OOP Contracts in the Thames Valley

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 136 144 160
Rank change year-on-year +8 +16 -30
Contract jobs citing OOP 4 6 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.15% 0.21% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.23% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 4
10th Percentile - - £418
25th Percentile £525 £363 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £538
90th Percentile - £568 £560
South East median daily rate £550 £510 £483
% change year-on-year +7.84% +5.70% +20.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,322 2,661 3,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.03% 91.82% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,312 1,850 2,115
10th Percentile £213 £322 £225
25th Percentile £370 £413 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile £600 £604 £580
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.86% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 64 86
10th Percentile £14.25 £18.50 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £22.88 £12.10
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £24.69
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £66.88
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £49.00 £21.95
% change year-on-year -3.06% +123.23% -20.18%

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing OOP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for OOP in the Thames Valley

OOP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OOP in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for OOP in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OOP in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for OOP in the Thames Valley

OOP
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 OOP within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
Berkshire -8 4 £550 +46.67% 4
OOP
South East

OOP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (25.00%) Appium
2 1 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) MSTest
2 1 (25.00%) NUnit
2 1 (25.00%) Selenium
2 1 (25.00%) SpecFlow
2 1 (25.00%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Site Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) C# Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) OO
2 3 (75.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (75.00%) Data Protection
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Scrum
2 3 (75.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Systems Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (75.00%) F#
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (25.00%) Puppet
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google