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 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 616 499 523
Rank change year-on-year -117 +24 +76
Contract jobs citing OOA/OOD 2 7 10
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.004% 0.025% 0.030%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.005% 0.028% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 9
10th Percentile £488 £393 £411
25th Percentile £515 £405 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £571 £425 £489
Median % change year-on-year +34.24% -13.09% -26.19%
75th Percentile £626 £438 £712
90th Percentile £653 £452 £745
UK median daily rate £571 £418 £489
% change year-on-year +36.65% -14.62% -6.86%

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 38,840 25,197 28,792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.30% 90.74% 85.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,270 16,131 18,863
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,474 1,391 1,702
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £14.06
25th Percentile £20.75 £17.87 £18.18
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £51.45 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.90% -4.71%

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

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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 2 August 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 2 August 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 -63 2 £571 +34.24% 3
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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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) RSpec
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (50.00%) React Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Ruby on Rails Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Design Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Design Authority
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Next.js
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) ArchiMate
2 1 (50.00%) BPMN
2 1 (50.00%) Business Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Database Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (50.00%) UML
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Ruby
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Sparx