OO Contract Job Trends in Reading

Object-Oriented (OO)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring OO skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 79 85
Rank change year-on-year +7 +6 +7
Contract jobs citing OO 1 10 7
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.14% 1.10% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 1.19% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 7
10th Percentile - £440 -
25th Percentile - £466 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £645 £522 £500
Median % change year-on-year +23.61% +4.35% -25.93%
75th Percentile - £566 -
90th Percentile - £587 £530
Berkshire median daily rate £208 £322 £425
% change year-on-year -35.51% -24.29% -38.74%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 624 843 911
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 87.89% 92.33% 92.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 469 594
10th Percentile £350 £304 £213
25th Percentile £425 £450 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £571 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.66% +8.67% -
75th Percentile £620 £650 £615
90th Percentile £664 £687 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 7 16
10th Percentile £14.63 £27.90 £59.32
25th Percentile £58.00 £35.75 £60.99
Median hourly rate £80.50 £57.50 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -9.15% -2.63%
75th Percentile £95.00 £63.24 £66.11
90th Percentile £105.75 £68.78 £67.50
Berkshire median hourly rate £58.00 £59.00 £61.25
% change year-on-year -1.69% -3.67% +11.36%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

OO job vacancy trend in Reading

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Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing OO.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing OO

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Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing OO.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing OO

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 1 (100.00%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) Drupal
1 1 (100.00%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Refinement
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) OOD
1 1 (100.00%) SFIA
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Review
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform