OOD Contracts in the UK excluding London

Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for OOD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OOD over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 360 438 459
Rank change year-on-year +78 +21 -91
Contract jobs citing OOD 35 27 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.11% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.12% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 12 36
10th Percentile £301 £372 £394
25th Percentile £325 £464 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £488
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +17.95% +5.98%
75th Percentile £577 £600 £538
90th Percentile £690 - £590
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 10
10th Percentile £56.75 £50.42 £52.72
25th Percentile £59.38 £51.25 £53.38
Median hourly rate £67.50 £56.25 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -2.17% +13.30%
75th Percentile £74.38 £61.09 £60.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £66.15 £63.88
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £56.25 £58.75
% change year-on-year +20.00% -4.26% +15.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

OOD is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,670 21,826 27,870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.98% 89.54% 88.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,665 15,130 19,465
10th Percentile £248 £250 £230
25th Percentile £381 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,010 1,339 1,382
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.13 £16.20 £13.87
Median hourly rate £35.00 £36.00 £19.96
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +80.41% -7.83%
75th Percentile £59.99 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £71.80 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £36.31 £25.00
% change year-on-year -3.59% +45.22% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for OOD in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for OOD in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OOD in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OOD in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for OOD in the UK excluding London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing OOD in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for 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 OOD within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. 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
South East +25 14 £500 -16.67% 12
Scotland +46 8 £388 - 1
North of England +42 6 £550 +10.00% 5
North West +26 5 £550 +10.00% 2
South West +17 5 £350 -41.67% 3
Midlands +31 2 £494 +5.95% 6
West Midlands +24 2 £494 +5.95% 4
North East - 1 £650 - 2
OOD
UK

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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (8.57%) IIS
2 2 (5.71%) Confluence
3 1 (2.86%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.86%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 11 (31.43%) AWS
2 9 (25.71%) Serverless
3 7 (20.00%) Azure
4 6 (17.14%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (11.43%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (11.43%) Amazon S3
6 3 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (8.57%) Power Automate
7 2 (5.71%) Azure Functions
7 2 (5.71%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (2.86%) GCP
8 1 (2.86%) IaaS
8 1 (2.86%) Miro
8 1 (2.86%) PaaS
8 1 (2.86%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.57%) BGP
1 3 (8.57%) Cisco IOS
1 3 (8.57%) IOS XR
2 2 (5.71%) Tactical Data Link
3 1 (2.86%) NFC
3 1 (2.86%) PPP
3 1 (2.86%) SNMP
3 1 (2.86%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (22.86%) SQL Server
2 7 (20.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.86%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.86%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 15 (42.86%) Git
2 6 (17.14%) JIRA
3 5 (14.29%) Jenkins
4 4 (11.43%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (8.57%) Bitbucket
6 2 (5.71%) Eclipse
6 2 (5.71%) GoogleTest
7 1 (2.86%) GitLab
7 1 (2.86%) MagicDraw
7 1 (2.86%) Rational Rhapsody
7 1 (2.86%) Robot Framework
7 1 (2.86%) TestRail
7 1 (2.86%) Valgrind
7 1 (2.86%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (31.43%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.57%) Finance
3 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Automotive
3 2 (5.71%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.86%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.86%) Back Office
4 1 (2.86%) Banking
4 1 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Marketing
4 1 (2.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (57.14%) Developer
2 9 (25.71%) Software Engineer
3 8 (22.86%) .NET Developer
4 5 (14.29%) Software Developer
5 4 (11.43%) AWS Developer
5 4 (11.43%) Senior
5 4 (11.43%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Automation Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) C++ Software Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Embedded Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Network Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Pega Developer
6 3 (8.57%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Senior Linux Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) C# Software Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Embedded C++ Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Java Developer
7 2 (5.71%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (45.71%) .NET
2 10 (28.57%) REST
3 9 (25.71%) .NET Core
4 8 (22.86%) JSON
5 7 (20.00%) CSS
5 7 (20.00%) HTML
6 5 (14.29%) .NET Framework
7 4 (11.43%) Spring
8 3 (8.57%) ASP.NET
8 3 (8.57%) ASP.NET MVC
8 3 (8.57%) Django
8 3 (8.57%) React
8 3 (8.57%) RESTful
8 3 (8.57%) XHTML
8 3 (8.57%) YANG
9 2 (5.71%) Entity Framework
9 2 (5.71%) Guice
10 1 (2.86%) SOAP
10 1 (2.86%) Web Services
10 1 (2.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Algorithms
1 4 (11.43%) Data Protection Act
1 4 (11.43%) Data Structures
1 4 (11.43%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (11.43%) Low-Code
1 4 (11.43%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (8.57%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (8.57%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (8.57%) Public Cloud
3 2 (5.71%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (5.71%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.86%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.86%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (2.86%) Legacy Code
4 1 (2.86%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 17 (48.57%) Linux
2 9 (25.71%) Windows
3 4 (11.43%) Embedded Linux
3 4 (11.43%) Unix
4 1 (2.86%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.86%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (91.43%) OO
2 22 (62.86%) Agile
3 15 (42.86%) Scrum
4 11 (31.43%) Software Engineering
5 9 (25.71%) CI/CD
5 9 (25.71%) Clean Code
5 9 (25.71%) MVC
5 9 (25.71%) UML
5 9 (25.71%) Unit Testing
6 8 (22.86%) Computer Science
6 8 (22.86%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (22.86%) SDLC
7 7 (20.00%) OOA/OOD
7 7 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (20.00%) SOLID
8 6 (17.14%) Design Patterns
8 6 (17.14%) Performance Tuning
9 5 (14.29%) DevOps
9 5 (14.29%) Microservices
9 5 (14.29%) Storyboarding
Programming Languages
1 14 (40.00%) Java
1 14 (40.00%) JavaScript
1 14 (40.00%) Python
2 12 (34.29%) C#
3 8 (22.86%) Perl
4 7 (20.00%) Bash
4 7 (20.00%) SQL
5 5 (14.29%) C++
6 3 (8.57%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.86%) Assembly Language
7 1 (2.86%) Bicep
7 1 (2.86%) C
7 1 (2.86%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 10 (28.57%) Degree
2 8 (22.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (17.14%) Security Cleared
4 4 (11.43%) Master's Degree
4 4 (11.43%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) QA
2 1 (2.86%) IEC 61508
2 1 (2.86%) MISRA
2 1 (2.86%) MISRA C
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (20.00%) Terraform
2 3 (8.57%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (11.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.57%) Cisco
2 3 (8.57%) IBM
2 3 (8.57%) Nintex
2 3 (8.57%) Pega
2 3 (8.57%) SAP
2 3 (8.57%) TOWER Software
3 2 (5.71%) Google
4 1 (2.86%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.86%) Okta
4 1 (2.86%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.86%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud