OO Contracts with Work from Home 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 20 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 177 159 172
Rank change year-on-year -18 +13 +4
Contract jobs citing OO 176 362 723
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.19% 1.52% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 1.69% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 229 537
10th Percentile £363 £400 £389
25th Percentile £438 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £640 £563
Median % change year-on-year -16.29% +13.78% +12.50%
75th Percentile £625 £750 £713
90th Percentile £775 £875 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 3
10th Percentile - - £44.25
25th Percentile - £47.50 £46.88
Median hourly rate £60.00 £50.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -4.76% +23.53%
75th Percentile - £52.50 £59.38
90th Percentile - - £62.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.64 £55.00
% change year-on-year +12.77% +4.80% +22.22%

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 12,871 21,399 39,942
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.23% 89.63% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,673 15,206 29,099
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +5.42%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 495 518
10th Percentile £15.02 £18.49 £14.96
25th Percentile £24.00 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.13 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.51% +30.33% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.95 £78.45 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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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 20 June 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 (4.55%) CMS
2 7 (3.98%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (3.41%) Confluence
4 3 (1.70%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.57%) Apache
5 1 (0.57%) IIS
5 1 (0.57%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (3.41%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (2.84%) SAP S/4HANA
1 5 (2.84%) Temenos T24
2 3 (1.70%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (1.14%) Endur
3 2 (1.14%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.57%) SAP CAR
4 1 (0.57%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.57%) SAP POS DM
4 1 (0.57%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 60 (34.09%) Azure
2 26 (14.77%) AWS
3 25 (14.20%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (10.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 18 (10.23%) Azure Service Bus
5 12 (6.82%) Azure Monitor
6 10 (5.68%) Serverless
7 8 (4.55%) Amazon S3
7 8 (4.55%) Azure Pipelines
8 6 (3.41%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (3.41%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (2.84%) Apigee
9 5 (2.84%) Kong
9 5 (2.84%) PaaS
10 4 (2.27%) Azure API Management
10 4 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (2.27%) dbt
10 4 (2.27%) GCP
10 4 (2.27%) Snowflake
11 3 (1.70%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.70%) BGP
1 3 (1.70%) Cisco IOS
1 3 (1.70%) IOS XR
2 2 (1.14%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.57%) 5G
3 1 (0.57%) DHCP
3 1 (0.57%) DNS
3 1 (0.57%) FTP
3 1 (0.57%) HTTP
3 1 (0.57%) Internet
3 1 (0.57%) LTE
3 1 (0.57%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.57%) VPN
3 1 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (24.43%) SQL Server
2 14 (7.95%) NoSQL
2 14 (7.95%) Relational Database
3 11 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (5.11%) MySQL
5 6 (3.41%) KDB
5 6 (3.41%) MongoDB
5 6 (3.41%) Oracle Database
6 5 (2.84%) OLAP
6 5 (2.84%) OLTP
6 5 (2.84%) Oracle OLAP
7 4 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.70%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.70%) Big Data
8 3 (1.70%) Power BI
8 3 (1.70%) Tableau
8 3 (1.70%) Tableau Server
9 2 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.57%) SAP BW
10 1 (0.57%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 33 (18.75%) Git
2 21 (11.93%) JIRA
3 7 (3.98%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.41%) Visual Studio
5 5 (2.84%) MSI
5 5 (2.84%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 5 (2.84%) WiX
6 4 (2.27%) PHPUnit
7 2 (1.14%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.14%) JUnit
7 2 (1.14%) Postman
7 2 (1.14%) Pylint
7 2 (1.14%) Rational DOORS
7 2 (1.14%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.57%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.57%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.57%) jMock
8 1 (0.57%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.57%) Selenium
8 1 (0.57%) VisualWorks
General
1 59 (33.52%) Social Skills
2 46 (26.14%) Finance
3 20 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (9.66%) Banking
5 16 (9.09%) Public Sector
6 11 (6.25%) Back Office
7 7 (3.98%) Retail
8 6 (3.41%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.27%) Corporate Banking
9 4 (2.27%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.27%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.27%) Retail Banking
9 4 (2.27%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.70%) Marketing
10 3 (1.70%) Tech for Good
11 2 (1.14%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.14%) Electronics
11 2 (1.14%) Front Office
12 1 (0.57%) Games
Job Titles
1 99 (56.25%) Developer
2 27 (15.34%) Senior
3 22 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 14 (7.95%) Full Stack Developer
5 12 (6.82%) C# Developer
5 12 (6.82%) Software Engineer
6 11 (6.25%) Lead
7 10 (5.68%) .NET Developer
7 10 (5.68%) Java Developer
7 10 (5.68%) Linux Engineer
7 10 (5.68%) Network Engineer
8 9 (5.11%) Python Engineer
8 9 (5.11%) SQL Developer
9 8 (4.55%) Data Engineer
9 8 (4.55%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 7 (3.98%) Architect
10 7 (3.98%) Linux Scripter
10 7 (3.98%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (3.98%) Unix Engineer
10 7 (3.98%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (34.66%) .NET
2 32 (18.18%) REST
3 28 (15.91%) .NET Core
3 28 (15.91%) CSS
4 25 (14.20%) HTML
5 22 (12.50%) ASP.NET
6 21 (11.93%) Web Services
7 18 (10.23%) .NET Framework
8 16 (9.09%) React
9 14 (7.95%) jQuery
9 14 (7.95%) Spring
10 13 (7.39%) JSON
11 12 (6.82%) Kafka
12 11 (6.25%) Entity Framework
12 11 (6.25%) Node.js
12 11 (6.25%) XML
13 10 (5.68%) SOAP
13 10 (5.68%) Vue
14 9 (5.11%) Swagger
15 8 (4.55%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.52%) Algorithms
2 11 (6.25%) Data Structures
2 11 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 9 (5.11%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (4.55%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.98%) Mobile App
6 6 (3.41%) Derivative
6 6 (3.41%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.84%) Client/Server
7 5 (2.84%) DataPower
7 5 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.84%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.84%) Web 2.0
8 4 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.27%) iPad
8 4 (2.27%) iPhone
9 3 (1.70%) Fixed Income
10 2 (1.14%) Equity Derivative
10 2 (1.14%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 37 (21.02%) Linux
2 26 (14.77%) Unix
3 19 (10.80%) Windows
4 9 (5.11%) Apple iOS
5 5 (2.84%) Android
6 4 (2.27%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.57%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (30.11%) OOP
2 48 (27.27%) Agile
3 47 (26.70%) DevOps
4 44 (25.00%) Design Patterns
5 42 (23.86%) Problem-Solving
6 36 (20.45%) OOD
7 30 (17.05%) Software Engineering
7 30 (17.05%) Unit Testing
8 29 (16.48%) CI/CD
9 28 (15.91%) TDD
10 24 (13.64%) Clean Code
11 23 (13.07%) Scrum
11 23 (13.07%) SOLID
12 22 (12.50%) MVC
13 20 (11.36%) API Management
13 20 (11.36%) SDLC
14 19 (10.80%) Analytics
14 19 (10.80%) Computer Science
14 19 (10.80%) Full Stack Development
14 19 (10.80%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 71 (40.34%) C#
2 63 (35.80%) SQL
3 42 (23.86%) Python
4 40 (22.73%) Java
5 37 (21.02%) JavaScript
6 25 (14.20%) Perl
7 18 (10.23%) Bicep
8 13 (7.39%) C++
9 11 (6.25%) ABAP
10 10 (5.68%) TypeScript
11 9 (5.11%) T-SQL
12 7 (3.98%) PowerShell
13 6 (3.41%) Bash
13 6 (3.41%) PL/SQL
13 6 (3.41%) Scala
14 5 (2.84%) F#
15 4 (2.27%) PHP
15 4 (2.27%) Swift
15 4 (2.27%) VB
15 4 (2.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 27 (15.34%) Degree
2 10 (5.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (3.98%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.70%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.70%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.57%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.57%) HND
6 1 (0.57%) PhD
6 1 (0.57%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.11%) Accessibility
2 8 (4.55%) WCAG
3 7 (3.98%) QA
4 3 (1.70%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.14%) MiFID
6 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (9.09%) Docker
2 11 (6.25%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (6.25%) Terraform
2 9 (5.11%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.27%) Ansible
3 4 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.70%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (1.14%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.57%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.57%) SCOM
Vendors
1 26 (14.77%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.95%) Oracle
3 10 (5.68%) SAP
4 6 (3.41%) VMware
4 6 (3.41%) Xamarin
5 5 (2.84%) IBM
5 5 (2.84%) TSYS
6 4 (2.27%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.70%) BMC
7 3 (1.70%) Cisco
7 3 (1.70%) Cloudera
7 3 (1.70%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.70%) TOWER Software
8 2 (1.14%) Apiary
8 2 (1.14%) Ariba
8 2 (1.14%) Calypso
9 1 (0.57%) Adobe
9 1 (0.57%) Citrix
9 1 (0.57%) Dell
9 1 (0.57%) HP