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 25 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 322 362 425
Rank change year-on-year +40 +63 +24
Contract jobs citing OOD 17 35 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.17% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.20% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 28 13
10th Percentile £255 £301 £373
25th Percentile £463 £325 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -20.83% +23.08%
75th Percentile £525 £577 -
90th Percentile £655 £690 £630
UK median daily rate £550 £541 £600
% change year-on-year +1.62% -9.79% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 8
10th Percentile - £56.75 £50.42
25th Percentile - £59.38 £51.25
Median hourly rate - £67.50 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% -2.17%
75th Percentile - £74.38 £61.09
90th Percentile - £76.25 £66.15
UK median hourly rate - £67.50 £56.25
% change year-on-year - +20.00% -4.26%

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 11,589 17,626 21,689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.82% 89.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,295 10,611 15,028
10th Percentile £238 £246 £252
25th Percentile £380 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £523 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 824 2,028 1,339
10th Percentile £14.23 £12.30 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.58 £15.16 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.85 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -21.88% -4.42% +86.50%
75th Percentile £64.64 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.62
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -17.14% -6.67% +50.00%

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 25 April 2025.

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 25 April 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
South East +42 8 £500 - 25
Scotland +13 4 £450 +16.13% 18
South West +40 2 £675 +92.86% 10
Wales - 2 £205 - 6
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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 2 (11.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 2 (11.76%) CMS
2 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.88%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) Adobe Analytics
1 2 (11.76%) Google Analytics
2 1 (5.88%) AWS
2 1 (5.88%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) Internet
1 2 (11.76%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Relational Database
2 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.88%) Hadoop
3 1 (5.88%) KDB
3 1 (5.88%) Kdb+
3 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.88%) RDBMS
3 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (52.94%) Jenkins
2 8 (47.06%) Bitbucket
2 8 (47.06%) Git
2 8 (47.06%) GoogleTest
2 8 (47.06%) JIRA
2 8 (47.06%) Rational DOORS
2 8 (47.06%) TestRail
General
1 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
1 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) C++ Software Engineer
1 10 (58.82%) Software Engineer
2 8 (47.06%) Embedded C++ Engineer
2 8 (47.06%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
2 8 (47.06%) Embedded Engineer
2 8 (47.06%) Embedded Linux Engineer
2 8 (47.06%) Embedded Linux Software Engineer
2 8 (47.06%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 8 (47.06%) Linux Engineer
2 8 (47.06%) Senior
2 8 (47.06%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
2 8 (47.06%) Senior Embedded Engineer
2 8 (47.06%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
2 8 (47.06%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 8 (47.06%) Senior Software Engineer
3 5 (29.41%) Developer
4 1 (5.88%) .NET Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Lead Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Lead Software Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) .NET
2 2 (11.76%) CSS
2 2 (11.76%) FHIR
2 2 (11.76%) HTML
2 2 (11.76%) J2EE
2 2 (11.76%) Middleware
3 1 (5.88%) .NET Framework
3 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET
3 1 (5.88%) REST
3 1 (5.88%) Web Services
3 1 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Algorithms
1 2 (11.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 12 (70.59%) Linux
2 8 (47.06%) Embedded Linux
3 5 (29.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (94.12%) OO
2 12 (70.59%) Software Engineering
3 11 (64.71%) Agile
3 11 (64.71%) Scrum
3 11 (64.71%) Test Automation
4 10 (58.82%) Continuous Integration
4 10 (58.82%) Design Patterns
4 10 (58.82%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (47.06%) Clean Code
5 8 (47.06%) Computer Science
5 8 (47.06%) Kanban
5 8 (47.06%) Multithreaded Programming
5 8 (47.06%) Multithreading
5 8 (47.06%) SOLID
5 8 (47.06%) Storyboarding
6 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
7 2 (11.76%) Analytics
7 2 (11.76%) Content Management
7 2 (11.76%) Decision-Making
7 2 (11.76%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) C++
2 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
3 2 (11.76%) C#
3 2 (11.76%) Fortran
3 2 (11.76%) MATLAB
3 2 (11.76%) Python
3 2 (11.76%) SQL
4 1 (5.88%) Java
4 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (52.94%) Degree
2 8 (47.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) Google
2 2 (11.76%) Adobe
2 2 (11.76%) Intel
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft