OOP Contracts in the South East

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring OOP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OOP over the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 181 187
Rank change year-on-year +43 +6 +48
Contract jobs citing OOP 15 17 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.49% 0.30% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.36% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 13 19
10th Percentile - £321 £393
25th Percentile £463 £500 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £556 £575 £594
90th Percentile £578 £582 £600
England median daily rate £545 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +3.81% -8.70% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,810 4,708 5,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.26% 82.76% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,751 2,721 3,499
10th Percentile £250 £262 £250
25th Percentile £391 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +0.49% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £634 £619
90th Percentile £665 £700 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 461 232
10th Percentile £13.33 £13.00 £15.55
25th Percentile £15.12 £18.20 £22.11
Median hourly rate £24.66 £47.50 £51.05
Median % change year-on-year -48.08% -6.95% +126.89%
75th Percentile £55.00 £67.02 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.17
% change year-on-year -34.02% +2.56% +44.74%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for OOP 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 OOP in the South East.

Daily rate trend for OOP in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OOP in the South East over the 6 months to 27 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OOP 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 OOP in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for OOP 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 OOP within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 June 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 - 8 £475 - 18
Thames Valley +25 5 £550 +4.76% 22
Berkshire +21 5 £550 +4.76% 14
West Sussex - 2 £475 -
OOP
England

OOP
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 (26.67%) Apache
1 4 (26.67%) CMS
1 4 (26.67%) Confluence
1 4 (26.67%) Drupal
1 4 (26.67%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub
3 1 (6.67%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (60.00%) Relational Database
2 4 (26.67%) MySQL
2 4 (26.67%) SQL Server
3 2 (13.33%) MongoDB
4 1 (6.67%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 8 (53.33%) Git
2 4 (26.67%) Bitbucket Server
2 4 (26.67%) JIRA
3 2 (13.33%) Cucumber
3 2 (13.33%) Postman
3 2 (13.33%) SoapUI
4 1 (6.67%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3 (20.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (13.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Developer
2 4 (26.67%) PHP Software Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Software Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Python Developer
4 2 (13.33%) .NET Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Consultant
4 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Python Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Gen AI Developer
4 2 (13.33%) React Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Technical Consultant
4 2 (13.33%) Test Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Python Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (60.00%) HTML
2 8 (53.33%) CSS
3 5 (33.33%) jQuery
3 5 (33.33%) SOAP
4 4 (26.67%) .NET
4 4 (26.67%) .NET Framework
4 4 (26.67%) Ajax
4 4 (26.67%) AngularJS
4 4 (26.67%) CodeIgniter
4 4 (26.67%) LAMP
4 4 (26.67%) REST
4 4 (26.67%) Web Services
5 3 (20.00%) FastAPI
6 2 (13.33%) Playwright
6 2 (13.33%) React
7 1 (6.67%) JSON
7 1 (6.67%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (6.67%) PyQt
7 1 (6.67%) Qt
7 1 (6.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Legacy Code
2 3 (20.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Linux
1 4 (26.67%) Unix
2 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) OO
2 11 (73.33%) Design Patterns
3 7 (46.67%) Agile
4 6 (40.00%) SOLID
5 4 (26.67%) ERP
5 4 (26.67%) Kanban
5 4 (26.67%) MVC
5 4 (26.67%) Scrum
5 4 (26.67%) Secure Coding
5 4 (26.67%) Software Engineering
5 4 (26.67%) TDD
6 3 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (20.00%) Generative AI
7 2 (13.33%) API Testing
7 2 (13.33%) Collaborative Culture
7 2 (13.33%) Data Validation
7 2 (13.33%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
7 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
7 2 (13.33%) Manual Testing
7 2 (13.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (40.00%) SQL
3 4 (26.67%) C#
3 4 (26.67%) Java
3 4 (26.67%) PHP
3 4 (26.67%) Python
4 2 (13.33%) TypeScript
5 1 (6.67%) Apex Code
5 1 (6.67%) SOQL
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
1 4 (26.67%) Zend
2 3 (20.00%) Databricks
2 3 (20.00%) Virgin Media
3 1 (6.67%) Salesforce