OOA/OOD Contracts in the UK excluding London

Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (OOA/OOD)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring OOA/OOD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OOA/OOD over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 333 387 437
Rank change year-on-year +54 +50 +34
Contract jobs citing OOA/OOD 6 12 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.047% 0.058% 0.042%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.052% 0.068% 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 6
10th Percentile - £275 £566
25th Percentile - £325 £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £438 £650
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -32.69% +5.78%
75th Percentile - £489 -
90th Percentile £415 £507 £700
UK median daily rate £325 £409 £631
% change year-on-year -20.49% -35.25% +2.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

OOA/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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,562 17,588 21,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.38% 84.75% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,253 10,507 14,891
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 821 2,055 1,305
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.32 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.22 £15.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +4.29% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.52 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

OOA/OOD
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing OOA/OOD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for OOA/OOD in the UK excluding London

OOA/OOD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OOA/OOD in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for OOA/OOD in the UK excluding London

OOA/OOD
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OOA/OOD in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OOA/OOD in the UK excluding London

OOA/OOD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OOA/OOD in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for OOA/OOD in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OOA/OOD within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Northern Ireland - 4 £325 -
Scotland +10 2 £450 +33.33% 1
OOA/OOD
UK

OOA/OOD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Hadoop
1 1 (16.67%) KDB
1 1 (16.67%) Kdb+
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
1 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
1 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Jenkins
2 4 (66.67%) Ant
2 4 (66.67%) Git
2 4 (66.67%) Maven
2 4 (66.67%) Subversion
General
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
2 4 (66.67%) Banking
2 4 (66.67%) Front Office
2 4 (66.67%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) .NET Developer
1 4 (66.67%) .NET Software Developer
1 4 (66.67%) .NET Software Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) C# .NET Developer
1 4 (66.67%) C# Developer
1 4 (66.67%) C# Software Developer
1 4 (66.67%) C# Software Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
1 4 (66.67%) Developer/Software Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Derivative
1 4 (66.67%) Equities
1 4 (66.67%) Equity Derivative
1 4 (66.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (83.33%) Windows
3 4 (66.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) OO
1 6 (100.00%) SDLC
1 6 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Concurrent Programming
2 4 (66.67%) Design Patterns
2 4 (66.67%) High Availability
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) OOD
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
4 1 (16.67%) BDD
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) SOA
4 1 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (16.67%) TDD
4 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) C#
2 4 (66.67%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) C++
3 2 (33.33%) Python
4 1 (16.67%) Java
4 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft