OOP Contracts in the South East

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for OOP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OOP over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 196 197 225
Rank change year-on-year +1 +28 -46
Contract jobs citing OOP 7 19 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.13% 0.33% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.36% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 20
10th Percentile £395 £366 £356
25th Percentile £444 £405 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £510 £458
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% +11.48% +18.06%
75th Percentile £648 £538 £513
90th Percentile £692 £571 £525
England median daily rate £553 £585 £525
% change year-on-year -5.56% +11.43% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £47.01
25th Percentile - - £52.69
Median hourly rate - - £62.15
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £35.00 £56.50
% change year-on-year +71.43% -38.05% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

OOP is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,738 5,226 6,995
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 85.09% 89.47% 89.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,767 3,619 4,727
10th Percentile £232 £250 £226
25th Percentile £400 £405 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £619 £588
90th Percentile £698 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 429 219 290
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.25 £12.25
25th Percentile £18.20 £23.83 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -11.76%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.29 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.83 £63.80
England median hourly rate £35.00 £38.35 £24.00
% change year-on-year -8.74% +59.79% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing OOP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for OOP in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OOP in the South East.

Daily rate trend for OOP in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OOP in the South East over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OOP in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OOP in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for OOP in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 East region over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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
Thames Valley +13 4 £550 +4.76% 5
Berkshire -6 4 £550 +46.67% 3
Surrey +9 2 £536 - 7
Home Counties - 1 - -
OOP
England

OOP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (14.29%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) JIRA
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (14.29%) Appium
2 1 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) MSTest
2 1 (14.29%) NUnit
2 1 (14.29%) Selenium
2 1 (14.29%) SpecFlow
2 1 (14.29%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Site Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) C# Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Scientist
3 1 (14.29%) Java Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) .NET Core
1 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
1 1 (14.29%) ARM Templates
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
1 1 (14.29%) LightGBM
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) RESTful
1 1 (14.29%) Spring
1 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
1 1 (14.29%) Statsmodels
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) OO
2 4 (57.14%) Computer Science
2 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (57.14%) Scrum
2 4 (57.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) Systems Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) Data Protection
3 3 (42.86%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Deployment
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (14.29%) Data Science
5 1 (14.29%) DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
5 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 1 (14.29%) Microservices
5 1 (14.29%) SDLC
5 1 (14.29%) Task Automation
5 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
5 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) C#
2 4 (57.14%) F#
2 4 (57.14%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) Progress Chef
1 1 (14.29%) Puppet
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Google