OOD Contracts in the City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for OOD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OOD over the 3 months to 26 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Object-Oriented Design (OOD) London / City of London
Location	3 months to 26 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	141	133	159
Rank change year-on-year	-8	+26
Contract jobs citing OOD	28	32	47
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London	0.84%	0.96%	0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	0.96%	1.12%	1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted	21	28	45
Median daily rate	£625	£450	£500
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+38.88%	-10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£510	£310	£360
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£650	£700	£650
UK excluding London median daily rate	£410	£380	£375
% change year-on-year	+7.89%	+1.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	0	0
Median hourly rate	-	-	-
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£42.50	£45.00	£40.50
% change year-on-year	-5.55%	+11.11%

OOD is in the process and methodology skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process and methodology skills.

Contract Process & Methodology Skills City of London
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for process and methodology skills	2925	2856	4712
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the City of London	88.16%	85.89%	81.13%
Number of daily rates quoted	2250	2341	3708
Median daily rate	£500	£475	£468
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.26%	+1.60%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£350	£335	£325
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£650	£625	£625
UK excluding London median daily rate	£415	£400	£380
% change year-on-year	+3.75%	+5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted	23	23	56
Median hourly rate	£20.00	£19.00	£24.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+5.26%	-22.44%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£14.75	£12.50	£15.07
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£41.00	£35.20	£55.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£34.00	£28.50	£30.00
% change year-on-year	+19.29%	-5.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in the City of London citing OOD as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Processes & Methodologies category.

Job vacancy trend for OOD in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing OOD in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate trend for OOD in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing OOD in the City of London over the 3 months to 26 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for OOD in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing OOD in the City of London.

Contractor hourly rate trend for OOD in the City of London

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Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in the City of London

For the 6 months to 26 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing OOD also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the City of London region with a requirement for OOD.

1	52 (100.00%)	OO
2	25 (48.08%)	Java
3	22 (42.31%)	Agile Software Development
3	22 (42.31%)	TDD
4	16 (30.77%)	JavaScript
5	15 (28.85%)	Finance
6	14 (26.92%)	SQL
6	14 (26.92%)	BDD
7	13 (25.00%)	Unix
8	12 (23.08%)	Scrum
8	12 (23.08%)	Spring
8	12 (23.08%)	Algorithms
9	11 (21.15%)	Data Structures
9	11 (21.15%)	Banking
10	10 (19.23%)	Software Engineering

10	10 (19.23%)	Multithreading
10	10 (19.23%)	C++
10	10 (19.23%)	SOA
11	9 (17.31%)	E-Commerce
11	9 (17.31%)	HTML
11	9 (17.31%)	CSS
11	9 (17.31%)	Electronic Trading
11	9 (17.31%)	Degree
11	9 (17.31%)	AngularJS
11	9 (17.31%)	Analytical Skills
11	9 (17.31%)	NoSQL
11	9 (17.31%)	HTML5
11	9 (17.31%)	Node.js
12	8 (15.38%)	High Availability
12	8 (15.38%)	SDLC

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Co-occurring IT Skills in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	2 (3.85%)	Elasticsearch
2	1 (1.92%)	Apache
2	1 (1.92%)	Apache Qpid
2	1 (1.92%)	Confluence
2	1 (1.92%)	JBoss
2	1 (1.92%)	MTS

Business Applications
1	5 (9.62%)	ION MarketView
2	1 (1.92%)	Endur

Cloud Services
1	1 (1.92%)	Amazon AWS

Database & Business Intelligence
1	9 (17.31%)	NoSQL
2	5 (9.62%)	KDB
2	5 (9.62%)	SQL Server
3	4 (7.69%)	MongoDB
4	3 (5.77%)	Kdb+
4	3 (5.77%)	Relational Database
5	2 (3.85%)	Data Warehouse
5	2 (3.85%)	DB2
5	2 (3.85%)	RDBMS
6	1 (1.92%)	Amazon Redshift
6	1 (1.92%)	Apache Hive
6	1 (1.92%)	Big Data
6	1 (1.92%)	Enterprise Data Warehouse
6	1 (1.92%)	Hadoop

Development Applications
1	7 (13.46%)	Git (software)
2	6 (11.54%)	Jenkins
2	6 (11.54%)	Maven
3	5 (9.62%)	Robot Framework
4	4 (7.69%)	SpecFlow
5	3 (5.77%)	NUnit
5	3 (5.77%)	TeamCity
6	2 (3.85%)	Eclipse
6	2 (3.85%)	JIRA
6	2 (3.85%)	JUnit
6	2 (3.85%)	Subversion
7	1 (1.92%)	Ant
7	1 (1.92%)	Cucumber
7	1 (1.92%)	GitLab
7	1 (1.92%)	Mockito
7	1 (1.92%)	SoapUI
7	1 (1.92%)	Visual Studio

General
1	15 (28.85%)	Finance
2	11 (21.15%)	Banking
3	7 (13.46%)	Front Office
4	1 (1.92%)	Investment Banking
4	1 (1.92%)	Multimedia

Job Titles
1	36 (69.23%)	Developer
2	15 (28.85%)	Java Developer
3	14 (26.92%)	Senior Developer
4	10 (19.23%)	Software Engineer
5	8 (15.38%)	C++ Software Engineer
5	8 (15.38%)	Full Stack Developer
5	8 (15.38%)	JavaScript Developer
6	7 (13.46%)	Senior Java Developer
7	6 (11.54%)	Node.js Developer
8	5 (9.62%)	C# Developer
8	5 (9.62%)	KDB Developer
8	5 (9.62%)	NoSQL Developer
9	4 (7.69%)	.NET Developer
9	4 (7.69%)	C# .NET Developer
9	4 (7.69%)	Senior Full Stack Developer
10	3 (5.77%)	Agile Developer
10	3 (5.77%)	C# WPF Developer
10	3 (5.77%)	HTML CSS Developer
10	3 (5.77%)	Senior JavaScript Developer
10	3 (5.77%)	WPF Developer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	12 (23.08%)	Spring
2	9 (17.31%)	AngularJS
2	9 (17.31%)	CSS
2	9 (17.31%)	HTML
2	9 (17.31%)	HTML5
2	9 (17.31%)	Node.js
3	8 (15.38%)	.NET
3	8 (15.38%)	Web Services
4	7 (13.46%)	REST
4	7 (13.46%)	RESTful
5	6 (11.54%)	CSS3
6	4 (7.69%)	React
6	4 (7.69%)	WPF
7	3 (5.77%)	FIX Protocol
7	3 (5.77%)	JMS
7	3 (5.77%)	Middleware
7	3 (5.77%)	Spring Boot
7	3 (5.77%)	WCF
7	3 (5.77%)	WinForms
8	2 (3.85%)	Rendezvous

Miscellaneous
1	12 (23.08%)	Algorithms
2	11 (21.15%)	Data Structures
3	9 (17.31%)	Analytical Skills
4	7 (13.46%)	iPad
4	7 (13.46%)	NHS
5	6 (11.54%)	Derivative
5	6 (11.54%)	Fintech
5	6 (11.54%)	Fixed Income
6	5 (9.62%)	Computer Science
7	4 (7.69%)	Data Centre
8	3 (5.77%)	Greenfield Project
8	3 (5.77%)	Hedge funds
8	3 (5.77%)	Reference Data
9	2 (3.85%)	Taxonomies
10	1 (1.92%)	Credit Risk
10	1 (1.92%)	e-Learning
10	1 (1.92%)	Equity Derivative
10	1 (1.92%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
10	1 (1.92%)	Market Risk
10	1 (1.92%)	Video on Demand

Operating Systems
1	13 (25.00%)	Unix
2	8 (15.38%)	Linux
3	1 (1.92%)	Android
3	1 (1.92%)	Solaris
3	1 (1.92%)	Windows

Processes & Methodologies
1	52 (100.00%)	OO
2	22 (42.31%)	Agile Software Development
2	22 (42.31%)	TDD
3	14 (26.92%)	BDD
4	12 (23.08%)	Scrum
5	10 (19.23%)	Multithreading
5	10 (19.23%)	SOA
5	10 (19.23%)	Software Engineering
6	9 (17.31%)	E-Commerce
6	9 (17.31%)	Electronic Trading
7	8 (15.38%)	High Availability
7	8 (15.38%)	SDLC
8	7 (13.46%)	Business Intelligence
8	7 (13.46%)	Low Latency
9	6 (11.54%)	Continuous Integration
9	6 (11.54%)	Kanban
9	6 (11.54%)	Microservices
9	6 (11.54%)	Software Architecture
9	6 (11.54%)	Test Automation
9	6 (11.54%)	UML

Programming Languages
1	25 (48.08%)	Java
2	16 (30.77%)	JavaScript
3	14 (26.92%)	SQL
4	10 (19.23%)	C++
5	5 (9.62%)	C#
6	4 (7.69%)	T-SQL
7	2 (3.85%)	Python
8	1 (1.92%)	Assembly Language
8	1 (1.92%)	Bash Shell
8	1 (1.92%)	Embedded C
8	1 (1.92%)	Embedded C++
8	1 (1.92%)	Perl
8	1 (1.92%)	PHP
8	1 (1.92%)	Ruby
8	1 (1.92%)	Shell Script

Qualifications
1	9 (17.31%)	Degree
2	1 (1.92%)	Computer Science Degree
2	1 (1.92%)	Master's Degree
2	1 (1.92%)	SC Cleared
2	1 (1.92%)	Security Cleared

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	2 (3.85%)	MiFID
2	1 (1.92%)	ISO 9001

Systems Management
1	1 (1.92%)	Oozie

Vendors
1	5 (9.62%)	ION Trading
2	4 (7.69%)	Bloomberg
3	3 (5.77%)	Sybase
4	2 (3.85%)	TIBCO
5	1 (1.92%)	Apple
5	1 (1.92%)	IBM
5	1 (1.92%)	MarketAxess
5	1 (1.92%)	Microsoft
5	1 (1.92%)	OpenLink
5	1 (1.92%)	Tradeweb