OOP Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring OOP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OOP 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 1.40% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.80% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - -
75th Percentile £419 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £413 £365 £700
% change year-on-year +13.01% -47.86% +3.70%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 334 156 158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 77.86% 93.98% 72.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 94 96
10th Percentile £350 £225 £206
25th Percentile £413 £388 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -0.24% -0.94% +7.34%
75th Percentile £670 £675 £600
90th Percentile £730 £775 £644
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 26 28
10th Percentile £27.30 £16.47 £12.50
25th Percentile £51.88 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £18.51 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +210.64% -25.96% -50.74%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.81 £40.00
90th Percentile £63.38 £63.75 £51.98
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £25.15 £60.00
% change year-on-year +128.63% -58.08% -7.69%

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

OOP job vacancy trend in Somerset

OOP
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing OOP

OOP
Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing OOP

OOP
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OOP within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 18 July 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
Taunton - 6 £413 - 2
OOP
South West

OOP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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 6 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
1 6 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Git
1 6 (100.00%) JIRA
1 6 (100.00%) MSI
General
1 6 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (66.67%) Senior
2 4 (66.67%) Senior Developer
3 2 (33.33%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
1 6 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 6 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 6 (100.00%) ATL
1 6 (100.00%) COM
1 6 (100.00%) CSS
1 6 (100.00%) CSS3
1 6 (100.00%) GeoJSON
1 6 (100.00%) HTML
1 6 (100.00%) HTML5
1 6 (100.00%) MFC
1 6 (100.00%) REST
1 6 (100.00%) RESTful
1 6 (100.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 6 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) Client Onboarding
1 6 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 6 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 6 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 6 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 6 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 6 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 6 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 6 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 6 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 6 (100.00%) OWASP
1 6 (100.00%) SOLID
1 6 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 6 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 6 (100.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Bicep
1 6 (100.00%) C#
1 6 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (100.00%) Python
1 6 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 6 (100.00%) NCSC
1 6 (100.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft