 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 264 301 263
Rank change year-on-year +37 -38 +41
Contract jobs citing OOP 89 90 251
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.71% 0.50% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.57% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 68 167
10th Percentile £343 £363 £400
25th Percentile £410 £443 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £529 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% -11.83% -
75th Percentile £690 £690 £700
90th Percentile £825 £829 £823
England median daily rate £520 £551 £590
% change year-on-year -5.67% -6.57% +12.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
England median hourly rate - £60.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year - +71.43% -38.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 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%

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for OOP in London

OOP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for OOP in London

OOP
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for OOP in London

OOP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for OOP in London

OOP
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 OOP 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 -6 9 £450 -12.20% 32
West London - 3 £550 - 7
OOP
England

OOP
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 (4.49%) IIS
2 2 (2.25%) Confluence
2 2 (2.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (2.25%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.12%) Apache
3 1 (1.12%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.12%) CICS
3 1 (1.12%) nginx
3 1 (1.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.25%) SAP MDG
3 1 (1.12%) BASE24
3 1 (1.12%) Oracle TCA
3 1 (1.12%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (1.12%) SAP Convergent Charging
3 1 (1.12%) SAP CRM
3 1 (1.12%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 16 (17.98%) Azure
2 12 (13.48%) AWS
3 6 (6.74%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (6.74%) Azure Service Bus
4 4 (4.49%) Amazon S3
5 3 (3.37%) GCP
6 2 (2.25%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.25%) GitHub
7 1 (1.12%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (1.12%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.12%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.12%) Azure Service Fabric
7 1 (1.12%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (1.12%) Serverless
7 1 (1.12%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.12%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (16.85%) SQL Server
2 10 (11.24%) Relational Database
3 7 (7.87%) MySQL
3 7 (7.87%) NoSQL
4 6 (6.74%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.37%) ClickHouse
5 3 (3.37%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.25%) MariaDB
7 1 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.12%) Big Data
7 1 (1.12%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.12%) DB2
7 1 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.12%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.12%) KDB
7 1 (1.12%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 27 (30.34%) Git
2 13 (14.61%) Bitbucket
3 12 (13.48%) TeamCity
4 8 (8.99%) Jenkins
5 4 (4.49%) Cypress.io
5 4 (4.49%) HP UFT
5 4 (4.49%) Selenium
5 4 (4.49%) TestComplete
6 3 (3.37%) JIRA
6 3 (3.37%) JUnit
6 3 (3.37%) PHPUnit
7 2 (2.25%) GitLab
8 1 (1.12%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.12%) Gatling
8 1 (1.12%) JMeter
8 1 (1.12%) Mockito
8 1 (1.12%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (1.12%) ScalaTest
8 1 (1.12%) Visual Studio
8 1 (1.12%) WebDriver
General
1 35 (39.33%) Social Skills
2 27 (30.34%) Finance
3 20 (22.47%) Banking
4 19 (21.35%) Front Office
5 18 (20.22%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (20.22%) Investment Banking
6 8 (8.99%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (6.74%) Financial Institution
8 4 (4.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (4.49%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.25%) Legal
