OOD Contracts in Scotland

Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 112 142
Rank change year-on-year -2 +30 +31
DemandTrendContract jobs citing OOD 5 4 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.30% 0.21% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.25% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 8
10th Percentile £475 £387 £474
25th Percentile £484 £395 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £410 £638
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -35.69% +15.91%
75th Percentile £566 £432 £750
90th Percentile £601 £435 -
UK median daily rate £600 £500 £625
% change year-on-year +20.00% -20.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £55.13 - £57.96
25th Percentile £57.19 - £58.65
Median hourly rate £63.75 - £59.03
75th Percentile £69.69 - £59.90
90th Percentile £71.38 - £61.46
UK median hourly rate £63.75 - £59.03
% change year-on-year - - +7.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,622 2,356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 91.23% 86.97% 92.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 831 992 1,580
10th Percentile £263 £210 £250
25th Percentile £370 £359 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.22% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £588 £669 £631
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 58 54
10th Percentile £16.61 £12.30 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.87 £14.63 £13.13
Median hourly rate £20.00 £19.59 £19.06
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% +2.81% -1.65%
75th Percentile £25.15 £40.94 £58.75
90th Percentile £27.96 £55.75 £64.25
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.50 £40.69
% change year-on-year -37.90% -0.47% +53.55%

OOD
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for OOD in Scotland

OOD
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing OOD

OOD
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OOD in Scotland over the 6 months to 21 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OOD in Scotland

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Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing OOD

OOD
Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing OOD in Scotland over the 6 months to 21 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for OOD in Scotland

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DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OOD within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 21 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +5 3 £488 +21.88% 10
Glasgow -24 2 £550 +30.95% 3
OOD
UK

OOD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (40.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) DB2
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
1 2 (40.00%) JUnit
1 2 (40.00%) Rational Rhapsody
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) Maven
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) C++ Software Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) CSS
2 1 (20.00%) FHIR
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) J2EE
2 1 (20.00%) J2SE
2 1 (20.00%) JMS
2 1 (20.00%) JSON
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (20.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Derivative
1 1 (20.00%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) OO
2 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) TDD
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) UML
4 1 (20.00%) Architectural Design
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (20.00%) Health Informatics
4 1 (20.00%) Microservices
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (20.00%) Sprint Review
4 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) The Twelve-Factor App
4 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C
1 2 (40.00%) C++
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) Perl
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) MISRA
1 2 (40.00%) MISRA C
2 1 (20.00%) DICOM
2 1 (20.00%) HL7
2 1 (20.00%) ISO 13485
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Sybase