OOA/OOD Contract Job Trends in England

Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (OOA/OOD)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring OOA/OOD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 589 483 517
Rank change year-on-year -106 +34 +122
Contract jobs citing OOA/OOD 4 6 14
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.010% 0.025% 0.038%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.011% 0.027% 0.045%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 9
10th Percentile - £357 £369
25th Percentile £610 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £425 £489
Median % change year-on-year +45.88% -13.09% -12.68%
75th Percentile £630 £438 £507
90th Percentile - £460 £718
UK median daily rate £583 £400 £489
% change year-on-year +45.63% -18.20% -22.53%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

OOA/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 in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 34,902 22,108 31,434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.66% 91.30% 86.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,235 14,434 20,613
10th Percentile £325 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,141 960 2,249
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.42 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.22 £16.00
Median hourly rate £46.80 £28.75 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.78% -21.23% -0.11%
75th Percentile £67.84 £62.24 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +51.79% -23.29% +1.39%

OOA/OOD
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OOA/OOD relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

OOA/OOD job vacancy trend in England

OOA/OOD
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing OOA/OOD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing OOA/OOD

OOA/OOD
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing OOA/OOD.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing OOA/OOD

OOA/OOD
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OOA/OOD within the England region over the 6 months to 21 May 2026. 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
London -59 4 £620 +45.88%
OOA/OOD
UK

OOA/OOD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Drupal
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (50.00%) WebLogic
1 2 (50.00%) WebSphere
1 2 (50.00%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (50.00%) DB2
2 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) JUnit
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) TIBCO Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (50.00%) J2EE
1 2 (50.00%) JMS
1 2 (50.00%) JPA
1 2 (50.00%) OC4J
1 2 (50.00%) REST
1 2 (50.00%) SOAP
1 2 (50.00%) Spring
1 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (50.00%) TIBCO EMS
1 2 (50.00%) Vue
1 2 (50.00%) Web Services
1 2 (50.00%) WSDL
1 2 (50.00%) XML
1 2 (50.00%) XSD
1 2 (50.00%) XSLT
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Backlog Refinement
1 2 (50.00%) Database Tuning
1 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Front End Development
1 2 (50.00%) High Availability
1 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (50.00%) Microservices
1 2 (50.00%) Observability
1 2 (50.00%) OO
1 2 (50.00%) Resource Management
1 2 (50.00%) RUP
1 2 (50.00%) SOA
1 2 (50.00%) SOLID
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (50.00%) TDD
1 2 (50.00%) UML
1 2 (50.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) PHP
1 2 (50.00%) XPath
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
1 2 (50.00%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) BEA
1 2 (50.00%) IBM
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
1 2 (50.00%) TIBCO