10 1 (1.12%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 51 (57.30%) Developer
2 18 (20.22%) C# Developer
3 16 (17.98%) Senior
4 11 (12.36%) Full-Stack Developer
4 11 (12.36%) Senior Developer
5 9 (10.11%) .NET Developer
5 9 (10.11%) Software Engineer
6 8 (8.99%) C# .NET Developer
6 8 (8.99%) Lead
7 6 (6.74%) Analyst
7 6 (6.74%) Data Engineer
8 5 (5.62%) Full-Stack C# Developer
8 5 (5.62%) Java Developer
8 5 (5.62%) Lead Developer
8 5 (5.62%) Senior C# Developer
8 5 (5.62%) Senior Data Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Algorithm Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Java Automation Tester
9 4 (4.49%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
9 4 (4.49%) Software Engineer - Algorithmic Trading
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (44.94%) .NET
2 28 (31.46%) HTML
3 23 (25.84%) ASP.NET
4 22 (24.72%) CSS
5 16 (17.98%) .NET Framework
5 16 (17.98%) React
6 15 (16.85%) ASP.NET Web API
6 15 (16.85%) Web Services
7 14 (15.73%) HTML5
7 14 (15.73%) Kafka
8 13 (14.61%) .NET Core
8 13 (14.61%) Node.js
9 11 (12.36%) AngularJS
9 11 (12.36%) Sass
10 9 (10.11%) REST
10 9 (10.11%) RESTful
10 9 (10.11%) Vue
11 8 (8.99%) LESS
11 8 (8.99%) Tailwind CSS
11 8 (8.99%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 16 (17.98%) Algorithms
2 12 (13.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 11 (12.36%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (10.11%) Data Structures
4 9 (10.11%) Hedge funds
5 6 (6.74%) N-Tier
6 4 (4.49%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (3.37%) Credit Risk
7 3 (3.37%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (2.25%) Fixed Income
8 2 (2.25%) Spread Betting
9 1 (1.12%) DataPower
9 1 (1.12%) Equities
9 1 (1.12%) Equity Derivative
9 1 (1.12%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.12%) PKI
9 1 (1.12%) Replication
9 1 (1.12%) W3C
9 1 (1.12%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 18 (20.22%) Windows
2 10 (11.24%) Linux
3 1 (1.12%) Android
3 1 (1.12%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (82.02%) OO
2 38 (42.70%) Agile
3 25 (28.09%) CI/CD
4 22 (24.72%) DevOps
4 22 (24.72%) Scrum
5 18 (20.22%) Design Patterns
5 18 (20.22%) Full-Stack Development
5 18 (20.22%) Software Engineering
6 16 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (17.98%) SOA
7 15 (16.85%) Clean Code
7 15 (16.85%) TDD
8 14 (15.73%) Continuous Integration
9 13 (14.61%) Computer Science
9 13 (14.61%) Microservices
9 13 (14.61%) MVC
9 13 (14.61%) Unit Testing
10 11 (12.36%) Web Development
11 9 (10.11%) Algorithmic Trading
11 9 (10.11%) Market Making
Programming Languages
1 44 (49.44%) C#
2 34 (38.20%) Java
2 34 (38.20%) SQL
3 29 (32.58%) JavaScript
4 26 (29.21%) C++
4 26 (29.21%) Python
5 15 (16.85%) TypeScript
6 10 (11.24%) T-SQL
7 5 (5.62%) C
7 5 (5.62%) PHP
7 5 (5.62%) VBA
8 4 (4.49%) ABAP
8 4 (4.49%) Ruby
9 3 (3.37%) PL/SQL
10 2 (2.25%) Go
10 2 (2.25%) Shell Script
10 2 (2.25%) VB
11 1 (1.12%) Apex Code
11 1 (1.12%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.12%) XPath
Qualifications
1 19 (21.35%) Degree
2 9 (10.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (8.99%) Security Cleared
4 7 (7.87%) Master's Degree
5 6 (6.74%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (6.74%) SC Cleared
6 5 (5.62%) MCPD
6 5 (5.62%) MCSD
7 2 (2.25%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.12%) MCAD
8 1 (1.12%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.25%) Accessibility
1 2 (2.25%) WCAG
2 1 (1.12%) HL7
2 1 (1.12%) ISO 8583
2 1 (1.12%) MiFID
2 1 (1.12%) QA
System Software
1 4 (4.49%) Docker
2 1 (1.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (3.37%) Ansible
1 3 (3.37%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.12%) CA Endevor
2 1 (1.12%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (11.24%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.11%) Oracle
3 4 (4.49%) Bloomberg
3 4 (4.49%) Reuters
3 4 (4.49%) SAP
4 1 (1.12%) Databricks
4 1 (1.12%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.12%) Google
4 1 (1.12%) IBM
4 1 (1.12%) OutSystems
4 1 (1.12%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.12%) Splunk
4 1 (1.12%) Xamarin