OOD Contracts in the South East

Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 162 176 204
Rank change year-on-year +14 +28 +46
DemandTrendContract jobs citing OOD 1 9 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.028% 0.19% 0.089%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.032% 0.22% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 9 4
10th Percentile - £450 £376
25th Percentile - £475 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £645 £500 £496
Median % change year-on-year +28.98% +0.76% -13.70%
75th Percentile - £575 £600
90th Percentile - £675 -
England median daily rate £628 £520 £640
% change year-on-year +20.67% -18.75% +2.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
England median hourly rate - - £56.25
% change year-on-year - - +2.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,174 4,003 4,995
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 89.81% 82.52% 89.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,977 2,441 3,384
10th Percentile £250 £255 £250
25th Percentile £400 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £518
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.35% +3.60%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £623
90th Percentile £667 £700 £700
England median daily rate £511 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.64% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 305 315 239
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.00 £15.45
25th Percentile £15.25 £26.25 £21.24
Median hourly rate £23.00 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.90% +14.70% +96.08%
75th Percentile £51.10 £70.09 £64.13
90th Percentile £71.40 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £40.59
% change year-on-year -41.51% +5.94% +50.44%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing OOD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for OOD in the South East

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Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing OOD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing OOD

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing OOD.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing OOD

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DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OOD within the South East region over the 6 months to 19 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
Berkshire +13 1 £645 +28.98% 9
Thames Valley +7 1 £645 +51.74% 10
OOD
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (100.00%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) Drupal
1 1 (100.00%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Refinement
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) SFIA
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Review
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform