OOP Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring OOP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OOP 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 0.83% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median daily rate £575 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 205 237 248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 84.71% 94.42% 87.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 208 181
10th Percentile £340 £262 £313
25th Percentile £393 £333 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £383 £445
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -14.04% +11.25%
75th Percentile £575 £447 £550
90th Percentile £595 £525 £619
East Midlands median daily rate £468 £411 £425
% change year-on-year +13.68% -3.24% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 15
10th Percentile £20.52 £17.57 £10.90
25th Percentile - - £12.45
Median hourly rate £25.50 £21.39 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.21% +52.79% -72.55%
75th Percentile - - £38.75
90th Percentile £48.45 £38.20 £54.79
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.87 £18.87 £17.25
% change year-on-year -5.30% +9.39% -33.83%

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

OOP job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

OOP
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing OOP

OOP
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OOP within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 19 June 2026. 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
Brackley - 1 £575 -
Northampton - 1 £575 - 1
OOP
East Midlands

OOP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Python Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Rust Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Rust
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes