OOD Contracts in England

Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for OOD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OOD over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 442 506 528
Rank change year-on-year +64 +22 -45
Contract jobs citing OOD 99 167 264
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.27% 0.33% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.37% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 112 190
10th Percentile £359 £457 £449
25th Percentile £455 £519 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - +25.00%
75th Percentile £646 £856 £750
90th Percentile £775 £1,000 £950
UK median daily rate £541 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -9.79% -4.00% +26.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 6
10th Percentile £56.75 £45.71 £56.88
25th Percentile £59.38 £48.29 -
Median hourly rate £67.50 £54.38 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.14% -9.38% +6.19%
75th Percentile £74.38 £61.09 £62.81
90th Percentile £76.25 £66.15 £64.38
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £54.38 £58.75
% change year-on-year +24.14% -7.45% +15.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

OOD is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,161 45,385 64,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.56% 90.22% 90.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,078 31,861 45,788
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £768 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,252 1,585 1,771
10th Percentile £12.93 £10.91 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.96 £37.50 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.12% +53.06% +2.08%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £36.42 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.53% +45.69% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for OOD in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for OOD in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OOD in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OOD in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for OOD in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing OOD in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for OOD in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OOD within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2024. 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
London +37 72 £566 -12.88% 23
South East +29 14 £500 -16.67% 17
North of England +34 6 £550 +10.00% 7
North West +30 5 £550 +10.00% 1
South West +8 5 £350 -41.67% 4
West Midlands +25 2 £494 +5.95% 6
Midlands +24 2 £494 +5.95% 10
North East - 1 £650 - 3
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 15 (15.15%) CMS
2 4 (4.04%) Apache
3 3 (3.03%) Confluence
3 3 (3.03%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.01%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (3.03%) Maximo
2 1 (1.01%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 61 (61.62%) Azure
2 55 (55.56%) Azure DevOps
3 38 (38.38%) Azure Service Bus
4 37 (37.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 37 (37.37%) Azure Monitor
5 18 (18.18%) Azure Pipelines
6 15 (15.15%) AWS
7 9 (9.09%) Serverless
8 8 (8.08%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (8.08%) Amazon S3
9 6 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (4.04%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (3.03%) Power Automate
12 2 (2.02%) Azure Functions
12 2 (2.02%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (2.02%) npm
12 2 (2.02%) Yarn
13 1 (1.01%) Miro
13 1 (1.01%) PaaS
13 1 (1.01%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.07%) FTP
2 3 (3.03%) BGP
2 3 (3.03%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (3.03%) IOS XR
3 2 (2.02%) Tactical Data Link
4 1 (1.01%) NFC
4 1 (1.01%) PPP
4 1 (1.01%) SNMP
4 1 (1.01%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (62.63%) SQL Server
2 13 (13.13%) Relational Database
3 4 (4.04%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.02%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.01%) Couchbase
5 1 (1.01%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (1.01%) KDB
5 1 (1.01%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.01%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 57 (57.58%) Git
2 11 (11.11%) JIRA
3 8 (8.08%) Bitbucket
4 6 (6.06%) Jenkins
5 5 (5.05%) Rational DOORS
6 4 (4.04%) Sourcetree
6 4 (4.04%) SpecFlow
7 3 (3.03%) Postman
7 3 (3.03%) Selenium
7 3 (3.03%) webpack
8 2 (2.02%) Babel
8 2 (2.02%) Eclipse
8 2 (2.02%) GoogleTest
8 2 (2.02%) JMeter
8 2 (2.02%) Visual Studio
9 1 (1.01%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (1.01%) ClearQuest
9 1 (1.01%) MagicDraw
9 1 (1.01%) Robot Framework
9 1 (1.01%) TestRail
General
1 34 (34.34%) Back Office
2 30 (30.30%) Social Skills
3 14 (14.14%) Public Sector
4 13 (13.13%) Finance
5 7 (7.07%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.04%) Banking
7 3 (3.03%) Front Office
7 3 (3.03%) Local Government
8 2 (2.02%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.01%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.01%) Automotive
9 1 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.01%) Marketing
9 1 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.01%) Retail
Job Titles
1 53 (53.54%) Developer
2 37 (37.37%) Senior
3 26 (26.26%) Senior Developer
4 23 (23.23%) Lead
5 15 (15.15%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 12 (12.12%) Software Engineer
6 12 (12.12%) Technical Leader
7 11 (11.11%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 9 (9.09%) Backend Developer
9 8 (8.08%) .NET Developer
10 7 (7.07%) C# Developer
10 7 (7.07%) Java Developer
10 7 (7.07%) Software Developer
11 6 (6.06%) Azure Developer
11 6 (6.06%) Senior Backend Developer
11 6 (6.06%) Senior Software Engineer
12 5 (5.05%) Agile Development Manager
12 5 (5.05%) Development Manager
13 4 (4.04%) C# .NET Developer
13 4 (4.04%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (65.66%) .NET
2 56 (56.57%) .NET Core
3 24 (24.24%) CSS
4 22 (22.22%) HTML
5 21 (21.21%) React
6 20 (20.20%) REST
7 17 (17.17%) ASP.NET
8 16 (16.16%) jQuery
9 15 (15.15%) ASP.NET MVC
10 9 (9.09%) YAML
11 8 (8.08%) JSON
12 7 (7.07%) Node.js
13 6 (6.06%) .NET Framework
14 5 (5.05%) Spring
15 4 (4.04%) gRPC
15 4 (4.04%) NumPy
15 4 (4.04%) Pandas
15 4 (4.04%) Playwright
15 4 (4.04%) RESTful
16 3 (3.03%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 17 (17.17%) Product Ownership
2 14 (14.14%) Algorithms
3 11 (11.11%) Data Structures
3 11 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (6.06%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (6.06%) Derivative
5 4 (4.04%) Credit Risk
5 4 (4.04%) Equity Derivative
5 4 (4.04%) Fixed Income
5 4 (4.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (4.04%) Low-Code
5 4 (4.04%) Market Risk
5 4 (4.04%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (3.03%) Contactless
6 3 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (3.03%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (3.03%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.01%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.01%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 24 (24.24%) Linux
2 9 (9.09%) Windows
3 5 (5.05%) Unix
4 4 (4.04%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (1.01%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.01%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (96.97%) OO
2 79 (79.80%) Agile
3 63 (63.64%) TDD
4 57 (57.58%) DevOps
5 56 (56.57%) Clean Code
6 44 (44.44%) API Management
7 22 (22.22%) CI/CD
8 21 (21.21%) Scrum
9 20 (20.20%) MVC
9 20 (20.20%) Software Engineering
10 18 (18.18%) Computer Science
10 18 (18.18%) Front End Development
11 17 (17.17%) Design Patterns
12 14 (14.14%) Problem-Solving
13 12 (12.12%) SDLC
14 11 (11.11%) Decision-Making
15 9 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
15 9 (9.09%) Line Management
15 9 (9.09%) SOLID
15 9 (9.09%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 72 (72.73%) C#
2 45 (45.45%) Bicep
3 34 (34.34%) JavaScript
4 28 (28.28%) Java
5 23 (23.23%) Python
6 18 (18.18%) TypeScript
7 14 (14.14%) C++
8 13 (13.13%) SQL
9 9 (9.09%) Perl
10 7 (7.07%) Bash
11 3 (3.03%) C
11 3 (3.03%) T-SQL
12 1 (1.01%) Assembly Language
12 1 (1.01%) Groovy
12 1 (1.01%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 20 (20.20%) Degree
2 17 (17.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (7.07%) Security Cleared
4 6 (6.06%) Master's Degree
5 5 (5.05%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (21.21%) Accessibility
2 18 (18.18%) WCAG
3 4 (4.04%) MiFID
4 2 (2.02%) QA
5 1 (1.01%) IEC 61508
5 1 (1.01%) MISRA
5 1 (1.01%) MISRA C
System Software
1 36 (36.36%) Active Directory
2 9 (9.09%) Docker
3 1 (1.01%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (5.05%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.03%) Ansible
3 2 (2.02%) Terraform
4 1 (1.01%) Grafana
4 1 (1.01%) HP ALM
4 1 (1.01%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 39 (39.39%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.06%) Oracle
3 3 (3.03%) Cisco
3 3 (3.03%) IBM
3 3 (3.03%) Nintex
3 3 (3.03%) Pega
3 3 (3.03%) SAP
3 3 (3.03%) TOWER Software
4 2 (2.02%) Google
5 1 (1.01%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.01%) HP
5 1 (1.01%) NVIDIA
5 1 (1.01%) QNX
5 1 (1.01%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.01%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (1.01%) Sparx