OO Contracts in the Thames Valley

Object-Oriented (OO)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for OO skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OO over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 129 151
Rank change year-on-year +7 +22 -38
Contract jobs citing OO 10 26 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.38% 0.90% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.99% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 24 16
10th Percentile - £408 £428
25th Percentile £313 £464 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £566
90th Percentile £605 - £625
South East median daily rate £550 £564 £488
% change year-on-year -2.40% +15.59% +5.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

OO 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 2,269 2,615 3,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.82% 90.80% 89.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,246 1,775 2,188
10th Percentile £213 £313 £237
25th Percentile £375 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £488
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +3.59% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £510 £505 £500
% change year-on-year +0.99% +1.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 70 89
10th Percentile £14.09 £16.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £24.86 £12.25
Median hourly rate £46.25 £52.30 £17.42
Median % change year-on-year -11.57% +200.23% -17.24%
75th Percentile £64.42 £72.69 £24.42
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £63.27
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.99
% change year-on-year -9.52% +138.80% -17.81%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for OO 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 OO in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for OO in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OO in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OO 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 OO in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for OO 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 OO within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 2 June 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 -6 9 £438 -2.78% 8
Buckinghamshire +15 1 £600 -7.69% 5
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South East

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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 5 (50.00%) Azure
1 5 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) Azure API Management
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Functions
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (20.00%) GitHub
2 2 (20.00%) Serverless
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) JIRA
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (10.00%) Appium
2 1 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) MSTest
2 1 (10.00%) NUnit
2 1 (10.00%) Postman
2 1 (10.00%) Selenium
2 1 (10.00%) SpecFlow
2 1 (10.00%) TeamCity
2 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Site Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Software Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Developer
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) C# Developer
4 1 (10.00%) C# Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Embedded Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Embedded Software Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Integration Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Developer
4 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) .NET
2 4 (40.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (20.00%) 802.1X
3 2 (20.00%) ARM Templates
3 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (20.00%) CSS
3 2 (20.00%) HTML
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Core
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (10.00%) JSON
4 1 (10.00%) OAuth
4 1 (10.00%) OpenAPI
4 1 (10.00%) OpenID
4 1 (10.00%) REST
4 1 (10.00%) SOAP
4 1 (10.00%) Swagger
4 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (20.00%) IoT
3 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
1 3 (30.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (60.00%) Scrum
2 5 (50.00%) DevOps
3 4 (40.00%) OOP
3 4 (40.00%) SOLID
4 3 (30.00%) Agile
4 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (30.00%) Computer Science
4 3 (30.00%) Data Protection
4 3 (30.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (30.00%) Systems Engineering
4 3 (30.00%) TDD
4 3 (30.00%) Unit Testing
4 3 (30.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
5 2 (20.00%) Embedded Software Development
5 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (20.00%) Integration Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (20.00%) YAGNI
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) C#
2 5 (50.00%) SQL
3 3 (30.00%) F#
4 2 (20.00%) C
4 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (10.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Ansible
1 1 (10.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (10.00%) Puppet
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Atmel
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Google