OO Contracts in the South East

Object-Oriented (OO)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring OO skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OO over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 155 150
Rank change year-on-year +34 -5 +56
Contract jobs citing OO 32 47 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.08% 0.86% 1.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 1.02% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 36 52
10th Percentile - £356 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £534 £566
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% -5.70% +13.20%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £625
90th Percentile £559 £628 £675
England median daily rate £540 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -6.09% -8.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +60.00% -
England median hourly rate £61.00 £67.00 £67.34
% change year-on-year -8.96% -0.50% +22.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,716 4,624 5,070
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.32% 84.35% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,732 2,697 3,519
10th Percentile £250 £250 £248
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £619
90th Percentile £665 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 223
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.00 £16.37
25th Percentile £15.00 £18.20 £22.16
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -3.06% +127.91%
75th Percentile £62.37 £62.50 £64.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £29.00 £36.50 £37.34
% change year-on-year -20.55% -2.25% +49.36%

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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 14 May 2025.

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 14 May 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
Hampshire +25 17 £513 -5.75% 22
Surrey +14 10 £500 -2.44% 17
Thames Valley +23 3 £517 +3.40% 26
Berkshire +19 3 £517 +3.40% 14
West Sussex +14 2 £475 -13.64% 2
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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 4 (12.50%) Apache
1 4 (12.50%) CMS
1 4 (12.50%) Confluence
1 4 (12.50%) Drupal
1 4 (12.50%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) SAP EWM
1 1 (3.13%) SAP GTS
1 1 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (3.13%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 8 (25.00%) Azure
2 7 (21.88%) AWS
2 7 (21.88%) GCP
3 5 (15.63%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (12.50%) SaaS
5 2 (6.25%) Azure Stack
6 1 (3.13%) dbt
6 1 (3.13%) IaaS
6 1 (3.13%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (43.75%) Relational Database
2 11 (34.38%) MySQL
3 6 (18.75%) MongoDB
4 5 (15.63%) SQL Server
5 4 (12.50%) NoSQL
5 4 (12.50%) Redis
6 3 (9.38%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 22 (68.75%) Git
2 10 (31.25%) JIRA
3 6 (18.75%) Bitbucket
3 6 (18.75%) GoogleTest
3 6 (18.75%) Jenkins
3 6 (18.75%) Rational DOORS
3 6 (18.75%) TestRail
4 5 (15.63%) Subversion
5 4 (12.50%) Bitbucket Server
5 4 (12.50%) Cypress.io
5 4 (12.50%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (9.38%) Visual Studio
7 2 (6.25%) Codeception
7 2 (6.25%) Cucumber
7 2 (6.25%) Moq
7 2 (6.25%) Postman
7 2 (6.25%) Selenium
7 2 (6.25%) SoapUI
7 2 (6.25%) SpecFlow
8 1 (3.13%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (6.25%) Finance
2 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
2 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
2 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (43.75%) Developer
2 12 (37.50%) Software Engineer
3 10 (31.25%) Senior
4 6 (18.75%) C++ Software Engineer
4 6 (18.75%) Embedded C++ Engineer
4 6 (18.75%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
4 6 (18.75%) Embedded Engineer
4 6 (18.75%) Embedded Linux Engineer
4 6 (18.75%) Embedded Linux Software Engineer
4 6 (18.75%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 6 (18.75%) Full-Stack Developer
4 6 (18.75%) Linux Engineer
4 6 (18.75%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
4 6 (18.75%) Senior Embedded Engineer
4 6 (18.75%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
4 6 (18.75%) Senior Linux Engineer
4 6 (18.75%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) PHP Software Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) Senior Developer
6 3 (9.38%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (37.50%) CSS
1 12 (37.50%) HTML
2 9 (28.13%) .NET
2 9 (28.13%) Web Services
3 8 (25.00%) AngularJS
4 7 (21.88%) RESTful
5 6 (18.75%) Laravel
5 6 (18.75%) React
5 6 (18.75%) Vue
6 5 (15.63%) Phalcon
7 4 (12.50%) Ajax
7 4 (12.50%) CodeIgniter
7 4 (12.50%) jQuery
7 4 (12.50%) Kafka
7 4 (12.50%) LAMP
7 4 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (12.50%) SOAP
7 4 (12.50%) YAML
8 3 (9.38%) ActiveMQ
8 3 (9.38%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Legacy Code
1 4 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.13%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 10 (31.25%) Linux
2 6 (18.75%) Embedded Linux
3 4 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (71.88%) Agile
2 19 (59.38%) Scrum
2 19 (59.38%) Software Engineering
3 18 (56.25%) Design Patterns
4 17 (53.13%) Test Automation
5 15 (46.88%) CI/CD
6 12 (37.50%) SOLID
7 11 (34.38%) Kanban
7 11 (34.38%) Multithreading
7 11 (34.38%) MVC
8 9 (28.13%) Full-Stack Development
9 8 (25.00%) Computer Science
9 8 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
9 8 (25.00%) Microservices
9 8 (25.00%) OOP
9 8 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (21.88%) OWASP
11 6 (18.75%) OOD
11 6 (18.75%) TDD
11 6 (18.75%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (62.50%) JavaScript
2 11 (34.38%) C#
3 10 (31.25%) PHP
4 8 (25.00%) SQL
5 6 (18.75%) C++
5 6 (18.75%) TypeScript
6 5 (15.63%) Java
6 5 (15.63%) Python
7 1 (3.13%) ABAP
7 1 (3.13%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 8 (25.00%) Degree
2 6 (18.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (15.63%) SC Cleared
3 5 (15.63%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (21.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (31.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (31.25%) Zend
2 9 (28.13%) Google
3 7 (21.88%) Microsoft
4 3 (9.38%) SAP