OOD Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring OOD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OOD over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 312 357 446
Rank change year-on-year +45 +89 -52
Contract jobs citing OOD 57 56 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.34% 0.27% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.30% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 30 39
10th Percentile £382 £383 £360
25th Percentile £422 £419 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -13.04% +27.78%
75th Percentile £651 £600 £679
90th Percentile £736 £755 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £660
% change year-on-year -16.67% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 25 7
10th Percentile - £45.88 £48.09
25th Percentile - £48.32 £48.48
Median hourly rate - £59.03 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +7.33% +4.76%
75th Percentile - £65.00 £58.59
90th Percentile - - £59.68
UK median hourly rate - £59.68 £53.61
% change year-on-year - +11.33% -2.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,041 18,439 26,837
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.81% 88.33% 89.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,020 12,105 18,694
10th Percentile £250 £250 £260
25th Percentile £381 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £686 £688 £680
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 897 1,303 1,340
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.25 £12.66
25th Percentile £18.13 £17.72 £15.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £43.33 £28.90
Median % change year-on-year -19.22% +49.93% +60.56%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £63.38
90th Percentile £72.50 £77.50 £70.30
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £43.86 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.92% +25.31% +66.67%

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 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OOD in the UK excluding London

OOD
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 October 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
Midlands +33 31 £628 +36.41% 1
West Midlands +31 31 £628 +36.41%
South East +48 16 £500 +22.32% 5
North of England +26 4 £630 +30.91% 1
Scotland +15 4 £423 -43.67% 3
South West +10 3 £400 -27.27% 4
Yorkshire - 3 £630 -
Wales +7 2 - - 6
North East - 1 £350 -
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 4 (7.02%) CMS
2 2 (3.51%) Apache
2 2 (3.51%) IIS
2 2 (3.51%) JBoss
3 1 (1.75%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.75%) MS Visio
1 1 (1.75%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (8.77%) Azure
2 4 (7.02%) AWS
2 4 (7.02%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (3.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (1.75%) Amazon S3
4 1 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (1.75%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.51%) HTTP
1 2 (3.51%) RS-485
1 2 (3.51%) SSL
2 1 (1.75%) BGP
2 1 (1.75%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (1.75%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (1.75%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (1.75%) DMVPN
2 1 (1.75%) EIGRP
2 1 (1.75%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 1 (1.75%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (1.75%) Firewall
2 1 (1.75%) IPsec
2 1 (1.75%) MPLS
2 1 (1.75%) Network Security
2 1 (1.75%) OSPF
2 1 (1.75%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (1.75%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.75%) Sourcefire
2 1 (1.75%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (54.39%) DB2
2 30 (52.63%) Apache Cassandra
2 30 (52.63%) MongoDB
3 5 (8.77%) Relational Database
4 3 (5.26%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.75%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 45 (78.95%) Git
2 13 (22.81%) JIRA
3 11 (19.30%) GoogleTest
3 11 (19.30%) Jenkins
4 9 (15.79%) Bitbucket
4 9 (15.79%) Rational DOORS
4 9 (15.79%) TestRail
5 3 (5.26%) Maven
5 3 (5.26%) Postman
5 3 (5.26%) SoapUI
6 1 (1.75%) SonarQube
General
1 18 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 13 (22.81%) Banking
3 11 (19.30%) Investment Banking
4 9 (15.79%) Finance
5 4 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.51%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.75%) Billing
7 1 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.75%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.75%) Marketing
7 1 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 40 (70.18%) Developer
2 28 (49.12%) Java Developer
3 10 (17.54%) C++ Software Engineer
3 10 (17.54%) Senior
3 10 (17.54%) Software Engineer
4 9 (15.79%) Embedded C++ Engineer
4 9 (15.79%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
4 9 (15.79%) Embedded Engineer
4 9 (15.79%) Embedded Linux Engineer
4 9 (15.79%) Embedded Linux Software Engineer
4 9 (15.79%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 9 (15.79%) Linux Engineer
4 9 (15.79%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
4 9 (15.79%) Senior Embedded Engineer
4 9 (15.79%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
4 9 (15.79%) Senior Linux Engineer
4 9 (15.79%) Senior Software Engineer
5 7 (12.28%) Full-Stack Developer
5 7 (12.28%) JavaScript Developer
6 4 (7.02%) Angular Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (56.14%) AngularJS
1 32 (56.14%) React
1 32 (56.14%) Spring
2 31 (54.39%) Hibernate
3 28 (49.12%) Dropwizard
4 3 (5.26%) .NET
4 3 (5.26%) CSS
4 3 (5.26%) CSS3
4 3 (5.26%) HTML
4 3 (5.26%) HTML5
4 3 (5.26%) JPA
4 3 (5.26%) jQuery
4 3 (5.26%) JSP
4 3 (5.26%) REST
4 3 (5.26%) Spring MVC
4 3 (5.26%) Swagger
5 2 (3.51%) .NET Framework
5 2 (3.51%) Spring Boot
5 2 (3.51%) Spring Security
5 2 (3.51%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.04%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (8.77%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (8.77%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.51%) Algorithms
3 2 (3.51%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.51%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.75%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 45 (78.95%) Linux
2 31 (54.39%) Unix
3 9 (15.79%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (1.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (91.23%) OO
2 40 (70.18%) Continuous Integration
3 35 (61.40%) CI/CD
4 29 (50.88%) Continuous Deployment
5 28 (49.12%) Web Development
6 19 (33.33%) Design Patterns
7 18 (31.58%) Agile
7 18 (31.58%) Test Automation
8 15 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (24.56%) Computer Science
10 13 (22.81%) Full-Stack Development
10 13 (22.81%) Multithreading
10 13 (22.81%) Scrum
10 13 (22.81%) Software Engineering
11 12 (21.05%) Clean Code
11 12 (21.05%) SOLID
12 11 (19.30%) Kanban
12 11 (19.30%) Multithreaded Programming
12 11 (19.30%) Storyboarding
13 5 (8.77%) Personalization
Programming Languages
1 39 (68.42%) Java
2 17 (29.82%) JavaScript
3 14 (24.56%) C++
4 9 (15.79%) SQL
5 4 (7.02%) Python
5 4 (7.02%) TypeScript
6 3 (5.26%) C#
6 3 (5.26%) T-SQL
7 2 (3.51%) Bash
8 1 (1.75%) Fortran
8 1 (1.75%) MATLAB
8 1 (1.75%) Perl
Qualifications
1 21 (36.84%) Degree
2 14 (24.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.75%) CCNA
3 1 (1.75%) CCNP
3 1 (1.75%) CCSA
3 1 (1.75%) CCSE
3 1 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.75%) HND
3 1 (1.75%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.75%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (3.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.51%) Istio
Vendors
1 30 (52.63%) Oracle
2 15 (26.32%) Google
3 7 (12.28%) Virgin Media
4 4 (7.02%) Adobe
4 4 (7.02%) Microsoft
4 4 (7.02%) Optimizely
5 2 (3.51%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.51%) Xamarin
6 1 (1.75%) Aruba
6 1 (1.75%) Blue Coat
6 1 (1.75%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.75%) Cisco
6 1 (1.75%) F5
6 1 (1.75%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.75%) Intel
6 1 (1.75%) Juniper
6 1 (1.75%) McAfee
6 1 (1.75%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.75%) Progress
6 1 (1.75%) Veracode