OOD Contracts in the UK excluding London

Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for OOD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OOD over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 366 413 443
Rank change year-on-year +47 +30 -57
Contract jobs citing OOD 33 25 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.11% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.12% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 11 34
10th Percentile £290 £363 £359
25th Percentile £350 £439 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £488
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +23.08% +5.98%
75th Percentile £575 - £538
90th Percentile £670 £638 £555
UK median daily rate £520 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -20.00% +4.00% +26.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 9
10th Percentile - £49.85 £47.84
25th Percentile £72.50 £51.81 £53.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 £56.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +2.27% -2.65%
75th Percentile £77.50 £62.06 £57.50
90th Percentile - £66.87 £64.00
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £56.25 £56.25
% change year-on-year +33.33% - -0.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

OOD is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,325 20,337 27,186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.38% 89.23% 89.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,289 13,953 19,001
10th Percentile £250 £260 £238
25th Percentile £375 £400 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,130 1,241 1,347
10th Percentile £12.42 £10.63 £12.38
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.40
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.50 £62.35
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.68
% change year-on-year -0.11% +42.29% +9.46%

OOD
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing OOD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for OOD in the UK excluding London

OOD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OOD in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for OOD in the UK excluding London

OOD
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OOD in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OOD in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OOD in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for OOD in the UK excluding London

OOD
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OOD within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 May 2024. 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
South East +22 13 £550 - 21
North of England +30 6 £550 +10.00% 7
North West +22 5 £550 +10.00%
South West +2 5 £388 -35.42% 3
Scotland +39 4 £300 -29.41% 1
Wales - 3 - - 1
Midlands +18 2 £494 +5.95% 8
West Midlands +13 2 £494 +5.95% 4
North East - 1 £650 - 1
OOD
UK

OOD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (9.09%) IIS
2 2 (6.06%) Confluence
3 1 (3.03%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.03%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.03%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Maximo
2 1 (3.03%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (30.30%) Azure
2 7 (21.21%) AWS
3 6 (18.18%) Serverless
4 4 (12.12%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (12.12%) Amazon S3
5 3 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (9.09%) Power Automate
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Functions
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (3.03%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (3.03%) GCP
7 1 (3.03%) IaaS
7 1 (3.03%) Miro
7 1 (3.03%) PaaS
7 1 (3.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.09%) BGP
1 3 (9.09%) Cisco IOS
1 3 (9.09%) IOS XR
2 2 (6.06%) Tactical Data Link
3 1 (3.03%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (27.27%) Relational Database
2 8 (24.24%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (42.42%) Git
2 6 (18.18%) JIRA
3 5 (15.15%) Jenkins
4 3 (9.09%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (3.03%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.03%) GitLab
5 1 (3.03%) GoogleTest
5 1 (3.03%) MagicDraw
5 1 (3.03%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 15 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Marketing
4 2 (6.06%) Retail
4 2 (6.06%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.03%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.03%) Back Office
5 1 (3.03%) Finance
5 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 19 (57.58%) Developer
2 6 (18.18%) Software Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) .NET Developer
3 5 (15.15%) Software Developer
4 3 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) AWS Developer
4 3 (9.09%) Network Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Pega Developer
4 3 (9.09%) Senior
4 3 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) Azure Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Business Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) C# Software Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) C++ Software Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Full Stack Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Java Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Lead
5 2 (6.06%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (42.42%) .NET
2 9 (27.27%) REST
3 8 (24.24%) .NET Framework
4 7 (21.21%) JSON
5 6 (18.18%) .NET Core
6 5 (15.15%) CSS
6 5 (15.15%) HTML
7 4 (12.12%) Spring
8 3 (9.09%) Django
8 3 (9.09%) RESTful
8 3 (9.09%) XHTML
8 3 (9.09%) YANG
9 2 (6.06%) ASP.NET
9 2 (6.06%) ASP.NET MVC
9 2 (6.06%) Entity Framework
9 2 (6.06%) Guice
9 2 (6.06%) React
9 2 (6.06%) XML
10 1 (3.03%) Middleware
10 1 (3.03%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Algorithms
1 4 (12.12%) Data Protection Act
1 4 (12.12%) Data Structures
1 4 (12.12%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (12.12%) Low-Code
1 4 (12.12%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (9.09%) Mobile App
2 3 (9.09%) Public Cloud
3 2 (6.06%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (6.06%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.03%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (3.03%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 16 (48.48%) Linux
2 8 (24.24%) Windows
3 4 (12.12%) Unix
4 3 (9.09%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (3.03%) Android
5 1 (3.03%) Apple iOS
5 1 (3.03%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (93.94%) OO
2 20 (60.61%) Agile
3 14 (42.42%) Scrum
4 11 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (27.27%) CI/CD
5 9 (27.27%) Computer Science
5 9 (27.27%) Software Engineering
5 9 (27.27%) UML
5 9 (27.27%) Unit Testing
6 8 (24.24%) Clean Code
6 8 (24.24%) SDLC
6 8 (24.24%) SOLID
7 7 (21.21%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (21.21%) Design Patterns
8 6 (18.18%) MVC
9 5 (15.15%) Customer Service
9 5 (15.15%) E-Commerce
9 5 (15.15%) Full Stack Development
9 5 (15.15%) Kanban
9 5 (15.15%) Storyboarding
Programming Languages
1 14 (42.42%) Java
2 13 (39.39%) C#
3 12 (36.36%) JavaScript
4 11 (33.33%) Python
5 10 (30.30%) SQL
6 8 (24.24%) Perl
7 7 (21.21%) Bash
8 4 (12.12%) C++
9 3 (9.09%) T-SQL
10 1 (3.03%) Assembly Language
10 1 (3.03%) Bicep
10 1 (3.03%) C
10 1 (3.03%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 11 (33.33%) Degree
2 9 (27.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (18.18%) Security Cleared
4 4 (12.12%) SC Cleared
5 3 (9.09%) Master's Degree
6 1 (3.03%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) QA
2 1 (3.03%) IEC 61508
2 1 (3.03%) MISRA
2 1 (3.03%) MISRA C
Systems Management
1 3 (9.09%) Ansible
1 3 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (21.21%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.09%) Cisco
2 3 (9.09%) IBM
2 3 (9.09%) Nintex
2 3 (9.09%) Pega
2 3 (9.09%) Salesforce
2 3 (9.09%) SAP
2 3 (9.09%) TOWER Software
2 3 (9.09%) Xamarin
3 1 (3.03%) Google
3 1 (3.03%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud