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 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 564 466 542
Rank change year-on-year -98 +76 +124
Contract jobs citing OOA/OOD 16 13 14
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.043% 0.052% 0.037%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.050% 0.058% 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 9 8
10th Percentile £344 £405 £325
25th Percentile £350 £425 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £595 £463
Median % change year-on-year -17.31% +28.44% -11.76%
75th Percentile £579 £609 £489
90th Percentile £624 £614 £494
UK median daily rate £505 £450 £430
% change year-on-year +12.22% +4.65% -29.07%

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 31,916 22,554 32,925
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.52% 90.61% 86.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,413 14,598 21,798
10th Percentile £313 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £639 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,990 810 2,146
10th Percentile £15.31 £15.22 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.50 £34.06 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.44% +4.78% -12.16%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -7.14%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OOA/OOD in England over the 6 months to 15 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for OOA/OOD in England

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 15 March 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 -50 9 £350 -41.18%
North West - 7 £505 -
North of England - 7 £505 -
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 7 (43.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 7 (43.75%) WebLogic
1 7 (43.75%) WebSphere
2 2 (12.50%) Drupal
2 2 (12.50%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 7 (43.75%) BusinessWorks
2 5 (31.25%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (6.25%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) AWS
2 7 (43.75%) Azure
2 7 (43.75%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (56.25%) Relational Database
2 7 (43.75%) DB2
2 7 (43.75%) SQL Server
3 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Git
1 2 (12.50%) JUnit
General
1 7 (43.75%) Banking
1 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Architect
1 7 (43.75%) Solutions Architect
2 6 (37.50%) Developer
2 6 (37.50%) TIBCO Developer
3 4 (25.00%) Payments Architect
3 4 (25.00%) Payments Solutions Architect
4 3 (18.75%) TIBCO BusinessWorks Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Business Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (56.25%) Spring
1 9 (56.25%) Spring Boot
2 7 (43.75%) J2EE
2 7 (43.75%) JMS
2 7 (43.75%) OC4J
2 7 (43.75%) SOAP
2 7 (43.75%) TIBCO EMS
2 7 (43.75%) Web Services
2 7 (43.75%) WSDL
2 7 (43.75%) XML
2 7 (43.75%) XSD
2 7 (43.75%) XSLT
3 2 (12.50%) Hibernate
3 2 (12.50%) JPA
3 2 (12.50%) REST
3 2 (12.50%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (87.50%) UML
2 9 (56.25%) Microservices
3 8 (50.00%) Design Patterns
4 7 (43.75%) Architectural Patterns
4 7 (43.75%) Data Modelling
4 7 (43.75%) OO
4 7 (43.75%) Resource Management
4 7 (43.75%) RUP
4 7 (43.75%) SOA
5 6 (37.50%) Logical Data Model
5 6 (37.50%) Mentoring
6 5 (31.25%) Containerisation
7 4 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
8 2 (12.50%) Client Onboarding
8 2 (12.50%) DevOps
8 2 (12.50%) Fintech
8 2 (12.50%) Front End Development
8 2 (12.50%) Observability
8 2 (12.50%) Physical Data Model
8 2 (12.50%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) Java
2 7 (43.75%) XPath
3 2 (12.50%) C#
3 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 2 (12.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (43.75%) ISO 20022
2 4 (25.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (43.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) TIBCO Hawk
2 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) BEA
1 7 (43.75%) IBM
1 7 (43.75%) Oracle
1 7 (43.75%) TIBCO
2 5 (31.25%) Google