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 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 507 503 570
Rank change year-on-year -4 +67 +162
Contract jobs citing OOA/OOD 10 15 14
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.035% 0.048% 0.034%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.039% 0.055% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 11 7
10th Percentile £399 £485 £475
25th Percentile £405 £541 £584
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £609 £663
Median % change year-on-year -30.21% -8.08% +8.16%
75th Percentile £492 £671 £682
90th Percentile £529 £740 £690
UK median daily rate £425 £609 £525
% change year-on-year -30.21% +16.00% -12.50%

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 25,910 27,182 36,059
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.82% 86.63% 88.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,410 16,557 24,867
10th Percentile £297 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,660 1,019 1,483
10th Percentile £14.54 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.67 £20.30 £18.98
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.63% -9.38% +27.14%
75th Percentile £44.75 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £74.45 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £42.75
% change year-on-year -32.95% -12.28% +22.14%

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 26 October 2025.

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 26 October 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 -1 7 £425 -29.40% 2
North West -20 3 £492 -32.23%
North of England -30 3 £492 -32.23%
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 1 (10.00%) Drupal
1 1 (10.00%) SAS
1 1 (10.00%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) Azure
3 2 (20.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub
4 1 (10.00%) Heroku
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) Relational Database
2 3 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (20.00%) MySQL
3 2 (20.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (10.00%) JUnit
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Ruby Developer
3 3 (30.00%) Senior
3 3 (30.00%) Senior Developer
3 3 (30.00%) Senior Ruby Developer
4 2 (20.00%) .NET Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Architect
4 2 (20.00%) Payments Architect
4 2 (20.00%) Payments Solutions Architect
4 2 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 3 (30.00%) Spring
2 3 (30.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (20.00%) .NET
3 2 (20.00%) .NET Core
3 2 (20.00%) CSS
3 2 (20.00%) HTML
3 2 (20.00%) RESTful
3 2 (20.00%) Web Services
4 1 (10.00%) Hibernate
4 1 (10.00%) JPA
4 1 (10.00%) Next.js
4 1 (10.00%) React
4 1 (10.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) OO
2 6 (60.00%) Agile
3 5 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 5 (50.00%) Microservices
4 4 (40.00%) TDD
5 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
5 3 (30.00%) DevOps
5 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
6 2 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
6 2 (20.00%) BDD
6 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
6 2 (20.00%) Design Patterns
6 2 (20.00%) Logical Data Model
6 2 (20.00%) OOD
6 2 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 2 (20.00%) SOLID
6 2 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
6 2 (20.00%) UML
6 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Ruby
2 3 (30.00%) C#
2 3 (30.00%) Java
3 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (10.00%) PHP
4 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) ISO 20022
1 2 (20.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Google
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle