OOP Contract Job Trends in Taunton

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
Somerset > Taunton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Taunton requiring OOP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OOP 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton 6.06% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.06% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - -
75th Percentile £419 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Somerset median daily rate £413 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Taunton

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 Taunton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85 16 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton 85.86% 94.12% 94.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 15 28
10th Percentile £406 £532 £513
25th Percentile £431 £610 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £715 £600
Median % change year-on-year -30.07% +19.17% -11.21%
75th Percentile £690 £886 £606
90th Percentile £730 £960 £644
Somerset median daily rate £524 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -0.24% -0.94% +7.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £12.50
Median hourly rate £14.85 £12.45 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.28% -4.23% -
75th Percentile - - £14.25
90th Percentile - - £15.60
Somerset median hourly rate £57.50 £18.51 £25.00
% change year-on-year +210.64% -25.96% -50.74%

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

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

OOP job vacancy trend in Taunton

OOP
Daily Rate Trend in Taunton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing OOP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing OOP

OOP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Taunton 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
1 6 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Git
1 6 (100.00%) JIRA
1 6 (100.00%) MSI
General
1 6 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (66.67%) Senior
2 4 (66.67%) Senior Developer
3 2 (33.33%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
1 6 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 6 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 6 (100.00%) ATL
1 6 (100.00%) COM
1 6 (100.00%) CSS
1 6 (100.00%) CSS3
1 6 (100.00%) GeoJSON
1 6 (100.00%) HTML
1 6 (100.00%) HTML5
1 6 (100.00%) MFC
1 6 (100.00%) REST
1 6 (100.00%) RESTful
1 6 (100.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 6 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) Client Onboarding
1 6 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 6 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 6 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 6 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 6 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 6 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 6 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 6 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 6 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 6 (100.00%) OWASP
1 6 (100.00%) SOLID
1 6 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 6 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 6 (100.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Bicep
1 6 (100.00%) C#
1 6 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (100.00%) Python
1 6 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 6 (100.00%) NCSC
1 6 (100.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft