OOA/OOD Contracts in England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring OOA/OOD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OOA/OOD over the 6 months leading up to 1 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 470 537 650
Rank change year-on-year +67 +113 +73
Contract jobs citing OOA/OOD 4 13 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.016% 0.034% 0.039%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.018% 0.040% 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 10
10th Percentile £345 £325 £409
25th Percentile £375 £366 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -11.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £475 £489 £734
90th Percentile - £494 £988
UK median daily rate £325 £430 £594
% change year-on-year -24.42% -27.58% -3.38%

All Process and 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 22,015 32,682 47,964
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.78% 86.73% 90.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,502 21,606 33,594
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 859 2,164 1,678
10th Percentile £14.99 £13.00 £11.00
25th Percentile £19.94 £15.99 £16.72
Median hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year - -13.33% +56.25%
75th Percentile £65.00 £58.53 £65.00
90th Percentile £76.44 £71.25 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £31.76 £32.50 £36.65
% change year-on-year -2.28% -11.33% +47.67%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing OOA/OOD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for OOA/OOD in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OOA/OOD in England.

Daily rate trend for OOA/OOD in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OOA/OOD in England over the 6 months to 1 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OOA/OOD in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OOA/OOD in England.

Hourly rate trend for OOA/OOD in England

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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 1 April 2025. 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 +44 4 £450 +18.42% 14
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UK

OOA/OOD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Ant
2 1 (25.00%) Gatling
2 1 (25.00%) JMeter
2 1 (25.00%) JUnit
2 1 (25.00%) Maven
2 1 (25.00%) Subversion
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Front Office
2 1 (25.00%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Software Developer
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C# Software Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C# Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Derivative
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Equities
1 1 (25.00%) Equity Derivative
1 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Unix
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) OO
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (50.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (25.00%) Concurrent Programming
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Multithreading
3 1 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (25.00%) OOP
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Ruby
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) Java
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk