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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 431 473 522
Rank change year-on-year +42 +49 -22
Contract jobs citing OOD 100 167 258
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.27% 0.35% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.38% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 112 184
10th Percentile £358 £466 £452
25th Percentile £445 £522 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -17.31% +4.00% +25.94%
75th Percentile £645 £875 £750
90th Percentile £775 £1,000 £933
UK median daily rate £523 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -16.40% - +30.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 4
10th Percentile - £45.71 £49.38
25th Percentile £72.50 £48.29 £52.19
Median hourly rate £75.00 £54.38 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year +37.93% -7.45% +3.98%
75th Percentile £77.50 £61.09 £64.06
90th Percentile - £66.15 £64.63
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £56.25 £56.25
% change year-on-year +33.33% - -0.44%

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 31,464 43,415 63,929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.38% 90.10% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,624 30,476 45,458
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £448 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,526 1,738
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.95 £16.20 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +45.58% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

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

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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 18 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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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 18 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 +34 72 £545 -16.15% 10
South East +42 12 £525 -12.50% 21
North of England +37 6 £550 +10.00% 7
South West 0 6 £350 -41.67% 4
North West +24 5 £550 +10.00%
West Midlands +20 2 £494 +5.95% 3
Midlands +19 2 £494 +5.95% 7
North East - 1 £650 - 3
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 15 (15.00%) CMS
2 4 (4.00%) Apache
3 3 (3.00%) IIS
4 2 (2.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.00%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (3.00%) Maximo
2 1 (1.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 63 (63.00%) Azure
2 56 (56.00%) Azure DevOps
3 40 (40.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 39 (39.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 38 (38.00%) Azure Monitor
6 18 (18.00%) Azure Pipelines
7 15 (15.00%) AWS
8 9 (9.00%) Serverless
9 8 (8.00%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (8.00%) Amazon S3
10 6 (6.00%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (3.00%) Power Automate
13 2 (2.00%) Azure Functions
13 2 (2.00%) Azure Logic Apps
13 2 (2.00%) Entra ID
13 2 (2.00%) npm
13 2 (2.00%) Yarn
14 1 (1.00%) PaaS
14 1 (1.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.00%) FTP
2 3 (3.00%) BGP
2 3 (3.00%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (3.00%) IOS XR
3 2 (2.00%) Tactical Data Link
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (62.00%) SQL Server
2 13 (13.00%) Relational Database
3 4 (4.00%) NoSQL
3 4 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.00%) Couchbase
4 1 (1.00%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (1.00%) KDB
4 1 (1.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 56 (56.00%) Git
2 9 (9.00%) JIRA
3 6 (6.00%) Bitbucket
4 5 (5.00%) Jenkins
5 4 (4.00%) Rational DOORS
5 4 (4.00%) Sourcetree
5 4 (4.00%) SpecFlow
6 3 (3.00%) Postman
6 3 (3.00%) Selenium
6 3 (3.00%) webpack
7 2 (2.00%) Babel
7 2 (2.00%) JMeter
8 1 (1.00%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (1.00%) CMake
8 1 (1.00%) GitLab
8 1 (1.00%) MagicDraw
8 1 (1.00%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (1.00%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (1.00%) Spock
8 1 (1.00%) TeamCity
General
1 34 (34.00%) Back Office
2 32 (32.00%) Social Skills
3 14 (14.00%) Public Sector
4 13 (13.00%) Finance
