OO Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Object-Oriented (OO)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring OO skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 111 137
Rank change year-on-year +4 +26 +19
Contract jobs citing OO 11 18 9
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.60% 0.84% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.97% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 8
10th Percentile £204 £200 £337
25th Percentile £213 £444 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £565 £413
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% +36.97% -31.25%
75th Percentile £575 £582 £606
90th Percentile £645 £598 £625
South East median daily rate £208 £225 £513
% change year-on-year -7.78% -56.14% -9.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,629 1,865 2,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 89.26% 87.07% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,024 1,071 1,572
10th Percentile £270 £300 £240
25th Percentile £405 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £623
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £520
% change year-on-year -1.96% -1.92% +1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 68 101
10th Percentile £14.75 £18.74 £16.40
25th Percentile £15.91 £29.44 £24.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.77 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.47% +15.55% +163.16%
75th Percentile £38.42 £62.77 £66.00
90th Percentile £74.70 £71.24 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £58.30 £52.50
% change year-on-year -64.48% +11.05% +40.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

OO job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing OO.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing OO

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OO in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 2 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OO in the Thames Valley

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing OO.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing OO

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OO within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 2 November 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
Berkshire +3 11 £500 -13.79% 29
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South East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (9.09%) CMS
1 1 (9.09%) Drupal
1 1 (9.09%) Jupyter
1 1 (9.09%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) AWS
3 2 (18.18%) GitHub
3 2 (18.18%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (9.09%) GCP
4 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
4 1 (9.09%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Relational Database
2 1 (9.09%) MySQL
2 1 (9.09%) Power BI
2 1 (9.09%) RDBMS
2 1 (9.09%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Browser DevTools
1 3 (27.27%) Firebug
1 3 (27.27%) Git
2 2 (18.18%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
2 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Technical Support
3 3 (27.27%) Support Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Technical Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Technical Support Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Cloud Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Salesforce Developer
5 1 (9.09%) .NET Developer
5 1 (9.09%) ABAP Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (9.09%) C# Developer
5 1 (9.09%) IT Support
5 1 (9.09%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Python Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Python Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) SAP Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) HTML
1 5 (45.45%) XML
2 3 (27.27%) CSS
2 3 (27.27%) REST
2 3 (27.27%) RESTful
3 2 (18.18%) jQuery
3 2 (18.18%) JSON
3 2 (18.18%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (18.18%) SOAP
3 2 (18.18%) Web Services
4 1 (9.09%) .NET
4 1 (9.09%) .NET Framework
4 1 (9.09%) BAPI
4 1 (9.09%) Entity Framework
4 1 (9.09%) FastAPI
4 1 (9.09%) NumPy
4 1 (9.09%) Pandas
4 1 (9.09%) Plotly
4 1 (9.09%) SAP Smart Forms
4 1 (9.09%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Algorithms
1 1 (9.09%) Client/Server
1 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
1 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Unix
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) OOP
2 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
2 4 (36.36%) DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) Agile
3 3 (27.27%) Customer Service
4 2 (18.18%) Case Management
4 2 (18.18%) Microservices
4 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (9.09%) Analytics
5 1 (9.09%) API Design
5 1 (9.09%) Backlog Refinement
5 1 (9.09%) Data Visualisation
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (9.09%) IT Strategy
5 1 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (9.09%) SFIA
5 1 (9.09%) Sprint Review
5 1 (9.09%) Strategic Thinking
5 1 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) JavaScript
2 5 (45.45%) Java
3 3 (27.27%) Python
4 2 (18.18%) Apex Code
4 2 (18.18%) C#
4 2 (18.18%) SOQL
4 2 (18.18%) SQL
5 1 (9.09%) ABAP
5 1 (9.09%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Salesforce
2 1 (9.09%) Databricks
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) SAP
2 1 (9.09%) Virgin Media