OOP Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 258 274 319
Rank change year-on-year +16 +45 +8
Contract jobs citing OOP 46 71 161
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.46% 0.46% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.53% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 49 105
10th Percentile £331 £313 £371
25th Percentile £375 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% -13.04% +15.00%
75th Percentile £647 £650 £675
90th Percentile £788 £730 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £593
% change year-on-year -6.82% -7.17% +12.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £60.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £60.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year - +71.43% -38.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

OOP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

OOP trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

OOP
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

OOP daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

OOP
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing OOP over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

OOP daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

OOP
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

OOP hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

OOP
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 4 (8.70%) Apache
1 4 (8.70%) CMS
1 4 (8.70%) Confluence
1 4 (8.70%) Drupal
1 4 (8.70%) WordPress
2 3 (6.52%) IIS
3 2 (4.35%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (17.39%) AWS
2 5 (10.87%) Azure
3 3 (6.52%) Amazon S3
4 2 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (2.17%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.17%) Azure Service Fabric
5 1 (2.17%) GCP
5 1 (2.17%) GitHub
5 1 (2.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.70%) Internet
2 1 (2.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.22%) SQL Server
2 6 (13.04%) MySQL
2 6 (13.04%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.35%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.35%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.17%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.17%) ClickHouse
4 1 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (43.48%) Git
2 5 (10.87%) JIRA
2 5 (10.87%) Selenium
3 4 (8.70%) Bitbucket Server
3 4 (8.70%) Cypress.io
3 4 (8.70%) HP UFT
3 4 (8.70%) TestComplete
4 2 (4.35%) Jenkins
4 2 (4.35%) PHPUnit
5 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.17%) JUnit
5 1 (2.17%) NUnit
5 1 (2.17%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (2.17%) TeamCity
5 1 (2.17%) Terragrunt
5 1 (2.17%) TestNG
General
1 18 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 9 (19.57%) Finance
3 6 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (6.52%) Banking
5 3 (6.52%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.35%) Front Office
7 1 (2.17%) Aviation
7 1 (2.17%) Law
7 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (45.65%) Developer
2 9 (19.57%) Software Engineer
3 7 (15.22%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (10.87%) Automation Tester
4 5 (10.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) Java Automation Tester
4 5 (10.87%) JavaScript Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) Python Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) Tester
5 4 (8.70%) Algorithm Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Analyst
5 4 (8.70%) Automation Test Analyst
5 4 (8.70%) C# Developer
5 4 (8.70%) C++ Software Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) PHP Software Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) SAP Developer
5 4 (8.70%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
5 4 (8.70%) Senior
5 4 (8.70%) Software Engineer - Algorithmic Trading
5 4 (8.70%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (36.96%) HTML
2 15 (32.61%) AngularJS
2 15 (32.61%) CSS
3 13 (28.26%) .NET
4 12 (26.09%) Ajax
5 10 (21.74%) React
5 10 (21.74%) REST
6 9 (19.57%) Web Services
7 8 (17.39%) Django
7 8 (17.39%) FastAPI
7 8 (17.39%) Flask
7 8 (17.39%) Vue
8 5 (10.87%) .NET Framework
8 5 (10.87%) jQuery
8 5 (10.87%) SOAP
9 4 (8.70%) CodeIgniter
9 4 (8.70%) LAMP
9 4 (8.70%) Playwright
10 3 (6.52%) .NET Core
10 3 (6.52%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.70%) Algorithms
1 4 (8.70%) Data Structures
1 4 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (8.70%) Hedge funds
1 4 (8.70%) Legacy Code
2 2 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.17%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (2.17%) N-Tier
3 1 (2.17%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (17.39%) Linux
1 8 (17.39%) Windows
2 4 (8.70%) Unix
3 1 (2.17%) Android
3 1 (2.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (86.96%) OO
2 27 (58.70%) Agile
3 14 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (28.26%) Full-Stack Development
5 12 (26.09%) Software Engineering
6 10 (21.74%) Scrum
7 9 (19.57%) CI/CD
8 8 (17.39%) Computer Science
8 8 (17.39%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
8 8 (17.39%) Design Patterns
8 8 (17.39%) DevOps
8 8 (17.39%) Front End Development
8 8 (17.39%) TDD
8 8 (17.39%) Web Application Development
9 7 (15.22%) Test Automation
10 6 (13.04%) Continuous Integration
10 6 (13.04%) Fintech
10 6 (13.04%) MVC
11 5 (10.87%) Test Scripting
11 5 (10.87%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (45.65%) JavaScript
2 20 (43.48%) Python
3 17 (36.96%) Java
4 14 (30.43%) C#
5 10 (21.74%) SQL
6 6 (13.04%) C++
6 6 (13.04%) PHP
7 4 (8.70%) ABAP
8 3 (6.52%) T-SQL
9 2 (4.35%) PL/SQL
9 2 (4.35%) TypeScript
9 2 (4.35%) VB
9 2 (4.35%) VBA
10 1 (2.17%) Bash
10 1 (2.17%) Go
10 1 (2.17%) PowerShell
10 1 (2.17%) Ruby
10 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (23.91%) Degree
2 7 (15.22%) SC Cleared
2 7 (15.22%) Security Cleared
3 6 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (8.70%) Master's Degree
5 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.17%) MCAD
6 1 (2.17%) MCPD
6 1 (2.17%) MCSD
6 1 (2.17%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.17%) HL7
System Software
1 5 (10.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.87%) SAP
3 4 (8.70%) Bloomberg
3 4 (8.70%) Oracle
3 4 (8.70%) Reuters
3 4 (8.70%) Zend
4 3 (6.52%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.17%) Google
5 1 (2.17%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.17%) Xamarin