OOD Contracts with Work from Home Options

Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 303 396 485
Rank change year-on-year +93 +89 -75
Contract jobs citing OOD 38 72 130
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.25% 0.29% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.32% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 52 91
10th Percentile £423 £444 £450
25th Percentile £463 £534 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.54% +9.09% +20.22%
75th Percentile £642 £778 £675
90th Percentile £738 £875 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £620 £625
% change year-on-year -13.31% -0.80% +26.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £48.75 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £49.17 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £52.36 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.60% -12.74% +56.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £55.40 £62.50
90th Percentile - £55.73 £64.00
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £54.38 £58.75
% change year-on-year +24.14% -7.45% +15.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,268 22,513 39,948
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.01% 89.73% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,896 15,904 28,997
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 519 530
10th Percentile £15.03 £18.63 £13.73
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.06
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.63
90th Percentile £75.20 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

OOD
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing OOD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

OOD trend for jobs with a WFH option

OOD
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing OOD.

OOD daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

OOD
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing OOD over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

OOD daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

OOD
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing OOD.

OOD hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

OOD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 9 (23.68%) CMS
2 1 (2.63%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 24 (63.16%) Azure
2 17 (44.74%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (36.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 12 (31.58%) Azure Monitor
4 12 (31.58%) Azure Service Bus
5 9 (23.68%) AWS
6 8 (21.05%) Azure Pipelines
6 8 (21.05%) Serverless
7 5 (13.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (13.16%) Amazon EventBridge
7 5 (13.16%) Amazon Kinesis
7 5 (13.16%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (13.16%) AWS Step Functions
7 5 (13.16%) dbt
8 2 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (5.26%) Amazon S3
8 2 (5.26%) Azure Functions
8 2 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (2.63%) PaaS
9 1 (2.63%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.89%) BGP
1 3 (7.89%) Cisco IOS
1 3 (7.89%) IOS XR
2 1 (2.63%) FTP
2 1 (2.63%) NFC
2 1 (2.63%) PPP
2 1 (2.63%) SNMP
2 1 (2.63%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (52.63%) SQL Server
2 8 (21.05%) Relational Database
3 5 (13.16%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 24 (63.16%) Git
2 8 (21.05%) JIRA
3 3 (7.89%) Jenkins
4 2 (5.26%) Bitbucket
4 2 (5.26%) Eclipse
4 2 (5.26%) GoogleTest
5 1 (2.63%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (2.63%) Robot Framework
5 1 (2.63%) TestRail
5 1 (2.63%) Valgrind
5 1 (2.63%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (34.21%) Social Skills
2 10 (26.32%) Back Office
3 8 (21.05%) Public Sector
4 3 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.89%) Finance
5 2 (5.26%) Banking
5 2 (5.26%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Marketing
6 1 (2.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (55.26%) Developer
2 12 (31.58%) Senior
3 9 (23.68%) Senior Developer
4 7 (18.42%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 6 (15.79%) Lead
6 5 (13.16%) AWS Data Engineer
6 5 (13.16%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (13.16%) C# Developer
6 5 (13.16%) Data Engineer
7 4 (10.53%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 4 (10.53%) Software Engineer
8 3 (7.89%) .NET Developer
8 3 (7.89%) C++ Software Engineer
8 3 (7.89%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 3 (7.89%) Linux Engineer
8 3 (7.89%) Network Engineer
8 3 (7.89%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
8 3 (7.89%) Senior Linux Engineer
8 3 (7.89%) Senior Software Engineer
8 3 (7.89%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (52.63%) .NET
2 18 (47.37%) .NET Core
3 9 (23.68%) CSS
3 9 (23.68%) React
4 8 (21.05%) jQuery
5 7 (18.42%) ASP.NET
5 7 (18.42%) HTML
5 7 (18.42%) REST
6 5 (13.16%) .NET Framework
6 5 (13.16%) ASP.NET MVC
6 5 (13.16%) JSON
6 5 (13.16%) PySpark
7 3 (7.89%) Django
7 3 (7.89%) RESTful
7 3 (7.89%) Spring
7 3 (7.89%) YANG
8 2 (5.26%) Entity Framework
8 2 (5.26%) FIX Protocol
8 2 (5.26%) Guice
8 2 (5.26%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) Product Ownership
2 5 (13.16%) Algorithms
3 3 (7.89%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (7.89%) Data Structures
3 3 (7.89%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (7.89%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (7.89%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (7.89%) Mobile App
3 3 (7.89%) Public Cloud
4 2 (5.26%) Contactless
4 2 (5.26%) Derivative
4 2 (5.26%) Equity Derivative
4 2 (5.26%) Fixed Income
4 2 (5.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.63%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.63%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (2.63%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.63%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 10 (26.32%) Linux
2 3 (7.89%) Unix
2 3 (7.89%) Windows
3 2 (5.26%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (2.63%) Android
4 1 (2.63%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.63%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (94.74%) OO
2 31 (81.58%) Agile
3 23 (60.53%) DevOps
4 22 (57.89%) Clean Code
5 20 (52.63%) TDD
6 15 (39.47%) CI/CD
7 11 (28.95%) API Management
8 10 (26.32%) Front End Development
9 8 (21.05%) Computer Science
9 8 (21.05%) Mentoring
9 8 (21.05%) Scrum
9 8 (21.05%) Unit Testing
10 7 (18.42%) Design Patterns
10 7 (18.42%) MVC
11 6 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (15.79%) SOLID
11 6 (15.79%) Test Automation
12 5 (13.16%) Data Management
12 5 (13.16%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 25 (65.79%) C#
2 15 (39.47%) Bicep
3 14 (36.84%) JavaScript
4 12 (31.58%) Python
5 9 (23.68%) Java
6 8 (21.05%) SQL
6 8 (21.05%) TypeScript
7 6 (15.79%) C++
8 5 (13.16%) Bash
8 5 (13.16%) Perl
9 3 (7.89%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (21.05%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (21.05%) Degree
2 2 (5.26%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (21.05%) Accessibility
1 8 (21.05%) WCAG
2 2 (5.26%) MiFID
System Software
1 11 (28.95%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.63%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (13.16%) Terraform
2 3 (7.89%) Ansible
Vendors
1 13 (34.21%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.89%) Cisco
2 3 (7.89%) TOWER Software
2 3 (7.89%) Xamarin
3 2 (5.26%) Google
4 1 (2.63%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.63%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.63%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud