OO Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Object-Oriented (OO)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring OO skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OO over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 165 187 149
Rank change year-on-year +22 -38 +24
Contract jobs citing OO 142 164 432
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.43% 1.07% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 1.22% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 110 283
10th Percentile £333 £375 £400
25th Percentile £413 £459 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £638
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -15.69% +15.91%
75th Percentile £650 £661 £750
90th Percentile £850 £838 £875
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £627
% change year-on-year -8.70% -8.22% +6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47.50
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% -5.21%
75th Percentile - - £54.22
90th Percentile - - £61.07
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £71.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year -14.08% +26.22% +2.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

OO falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing OO as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

OO trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing OO over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 remote working options 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 5 (3.52%) Apache
2 4 (2.82%) CMS
2 4 (2.82%) Confluence
2 4 (2.82%) Drupal
2 4 (2.82%) WordPress
3 2 (1.41%) IIS
3 2 (1.41%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.70%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.70%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.70%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (12.68%) Azure
1 18 (12.68%) GCP
2 13 (9.15%) AWS
3 12 (8.45%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (2.82%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (2.11%) Amazon S3
5 3 (2.11%) GitHub
6 2 (1.41%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (1.41%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (1.41%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.41%) Azure AKS
6 2 (1.41%) CloudBees
6 2 (1.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (1.41%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.41%) PowerApps
6 2 (1.41%) Serverless
7 1 (0.70%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (0.70%) Azure API Management
7 1 (0.70%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.82%) Internet
2 1 (0.70%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (14.79%) Relational Database
2 13 (9.15%) SAP HANA
3 10 (7.04%) SQL Server
4 7 (4.93%) NoSQL
5 6 (4.23%) MySQL
6 4 (2.82%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.41%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.41%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.41%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.70%) Big Data
8 1 (0.70%) ClickHouse
8 1 (0.70%) DB2
8 1 (0.70%) KDB
8 1 (0.70%) Kdb+
8 1 (0.70%) Parquet
8 1 (0.70%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 31 (21.83%) Git
2 16 (11.27%) JIRA
3 10 (7.04%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.52%) Ant
4 5 (3.52%) Maven
4 5 (3.52%) Selenium
4 5 (3.52%) Subversion
5 4 (2.82%) Bitbucket Server
5 4 (2.82%) Cypress.io
5 4 (2.82%) HP UFT
5 4 (2.82%) TestComplete
6 3 (2.11%) JUnit
7 2 (1.41%) MSTest
7 2 (1.41%) NUnit
7 2 (1.41%) PHPUnit
7 2 (1.41%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (1.41%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.70%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.70%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.70%) TestNG
General
1 45 (31.69%) Social Skills
2 26 (18.31%) Finance
3 23 (16.20%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (14.79%) Front Office
5 18 (12.68%) Public Sector
6 10 (7.04%) Banking
7 6 (4.23%) Back Office
8 5 (3.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (3.52%) Wholesale Banking
9 4 (2.82%) Investment Banking
10 3 (2.11%) Electronics
10 3 (2.11%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.11%) Manufacturing
10 3 (2.11%) Marketing
10 3 (2.11%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.70%) Advertising
11 1 (0.70%) Aviation
11 1 (0.70%) Law
Job Titles
1 62 (43.66%) Developer
2 26 (18.31%) Software Engineer
3 24 (16.90%) C# Developer
4 22 (15.49%) .NET Developer
5 20 (14.08%) C# .NET Developer
6 18 (12.68%) SAP Developer
7 17 (11.97%) ABAP Developer
8 16 (11.27%) Analyst
9 14 (9.86%) Lead
10 13 (9.15%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 12 (8.45%) C# Developer - Electronic Trading
11 12 (8.45%) Real Time Developer
12 10 (7.04%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 9 (6.34%) Programmer
13 9 (6.34%) Python Programmer
13 9 (6.34%) Senior
13 9 (6.34%) Technical Analyst
14 7 (4.93%) Linux Engineer
14 7 (4.93%) Platform Engineer
14 7 (4.93%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (31.69%) .NET
2 25 (17.61%) AngularJS
3 21 (14.79%) HTML
4 19 (13.38%) CSS
4 19 (13.38%) Web Services
5 15 (10.56%) BAPI
6 14 (9.86%) React
6 14 (9.86%) REST
7 12 (8.45%) Ajax
7 12 (8.45%) Reactive Extensions
8 9 (6.34%) FastAPI
9 8 (5.63%) Django
9 8 (5.63%) Flask
9 8 (5.63%) Vue
10 6 (4.23%) SOAP
11 5 (3.52%) .NET Core
11 5 (3.52%) HTML5
11 5 (3.52%) LAMP
12 4 (2.82%) Laravel
12 4 (2.82%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.86%) Enterprise Software
1 14 (9.86%) Product Ownership
2 10 (7.04%) Management Information System
3 6 (4.23%) Data Structures
3 6 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (4.23%) Equities
4 5 (3.52%) Derivative
4 5 (3.52%) Equity Derivative
4 5 (3.52%) Hedge funds
5 4 (2.82%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.82%) Legacy Code
5 4 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.41%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.70%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.70%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.70%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.70%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 36 (25.35%) Linux
2 28 (19.72%) Unix
3 14 (9.86%) Windows
4 1 (0.70%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (45.07%) Agile
2 40 (28.17%) OOP
2 40 (28.17%) Software Engineering
3 33 (23.24%) Design Patterns
4 28 (19.72%) CI/CD
4 28 (19.72%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (18.31%) Test Automation
6 24 (16.90%) DevOps
7 22 (15.49%) TDD
8 19 (13.38%) Concurrent Programming
9 18 (12.68%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (12.68%) Low Latency
9 18 (12.68%) Mentoring
10 17 (11.97%) Full-Stack Development
10 17 (11.97%) Scrum
10 17 (11.97%) SOA
11 16 (11.27%) Containerisation
11 16 (11.27%) Technical Leadership
12 15 (10.56%) Microservices
12 15 (10.56%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 64 (45.07%) Python
2 54 (38.03%) JavaScript
3 49 (34.51%) C#
4 47 (33.10%) SQL
5 44 (30.99%) Java
6 19 (13.38%) ABAP
7 16 (11.27%) TypeScript
8 15 (10.56%) Perl
9 13 (9.15%) PowerShell
10 11 (7.75%) C++
11 10 (7.04%) PHP
12 3 (2.11%) C
13 2 (1.41%) Groovy
13 2 (1.41%) Kotlin
13 2 (1.41%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.41%) Shell Script
13 2 (1.41%) T-SQL
13 2 (1.41%) VB
13 2 (1.41%) VBA
14 1 (0.70%) Go
Qualifications
1 33 (23.24%) Security Cleared
2 30 (21.13%) SC Cleared
3 14 (9.86%) Degree
4 13 (9.15%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (6.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.52%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.11%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.11%) SAP Certification
8 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.70%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.70%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.82%) PCI DSS
2 3 (2.11%) Accessibility
System Software
1 20 (14.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (8.45%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.93%) Terraform
3 2 (1.41%) Grafana
3 2 (1.41%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.70%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 23 (16.20%) Microsoft
2 22 (15.49%) SAP
3 16 (11.27%) Oracle
4 7 (4.93%) Google
5 4 (2.82%) Bloomberg
5 4 (2.82%) Reuters
5 4 (2.82%) Zend
6 3 (2.11%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.11%) TOWER Software
7 2 (1.41%) Sybase
8 1 (0.70%) Ariba
8 1 (0.70%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.70%) Xamarin