OO Contracts in the South East

Object-Oriented (OO)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for OO skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OO over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 157 160 197
Rank change year-on-year +3 +37 -73
Contract jobs citing OO 47 64 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.84% 1.09% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 1.22% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 51 47
10th Percentile £356 £425 £356
25th Percentile £494 £511 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.42% +20.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £575 £627 £525
90th Percentile £625 £675 £643
England median daily rate £600 £628 £600
% change year-on-year -4.46% +4.67% +20.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £74.00 - -
25th Percentile £76.25 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £50.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £71.00 £67.34 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.44% +22.44% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

OO is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,752 5,254 6,998
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 85.22% 89.52% 89.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,779 3,636 4,730
10th Percentile £229 £250 £226
25th Percentile £400 £405 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £615 £588
90th Percentile £699 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 221 290
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.25 £12.25
25th Percentile £18.26 £23.15 £16.25
Median hourly rate £46.87 £50.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.26% +122.22% -11.76%
75th Percentile £62.48 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.79 £63.80
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +56.25% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing OO as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for OO in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OO in the South East.

Daily rate trend for OO in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OO in the South East over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OO in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OO in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for OO in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OO within the South East region over the 6 months to 23 April 2024. 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
Hampshire +3 18 £543 -3.47% 11
Thames Valley -8 14 £500 -16.67% 18
Berkshire -5 12 £500 +11.11% 10
Surrey +10 9 £513 -1.44% 5
West Sussex - 3 £550 - 7
Buckinghamshire +11 2 £600 -7.69% 6
M4 Corridor - 2 £510 -
Home Counties - 1 - -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (2.13%) Apache
1 1 (2.13%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (6.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (4.26%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (27.66%) Azure
2 10 (21.28%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (12.77%) Azure Functions
3 6 (12.77%) Azure Logic Apps
3 6 (12.77%) Serverless
4 5 (10.64%) Azure API Management
4 5 (10.64%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (6.38%) Azure Key Vault
5 3 (6.38%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (6.38%) PaaS
6 2 (4.26%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (4.26%) GitHub
7 1 (2.13%) AWS
7 1 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.13%) Figma
7 1 (2.13%) GCP
7 1 (2.13%) npm
7 1 (2.13%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.13%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.38%) BGP
1 3 (6.38%) Cisco IOS
1 3 (6.38%) IOS XR
1 3 (6.38%) Link 16
1 3 (6.38%) Tactical Data Link
2 2 (4.26%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.13%) NFC
3 1 (2.13%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (27.66%) SQL Server
2 5 (10.64%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (10.64%) Relational Database
3 4 (8.51%) NoSQL
4 3 (6.38%) Geospatial Data
4 3 (6.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (4.26%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (4.26%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
5 2 (4.26%) Lumira
5 2 (4.26%) SAP BW
6 1 (2.13%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 7 (14.89%) Git
2 6 (12.77%) Jenkins
2 6 (12.77%) JIRA
3 5 (10.64%) Rational DOORS
3 5 (10.64%) Visual Studio
4 4 (8.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (6.38%) ClearCase
5 3 (6.38%) ClearQuest
6 2 (4.26%) Bitbucket
6 2 (4.26%) NUnit
6 2 (4.26%) Postman
7 1 (2.13%) Appium
7 1 (2.13%) GitLab
7 1 (2.13%) GoogleTest
7 1 (2.13%) MSTest
7 1 (2.13%) Rational Rhapsody
7 1 (2.13%) SpecFlow
7 1 (2.13%) TestRail
7 1 (2.13%) Valgrind
7 1 (2.13%) webpack
General
1 15 (31.91%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.64%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.26%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.13%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.13%) Finance
Job Titles
1 17 (36.17%) Developer
2 16 (34.04%) Software Engineer
3 11 (23.40%) Senior
3 11 (23.40%) Senior Software Engineer
4 5 (10.64%) C++ Software Engineer
4 5 (10.64%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Automation Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) C++ Developer
5 4 (8.51%) Site Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Software Developer
6 3 (6.38%) Azure Developer
6 3 (6.38%) C# Software Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Network Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Senior Linux Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) C# Developer
7 2 (4.26%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) SAP Developer
7 2 (4.26%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (23.40%) .NET
2 10 (21.28%) REST
3 9 (19.15%) JSON
4 6 (12.77%) XML
5 5 (10.64%) SOAP
6 4 (8.51%) ARM Templates
6 4 (8.51%) ASP.NET
6 4 (8.51%) RESTful
7 3 (6.38%) CSS
7 3 (6.38%) Django
7 3 (6.38%) OAuth
7 3 (6.38%) OpenID
7 3 (6.38%) YANG
8 2 (4.26%) 802.1X
8 2 (4.26%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (4.26%) HTML
8 2 (4.26%) OpenAPI
8 2 (4.26%) React
8 2 (4.26%) Swagger
9 1 (2.13%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.38%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (6.38%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (6.38%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (6.38%) Linux Command Line
1 3 (6.38%) Management Information System
1 3 (6.38%) Public Cloud
2 2 (4.26%) CMDB
2 2 (4.26%) IoT
2 2 (4.26%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.13%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.13%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.13%) Smartcard
3 1 (2.13%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 21 (44.68%) Linux
2 11 (23.40%) Windows
3 4 (8.51%) Embedded Linux
4 3 (6.38%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.13%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.13%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (53.19%) Scrum
2 22 (46.81%) Agile
3 20 (42.55%) Software Engineering
4 16 (34.04%) Kanban
5 15 (31.91%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (27.66%) SOLID
7 12 (25.53%) OOD
8 11 (23.40%) CI/CD
8 11 (23.40%) DevOps
8 11 (23.40%) Mentoring
9 8 (17.02%) Computer Science
9 8 (17.02%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (17.02%) Unit Testing
10 7 (14.89%) Acceptance Criteria
11 6 (12.77%) Clean Code
11 6 (12.77%) OOP
11 6 (12.77%) Test Automation
11 6 (12.77%) UML
12 5 (10.64%) QMS
12 5 (10.64%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (42.55%) C#
2 19 (40.43%) C++
3 14 (29.79%) C
3 14 (29.79%) SQL
4 11 (23.40%) Python
5 8 (17.02%) Bash
5 8 (17.02%) Java
5 8 (17.02%) JavaScript
6 4 (8.51%) F#
6 4 (8.51%) Perl
6 4 (8.51%) PowerShell
7 3 (6.38%) T-SQL
8 2 (4.26%) ABAP
9 1 (2.13%) Assembly Language
9 1 (2.13%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 17 (36.17%) Security Cleared
2 15 (31.91%) SC Cleared
3 8 (17.02%) Degree
4 4 (8.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (8.51%) Master's Degree
5 2 (4.26%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.77%) QA
2 1 (2.13%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.13%) IEC 61508
2 1 (2.13%) MISRA
2 1 (2.13%) MISRA C
System Software
1 1 (2.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (8.51%) Ansible
2 3 (6.38%) HP ALM
3 1 (2.13%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.13%) Puppet
3 1 (2.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (10.64%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.38%) Cisco
2 3 (6.38%) HP
2 3 (6.38%) Sparx
2 3 (6.38%) TOWER Software
3 2 (4.26%) Atmel
3 2 (4.26%) Google
3 2 (4.26%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.26%) SAP
4 1 (2.13%) Adobe