OOD Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring OOD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OOD 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 1.47% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £498 - -
25th Percentile £500 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 - -
75th Percentile £563 - -
90th Percentile £565 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £531 £628 £460
% change year-on-year -15.34% +36.41% -20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 188 77 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 92.16% 82.80% 81.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 64 25
10th Percentile £350 £201 £313
25th Percentile £414 £334 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £434 £480
Median % change year-on-year +18.09% -9.56% -9.43%
75th Percentile £538 £516 £550
90th Percentile £548 £567 £588
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £514 £500
% change year-on-year -2.68% +2.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £26.13 - -
25th Percentile £27.59 - -
Median hourly rate £31.31 £23.60 -
Median % change year-on-year +32.65% - -
75th Percentile £36.30 - -
90th Percentile £38.53 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.03 £23.05 £27.50
% change year-on-year -0.11% -16.18% +55.19%

OOD
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

OOD job vacancy trend in Shropshire

OOD
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing OOD

OOD
Hourly Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing OOD

OOD
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OOD within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 12 October 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
Telford - 2 £531 -
OOD
West Midlands

OOD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Database
2 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (100.00%) Git
1 3 (100.00%) GitLab
1 3 (100.00%) JUnit
1 3 (100.00%) Maven
1 3 (100.00%) Mockito
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Gherkin
1 3 (100.00%) GraalVM
1 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) JDBC
1 3 (100.00%) JPA
1 3 (100.00%) JSON
1 3 (100.00%) OAuth
1 3 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 3 (100.00%) OpenID
1 3 (100.00%) Playwright
1 3 (100.00%) React
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
1 3 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (33.33%) Spring.NET
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Coaching
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) OO
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Grafana
1 3 (100.00%) Kibana
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle