OO Contracts in the South West

Object-Oriented (OO)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 107 118
Rank change year-on-year +3 +11 +31
Contract jobs citing OO 7 50 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.42% 1.56% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 1.88% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 39 31
10th Percentile £353 £514 £438
25th Percentile £355 £625 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £688 £630
Median % change year-on-year -38.18% +9.13% +19.21%
75th Percentile £678 £700 £675
90th Percentile £778 £706 £775
England median daily rate £540 £588 £630
% change year-on-year -8.09% -6.75% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 10
10th Percentile - - £48.38
25th Percentile - £75.00 £52.38
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £65.67
Median % change year-on-year - +21.82% +19.40%
75th Percentile - £86.25 £74.42
90th Percentile - £88.50 £78.00
England median hourly rate £61.00 £71.00 £67.34
% change year-on-year -14.08% +5.44% +22.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for OO in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OO in the South West.

Daily rate trend for OO in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OO in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OO in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OO in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for OO in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Bristol +11 4 £355 +1.29% 10
Wiltshire +10 1 £875 +25.00% 6
Devon - 1 £425 - 1
Dorset - 1 £675 - 4
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (14.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (14.29%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) NoSQL
2 1 (14.29%) MySQL
2 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Subversion
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Electronics
2 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
2 1 (14.29%) Marketing
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
1 3 (42.86%) Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) PHP Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Developer
3 1 (14.29%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) C# Developer
3 1 (14.29%) C++ Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Development Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Lead .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead C# Developer
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Scientific Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior C# .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior C# Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) CSS
1 3 (42.86%) CSS3
1 3 (42.86%) HTML
1 3 (42.86%) HTML5
1 3 (42.86%) Laravel
1 3 (42.86%) Yii
2 2 (28.57%) .NET
2 2 (28.57%) .NET Core
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
3 1 (14.29%) Middleware
3 1 (14.29%) React
3 1 (14.29%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Algorithms
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Design Patterns
1 3 (42.86%) MVC
1 3 (42.86%) OO PHP
1 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
3 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
3 1 (14.29%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (14.29%) OOD
3 1 (14.29%) OOP
3 1 (14.29%) OWASP
3 1 (14.29%) Pair Programming
3 1 (14.29%) Programme Management
3 1 (14.29%) Release Management
3 1 (14.29%) Scrum
3 1 (14.29%) Service-Level Objective
3 1 (14.29%) TDD
3 1 (14.29%) UML
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
2 3 (42.86%) PHP
3 2 (28.57%) C++
3 2 (28.57%) Fortran
3 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
3 2 (28.57%) Python
4 1 (14.29%) Bash
4 1 (14.29%) C
4 1 (14.29%) C#
4 1 (14.29%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) PowerCLI
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Atlassian
2 1 (14.29%) Intel
2 1 (14.29%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) VMware