OOP Contracts in the Thames Valley

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring OOP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OOP over the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 111 143
Rank change year-on-year +3 +32 +31
Contract jobs citing OOP 8 15 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.48% 0.64% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.75% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 6
10th Percentile £213 £513 -
25th Percentile £271 £524 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £363
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +48.28% -30.95%
75th Percentile £575 £581 £388
90th Percentile £585 £596 £488
South East median daily rate £475 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,544 2,001 2,585
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.18% 84.82% 90.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 917 1,128 1,746
10th Percentile £305 £263 £313
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £515
Median % change year-on-year -0.15% -2.77% +3.00%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £623
90th Percentile £680 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £520 £518
% change year-on-year -3.85% +0.39% +3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 113 82
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.50 £14.23
25th Percentile £15.12 £22.50 £21.35
Median hourly rate £25.15 £55.08 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -54.33% +10.15% +170.27%
75th Percentile £53.63 £66.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £85.65 £74.98
South East median hourly rate £21.90 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -61.81% +14.70% +108.33%

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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

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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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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram 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

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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 OOP within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 2 August 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 +6 7 £525 -2.33% 6
Buckinghamshire - 1 £201 - 2
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 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub
3 1 (12.50%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 1 (12.50%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (12.50%) MySQL
2 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
2 1 (12.50%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) MSTest
2 1 (12.50%) NUnit
2 1 (12.50%) Selenium
2 1 (12.50%) SpecFlow
2 1 (12.50%) TeamCity
2 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (12.50%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (37.50%) Telecoms
2 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Python Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Python Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Gen AI Developer
3 2 (25.00%) React Developer
4 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) C# Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Developer
4 1 (12.50%) IT Support
4 1 (12.50%) Python Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Salesforce Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Support
4 1 (12.50%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) REST
2 3 (37.50%) FastAPI
3 2 (25.00%) React
4 1 (12.50%) .NET
4 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
4 1 (12.50%) Entity Framework
4 1 (12.50%) HTML
4 1 (12.50%) jQuery
4 1 (12.50%) JSON
4 1 (12.50%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (12.50%) PyQt
4 1 (12.50%) Qt
4 1 (12.50%) RESTful
4 1 (12.50%) SOAP
4 1 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Onboarding
2 1 (12.50%) Algorithms
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) OO
2 3 (37.50%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (37.50%) Design Patterns
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Generative AI
2 3 (37.50%) SOLID
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
3 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (12.50%) Agile
4 1 (12.50%) Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) BDD
4 1 (12.50%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
4 1 (12.50%) Microservices
4 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
4 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) C#
2 2 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) Apex Code
3 1 (12.50%) Perl
3 1 (12.50%) SOQL
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Databricks
1 3 (37.50%) Virgin Media
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Salesforce