OOP Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring OOP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 25 -
Rank change year-on-year -12 - -
Contract jobs citing OOP 3 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 1.04% 1.38% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% 1.59% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £303 - -
25th Percentile £306 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year -34.21% - -
75th Percentile £319 £488 -
90th Percentile £323 - -
South East median daily rate £208 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -56.32% -13.64% +5.77%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 230 126 234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 79.58% 86.90% 91.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 77 174
10th Percentile £252 £217 £313
25th Percentile £342 £328 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.22% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £569 £538 £523
90th Percentile £695 £632 £588
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £501
% change year-on-year +2.50% -0.15% -1.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 13 13
10th Percentile £13.13 £15.39 £13.63
25th Percentile £23.53 £16.95 £18.20
Median hourly rate £43.56 £18.82 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +131.46% -12.47% -2.98%
75th Percentile £60.00 £36.25 £22.25
90th Percentile £66.75 £81.15 £28.05
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £28.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +96.43% -41.05% -4.04%

OOP
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

OOP job vacancy trend in West Sussex

OOP
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing OOP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing OOP

OOP
Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing OOP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing OOP

OOP
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OOP within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 12 May 2026. 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
Burgess Hill - 3 £313 -
OOP
South East

OOP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Gradle
1 1 (33.33%) Maven
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) RESTful
1 2 (66.67%) Spring
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
2 1 (33.33%) JPA
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Design Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) B2B
3 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Experience
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Extreme Programming
3 1 (33.33%) Kanban
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) OO
3 1 (33.33%) Pair Programming
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) Kotlin
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Go
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes