OOP Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring OOP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 44 34
Rank change year-on-year +5 -10 -
Contract jobs citing OOP 4 1 7
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 1.17% 0.29% 1.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 0.34% 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 7
10th Percentile - - £200
25th Percentile - - £207
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £210 £210
Median % change year-on-year +78.57% - -
75th Percentile - - £305
90th Percentile - - £480
Wales median daily rate £375 £204 £210
% change year-on-year +84.05% -2.98% -53.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 269 293 316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 78.43% 86.18% 89.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 169 238
10th Percentile £205 £168 £166
25th Percentile £289 £213 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -3.53% - -10.53%
75th Percentile £504 £550 £588
90th Percentile £613 £689 £650
Wales median daily rate £413 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -2.94% - -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 38 23
10th Percentile £12.98 £18.64 £17.20
25th Percentile £15.96 £20.12 £21.34
Median hourly rate £19.19 £25.27 £27.17
Median % change year-on-year -24.06% -6.98% +36.13%
75th Percentile £26.42 £37.19 £53.13
90th Percentile £85.00 £43.50 £55.25
Wales median hourly rate £18.18 £25.27 £27.17
% change year-on-year -28.06% -6.98% +36.44%

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

OOP job vacancy trend in South Wales

OOP
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

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

OOP
Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing OOP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing OOP

OOP
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 29 December 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
Cardiff -1 2 £375 +78.57% 2
Gwent - 2 - -
OOP
Wales

OOP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) BrowserStack
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
1 4 (100.00%) JIRA
2 2 (50.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (50.00%) GitLab
2 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) Postman
2 2 (50.00%) Selenium
2 2 (50.00%) WebDriver
2 2 (50.00%) Zephyr
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Dutch Language
2 2 (50.00%) French Language
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Salesforce Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) CSS
1 2 (50.00%) HTML
1 2 (50.00%) Middleware
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
1 2 (50.00%) OpenAPI
1 2 (50.00%) Playwright
1 2 (50.00%) React
1 2 (50.00%) REST
1 2 (50.00%) SOAP
1 2 (50.00%) Swagger
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) BDD
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) CRM
2 2 (50.00%) Cross-Browser Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) OO
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) SDLC
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Salesforce