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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 492 521 586
Rank change year-on-year +29 +65 +165
Contract jobs citing OOA/OOD 9 12 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.032% 0.037% 0.033%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.036% 0.043% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 7
10th Percentile £396 £481 £475
25th Percentile £405 £518 £584
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £610 £663
Median % change year-on-year -30.27% -8.00% +2.00%
75th Percentile £446 £692 £682
90th Percentile £518 £742 £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 25,234 28,138 37,658
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.88% 86.06% 89.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,038 17,541 26,048
10th Percentile £300 £313 £319
25th Percentile £405 £423 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £645 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,497 1,306 1,424
10th Percentile £14.38 £14.92 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.79
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -1.81% +51.01%
75th Percentile £49.75 £66.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +47.01%

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
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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +26 8 £425 -30.21% 2
North of England -13 1 £410 -43.53% 3
North West -16 1 £410 -43.53%
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Drupal
1 1 (11.11%) SAS
1 1 (11.11%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub
2 1 (11.11%) Heroku
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 3 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (22.22%) MySQL
3 2 (22.22%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 1 (11.11%) JUnit
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Ruby Developer
3 3 (33.33%) Senior
3 3 (33.33%) Senior Developer
3 3 (33.33%) Senior Ruby Developer
4 2 (22.22%) .NET Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Ruby Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) Ruby on Rails
2 2 (22.22%) .NET
2 2 (22.22%) .NET Core
2 2 (22.22%) CSS
2 2 (22.22%) HTML
2 2 (22.22%) RESTful
2 2 (22.22%) Web Services
3 1 (11.11%) Hibernate
3 1 (11.11%) JPA
3 1 (11.11%) Next.js
3 1 (11.11%) React
3 1 (11.11%) REST
3 1 (11.11%) Spring
3 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) OO
2 7 (77.78%) Agile
3 6 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (44.44%) Microservices
4 4 (44.44%) TDD
5 3 (33.33%) DevOps
6 2 (22.22%) BDD
6 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
6 2 (22.22%) Design Patterns
6 2 (22.22%) OOD
6 2 (22.22%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 2 (22.22%) SOLID
6 2 (22.22%) Unit Testing
7 1 (11.11%) Clean Code
7 1 (11.11%) Code Quality
7 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Culture
7 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
7 1 (11.11%) End-to-End Testing
7 1 (11.11%) Observability
7 1 (11.11%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Ruby
2 3 (33.33%) C#
3 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
4 1 (11.11%) Java
4 1 (11.11%) PHP
4 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle