OOD Contracts

Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 16 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 476 519 558
Rank change year-on-year +43 +39 -10
Contract jobs citing OOD 108 179 299
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.32% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.36% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 121 209
10th Percentile £363 £363 £413
25th Percentile £433 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -21.15% +4.00% +25.63%
75th Percentile £638 £875 £750
90th Percentile £775 £975 £863
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £600 £488
% change year-on-year -20.83% +23.08% +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 11
10th Percentile - £45.71 £47.93
25th Percentile £72.50 £50.38 £52.88
Median hourly rate £75.00 £56.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +2.27% -2.65%
75th Percentile £77.50 £61.09 £58.75
90th Percentile - £66.15 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £56.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +33.33% +2.27% -2.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

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 16 June 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
Top 13 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 16 June 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 +16 98 £538 -17.31% 49
London +12 70 £538 -20.37% 12
Work from Home +82 37 £494 -17.71% 23
UK excluding London +37 33 £475 -20.83% 37
South East +26 13 £550 - 14
North of England +21 6 £550 +10.00% 6
North West +18 5 £550 +10.00% 1
South West -5 5 £388 -35.42% 6
Scotland +51 4 £300 -29.41% 1
Wales - 3 - - 2
West Midlands +15 2 £494 +5.95% 2
Midlands +13 2 £494 +5.95% 5
North East - 1 £650 - 1

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 (13.89%) CMS
2 4 (3.70%) Apache
3 3 (2.78%) Confluence
3 3 (2.78%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.93%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.93%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (2.78%) Maximo
2 1 (0.93%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.93%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 63 (58.33%) Azure
2 53 (49.07%) Azure DevOps
3 38 (35.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 35 (32.41%) Azure Monitor
4 35 (32.41%) Azure Service Bus
5 21 (19.44%) AWS
6 19 (17.59%) Azure Pipelines
7 13 (12.04%) Serverless
8 10 (9.26%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (9.26%) Amazon S3
8 10 (9.26%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (2.78%) Amazon EventBridge
10 3 (2.78%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (2.78%) AWS Step Functions
10 3 (2.78%) dbt
10 3 (2.78%) Power Automate
11 2 (1.85%) Entra ID
11 2 (1.85%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.48%) FTP
2 3 (2.78%) BGP
2 3 (2.78%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (2.78%) IOS XR
3 2 (1.85%) Tactical Data Link
4 1 (0.93%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (54.63%) SQL Server
2 16 (14.81%) Relational Database
3 4 (3.70%) NoSQL
3 4 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.93%) Couchbase
5 1 (0.93%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.93%) KDB
5 1 (0.93%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 58 (53.70%) Git
2 14 (12.96%) JIRA
3 6 (5.56%) Bitbucket
3 6 (5.56%) Jenkins
4 5 (4.63%) SpecFlow
5 4 (3.70%) Rational DOORS
5 4 (3.70%) Sourcetree
6 3 (2.78%) JMeter
6 3 (2.78%) Postman
6 3 (2.78%) Selenium
6 3 (2.78%) webpack
7 2 (1.85%) Babel
7 2 (1.85%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.93%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (0.93%) ClearCase
8 1 (0.93%) ClearQuest
8 1 (0.93%) GitLab
8 1 (0.93%) MagicDraw
8 1 (0.93%) Spock
8 1 (0.93%) TeamCity
General
1 38 (35.19%) Social Skills
2 35 (32.41%) Back Office
3 14 (12.96%) Public Sector
4 13 (12.04%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (11.11%) Finance
6 4 (3.70%) Banking
6 4 (3.70%) Front Office
7 3 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.78%) Local Government
8 2 (1.85%) Marketing
8 2 (1.85%) Retail
8 2 (1.85%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.93%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (57.41%) Developer
2 38 (35.19%) Senior
3 28 (25.93%) Senior Developer
4 23 (21.30%) Lead
5 15 (13.89%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 12 (11.11%) Technical Leader
7 11 (10.19%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 11 (10.19%) Software Engineer
8 9 (8.33%) Backend Developer
9 8 (7.41%) .NET Developer
9 8 (7.41%) Software Developer
10 7 (6.48%) C# Developer
10 7 (6.48%) Java Developer
11 6 (5.56%) AWS Developer
11 6 (5.56%) Azure Developer
11 6 (5.56%) Senior Backend Developer
12 5 (4.63%) Full Stack Developer
12 5 (4.63%) Senior Software Engineer
13 4 (3.70%) Senior Java Developer
13 4 (3.70%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (62.04%) .NET
2 55 (50.93%) .NET Core
3 24 (22.22%) CSS
4 23 (21.30%) React
5 22 (20.37%) HTML
6 20 (18.52%) REST
7 16 (14.81%) jQuery
8 15 (13.89%) ASP.NET
9 13 (12.04%) ASP.NET MVC
10 10 (9.26%) .NET Framework
11 7 (6.48%) JSON
11 7 (6.48%) Node.js
11 7 (6.48%) Spring
12 6 (5.56%) YAML
13 5 (4.63%) Playwright
14 4 (3.70%) gRPC
14 4 (3.70%) Guice
14 4 (3.70%) NumPy
14 4 (3.70%) Pandas
14 4 (3.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (17.59%) Product Ownership
2 16 (14.81%) Algorithms
3 13 (12.04%) Data Structures
3 13 (12.04%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (7.41%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (5.56%) Derivative
6 5 (4.63%) Fixed Income
6 5 (4.63%) Mobile App
7 4 (3.70%) Credit Risk
7 4 (3.70%) Equity Derivative
7 4 (3.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (3.70%) Low-Code
7 4 (3.70%) Market Risk
7 4 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (2.78%) Contactless
8 3 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (2.78%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.85%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 25 (23.15%) Linux
2 8 (7.41%) Windows
3 7 (6.48%) Unix
4 3 (2.78%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.93%) Android
5 1 (0.93%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.93%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (98.15%) OO
2 80 (74.07%) Agile
3 61 (56.48%) TDD
4 58 (53.70%) DevOps
5 52 (48.15%) Clean Code
6 42 (38.89%) API Management
7 30 (27.78%) CI/CD
8 23 (21.30%) Scrum
9 21 (19.44%) Computer Science
10 20 (18.52%) MVC
11 19 (17.59%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (17.59%) Software Engineering
12 17 (15.74%) Design Patterns
12 17 (15.74%) Front End Development
13 12 (11.11%) SDLC
13 12 (11.11%) Unit Testing
14 11 (10.19%) Decision-Making
14 11 (10.19%) Test Automation
15 9 (8.33%) Migration
15 9 (8.33%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 72 (66.67%) C#
2 42 (38.89%) Bicep
3 34 (31.48%) JavaScript
4 30 (27.78%) Java
5 25 (23.15%) Python
6 21 (19.44%) SQL
7 20 (18.52%) TypeScript
8 13 (12.04%) C++
9 11 (10.19%) Perl
10 7 (6.48%) Bash
11 3 (2.78%) C
11 3 (2.78%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.93%) Assembly Language
12 1 (0.93%) Groovy
12 1 (0.93%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 23 (21.30%) Degree
2 20 (18.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (6.48%) Security Cleared
4 5 (4.63%) Master's Degree
4 5 (4.63%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.93%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (20.37%) Accessibility
2 21 (19.44%) WCAG
3 4 (3.70%) MiFID
4 2 (1.85%) QA
5 1 (0.93%) IEC 61508
5 1 (0.93%) MISRA
5 1 (0.93%) MISRA C
System Software
1 33 (30.56%) Active Directory
2 9 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (5.56%) Terraform
2 5 (4.63%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.78%) Ansible
4 1 (0.93%) Grafana
4 1 (0.93%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.93%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 47 (43.52%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.56%) Oracle
3 5 (4.63%) Xamarin
4 3 (2.78%) Cisco
4 3 (2.78%) IBM
4 3 (2.78%) Nintex
4 3 (2.78%) Pega
4 3 (2.78%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.78%) SAP
4 3 (2.78%) TOWER Software
5 1 (0.93%) Google
5 1 (0.93%) HP
5 1 (0.93%) NVIDIA
5 1 (0.93%) QNX
5 1 (0.93%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (0.93%) Sparx