OO Contracts with Work from Home Options

Object-Oriented (OO)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for OO skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OO over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 181 159 173
Rank change year-on-year -22 +14 +27
Contract jobs citing OO 168 413 714
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.10% 1.62% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 1.80% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 270 502
10th Percentile £375 £400 £400
25th Percentile £458 £505 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £630 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.68% +14.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £659 £750 £675
90th Percentile £838 £875 £775
UK median daily rate £575 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +22.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 9
10th Percentile - - £42.33
25th Percentile - £47.50 £47.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £50.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +2.04% +17.53%
75th Percentile - £54.22 £60.00
90th Percentile - £61.07 £61.00
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £56.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +19.11% +2.27% +22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

OO 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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,387 22,922 40,601
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.93% 89.77% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,971 16,192 29,477
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 576 528 542
10th Percentile £15.08 £18.68 £13.75
25th Percentile £24.25 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.81 £55.63
90th Percentile £75.13 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing OO as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

OO trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing OO.

OO daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing OO over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

OO daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing OO.

OO hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 8 (4.76%) CMS
2 6 (3.57%) Confluence
2 6 (3.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (1.79%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.79%) IIS
4 1 (0.60%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (2.38%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.38%) Distributed Ledger
1 4 (2.38%) Temenos T24
2 3 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.19%) Endur
3 2 (1.19%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.60%) SAP CAR
4 1 (0.60%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.60%) SAP POS DM
4 1 (0.60%) SAP Retail
4 1 (0.60%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 55 (32.74%) Azure
2 32 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
3 26 (15.48%) AWS
4 18 (10.71%) Azure Service Bus
5 15 (8.93%) Azure Monitor
5 15 (8.93%) Serverless
6 13 (7.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 11 (6.55%) Azure Logic Apps
8 9 (5.36%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (4.76%) Azure API Management
9 8 (4.76%) Azure Pipelines
10 7 (4.17%) Amazon S3
10 7 (4.17%) Azure Functions
11 6 (3.57%) dbt
12 5 (2.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (2.98%) Amazon EventBridge
12 5 (2.98%) Amazon Kinesis
12 5 (2.98%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (2.98%) AWS Step Functions
12 5 (2.98%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.79%) BGP
1 3 (1.79%) Cisco IOS
1 3 (1.79%) IOS XR
2 1 (0.60%) FTP
2 1 (0.60%) HTTP
2 1 (0.60%) Internet
2 1 (0.60%) NFC
2 1 (0.60%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (25.60%) SQL Server
2 16 (9.52%) NoSQL
3 12 (7.14%) Relational Database
4 8 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.57%) MySQL
5 6 (3.57%) Oracle Database
6 5 (2.98%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (2.98%) KDB
6 5 (2.98%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.38%) OLAP
7 4 (2.38%) OLTP
7 4 (2.38%) Oracle OLAP
8 3 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.60%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.60%) SAP BW
10 1 (0.60%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 35 (20.83%) Git
2 20 (11.90%) JIRA
3 12 (7.14%) Visual Studio
4 8 (4.76%) Jenkins
5 5 (2.98%) MSI
5 5 (2.98%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 5 (2.98%) WiX
6 4 (2.38%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (1.79%) PHPUnit
7 3 (1.79%) Postman
7 3 (1.79%) Rational DOORS
8 2 (1.19%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.19%) Eclipse
8 2 (1.19%) Pylint
8 2 (1.19%) Selenium
8 2 (1.19%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.19%) Subversion
8 2 (1.19%) webpack
9 1 (0.60%) Babel
General
1 52 (30.95%) Social Skills
2 43 (25.60%) Finance
3 18 (10.71%) Banking
4 13 (7.74%) Public Sector
5 12 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (6.55%) Back Office
7 5 (2.98%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.38%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.38%) Retail
8 4 (2.38%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.79%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (1.79%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.79%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.79%) Tech for Good
10 2 (1.19%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.19%) Electronics
10 2 (1.19%) International Banking
10 2 (1.19%) Marketing
11 1 (0.60%) Games
Job Titles
1 94 (55.95%) Developer
2 26 (15.48%) Senior
3 19 (11.31%) Senior Developer
4 13 (7.74%) Software Engineer
5 12 (7.14%) C# Developer
5 12 (7.14%) Full Stack Developer
6 11 (6.55%) Lead
7 10 (5.95%) .NET Developer
7 10 (5.95%) Data Engineer
7 10 (5.95%) Linux Engineer
7 10 (5.95%) SQL Developer
8 9 (5.36%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 9 (5.36%) Java Developer
8 9 (5.36%) Network Engineer
8 9 (5.36%) Python Engineer
9 8 (4.76%) Azure Developer
9 8 (4.76%) Linux Scripter
10 7 (4.17%) Architect
11 6 (3.57%) Lead Developer
11 6 (3.57%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (35.71%) .NET
2 33 (19.64%) REST
3 27 (16.07%) .NET Core
4 25 (14.88%) CSS
5 23 (13.69%) ASP.NET
6 22 (13.10%) Web Services
7 20 (11.90%) HTML
8 15 (8.93%) React
9 14 (8.33%) .NET Framework
10 13 (7.74%) jQuery
10 13 (7.74%) JSON
11 12 (7.14%) Node.js
11 12 (7.14%) SOAP
12 11 (6.55%) Kafka
12 11 (6.55%) Spring
12 11 (6.55%) Vue
13 10 (5.95%) Entity Framework
13 10 (5.95%) XML
14 8 (4.76%) ASP.NET Core
15 7 (4.17%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.14%) Algorithms
2 9 (5.36%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (5.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 9 (5.36%) Product Ownership
3 7 (4.17%) Derivative
4 6 (3.57%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.98%) Client/Server
5 5 (2.98%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (2.98%) Web 2.0
6 4 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.38%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.38%) DataPower
6 4 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.38%) iPad
6 4 (2.38%) iPhone
6 4 (2.38%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.19%) Contactless
7 2 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.19%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 40 (23.81%) Linux
2 22 (13.10%) Unix
3 19 (11.31%) Windows
4 9 (5.36%) Apple iOS
5 6 (3.57%) Android
6 4 (2.38%) Windows Server
7 2 (1.19%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.60%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (33.33%) DevOps
2 45 (26.79%) Agile
2 45 (26.79%) OOP
3 40 (23.81%) CI/CD
4 39 (23.21%) Design Patterns
5 34 (20.24%) OOD
6 32 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (17.86%) Software Engineering
8 28 (16.67%) TDD
9 27 (16.07%) SOLID
10 26 (15.48%) Unit Testing
11 25 (14.88%) Clean Code
12 23 (13.69%) MVC
13 22 (13.10%) Test Automation
14 21 (12.50%) SDLC
15 20 (11.90%) API Management
16 18 (10.71%) Scrum
17 16 (9.52%) Analytics
17 16 (9.52%) Full Stack Development
18 15 (8.93%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 74 (44.05%) C#
2 54 (32.14%) SQL
3 43 (25.60%) Python
4 41 (24.40%) Java
5 33 (19.64%) JavaScript
6 24 (14.29%) Perl
7 18 (10.71%) Bicep
8 12 (7.14%) C++
8 12 (7.14%) PowerShell
9 11 (6.55%) TypeScript
10 10 (5.95%) ABAP
11 9 (5.36%) T-SQL
12 7 (4.17%) Scala
13 6 (3.57%) Bash
14 5 (2.98%) F#
15 4 (2.38%) Objective-C
15 4 (2.38%) Swift
16 3 (1.79%) C
16 3 (1.79%) PHP
16 3 (1.79%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (13.10%) Degree
2 10 (5.95%) Security Cleared
3 9 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (3.57%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.98%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.79%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.60%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.60%) ISEB
7 1 (0.60%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.60%) PhD
7 1 (0.60%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 8 (4.76%) WCAG
3 7 (4.17%) QA
4 3 (1.79%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.19%) MiFID
6 1 (0.60%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (6.55%) Active Directory
2 10 (5.95%) Docker
3 7 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (7.74%) Terraform
2 6 (3.57%) Ansible
3 5 (2.98%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.79%) PowerCLI
4 3 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.19%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (0.60%) SCOM
Vendors
1 23 (13.69%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.14%) Oracle
3 8 (4.76%) SAP
4 7 (4.17%) VMware
5 5 (2.98%) IBM
6 4 (2.38%) HP
6 4 (2.38%) TSYS
7 3 (1.79%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.79%) Cisco
7 3 (1.79%) Dell
7 3 (1.79%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.79%) TOWER Software
8 2 (1.19%) Adobe
8 2 (1.19%) BMC
8 2 (1.19%) Calypso
8 2 (1.19%) Xamarin
9 1 (0.60%) Ariba
9 1 (0.60%) Citrix
9 1 (0.60%) Google