5 9 (9.00%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.00%) Banking
7 3 (3.00%) Front Office
7 3 (3.00%) Local Government
8 2 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.00%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.00%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.00%) Automotive
9 1 (1.00%) Marketing
9 1 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 56 (56.00%) Developer
2 38 (38.00%) Senior
3 28 (28.00%) Senior Developer
4 24 (24.00%) Lead
5 15 (15.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 12 (12.00%) Technical Leader
7 11 (11.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 10 (10.00%) Software Engineer
9 9 (9.00%) Backend Developer
10 7 (7.00%) .NET Developer
10 7 (7.00%) C# Developer
10 7 (7.00%) Java Developer
10 7 (7.00%) Software Developer
11 6 (6.00%) Azure Developer
11 6 (6.00%) Senior Backend Developer
12 5 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
13 4 (4.00%) AWS Developer
13 4 (4.00%) C# .NET Developer
13 4 (4.00%) Development Manager
13 4 (4.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (67.00%) .NET
2 57 (57.00%) .NET Core
3 25 (25.00%) CSS
4 23 (23.00%) HTML
4 23 (23.00%) React
5 19 (19.00%) REST
6 16 (16.00%) ASP.NET
6 16 (16.00%) jQuery
7 14 (14.00%) ASP.NET MVC
8 10 (10.00%) YAML
9 7 (7.00%) .NET Framework
9 7 (7.00%) JSON
9 7 (7.00%) Node.js
10 5 (5.00%) Spring
11 4 (4.00%) gRPC
11 4 (4.00%) NumPy
11 4 (4.00%) Pandas
11 4 (4.00%) Playwright
12 3 (3.00%) Django
12 3 (3.00%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 19 (19.00%) Product Ownership
2 14 (14.00%) Algorithms
3 11 (11.00%) Data Structures
3 11 (11.00%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (6.00%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (6.00%) Derivative
5 4 (4.00%) Credit Risk
5 4 (4.00%) Equity Derivative
5 4 (4.00%) Fixed Income
5 4 (4.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (4.00%) Low-Code
5 4 (4.00%) Market Risk
6 3 (3.00%) Contactless
6 3 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (3.00%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (3.00%) Public Cloud
6 3 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.00%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 22 (22.00%) Linux
2 8 (8.00%) Windows
3 5 (5.00%) Unix
4 3 (3.00%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (1.00%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (98.00%) OO
2 78 (78.00%) Agile
3 64 (64.00%) TDD
4 58 (58.00%) DevOps
5 56 (56.00%) Clean Code
6 45 (45.00%) API Management
7 24 (24.00%) CI/CD
8 19 (19.00%) MVC
8 19 (19.00%) Scrum
9 18 (18.00%) Software Engineering
10 17 (17.00%) Computer Science
10 17 (17.00%) Front End Development
11 15 (15.00%) Design Patterns
12 14 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
13 12 (12.00%) Decision-Making
13 12 (12.00%) SDLC
14 8 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
14 8 (8.00%) Line Management
14 8 (8.00%) UML
14 8 (8.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 73 (73.00%) C#
2 46 (46.00%) Bicep
3 34 (34.00%) JavaScript
4 27 (27.00%) Java
5 21 (21.00%) Python
6 20 (20.00%) TypeScript
7 18 (18.00%) SQL
8 12 (12.00%) C++
9 9 (9.00%) Perl
10 7 (7.00%) Bash
11 3 (3.00%) C
11 3 (3.00%) T-SQL
12 1 (1.00%) Assembly Language
12 1 (1.00%) Groovy
12 1 (1.00%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 19 (19.00%) Degree
2 16 (16.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (7.00%) Security Cleared
4 5 (5.00%) Master's Degree
4 5 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (21.00%) Accessibility
2 20 (20.00%) WCAG
3 4 (4.00%) MiFID
4 2 (2.00%) QA
5 1 (1.00%) IEC 61508
5 1 (1.00%) MISRA
5 1 (1.00%) MISRA C
System Software
1 37 (37.00%) Active Directory
2 9 (9.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.00%) Ansible
3 2 (2.00%) Terraform
4 1 (1.00%) Grafana
4 1 (1.00%) HP ALM
4 1 (1.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 43 (43.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.00%) Oracle
3 3 (3.00%) Cisco
3 3 (3.00%) IBM
3 3 (3.00%) Nintex
3 3 (3.00%) Pega
3 3 (3.00%) SAP
3 3 (3.00%) TOWER Software
4 2 (2.00%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.00%) Xamarin
5 1 (1.00%) HP
5 1 (1.00%) NVIDIA
5 1 (1.00%) QNX
5 1 (1.00%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (1.00%) Sparx