OOD Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring OOD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 63 65
Rank change year-on-year -17 +2 +9
Contract jobs citing OOD 2 3 8
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.27% 0.43% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.48% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 8
10th Percentile £508 £387 £649
25th Percentile £519 £396 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £420 £750
Median % change year-on-year +30.95% -44.00% +37.17%
75th Percentile £594 £434 £800
90th Percentile £613 £436 -
Scotland median daily rate £494 £423 £750
% change year-on-year +16.86% -43.67% +37.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 656 623 757
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 88.77% 89.26% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 400 408 507
10th Percentile £300 £280 £348
25th Percentile £380 £356 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £440 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -12.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £600
90th Percentile £614 £675 £700
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £479
% change year-on-year +3.33% -6.05% +0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 12 19
10th Percentile £15.09 £15.39 £11.70
25th Percentile £16.84 £18.11 £12.13
Median hourly rate £18.00 £19.59 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.12% +35.10% -61.26%
75th Percentile £26.21 £26.76 £17.72
90th Percentile £57.50 £41.70 £27.64
Scotland median hourly rate £19.97 £20.94 £19.06
% change year-on-year -4.62% +9.88% +1.63%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OOD relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

OOD job vacancy trend in Glasgow

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Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing OOD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing OOD

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Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing OOD.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing OOD

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) DB2
1 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Maven
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Front Office
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) J2EE
2 1 (50.00%) J2SE
2 1 (50.00%) JMS
2 1 (50.00%) JSON
2 1 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Derivative
1 1 (50.00%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Database Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Review
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) The Twelve-Factor App
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Sybase