Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (OOA/OOD)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for OOA/OOD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OOA/OOD over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 583 693 799
Rank change year-on-year +110 +106 -161
Contract jobs citing OOA/OOD 17 23 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.039% 0.039% 0.072%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.046% 0.043% 0.080%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 33
10th Percentile £280 £420 £405
25th Percentile £325 £506 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £613 £604
Median % change year-on-year -33.27% +1.41% +25.96%
75th Percentile £489 £650 £675
90th Percentile £505 £750 £698
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £650 £604
% change year-on-year -32.69% +7.62% +26.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £50.47
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £55.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

OOA/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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,268 53,074 80,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.35% 89.85% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,016 36,805 56,451
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,749 1,911
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

OOA/OOD
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing OOA/OOD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for OOA/OOD in the UK

OOA/OOD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for OOA/OOD in the UK

OOA/OOD
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OOA/OOD over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OOA/OOD in the UK

OOA/OOD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for OOA/OOD in the UK

OOA/OOD
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OOA/OOD within the UK over the 6 months to 5 May 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
England +122 12 £463 -11.76% 7
UK excluding London +60 12 £438 -32.69% 6
London +111 5 £380 -9.52% 2
North West - 5 £489 -
North of England - 5 £489 -
Scotland - 5 £338 -
Work from Home +126 4 £489 -20.16% 2
South West +24 2 £350 -50.00%

OOA/OOD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (29.41%) Confluence
1 5 (29.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 5 (29.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 11 (64.71%) AWS
2 5 (29.41%) Apigee
2 5 (29.41%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (29.41%) Kong
2 5 (29.41%) Serverless
3 4 (23.53%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) MongoDB
1 5 (29.41%) OLAP
1 5 (29.41%) OLTP
1 5 (29.41%) Oracle OLAP
2 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) JIRA
2 3 (17.65%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
3 1 (5.88%) Git
General
1 8 (47.06%) Finance
2 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
3 5 (29.41%) Banking
4 3 (17.65%) Marketing
5 2 (11.76%) Automotive
6 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (5.88%) Back Office
6 1 (5.88%) Financial Institution
6 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Developer
2 5 (29.41%) .NET Developer
2 5 (29.41%) Architect
2 5 (29.41%) AWS Architect
3 4 (23.53%) AWS Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Data Designer
4 2 (11.76%) Designer
4 2 (11.76%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Full Stack Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) Kafka
2 5 (29.41%) .NET
2 5 (29.41%) .NET Core
2 5 (29.41%) IBM Integration Bus
2 5 (29.41%) J2EE
2 5 (29.41%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (29.41%) SOAP
2 5 (29.41%) Spring
2 5 (29.41%) Web Services
3 4 (23.53%) Apache Camel
3 4 (23.53%) Spring Boot
3 4 (23.53%) Spring Integration
4 3 (17.65%) Java EE
5 2 (11.76%) JSON
5 2 (11.76%) NestJS
5 2 (11.76%) Node.js
5 2 (11.76%) React
5 2 (11.76%) RESTful
6 1 (5.88%) AngularJS
6 1 (5.88%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) DataPower
2 4 (23.53%) Algorithms
2 4 (23.53%) Data Structures
3 3 (17.65%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (17.65%) Marketing Technology
3 3 (17.65%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (11.76%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
5 1 (5.88%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) OO
2 8 (47.06%) Design Patterns
3 6 (35.29%) MVC
4 5 (29.41%) API Management
4 5 (29.41%) CQRS
4 5 (29.41%) CRM
4 5 (29.41%) Enterprise Architecture
4 5 (29.41%) Event-Driven
4 5 (29.41%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 5 (29.41%) Identity Access Management
4 5 (29.41%) Microservices
4 5 (29.41%) OOD
4 5 (29.41%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (29.41%) Risk Management
4 5 (29.41%) SOA
4 5 (29.41%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (23.53%) Continuous Delivery
5 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (23.53%) DevOps
5 4 (23.53%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) Java
2 3 (17.65%) SQL
3 2 (11.76%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.88%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Terraform
2 4 (23.53%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Oracle
2 5 (29.41%) IBM
2 5 (29.41%) TSYS
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft