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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 124 145
Rank change year-on-year +8 +21 +42
Contract jobs citing OOD 3 6 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.17% 0.29% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.31% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 7
10th Percentile £578 £394 £469
25th Percentile £600 £434 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -20.83% -24.72%
75th Percentile £700 £520 £663
90th Percentile £723 £550 £748
Central London median daily rate £650 £475 £600
% change year-on-year +36.84% -20.83% -24.72%

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 1,661 1,932 2,687
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.21% 92.09% 90.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,107 1,224 1,857
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £419 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £705
90th Percentile £763 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 17 16
10th Percentile £17.35 £15.20 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.22 £16.02
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.91% +8.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile £53.50 £78.75 £44.87
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £60.88
Central London median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -10.71% +34.62% -38.82%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for OOD 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 18 September 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 and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Ethernet
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Architect
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) Blazor
2 1 (33.33%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Hedge funds
2 1 (33.33%) Fixed Income
2 1 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) OO
2 2 (66.67%) Asset Management
2 2 (66.67%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) Design Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Concurrent Programming
3 1 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
3 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 1 (33.33%) Electronic Trading
3 1 (33.33%) Low Latency
3 1 (33.33%) Multithreaded Programming
3 1 (33.33%) Multithreading
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) Java
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) DevExpress