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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 117 117
Rank change year-on-year -15 0 +33
Contract jobs citing OOD 1 4 7
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.043% 0.22% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.049% 0.24% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 7
10th Percentile - £574 £389
25th Percentile - £591 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £638 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +34.21% -13.64%
75th Percentile - £697 £509
90th Percentile - £721 £546
Central London median daily rate - £638 £475
% change year-on-year - +34.21% -13.64%

All Process & 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 2,036 1,701 1,905
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.76% 94.29% 91.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,397 1,118 1,255
10th Percentile £381 £324 £375
25th Percentile £456 £424 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £789
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 22 16
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £19.79
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.33 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -25.86% +6.38% -3.18%
75th Percentile £33.10 £53.50 £82.19
90th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.00 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -17.44% +7.67% -22.86%

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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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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 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Copilot
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) Next.js
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) Tailwind CSS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Extreme Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Kotlin
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript