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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 488 547 629
Rank change year-on-year +59 +82 +126
Contract jobs citing OOA/OOD 7 12 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.027% 0.032% 0.015%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.029% 0.038% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 4
10th Percentile £390 £375 £406
25th Percentile £407 £435 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £489 £551
Median % change year-on-year -13.09% -11.29% -15.16%
75th Percentile £438 £661 £759
90th Percentile £455 £742 £896
UK median daily rate £410 £489 £575
% change year-on-year -16.16% -14.96% -4.17%

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 23,975 31,937 42,799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.99% 85.52% 89.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,423 20,731 29,966
10th Percentile £300 £306 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,196 2,302 1,555
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.85 £16.06 £16.62
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +45.12%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.60 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £75.94
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £37.42
% change year-on-year -32.93% +0.21% +43.92%

OOA/OOD
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

OOA/OOD
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

OOA/OOD
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

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 4 July 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 +39 7 £425 +11.84% 21
OOA/OOD
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 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) Heroku
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) Relational Database
2 1 (14.29%) MySQL
2 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) Gatling
2 1 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) JMeter
2 1 (14.29%) JUnit
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Ruby Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Senior
2 3 (42.86%) Senior Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Senior Ruby Developer
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Ruby Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) Ruby on Rails
2 2 (28.57%) CSS
2 2 (28.57%) HTML
3 1 (14.29%) .NET
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Core
3 1 (14.29%) Hibernate
3 1 (14.29%) Next.js
3 1 (14.29%) React
3 1 (14.29%) REST
3 1 (14.29%) RESTful
3 1 (14.29%) Spring
3 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
3 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) OO
2 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (42.86%) Microservices
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) Code Quality
4 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 2 (28.57%) TDD
5 1 (14.29%) BDD
5 1 (14.29%) DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) High Availability
5 1 (14.29%) Multithreading
5 1 (14.29%) OOD
5 1 (14.29%) OOP
5 1 (14.29%) Performance Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Refactoring
5 1 (14.29%) Responsive Web Design
5 1 (14.29%) Strategic Planning
5 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
5 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Ruby
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Dynatrace
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle
1 1 (14.29%) Splunk