Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 482 547 564
Rank change year-on-year +65 +17 -33
Contract jobs citing OOD 110 174 299
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.29% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.33% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 117 202
10th Percentile £340 £393 £450
25th Percentile £440 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% -4.00% +25.63%
75th Percentile £640 £850 £747
90th Percentile £775 £1,000 £944
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £600 £488
% change year-on-year -20.83% +23.08% +5.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 12
10th Percentile £56.75 £47.07 £53.25
25th Percentile £59.38 £49.17 £53.63
Median hourly rate £67.50 £54.38 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year +24.14% -7.45% +15.76%
75th Percentile £74.38 £60.13 £60.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £64.72 £63.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £56.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year +20.00% -2.17% +13.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 37,262 53,150 80,380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.35% 89.86% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,013 36,862 56,431
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
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 2,440 1,756 1,916
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

OOD
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for OOD in the UK

OOD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for OOD in the UK

OOD
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OOD over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OOD in the UK

OOD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for OOD in the UK

OOD
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing OOD over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for OOD in the UK

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Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OOD within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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 +45 98 £550 -11.65% 57
London +39 71 £563 -13.46% 17
Work from Home +94 36 £519 -13.54% 26
UK excluding London +71 34 £475 -20.83% 39
South East +33 14 £500 -16.67% 19
Scotland +43 6 £375 -11.76%
North of England +30 6 £550 +10.00% 6
North West +22 5 £550 +10.00% 1
South West +14 5 £350 -41.67% 4
Midlands +25 2 £494 +5.95% 7
West Midlands +22 2 £494 +5.95% 3
North East - 1 £650 - 2
Wales - 1 - - 3

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 15 (13.64%) CMS
2 4 (3.64%) Apache
3 3 (2.73%) Confluence
3 3 (2.73%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.91%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (2.73%) Maximo
2 1 (0.91%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 61 (55.45%) Azure
2 54 (49.09%) Azure DevOps
3 37 (33.64%) Azure Service Bus
4 36 (32.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 36 (32.73%) Azure Monitor
5 25 (22.73%) AWS
6 18 (16.36%) Azure Pipelines
7 17 (15.45%) Serverless
8 14 (12.73%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (9.09%) Amazon S3
10 5 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (4.55%) Amazon EventBridge
10 5 (4.55%) Amazon Kinesis
10 5 (4.55%) AWS Step Functions
10 5 (4.55%) dbt
11 4 (3.64%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (2.73%) Power Automate
13 2 (1.82%) Azure Functions
13 2 (1.82%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.36%) FTP
2 3 (2.73%) BGP
2 3 (2.73%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (2.73%) IOS XR
3 2 (1.82%) Tactical Data Link
4 1 (0.91%) NFC
4 1 (0.91%) PPP
4 1 (0.91%) SNMP
4 1 (0.91%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (55.45%) SQL Server
2 15 (13.64%) Relational Database
3 5 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.82%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.91%) Couchbase
6 1 (0.91%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.91%) KDB
6 1 (0.91%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.91%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 63 (57.27%) Git
2 16 (14.55%) JIRA
3 8 (7.27%) Bitbucket
4 6 (5.45%) Jenkins
5 5 (4.55%) Rational DOORS
6 4 (3.64%) Sourcetree
6 4 (3.64%) SpecFlow
7 3 (2.73%) Postman
7 3 (2.73%) Selenium
7 3 (2.73%) webpack
8 2 (1.82%) Babel
8 2 (1.82%) Eclipse
8 2 (1.82%) GoogleTest
8 2 (1.82%) JMeter
8 2 (1.82%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.91%) GitLab
9 1 (0.91%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.91%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.91%) Spock
9 1 (0.91%) TestRail
General
1 34 (30.91%) Back Office
2 32 (29.09%) Social Skills
3 14 (12.73%) Finance
3 14 (12.73%) Public Sector
4 8 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.55%) Banking
6 3 (2.73%) Front Office
6 3 (2.73%) Local Government
7 2 (1.82%) Automotive
7 2 (1.82%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.91%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.91%) Marketing
8 1 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.91%) Retail
Job Titles
1 59 (53.64%) Developer
2 37 (33.64%) Senior
3 26 (23.64%) Senior Developer
4 23 (20.91%) Lead
5 15 (13.64%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 13 (11.82%) Software Engineer
7 12 (10.91%) Technical Leader
8 11 (10.00%) .NET Developer
8 11 (10.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 9 (8.18%) Backend Developer
10 8 (7.27%) Software Developer
11 7 (6.36%) AWS Developer
11 7 (6.36%) C# Developer
11 7 (6.36%) Java Developer
12 6 (5.45%) Azure Developer
12 6 (5.45%) Senior Backend Developer
12 6 (5.45%) Senior Software Engineer
13 5 (4.55%) AWS Data Engineer
13 5 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
13 5 (4.55%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (61.82%) .NET
2 59 (53.64%) .NET Core
3 24 (21.82%) CSS
4 22 (20.00%) HTML
5 21 (19.09%) React
6 20 (18.18%) REST
7 17 (15.45%) ASP.NET
8 16 (14.55%) jQuery
9 15 (13.64%) ASP.NET MVC
10 8 (7.27%) JSON
10 8 (7.27%) YAML
11 7 (6.36%) .NET Framework
11 7 (6.36%) Node.js
11 7 (6.36%) Spring
12 5 (4.55%) PySpark
13 4 (3.64%) gRPC
13 4 (3.64%) Guice
13 4 (3.64%) NumPy
13 4 (3.64%) Pandas
13 4 (3.64%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 17 (15.45%) Product Ownership
2 16 (14.55%) Algorithms
3 13 (11.82%) Data Structures
3 13 (11.82%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (7.27%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (5.45%) Derivative
6 4 (3.64%) Credit Risk
6 4 (3.64%) Equity Derivative
6 4 (3.64%) Fixed Income
6 4 (3.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (3.64%) Low-Code
6 4 (3.64%) Market Risk
6 4 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.73%) Contactless
7 3 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.73%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.73%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.82%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.91%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 26 (23.64%) Linux
2 9 (8.18%) Windows
3 7 (6.36%) Unix
4 4 (3.64%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.91%) Android
5 1 (0.91%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.91%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.91%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (97.27%) OO
2 86 (78.18%) Agile
3 62 (56.36%) TDD
4 61 (55.45%) DevOps
5 55 (50.00%) Clean Code
6 43 (39.09%) API Management
7 29 (26.36%) CI/CD
8 24 (21.82%) MVC
9 23 (20.91%) Scrum
10 20 (18.18%) Computer Science
10 20 (18.18%) Software Engineering
11 18 (16.36%) Design Patterns
11 18 (16.36%) Front End Development
12 15 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
13 14 (12.73%) Unit Testing
14 12 (10.91%) SDLC
14 12 (10.91%) Test Automation
15 11 (10.00%) Decision-Making
16 10 (9.09%) SOLID
17 9 (8.18%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 72 (65.45%) C#
2 44 (40.00%) Bicep
3 34 (30.91%) JavaScript
4 30 (27.27%) Java
5 29 (26.36%) Python
6 18 (16.36%) TypeScript
7 15 (13.64%) SQL
8 14 (12.73%) C++
9 11 (10.00%) Perl
10 7 (6.36%) Bash
11 3 (2.73%) C
11 3 (2.73%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.91%) Assembly Language
12 1 (0.91%) Groovy
12 1 (0.91%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 22 (20.00%) Degree
2 19 (17.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (6.36%) Security Cleared
4 6 (5.45%) Master's Degree
5 5 (4.55%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (19.09%) Accessibility
2 18 (16.36%) WCAG
3 4 (3.64%) MiFID
4 2 (1.82%) QA
5 1 (0.91%) IEC 61508
5 1 (0.91%) MISRA
5 1 (0.91%) MISRA C
System Software
1 35 (31.82%) Active Directory
2 9 (8.18%) Docker
3 1 (0.91%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (9.09%) Terraform
2 5 (4.55%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.73%) Ansible
4 1 (0.91%) Grafana
4 1 (0.91%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.91%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 40 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.45%) Oracle
3 3 (2.73%) Cisco
3 3 (2.73%) IBM
3 3 (2.73%) Nintex
3 3 (2.73%) Pega
3 3 (2.73%) SAP
3 3 (2.73%) TOWER Software
4 2 (1.82%) Google
5 1 (0.91%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.91%) HP
5 1 (0.91%) NVIDIA
5 1 (0.91%) QNX
5 1 (0.91%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.91%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (0.91%) Sparx
5 1 (0.91%) Xamarin