OOP Contract Job Trends in the South West

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring OOP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 122 112
Rank change year-on-year -3 -10 +47
Contract jobs citing OOP 8 4 39
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.34% 0.19% 1.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.22% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 25
10th Percentile £314 - £438
25th Percentile £324 £413 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -48.46% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £365 £913 £688
90th Percentile £443 - £706
England median daily rate £473 £493 £550
% change year-on-year -4.06% -10.45% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 10
10th Percentile - - £69.25
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £70.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £41.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +61.45% -40.71% +40.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,949 1,835 2,588
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 83.65% 86.88% 86.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,137 1,124 1,725
10th Percentile £263 £280 £300
25th Percentile £413 £420 £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 £733 £718
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 296 126 270
10th Percentile £15.25 £21.16 £20.48
25th Percentile £19.70 £48.50 £45.00
Median hourly rate £32.75 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.62% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

OOP job vacancy trend in the South West

OOP
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

OOP
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OOP in the South West over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OOP in the South West

OOP
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

OOP
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 OOP within the South West region over the 6 months to 19 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 - 7 £335 - 5
Dorset - 1 - - 1
OOP
England

OOP
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:

Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
1 6 (75.00%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) HTTP
2 1 (12.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (87.50%) JIRA
2 6 (75.00%) Git
3 1 (12.50%) Artifactory
3 1 (12.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
3 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (12.50%) NUnit
3 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) 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%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) .NET Compact Framework
2 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
2 1 (12.50%) OAuth
2 1 (12.50%) OAuth2
2 1 (12.50%) OpenID
2 1 (12.50%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Contactless
1 1 (12.50%) CUDA
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Android
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Agile
1 7 (87.50%) OO
1 7 (87.50%) Scrum
1 7 (87.50%) Test Automation
2 5 (62.50%) Project Delivery
3 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Workflow
4 1 (12.50%) BDD
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (12.50%) Digital Signal Processing
4 1 (12.50%) Embedded Software Development
4 1 (12.50%) Kanban
4 1 (12.50%) Memory Management
4 1 (12.50%) Microservices
4 1 (12.50%) OWASP
4 1 (12.50%) Signal Processing
4 1 (12.50%) TDD
4 1 (12.50%) UML
4 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) C
2 2 (25.00%) C++
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Blue Prism
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (75.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (12.50%) Xamarin