Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 491 547 563
Rank change year-on-year +56 +16 -45
Contract jobs citing OOD 107 173 300
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.29% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.32% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 118 203
10th Percentile £340 £398 £450
25th Percentile £450 £513 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% -4.00% +25.54%
75th Percentile £640 £822 £738
90th Percentile £775 £965 £939
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £600 £488
% change year-on-year -20.83% +23.08% +5.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 12
10th Percentile £56.75 £46.97 £53.25
25th Percentile £59.38 £51.25 £53.63
Median hourly rate £67.50 £56.25 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -4.26% +15.76%
75th Percentile £74.38 £60.13 £60.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £65.43 £63.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £56.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year +20.00% -2.17% +13.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

OOD
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for OOD in the UK

OOD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OOD.

Daily rate trend for OOD in the UK

OOD
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OOD over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OOD in the UK

OOD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OOD.

Hourly rate trend for OOD in the UK

OOD
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing OOD over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for OOD in the UK

OOD
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 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
England +61 96 £550 -12.00% 59
London +37 69 £570 -12.31% 27
Work from Home +91 33 £538 -10.42% 23
UK excluding London +70 33 £475 -20.83% 34
South East +37 14 £500 -16.67% 14
North of England +37 6 £550 +10.00% 6
Scotland +36 6 £375 -11.76%
North West +19 5 £550 +10.00% 1
South West +14 5 £350 -41.67% 4
West Midlands +27 2 £494 +5.95% 3
Midlands +19 2 £494 +5.95% 6
North East - 1 £650 - 3

OOD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 15 (14.02%) CMS
2 4 (3.74%) Apache
3 3 (2.80%) Confluence
3 3 (2.80%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.93%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (2.80%) Maximo
2 1 (0.93%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 59 (55.14%) Azure
2 53 (49.53%) Azure DevOps
3 36 (33.64%) Azure Service Bus
4 35 (32.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 35 (32.71%) Azure Monitor
5 25 (23.36%) AWS
6 18 (16.82%) Azure Pipelines
7 17 (15.89%) Serverless
8 14 (13.08%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (9.35%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (9.35%) Amazon S3
10 5 (4.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (4.67%) Amazon EventBridge
10 5 (4.67%) Amazon Kinesis
10 5 (4.67%) AWS Step Functions
10 5 (4.67%) dbt
11 4 (3.74%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (2.80%) Power Automate
13 2 (1.87%) Azure Functions
13 2 (1.87%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.54%) FTP
2 3 (2.80%) BGP
2 3 (2.80%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (2.80%) IOS XR
3 2 (1.87%) Tactical Data Link
4 1 (0.93%) NFC
4 1 (0.93%) PPP
4 1 (0.93%) SNMP
4 1 (0.93%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (56.07%) SQL Server
2 14 (13.08%) Relational Database
3 5 (4.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (3.74%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.87%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.93%) Couchbase
6 1 (0.93%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.93%) KDB
6 1 (0.93%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.93%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 62 (57.94%) Git
2 16 (14.95%) JIRA
3 8 (7.48%) Bitbucket
4 6 (5.61%) Jenkins
5 5 (4.67%) Rational DOORS
6 4 (3.74%) Sourcetree
6 4 (3.74%) SpecFlow
7 3 (2.80%) Postman
7 3 (2.80%) Selenium
7 3 (2.80%) webpack
8 2 (1.87%) Babel
8 2 (1.87%) Eclipse
8 2 (1.87%) GoogleTest
8 2 (1.87%) JMeter
8 2 (1.87%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.93%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (0.93%) GitLab
9 1 (0.93%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.93%) Spock
9 1 (0.93%) TestRail
General
1 33 (30.84%) Back Office
2 31 (28.97%) Social Skills
3 14 (13.08%) Finance
3 14 (13.08%) Public Sector
4 7 (6.54%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.67%) Banking
6 3 (2.80%) Front Office
6 3 (2.80%) Local Government
7 2 (1.87%) Automotive
7 2 (1.87%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.93%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.93%) Marketing
8 1 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.93%) Retail
Job Titles
1 56 (52.34%) Developer
2 37 (34.58%) Senior
3 26 (24.30%) Senior Developer
4 21 (19.63%) Lead
5 15 (14.02%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 13 (12.15%) Software Engineer
7 12 (11.21%) Technical Leader
8 11 (10.28%) .NET Developer
8 11 (10.28%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 9 (8.41%) Backend Developer
10 7 (6.54%) AWS Developer
10 7 (6.54%) Java Developer
10 7 (6.54%) Software Developer
11 6 (5.61%) Azure Developer
11 6 (5.61%) C# Developer
11 6 (5.61%) Senior Backend Developer
11 6 (5.61%) Senior Software Engineer
12 5 (4.67%) AWS Data Engineer
12 5 (4.67%) AWS Engineer
12 5 (4.67%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (61.68%) .NET
2 57 (53.27%) .NET Core
3 24 (22.43%) CSS
4 22 (20.56%) HTML
5 21 (19.63%) React
6 20 (18.69%) REST
7 17 (15.89%) ASP.NET
8 16 (14.95%) jQuery
9 15 (14.02%) ASP.NET MVC
10 8 (7.48%) JSON
10 8 (7.48%) YAML
11 7 (6.54%) Node.js
12 6 (5.61%) .NET Framework
12 6 (5.61%) Spring
13 5 (4.67%) PySpark
14 4 (3.74%) gRPC
14 4 (3.74%) NumPy
14 4 (3.74%) Pandas
14 4 (3.74%) Playwright
14 4 (3.74%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 17 (15.89%) Product Ownership
2 15 (14.02%) Algorithms
3 12 (11.21%) Data Structures
3 12 (11.21%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (6.54%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (5.61%) Derivative
6 4 (3.74%) Credit Risk
6 4 (3.74%) Equity Derivative
6 4 (3.74%) Fixed Income
6 4 (3.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (3.74%) Low-Code
6 4 (3.74%) Market Risk
6 4 (3.74%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.80%) Contactless
7 3 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.80%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.80%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.87%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.93%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 25 (23.36%) Linux
2 9 (8.41%) Windows
3 6 (5.61%) Unix
4 4 (3.74%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.93%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.93%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (97.20%) OO
2 84 (78.50%) Agile
3 61 (57.01%) TDD
4 60 (56.07%) DevOps
5 54 (50.47%) Clean Code
6 43 (40.19%) API Management
7 28 (26.17%) CI/CD
8 23 (21.50%) MVC
9 22 (20.56%) Scrum
10 20 (18.69%) Software Engineering
11 19 (17.76%) Computer Science
12 18 (16.82%) Front End Development
13 17 (15.89%) Design Patterns
14 14 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
14 14 (13.08%) Unit Testing
15 12 (11.21%) SDLC
15 12 (11.21%) Test Automation
16 10 (9.35%) Decision-Making
17 9 (8.41%) Continuous Improvement
17 9 (8.41%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 70 (65.42%) C#
2 43 (40.19%) Bicep
3 34 (31.78%) JavaScript
4 29 (27.10%) Java
4 29 (27.10%) Python
5 18 (16.82%) TypeScript
6 14 (13.08%) C++
6 14 (13.08%) SQL
7 10 (9.35%) Perl
8 7 (6.54%) Bash
9 3 (2.80%) C
9 3 (2.80%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.93%) Assembly Language
10 1 (0.93%) Groovy
10 1 (0.93%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 21 (19.63%) Degree
2 18 (16.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (6.54%) Security Cleared
4 6 (5.61%) Master's Degree
5 5 (4.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (19.63%) Accessibility
2 18 (16.82%) WCAG
3 4 (3.74%) MiFID
4 2 (1.87%) QA
5 1 (0.93%) IEC 61508
5 1 (0.93%) MISRA
5 1 (0.93%) MISRA C
System Software
1 35 (32.71%) Active Directory
2 9 (8.41%) Docker
3 1 (0.93%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (9.35%) Terraform
2 5 (4.67%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.80%) Ansible
4 1 (0.93%) Grafana
4 1 (0.93%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.93%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 39 (36.45%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.61%) Oracle
3 3 (2.80%) Cisco
3 3 (2.80%) IBM
3 3 (2.80%) Nintex
3 3 (2.80%) Pega
3 3 (2.80%) SAP
3 3 (2.80%) TOWER Software
4 2 (1.87%) Google
5 1 (0.93%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.93%) HP
5 1 (0.93%) NVIDIA
5 1 (0.93%) QNX
5 1 (0.93%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.93%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (0.93%) Sparx