OOD Contracts in England

Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring OOD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OOD over the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 469 461 443
Rank change year-on-year -8 -18 +97
Contract jobs citing OOD 34 99 189
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.27% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.32% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 67 132
10th Percentile £385 £393 £405
25th Percentile £407 £445 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £513 £650
Median % change year-on-year +12.20% -21.15% +4.00%
75th Percentile £756 £669 £874
90th Percentile £838 £818 £950
UK median daily rate £563 £500 £650
% change year-on-year +12.50% -23.08% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 11
10th Percentile - - £47.75
25th Percentile - £72.50 £51.81
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year - +17.19% +16.36%
75th Percentile - £77.50 £65.00
90th Percentile - - £71.17
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £75.00 £59.52
% change year-on-year -6.67% +26.02% +8.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 24,672 31,000 42,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.65% 85.71% 89.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,837 20,180 29,760
10th Percentile £300 £308 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £645 £669
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,310 2,113 1,505
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.18 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.30 £18.38
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% -8.14% +59.62%
75th Percentile £53.75 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.27 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £40.25
% change year-on-year -34.02% -5.29% +52.19%

OOD
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

OOD
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 17 July 2025.

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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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 17 July 2025. 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 -17 25 £634 +20.71% 42
South East +23 3 £500 - 16
North West +4 2 £480 +1.05% 5
North of England +4 2 £480 +1.05% 7
East of England - 2 £500 - 4
South West +45 1 £58 -85.03% 6
OOD
UK

OOD
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 2 (5.88%) Anypoint
1 2 (5.88%) Confluence
1 2 (5.88%) Mule
2 1 (2.94%) Apache
2 1 (2.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (11.76%) Azure
2 3 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (5.88%) OpenShift
4 1 (2.94%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) HTTP
2 1 (2.94%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.76%) Relational Database
2 3 (8.82%) RDBMS
2 3 (8.82%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.88%) MySQL
3 2 (5.88%) NonStop SQL
3 2 (5.88%) NoSQL
3 2 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.94%) Apache Ignite
4 1 (2.94%) Big Data
4 1 (2.94%) Couchbase
4 1 (2.94%) KDB
4 1 (2.94%) Kdb+
4 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (35.29%) Git
2 6 (17.65%) Jenkins
3 5 (14.71%) JIRA
4 4 (11.76%) GoogleTest
5 3 (8.82%) Bitbucket
5 3 (8.82%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (8.82%) TestRail
6 2 (5.88%) GitLab
6 2 (5.88%) JUnit
6 2 (5.88%) NUnit
7 1 (2.94%) Ant
7 1 (2.94%) CMake
7 1 (2.94%) Eclipse
7 1 (2.94%) IntelliJ
7 1 (2.94%) Moq
General
1 11 (32.35%) Finance
2 5 (14.71%) Front Office
2 5 (14.71%) Social Skills
3 4 (11.76%) Banking
4 3 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.88%) Advertising
5 2 (5.88%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.94%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.94%) Law
6 1 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 19 (55.88%) Developer
2 9 (26.47%) Senior
3 5 (14.71%) C++ Developer
3 5 (14.71%) Software Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) C++ Software Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Java Developer
4 4 (11.76%) Lead
4 4 (11.76%) Python Developer
4 4 (11.76%) Senior Software Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Embedded C++ Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Embedded Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Embedded Linux Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Embedded Linux Software Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Senior Embedded Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (20.59%) .NET
1 7 (20.59%) Kafka
2 6 (17.65%) Web Services
3 5 (14.71%) .NET Core
4 4 (11.76%) HTML
4 4 (11.76%) RESTful
5 3 (8.82%) CSS
5 3 (8.82%) JMS
5 3 (8.82%) JWT
5 3 (8.82%) OAuth
5 3 (8.82%) Spring
6 2 (5.88%) ASP.NET
6 2 (5.88%) AWT
6 2 (5.88%) Blazor
6 2 (5.88%) JSON
6 2 (5.88%) MUnit
6 2 (5.88%) React
6 2 (5.88%) Rendezvous
6 2 (5.88%) SOAP
6 2 (5.88%) TIBCO EMS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) Hedge funds
2 4 (11.76%) Fixed Income
3 3 (8.82%) Algorithms
4 2 (5.88%) Derivative
4 2 (5.88%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (5.88%) Equities
4 2 (5.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (5.88%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.94%) CUDA
5 1 (2.94%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.94%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.94%) Equity Derivative
5 1 (2.94%) Raspberry Pi
5 1 (2.94%) Replication
5 1 (2.94%) Robotics
5 1 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.94%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 16 (47.06%) Linux
2 5 (14.71%) Unix
3 3 (8.82%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (5.88%) Windows
5 1 (2.94%) Android
5 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.94%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (97.06%) OO
2 15 (44.12%) Agile
3 12 (35.29%) Design Patterns
4 11 (32.35%) CI/CD
4 11 (32.35%) Computer Science
5 8 (23.53%) Multithreading
5 8 (23.53%) Software Engineering
5 8 (23.53%) Test Automation
6 7 (20.59%) Low Latency
6 7 (20.59%) Microservices
7 6 (17.65%) Analytics
7 6 (17.65%) Performance Tuning
8 5 (14.71%) DevOps
8 5 (14.71%) SOLID
8 5 (14.71%) TDD
8 5 (14.71%) Technical Leadership
9 4 (11.76%) Clean Code
9 4 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (11.76%) Multithreaded Programming
9 4 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 15 (44.12%) Java
2 12 (35.29%) Python
3 11 (32.35%) C++
4 10 (29.41%) SQL
5 8 (23.53%) C#
6 3 (8.82%) JavaScript
7 2 (5.88%) COBOL
7 2 (5.88%) DataWeave
8 1 (2.94%) Groovy
8 1 (2.94%) Rust
8 1 (2.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (29.41%) Degree
2 8 (23.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (8.82%) Security Cleared
4 2 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.94%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) ISO 15022
1 2 (5.88%) ISO 20022
2 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 5 (14.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.88%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 6 (17.65%) Google
2 4 (11.76%) Oracle
3 2 (5.88%) DevExpress
3 2 (5.88%) IBM
3 2 (5.88%) MuleSoft
3 2 (5.88%) Salesforce
3 2 (5.88%) TIBCO
4 1 (2.94%) HP
4 1 (2.94%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.94%) NVIDIA
4 1 (2.94%) Red Hat