OOD Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring OOD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 128 137
Rank change year-on-year +12 +9 +49
Contract jobs citing OOD 5 2 11
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.29% 0.095% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.10% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 6
10th Percentile £375 - £419
25th Percentile £445 £463 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -7.32% -35.94%
75th Percentile £663 £488 £598
90th Percentile £708 - £750
Central London median daily rate £575 £475 £513
% change year-on-year +21.05% -7.32% -35.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,603 1,918 2,509
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.85% 91.55% 89.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,114 1,177 1,756
10th Percentile £328 £375 £363
25th Percentile £419 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £580
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -0.86% +0.87%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £695
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 17 16
10th Percentile £16.96 £16.70 £15.63
25th Percentile £20.18 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £42.50 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% +29.77% -35.15%
75th Percentile £41.75 £112.00 £52.63
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £71.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -22.76% +27.27% -36.40%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OOD relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

OOD job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing OOD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing OOD

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OOD in the City of London over the 6 months to 9 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OOD in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing OOD.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing OOD

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (20.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Advertising
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Architect
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Architect
3 1 (20.00%) PHP Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
1 2 (40.00%) Blazor
2 1 (20.00%) Ajax
2 1 (20.00%) CSS
2 1 (20.00%) DOM
2 1 (20.00%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) HTML5
2 1 (20.00%) LAMP
2 1 (20.00%) Laravel
2 1 (20.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) Symfony
2 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Hedge funds
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Derivative
2 1 (20.00%) e-Learning
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (20.00%) Fixed Income
2 1 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) OO
2 4 (80.00%) Design Patterns
3 3 (60.00%) Agile
4 2 (40.00%) Asset Management
4 2 (40.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 2 (40.00%) Low Latency
4 2 (40.00%) Multithreaded Programming
4 2 (40.00%) Multithreading
4 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) SOLID
4 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
5 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 1 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
5 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
5 1 (20.00%) Domain-Driven Design
5 1 (20.00%) Electronic Trading
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C#
1 2 (40.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) PHP
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) DevExpress
2 1 (20.00%) Bloomberg
2 1 (20.00%) ION Trading
2 1 (20.00%) Tradeweb