OOD Contracts in Scotland

Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 157 160
Rank change year-on-year +30 +3 -15
Contract jobs citing OOD 8 3 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.36% 0.10% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.11% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile £275 - -
25th Percentile £297 £413 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £425 £481
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% -11.64% +43.05%
75th Percentile £434 £438 -
90th Percentile £623 - -
UK median daily rate £541 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -9.79% -4.00% +25.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 5
10th Percentile - £52.03 £50.06
25th Percentile - £53.20 £53.25
Median hourly rate - £55.77 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year - +2.32% -
75th Percentile - £57.71 £57.50
90th Percentile - £58.50 -
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £56.25 £58.75
% change year-on-year +20.00% -4.26% +15.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,980 2,651 3,267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.55% 92.63% 92.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,210 1,904 2,315
10th Percentile £238 £263 £242
25th Percentile £400 £406 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 56 50
10th Percentile £12.36 £10.63 £14.99
25th Percentile £16.00 £12.04 £17.58
Median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% -43.75% -27.59%
75th Percentile £40.94 £53.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.03 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing OOD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for OOD in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OOD in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for OOD in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OOD in Scotland over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OOD in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OOD in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for OOD in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OOD within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 25 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
Edinburgh +42 7 £375 - 1
Glasgow +8 1 £800 +88.24%
OOD
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 7 (87.50%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (50.00%) Serverless
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (12.50%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Automotive
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Developer
2 4 (50.00%) .NET Developer
3 3 (37.50%) AWS Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Development Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Python Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Software Development Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) .NET
2 4 (50.00%) .NET Core
3 2 (25.00%) Spring
4 1 (12.50%) Guice
4 1 (12.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (25.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) OO
2 5 (62.50%) OOA/OOD
3 4 (50.00%) MVC
3 4 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (37.50%) Agile
5 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
5 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
5 2 (25.00%) E-Commerce
5 2 (25.00%) Migration
5 2 (25.00%) Scrum
6 1 (12.50%) Black-Box Testing
6 1 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
6 1 (12.50%) Process Management
6 1 (12.50%) Requirements Analysis
6 1 (12.50%) Risk Analysis
6 1 (12.50%) Software Architecture
6 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Java
1 2 (25.00%) Perl
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 1 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Okta