OO Contracts in South London

Object-Oriented (OO)
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South London 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 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 25 38
Rank change year-on-year -10 +13 +10
DemandTrendContract jobs citing OO 6 11 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 3.37% 5.88% 1.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.80% 6.43% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 6
10th Percentile - £485 £481
25th Percentile £613 £540 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% +7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £875 £736 £744
90th Percentile - £808 £788
London median daily rate £625 £545 £650
% change year-on-year +14.68% -16.15% -3.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South London

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 South London.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 158 171 264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 88.76% 91.44% 83.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 114 202
10th Percentile £213 £288 £338
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £634 £567 £600
90th Percentile £714 £759 £699
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 18
10th Percentile - - £15.32
25th Percentile - £17.25 £25.10
Median hourly rate £15.84 £19.50 £51.31
Median % change year-on-year -18.77% -61.99% +16.31%
75th Percentile - £71.88 £55.00
90th Percentile £17.98 £73.75 £65.82
London median hourly rate £29.75 £35.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -16.20% -11.25% +6.67%

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Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for OO in South London

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Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing OO.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing OO

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Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OO in South London over the 6 months to 23 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OO in South London

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Hourly Rate Trend in South London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing OO.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing OO

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DemandTrendContract Job Locations in South London

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 London region over the 6 months to 23 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bromley -5 5 £850 +21.43% 4
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London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Eclipse
1 2 (33.33%) Git
1 2 (33.33%) Gradle
1 2 (33.33%) IntelliJ
1 2 (33.33%) Maven
General
1 6 (100.00%) Front Office
2 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (66.67%) Finance
3 2 (33.33%) Financial Institution
3 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (66.67%) Python Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (66.67%) FpML
2 4 (66.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Algorithms
1 5 (83.33%) Derivative
2 4 (66.67%) Data Structures
2 4 (66.67%) Fixed Income
2 4 (66.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (16.67%) Equities
3 1 (16.67%) TWAP
3 1 (16.67%) VWAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Design Patterns
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
3 4 (66.67%) Computer Science
3 4 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (66.67%) High Availability
3 4 (66.67%) Kanban
3 4 (66.67%) Mathematics
3 4 (66.67%) Physics
3 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (66.67%) Scrum
4 2 (33.33%) Algorithmic Trading
4 2 (33.33%) Financial Modelling
4 2 (33.33%) Garbage Collection
4 2 (33.33%) Low Latency
4 2 (33.33%) Multithreading
4 2 (33.33%) Quantitative Trading
4 2 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) TDD
4 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (66.67%) C#
2 4 (66.67%) C++
2 4 (66.67%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA