Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (OOA/OOD)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for OOA/OOD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OOA/OOD over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 556 663 787
Rank change year-on-year +107 +124 -178
Contract jobs citing OOA/OOD 20 21 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.047% 0.037% 0.071%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.055% 0.041% 0.078%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 10 29
10th Percentile £290 £418 £400
25th Percentile £334 £509 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £631 £600
Median % change year-on-year -26.61% +5.21% +21.21%
75th Percentile £502 £650 £663
90th Percentile £660 £774 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £650 £509
% change year-on-year -24.77% +27.70% +6.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £50.47
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £55.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

OOA/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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,679 51,168 79,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.19% 89.82% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,608 35,479 55,636
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £479
% change year-on-year - +4.38% +9.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,436 1,692 1,900
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.64 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.94 £16.10 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.21%

OOA/OOD
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing OOA/OOD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for OOA/OOD in the UK

OOA/OOD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OOA/OOD.

Daily rate trend for OOA/OOD in the UK

OOA/OOD
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OOA/OOD over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OOA/OOD in the UK

OOA/OOD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OOA/OOD.

Hourly rate trend for OOA/OOD in the UK

OOA/OOD
Top 9 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 16 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
England +121 15 £489 -12.68% 5
UK excluding London +60 15 £489 -24.77% 4
North of England - 7 £489 - 1
North West - 7 £489 - 1
Work from Home +123 6 £489 -30.14% 3
London +102 5 £380 -9.52% 1
Scotland - 5 £338 -
South West +11 2 £350 -50.00%
East of England - 1 - -

OOA/OOD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 7 (35.00%) Confluence
2 6 (30.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 7 (35.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (35.00%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 13 (65.00%) AWS
2 7 (35.00%) Apigee
2 7 (35.00%) Kong
3 6 (30.00%) Azure
4 5 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (35.00%) MongoDB
1 7 (35.00%) OLAP
1 7 (35.00%) OLTP
2 6 (30.00%) Oracle OLAP
3 2 (10.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (40.00%) JIRA
2 3 (15.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (10.00%) Git
4 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
4 1 (5.00%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (5.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (50.00%) Finance
2 7 (35.00%) Banking
2 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Marketing
4 2 (10.00%) Automotive
5 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Back Office
5 1 (5.00%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Developer
2 7 (35.00%) Architect
2 7 (35.00%) AWS Architect
3 5 (25.00%) .NET Developer
4 4 (20.00%) AWS Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Data Designer
5 2 (10.00%) Designer
5 2 (10.00%) Java Developer
6 1 (5.00%) AWS Solution Architect
6 1 (5.00%) C# Developer
6 1 (5.00%) C# WPF Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Full Stack Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Technical Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) WPF Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (40.00%) Kafka
2 7 (35.00%) IBM Integration Bus
2 7 (35.00%) J2EE
2 7 (35.00%) RabbitMQ
2 7 (35.00%) SOAP
2 7 (35.00%) Spring
2 7 (35.00%) Web Services
3 6 (30.00%) .NET
3 6 (30.00%) Apache Camel
3 6 (30.00%) Spring Boot
3 6 (30.00%) Spring Integration
4 5 (25.00%) .NET Core
5 3 (15.00%) Java EE
6 2 (10.00%) JSON
6 2 (10.00%) NestJS
6 2 (10.00%) Node.js
6 2 (10.00%) React
6 2 (10.00%) RESTful
7 1 (5.00%) Entity Framework
7 1 (5.00%) Managed Extensibility Framework
Miscellaneous
1 7 (35.00%) DataPower
2 5 (25.00%) Algorithms
3 4 (20.00%) Data Structures
4 3 (15.00%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (15.00%) Marketing Technology
4 3 (15.00%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
6 1 (5.00%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Unix
2 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (85.00%) OO
2 11 (55.00%) Design Patterns
3 7 (35.00%) API Management
3 7 (35.00%) CQRS
3 7 (35.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 7 (35.00%) Event-Driven
3 7 (35.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 7 (35.00%) Identity Access Management
3 7 (35.00%) Microservices
3 7 (35.00%) Risk Management
3 7 (35.00%) SOA
3 7 (35.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (30.00%) DevOps
4 6 (30.00%) MVC
4 6 (30.00%) Technical Debt
4 6 (30.00%) TOGAF
5 5 (25.00%) Computer Science
5 5 (25.00%) CRM
5 5 (25.00%) OOD
5 5 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 12 (60.00%) Java
2 3 (15.00%) SQL
3 2 (10.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.00%) C#
4 1 (5.00%) Kotlin
4 1 (5.00%) XAML
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) Single Sign-On
1 6 (30.00%) Terraform
2 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) IBM
1 7 (35.00%) Oracle
1 7 (35.00%) TSYS
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft