OOD Contracts in London

Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 330 320 360
Rank change year-on-year -10 +40 +36
Contract jobs citing OOD 23 71 135
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.18% 0.40% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.45% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 45 97
10th Percentile £513 £425 £487
25th Percentile £550 £463 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £629 £570 £650
Median % change year-on-year +10.35% -12.31% -
75th Percentile £770 £650 £875
90th Percentile £838 £820 £1,000
England median daily rate £569 £550 £625
% change year-on-year +3.41% -12.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for OOD in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for OOD in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OOD in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OOD in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for OOD in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OOD within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Central London 0 2 £644 +43.06% 15
East London +14 1 £538 -2.27% 3
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 1 (4.35%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (69.57%) Azure
2 15 (65.22%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (30.43%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (8.70%) AWS
5 1 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (4.35%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) NoSQL
1 2 (8.70%) Relational Database
1 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Ignite
2 1 (4.35%) Big Data
2 1 (4.35%) Couchbase
2 1 (4.35%) KDB
2 1 (4.35%) Kdb+
2 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.35%) MySQL
2 1 (4.35%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket
2 1 (4.35%) GitLab
2 1 (4.35%) Jasmine
2 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.35%) JUnit
2 1 (4.35%) Karma Test Runner
2 1 (4.35%) Moq
2 1 (4.35%) NUnit
General
1 13 (56.52%) Back Office
2 9 (39.13%) Social Skills
3 5 (21.74%) Finance
3 5 (21.74%) Front Office
4 4 (17.39%) Public Sector
5 3 (13.04%) Banking
6 1 (4.35%) Advertising
6 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (4.35%) Financial Institution
6 1 (4.35%) Investment Banking
6 1 (4.35%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 15 (65.22%) Lead
2 12 (52.17%) Technical Leader
3 8 (34.78%) Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Java Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Python Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Software Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Angular Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Architect
5 1 (4.35%) C# Developer
5 1 (4.35%) C++ Software Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) ForgeRock Developer
5 1 (4.35%) KDB Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Lead Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Lead Software Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Lead Technical Architect
5 1 (4.35%) React Developer
5 1 (4.35%) SQL Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Team Leader
5 1 (4.35%) Technical Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (69.57%) .NET
2 3 (13.04%) RESTful
3 2 (8.70%) .NET Core
3 2 (8.70%) .NET Framework
4 1 (4.35%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.35%) Apache Camel
4 1 (4.35%) ASP.NET
4 1 (4.35%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (4.35%) CSS
4 1 (4.35%) Entity Framework
4 1 (4.35%) HTML
4 1 (4.35%) Kafka
4 1 (4.35%) LangChain
4 1 (4.35%) NumPy
4 1 (4.35%) Pandas
4 1 (4.35%) React
4 1 (4.35%) Spring
4 1 (4.35%) Web Services
4 1 (4.35%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Product Ownership
2 3 (13.04%) Hedge funds
3 2 (8.70%) Fixed Income
3 2 (8.70%) Virtual Team
4 1 (4.35%) Algorithms
4 1 (4.35%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.35%) Derivative
4 1 (4.35%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (4.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (4.35%) Hackathon
4 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) OO
2 17 (73.91%) DevOps
3 14 (60.87%) Agile
3 14 (60.87%) Clean Code
3 14 (60.87%) TDD
4 11 (47.83%) Database Optimisation
4 11 (47.83%) Design Patterns
5 10 (43.48%) Content Management
6 6 (26.09%) Technical Leadership
7 5 (21.74%) Analytics
8 4 (17.39%) CI/CD
8 4 (17.39%) Software Engineering
9 3 (13.04%) Computer Science
10 2 (8.70%) Full-Stack Development
10 2 (8.70%) Low Latency
10 2 (8.70%) Microservices
10 2 (8.70%) Roadmaps
10 2 (8.70%) Scrum
10 2 (8.70%) Software Architecture
11 1 (4.35%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 17 (73.91%) Java
2 16 (69.57%) C#
2 16 (69.57%) SQL
3 13 (56.52%) PowerShell
4 12 (52.17%) JavaScript
5 4 (17.39%) Python
6 2 (8.70%) C++
7 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
7 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (8.70%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.35%) Master's Degree
2 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (34.78%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (60.87%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.35%) ForgeRock