OOP Contract Job Trends in London

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring OOP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 288 273 287
Rank change year-on-year -15 +14 -32
Contract jobs citing OOP 84 123 150
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.62% 0.76% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.85% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 84 128
10th Percentile £315 £300 £400
25th Percentile £415 £370 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £506 £593
Median % change year-on-year +9.43% -14.56% -1.25%
75th Percentile £675 £608 £750
90th Percentile £813 £850 £846
England median daily rate £494 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -5.05% -5.45% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £40.00 -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £60.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +11.67% -14.29% +33.33%

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 12,492 14,475 19,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.60% 89.27% 90.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,233 9,474 13,919
10th Percentile £331 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -1.71%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £695
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 181 233
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.25 £18.03
25th Percentile £25.00 £24.18 £21.25
Median hourly rate £30.25 £36.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.12% -2.67% +5.63%
75th Percentile £47.50 £57.50 £61.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £78.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +42.26%

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

OOP job vacancy trend in London

OOP
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing OOP

OOP
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OOP in London over the 6 months to 3 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OOP in London

OOP
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing OOP

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 3 October 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
West London - 11 £350 - 4
Central London -12 10 £620 +20.98% 7
South London -9 2 £775 +55.00% 2
East London +1 1 £415 +38.33% 3
OOP
England

OOP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (4.76%) Confluence
2 3 (3.57%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.38%) Appian
3 2 (2.38%) Camunda
3 2 (2.38%) CICS
3 2 (2.38%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (1.19%) CMS
4 1 (1.19%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.19%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.38%) OpenText MBPM
1 2 (2.38%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (1.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 15 (17.86%) Azure
2 11 (13.10%) AWS
3 5 (5.95%) GCP
4 4 (4.76%) Amazon S3
4 4 (4.76%) GitHub
4 4 (4.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 3 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (2.38%) Serverless
7 1 (1.19%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.19%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.19%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.19%) Firebase
7 1 (1.19%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.19%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.38%) DNS
1 2 (2.38%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (19.05%) Relational Database
2 10 (11.90%) SQL Server
3 8 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (8.33%) MySQL
5 6 (7.14%) NoSQL
6 5 (5.95%) BigQuery
7 3 (3.57%) Big Data
7 3 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (3.57%) KDB
7 3 (3.57%) MongoDB
7 3 (3.57%) SQLite
8 2 (2.38%) DB2
9 1 (1.19%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.19%) Metadata
9 1 (1.19%) Oracle Database
9 1 (1.19%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 26 (30.95%) Git
2 12 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 7 (8.33%) JIRA
4 4 (4.76%) Bitbucket
4 4 (4.76%) Cypress.io
4 4 (4.76%) Selenium
4 4 (4.76%) TeamCity
5 3 (3.57%) GitLab
5 3 (3.57%) HP UFT
5 3 (3.57%) TestComplete
5 3 (3.57%) Visual Studio
6 2 (2.38%) Gradle
6 2 (2.38%) JUnit
6 2 (2.38%) Maven
6 2 (2.38%) Xcode
7 1 (1.19%) CocoaPods
7 1 (1.19%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.19%) Hamcrest
7 1 (1.19%) Jasmine
7 1 (1.19%) SonarQube
General
1 31 (36.90%) Finance
2 25 (29.76%) Social Skills
3 15 (17.86%) Banking
3 15 (17.86%) Front Office
4 11 (13.10%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (7.14%) Investment Banking
6 5 (5.95%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (4.76%) Financial Institution
7 4 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.38%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.19%) Back Office
10 1 (1.19%) Digital Health
10 1 (1.19%) French Language
10 1 (1.19%) Games
10 1 (1.19%) Legal
10 1 (1.19%) Marketing
10 1 (1.19%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 51 (60.71%) Developer
2 18 (21.43%) Python Developer
3 11 (13.10%) Full-Stack Developer
4 10 (11.90%) Software Engineer
5 7 (8.33%) Senior
6 6 (7.14%) C++ Developer
7 5 (5.95%) .NET Developer
8 4 (4.76%) C# .NET Developer
8 4 (4.76%) C# Developer
8 4 (4.76%) Data Engineer
8 4 (4.76%) Java Developer
8 4 (4.76%) Senior Developer
8 4 (4.76%) Technical Support
9 3 (3.57%) Analyst
9 3 (3.57%) Angular Developer
9 3 (3.57%) Automation Test Analyst
9 3 (3.57%) Automation Tester
9 3 (3.57%) C++ Software Developer
9 3 (3.57%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
9 3 (3.57%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (28.57%) .NET
2 15 (17.86%) CSS
3 14 (16.67%) Kafka
4 13 (15.48%) HTML
4 13 (15.48%) Web Services
5 12 (14.29%) REST
6 10 (11.90%) ASP.NET
6 10 (11.90%) React
7 8 (9.52%) ASP.NET Web API
7 8 (9.52%) RESTful
8 7 (8.33%) AngularJS
8 7 (8.33%) JSON
8 7 (8.33%) Node.js
8 7 (8.33%) Spring
9 6 (7.14%) .NET Core
10 5 (5.95%) .NET Framework
10 5 (5.95%) Angular 2
10 5 (5.95%) Spring Boot
11 4 (4.76%) LESS
11 4 (4.76%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.48%) Data Structures
2 8 (9.52%) Algorithms
3 7 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (7.14%) Fixed Income
4 6 (7.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (7.14%) Product Ownership
5 5 (5.95%) Cloud Native
6 4 (4.76%) Equities
6 4 (4.76%) N-Tier
7 3 (3.57%) Derivative
7 3 (3.57%) Virtual Team
8 2 (2.38%) Animation
8 2 (2.38%) DataPower
8 2 (2.38%) Hedge funds
8 2 (2.38%) Legacy Code
8 2 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (2.38%) Wiki
9 1 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.19%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 16 (19.05%) Linux
1 16 (19.05%) Windows
2 7 (8.33%) Unix
3 2 (2.38%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.38%) zOS
4 1 (1.19%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (60.71%) OO
2 38 (45.24%) Agile
3 32 (38.10%) CI/CD
4 30 (35.71%) DevOps
5 24 (28.57%) Design Patterns
5 24 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (25.00%) Scrum
7 20 (23.81%) Clean Code
8 19 (22.62%) Software Engineering
9 17 (20.24%) Computer Science
9 17 (20.24%) Full-Stack Development
10 12 (14.29%) Microservices
11 10 (11.90%) TDD
12 9 (10.71%) Collaborative Working
12 9 (10.71%) SDLC
13 8 (9.52%) Data Pipeline
13 8 (9.52%) Kanban
13 8 (9.52%) MVC
13 8 (9.52%) Test Automation
14 7 (8.33%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 42 (50.00%) Python
2 34 (40.48%) Java
3 32 (38.10%) SQL
4 27 (32.14%) JavaScript
5 25 (29.76%) C#
6 13 (15.48%) C++
7 10 (11.90%) T-SQL
8 6 (7.14%) Kotlin
8 6 (7.14%) TypeScript
9 4 (4.76%) Perl
9 4 (4.76%) PL/SQL
10 3 (3.57%) Shell Script
10 3 (3.57%) XPath
11 2 (2.38%) Go
11 2 (2.38%) Ruby
11 2 (2.38%) Swift
11 2 (2.38%) VB
12 1 (1.19%) PHP
12 1 (1.19%) SOQL
12 1 (1.19%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (19.05%) Degree
2 13 (15.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (8.33%) Master's Degree
4 6 (7.14%) Security Cleared
5 5 (5.95%) SC Cleared
6 3 (3.57%) MCPD
6 3 (3.57%) MCSD
6 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (2.38%) CISSP
8 1 (1.19%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.71%) QA
2 2 (2.38%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.19%) HL7
3 1 (1.19%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 10 (11.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (10.71%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.76%) Terraform
3 2 (2.38%) Ansible
3 2 (2.38%) CA Endevor
3 2 (2.38%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.19%) Grafana
4 1 (1.19%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (11.90%) Oracle
2 7 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.76%) Google
4 3 (3.57%) Bloomberg
4 3 (3.57%) Reuters
4 3 (3.57%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.38%) IBM
5 2 (2.38%) Splunk
6 1 (1.19%) Apple
6 1 (1.19%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.19%) Databricks
6 1 (1.19%) OpenText
6 1 (1.19%) Workday