OO Contract Job Trends in the South West

Object-Oriented (OO)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring OO 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 124 113 86
Rank change year-on-year -11 -27 +50
Contract jobs citing OO 8 14 62
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.34% 0.69% 2.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.78% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 13 32
10th Percentile £207 £354 £360
25th Percentile £314 £413 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 £500 £625
Median % change year-on-year -33.00% -20.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £355 £688 £706
90th Percentile £430 £868 £743
England median daily rate £423 £500 £600
% change year-on-year -15.50% -16.67% -4.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 26
10th Percentile - - £48.32
25th Percentile - - £51.27
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £70.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £71.00 £43.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +64.16% -33.46% +18.18%

All Process & 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 1,980 1,790 2,517
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 83.02% 87.62% 85.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,161 1,096 1,653
10th Percentile £263 £265 £296
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £731 £724
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 304 116 269
10th Percentile £15.60 £18.36 £20.20
25th Percentile £20.47 £44.69 £45.00
Median hourly rate £33.50 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.46% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £74.22 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +25.35%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

OO job vacancy trend in the South West

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Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing OO

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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 29 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OO in the South West

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing OO

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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 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
Bristol +3 7 £335 -5.37% 9
Wiltshire -15 1 - - 2
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 7 (87.50%) Azure
2 6 (75.00%) Power Automate
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (12.50%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 7 (87.50%) Git
2 6 (75.00%) JIRA
3 1 (12.50%) CMake
3 1 (12.50%) GoogleTest
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) ABAP Developer
2 1 (12.50%) SAP Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) AngularJS
1 6 (75.00%) JMS
1 6 (75.00%) React
1 6 (75.00%) SOAP
1 6 (75.00%) XML
1 6 (75.00%) XSD
2 1 (12.50%) BAPI
2 1 (12.50%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 1 (12.50%) OpenCV
2 1 (12.50%) SAP Smart Forms
2 1 (12.50%) Web Services
2 1 (12.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) CUDA
1 1 (12.50%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Raspberry Pi
1 1 (12.50%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Android
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Robot Operating System
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Agile
1 7 (87.50%) Test Automation
2 6 (75.00%) OOP
2 6 (75.00%) Scrum
3 5 (62.50%) Project Delivery
4 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 1 (12.50%) DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) Kalman Filter
5 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
5 1 (12.50%) OOD
5 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (12.50%) Sensor Fusion
5 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) System Testing
5 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) ABAP
2 1 (12.50%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) C++
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Blue Prism
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (75.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) NVIDIA
2 1 (12.50%) SAP