OO Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Object-Oriented (OO)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring OO skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OO over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 180 175 170
Rank change year-on-year -5 -5 -3
Contract jobs citing OO 133 181 355
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.32% 1.23% 1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.44% 1.41% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 120 219
10th Percentile £352 £329 £400
25th Percentile £413 £420 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £500 £650
Median % change year-on-year +6.50% -23.08% +10.17%
75th Percentile £652 £616 £763
90th Percentile £850 £775 £899
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £625
% change year-on-year -2.33% -14.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47.50
Median hourly rate £75.00 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +20.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £64.00 £59.52
% change year-on-year +17.19% +7.54% +8.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,224 12,802 21,352
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.77% 87.21% 89.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,250 8,610 15,077
10th Percentile £325 £325 £358
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +0.93%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £760 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 551 508
10th Percentile £13.40 £15.17 £17.50
25th Percentile £19.09 £25.50 £25.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £43.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.60% -18.10% +31.25%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.93 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.88
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing OO as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

OO trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing OO.

OO daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing OO over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

OO daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing OO.

OO hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (3.76%) Apache
1 5 (3.76%) CMS
2 4 (3.01%) Confluence
2 4 (3.01%) Drupal
2 4 (3.01%) WordPress
3 1 (0.75%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.75%) Appian
3 1 (0.75%) Camunda
3 1 (0.75%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.75%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (1.50%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (3.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.75%) OpenText MBPM
2 1 (0.75%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.75%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 25 (18.80%) Azure
2 20 (15.04%) AWS
3 18 (13.53%) GCP
4 16 (12.03%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (5.26%) Serverless
6 6 (4.51%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (3.01%) GitHub
8 3 (2.26%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.50%) Amazon Bedrock
9 2 (1.50%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.50%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.50%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (1.50%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (1.50%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.50%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.50%) Azure AKS
9 2 (1.50%) CloudBees
9 2 (1.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (1.50%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.75%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.01%) Internet
2 3 (2.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (17.29%) Relational Database
2 11 (8.27%) SQL Server
3 9 (6.77%) SAP HANA
4 7 (5.26%) MySQL
5 6 (4.51%) NoSQL
6 5 (3.76%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (2.26%) BigQuery
7 3 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.75%) Big Data
8 1 (0.75%) ClickHouse
8 1 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.75%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.75%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.75%) NonStop SQL
8 1 (0.75%) Parquet
8 1 (0.75%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.75%) Redis
Development Applications
1 34 (25.56%) Git
2 17 (12.78%) JIRA
3 7 (5.26%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.76%) Maven
4 5 (3.76%) Selenium
4 5 (3.76%) SonarQube
5 4 (3.01%) Bitbucket Server
5 4 (3.01%) Cypress.io
5 4 (3.01%) HP UFT
5 4 (3.01%) MSTest
5 4 (3.01%) NUnit
5 4 (3.01%) Team Foundation Server
5 4 (3.01%) TeamCity
5 4 (3.01%) TestComplete
5 4 (3.01%) Visual Studio
6 3 (2.26%) IntelliJ
6 3 (2.26%) JUnit
6 3 (2.26%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.50%) Ant
7 2 (1.50%) Subversion
General
1 41 (30.83%) Social Skills
2 31 (23.31%) Finance
3 24 (18.05%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 17 (12.78%) Front Office
6 10 (7.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (6.77%) Banking
8 8 (6.02%) Electronics
8 8 (6.02%) Manufacturing
8 8 (6.02%) Marketing
8 8 (6.02%) Telecoms
9 4 (3.01%) Financial Institution
9 4 (3.01%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.50%) Wholesale Banking
11 1 (0.75%) Advertising
11 1 (0.75%) Law
11 1 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (52.63%) Developer
2 25 (18.80%) .NET Developer
2 25 (18.80%) Software Engineer
3 24 (18.05%) Senior
4 23 (17.29%) C# Developer
5 21 (15.79%) Senior Developer
6 20 (15.04%) C# .NET Developer
7 14 (10.53%) Lead
8 12 (9.02%) Azure Developer
8 12 (9.02%) C# Developer - Electronic Trading
8 12 (9.02%) Electronic Trading Developer
8 12 (9.02%) Real Time Developer
8 12 (9.02%) SAP Developer
8 12 (9.02%) Senior .NET Developer
9 11 (8.27%) ABAP Developer
10 10 (7.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 10 (7.52%) Lead Developer
11 8 (6.02%) Analyst
11 8 (6.02%) Architect
11 8 (6.02%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (34.59%) .NET
2 26 (19.55%) AngularJS
3 19 (14.29%) React
4 16 (12.03%) CSS
4 16 (12.03%) HTML
4 16 (12.03%) Web Services
5 15 (11.28%) .NET Core
6 14 (10.53%) REST
7 12 (9.02%) Ajax
7 12 (9.02%) Reactive Extensions
8 10 (7.52%) SOAP
9 9 (6.77%) BAPI
9 9 (6.77%) FastAPI
10 8 (6.02%) Django
10 8 (6.02%) Flask
10 8 (6.02%) Vue
11 6 (4.51%) RESTful
12 5 (3.76%) Ruby on Rails
13 4 (3.01%) CodeIgniter
13 4 (3.01%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.77%) Enterprise Software
2 12 (9.02%) Product Ownership
3 10 (7.52%) Algorithms
4 9 (6.77%) Data Structures
5 6 (4.51%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (4.51%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (3.76%) Derivative
6 5 (3.76%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (3.76%) Hedge funds
6 5 (3.76%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (3.01%) Legacy Code
7 4 (3.01%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.26%) Fixed Income
8 3 (2.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.50%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.50%) CUDA
9 2 (1.50%) Equities
9 2 (1.50%) Equity Derivative
10 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.75%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (20.30%) Linux
2 19 (14.29%) Unix
3 8 (6.02%) Windows
4 1 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (51.13%) Agile
2 37 (27.82%) CI/CD
2 37 (27.82%) OOP
3 33 (24.81%) Software Engineering
4 30 (22.56%) Design Patterns
5 28 (21.05%) TDD
6 27 (20.30%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (19.55%) Mentoring
8 24 (18.05%) DevOps
8 24 (18.05%) Full-Stack Development
9 21 (15.79%) Scrum
9 21 (15.79%) Test Automation
10 20 (15.04%) Continuous Improvement
10 20 (15.04%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 19 (14.29%) Containerisation
11 19 (14.29%) Microservices
12 18 (13.53%) SOLID
12 18 (13.53%) Technical Leadership
13 17 (12.78%) Infrastructure as Code
13 17 (12.78%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 63 (47.37%) Python
2 58 (43.61%) JavaScript
3 49 (36.84%) C#
4 48 (36.09%) Java
5 47 (35.34%) SQL
6 15 (11.28%) C++
6 15 (11.28%) TypeScript
7 12 (9.02%) ABAP
8 10 (7.52%) PowerShell
9 7 (5.26%) Perl
10 6 (4.51%) Go
10 6 (4.51%) PHP
11 5 (3.76%) Ruby
11 5 (3.76%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.50%) C
12 2 (1.50%) Groovy
12 2 (1.50%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.50%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.75%) Bicep
13 1 (0.75%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 26 (19.55%) Security Cleared
2 24 (18.05%) SC Cleared
3 15 (11.28%) Degree
4 14 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (6.02%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (3.76%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.26%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.26%) SAP Certification
8 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.75%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.75%) DICOM
2 1 (0.75%) HL7
2 1 (0.75%) ISO 13485
2 1 (0.75%) ISO 15022
2 1 (0.75%) ISO 20022
2 1 (0.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (19.55%) Docker
2 1 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (16.54%) Terraform
2 20 (15.04%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.26%) Grafana
4 2 (1.50%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.75%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 21 (15.79%) SAP
2 17 (12.78%) Microsoft
3 16 (12.03%) Oracle
4 6 (4.51%) Google
5 4 (3.01%) Bloomberg
5 4 (3.01%) Reuters
5 4 (3.01%) Zend
6 2 (1.50%) Ariba
7 1 (0.75%) HP
7 1 (0.75%) IBM
7 1 (0.75%) OpenText
7 1 (0.75%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.75%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.75%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.75%) Splunk
7 1 (0.75%) Sybase