OOD Contracts in Central London

Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring OOD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OOD over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 122 157
Rank change year-on-year -3 +35 +31
Contract jobs citing OOD 2 7 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.100% 0.29% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.32% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 10
10th Percentile £622 £389 -
25th Percentile £627 £416 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £644 £450 £543
Median % change year-on-year +43.06% -17.05% -27.67%
75th Percentile £655 £522 £663
90th Percentile £656 £611 £768
London median daily rate £629 £566 £650
% change year-on-year +11.08% -12.88% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

OOD falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,860 2,208 3,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.95% 90.60% 91.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,204 1,571 2,388
10th Percentile £357 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 24 29
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.01 £15.45
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.38 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -15.66%
75th Percentile £43.97 £29.11 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £41.29 £88.30
London median hourly rate £33.00 £28.50 £38.75
% change year-on-year +15.79% -26.45% +6.43%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for OOD in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for OOD in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for OOD in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OOD within the Central London region over the 6 months to 3 May 2025. 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
City of London 0 1 £638 +41.67% 6
OOD
London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Advertising
1 1 (50.00%) Back Office
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Lead
2 1 (50.00%) Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Architect
2 1 (50.00%) C++ Software Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Lead Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Lead Software Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Lead Technical Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Team Leader
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leader
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (50.00%) Hedge funds
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Algorithmic Trading
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Content Management
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) Database Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Low Latency
2 1 (50.00%) Market Making
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Quantitative Research
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) C++
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft