OOD Contracts in the North West

Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for OOD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OOD over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 134 156 159
Rank change year-on-year +22 +3 -20
Contract jobs citing OOD 5 2 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.18% 0.062% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.068% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 14
10th Percentile - £388 £428
25th Percentile £463 £425 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £534
90th Percentile £583 £613 £634
England median daily rate £550 £620 £625
% change year-on-year -11.29% -0.80% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £62.50
90th Percentile - - £64.00
England median hourly rate £67.50 £56.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year +20.00% -6.25% +6.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

OOD 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 North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,404 2,934 3,524
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.35% 91.06% 88.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,552 2,091 2,592
10th Percentile £306 £313 £230
25th Percentile £406 £410 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £569
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 151 166
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.64
25th Percentile £13.27 £20.74 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +66.67% +15.21%
75th Percentile £45.00 £48.38 £43.75
90th Percentile £55.75 £65.00 £59.38
England median hourly rate £35.00 £38.35 £24.00
% change year-on-year -8.74% +59.79% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing OOD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for OOD in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OOD in the North West.

Daily rate trend for OOD in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OOD in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for OOD in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OOD within the North West region over the 6 months to 24 April 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
Cheshire +9 4 £513 -18.00% 1
Cumbria - 1 £575 -
OOD
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (60.00%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Power Automate
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Functions
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (40.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Pega Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Lead
4 1 (20.00%) .NET Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Developer
4 1 (20.00%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (20.00%) C# Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Lead .NET Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Lead C# Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Lead Developer
4 1 (20.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 5 (100.00%) REST
2 3 (60.00%) CSS
2 3 (60.00%) HTML
2 3 (60.00%) JSON
2 3 (60.00%) XHTML
3 2 (40.00%) .NET Core
3 2 (40.00%) Entity Framework
4 1 (20.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Low-Code
1 3 (60.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (40.00%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Microservices
1 5 (100.00%) OO
2 3 (60.00%) API Development
2 3 (60.00%) API Management
2 3 (60.00%) Asset Management
2 3 (60.00%) Prototyping
2 3 (60.00%) Rapid Prototyping
2 3 (60.00%) Sprint Backlog
2 3 (60.00%) Workflow
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Clean Code
3 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Full Stack Development
3 2 (40.00%) Pair Programming
3 2 (40.00%) SOLID
3 2 (40.00%) TDD
3 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C#
2 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (60.00%) Java
3 3 (60.00%) Python
4 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) IBM
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (60.00%) Nintex
1 3 (60.00%) Pega
1 3 (60.00%) SAP