OOP Contract Job Trends in South London

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring OOP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 31 42
Rank change year-on-year -9 +11 +15
Contract jobs citing OOP 2 6 3
As % of all contract jobs in South London 1.15% 2.94% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% 3.30% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £753 £438 £610
25th Percentile £756 £456 £644
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £500 £750
Median % change year-on-year +55.00% -33.33% +25.00%
75th Percentile £806 £531 £800
90th Percentile £818 £543 -
London median daily rate £554 £506 £593
% change year-on-year +9.43% -14.56% -1.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 153 182 248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 87.93% 89.22% 81.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 120 188
10th Percentile £241 £236 £330
25th Percentile £413 £411 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £636 £578 £600
90th Percentile £738 £740 £675
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 15
10th Percentile - - £14.00
25th Percentile £15.84 £17.25 £24.63
Median hourly rate £16.91 £19.50 £52.19
Median % change year-on-year -13.28% -62.64% +18.32%
75th Percentile £17.98 £71.88 £55.39
90th Percentile - £73.75 £66.54
London median hourly rate £30.25 £36.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -17.12% -2.67% +5.63%

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OOP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South London.

OOP job vacancy trend in South London

OOP
Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

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

OOP
Contract 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 OOP within the South London region over the 6 months to 3 October 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
Bromley -8 2 £775 +72.22% 2
OOP
London

OOP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Front Office
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) React Developer
2 1 (50.00%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (100.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (100.00%) Derivative
1 2 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (50.00%) Fixed Income
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Physics
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Degree