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 22 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 151 144 214
Rank change year-on-year -7 +70 -80
Contract jobs citing OO 46 67 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.84% 1.20% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 1.34% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 53 42
10th Percentile £355 £425 £385
25th Percentile £493 £510 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £565 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.98% +13.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £534
90th Percentile £628 £675 £625
England median daily rate £575 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +20.00%
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 £65.50 £67.34 £55.00
% change year-on-year -2.73% +22.44% +15.79%

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 4,608 4,994 6,881
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.21% 89.10% 89.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,676 3,455 4,695
10th Percentile £255 £248 £234
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% - +8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £615 £598
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 443 217 275
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £12.22
25th Percentile £18.26 £22.16 £14.13
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +132.56% -21.82%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.63 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £61.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.67% +50.00% +8.70%

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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 22 May 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 22 May 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 20 £543 -1.36% 12
Thames Valley +4 14 £500 -16.67% 14
Berkshire +1 12 £500 +11.11% 5
Surrey +11 7 £569 +9.38% 11
West Sussex - 3 £550 - 1
Buckinghamshire +12 2 £600 -7.69% 6
Home Counties - 1 - -
M4 Corridor - 1 £510 -
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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 (2.17%) Apache
1 1 (2.17%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.17%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (28.26%) Azure
2 10 (21.74%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (13.04%) Azure Functions
3 6 (13.04%) Azure Logic Apps
3 6 (13.04%) Serverless
4 5 (10.87%) Azure API Management
4 5 (10.87%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (6.52%) Azure Key Vault
5 3 (6.52%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (6.52%) PaaS
6 2 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (4.35%) GitHub
7 1 (2.17%) AWS
7 1 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.17%) Figma
7 1 (2.17%) GCP
7 1 (2.17%) npm
7 1 (2.17%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.17%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.70%) Link 16
1 4 (8.70%) Tactical Data Link
2 3 (6.52%) BGP
2 3 (6.52%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (6.52%) IOS XR
3 2 (4.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (28.26%) SQL Server
2 5 (10.87%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (10.87%) Relational Database
3 4 (8.70%) NoSQL
4 3 (6.52%) Geospatial Data
4 3 (6.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (4.35%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (4.35%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
5 2 (4.35%) Lumira
5 2 (4.35%) SAP BW
6 1 (2.17%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 6 (13.04%) Git
2 5 (10.87%) Jenkins
2 5 (10.87%) JIRA
3 4 (8.70%) Rational DOORS
3 4 (8.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 4 (8.70%) Visual Studio
4 3 (6.52%) ClearCase
4 3 (6.52%) ClearQuest
5 2 (4.35%) NUnit
5 2 (4.35%) Postman
6 1 (2.17%) Appium
6 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.17%) GitLab
6 1 (2.17%) MagicDraw
6 1 (2.17%) MSTest
6 1 (2.17%) Rational Rhapsody
6 1 (2.17%) rollup.js
6 1 (2.17%) Selenium
6 1 (2.17%) SpecFlow
6 1 (2.17%) webpack
General
1 12 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.04%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.35%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.17%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.17%) Finance
Job Titles
1 18 (39.13%) Developer
2 15 (32.61%) Software Engineer
3 10 (21.74%) Senior
3 10 (21.74%) Senior Software Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) C++ Developer
5 4 (8.70%) Automation Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) C++ Software Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Site Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Software Developer
6 3 (6.52%) Azure Developer
6 3 (6.52%) C# Software Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Lead
6 3 (6.52%) Network Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Integration Developer
7 2 (4.35%) Linux Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) SAP BI Developer
7 2 (4.35%) Senior Linux Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (21.74%) .NET
2 8 (17.39%) REST
3 7 (15.22%) JSON
4 4 (8.70%) ARM Templates
4 4 (8.70%) ASP.NET
4 4 (8.70%) RESTful
4 4 (8.70%) SOAP
4 4 (8.70%) XML
5 3 (6.52%) CSS
5 3 (6.52%) Django
5 3 (6.52%) OAuth
5 3 (6.52%) OpenID
5 3 (6.52%) YANG
6 2 (4.35%) 802.1X
6 2 (4.35%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (4.35%) HTML
6 2 (4.35%) OpenAPI
6 2 (4.35%) React
6 2 (4.35%) Swagger
7 1 (2.17%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.52%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (6.52%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (6.52%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (6.52%) Linux Command Line
1 3 (6.52%) Management Information System
1 3 (6.52%) Public Cloud
2 2 (4.35%) IoT
2 2 (4.35%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.17%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.17%) CMDB
3 1 (2.17%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (2.17%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 21 (45.65%) Linux
2 10 (21.74%) Windows
3 3 (6.52%) Embedded Linux
3 3 (6.52%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.17%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (54.35%) Scrum
2 22 (47.83%) Agile
3 20 (43.48%) Software Engineering
4 16 (34.78%) Kanban
5 13 (28.26%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (26.09%) SOLID
7 11 (23.91%) CI/CD
7 11 (23.91%) DevOps
7 11 (23.91%) OOD
8 10 (21.74%) Mentoring
9 7 (15.22%) Computer Science
9 7 (15.22%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (15.22%) Unit Testing
10 6 (13.04%) Acceptance Criteria
10 6 (13.04%) OOP
11 5 (10.87%) Clean Code
11 5 (10.87%) Infrastructure as Code
11 5 (10.87%) Sprint Backlog
11 5 (10.87%) Technical Leadership
11 5 (10.87%) UML
Programming Languages
1 20 (43.48%) C++
2 18 (39.13%) C#
3 15 (32.61%) C
4 13 (28.26%) SQL
5 10 (21.74%) Python
6 8 (17.39%) Bash
7 7 (15.22%) Java
7 7 (15.22%) JavaScript
8 4 (8.70%) F#
8 4 (8.70%) Perl
8 4 (8.70%) PowerShell
9 3 (6.52%) T-SQL
10 2 (4.35%) ABAP
11 1 (2.17%) Assembly Language
11 1 (2.17%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 18 (39.13%) Security Cleared
2 17 (36.96%) SC Cleared
3 7 (15.22%) Degree
4 3 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (6.52%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.17%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.04%) QA
2 1 (2.17%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.17%) IEC 61508
2 1 (2.17%) MISRA
2 1 (2.17%) MISRA C
System Software
1 1 (2.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (8.70%) Ansible
2 3 (6.52%) HP ALM
3 1 (2.17%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.17%) Puppet
3 1 (2.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (10.87%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.52%) Cisco
2 3 (6.52%) HP
2 3 (6.52%) Sparx
2 3 (6.52%) TOWER Software
3 2 (4.35%) Atmel
3 2 (4.35%) SAP
4 1 (2.17%) Adobe
4 1 (2.17%) Google
4 1 (2.17%) Salesforce