Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 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 466 507 564
Rank change year-on-year +41 +57 -61
Contract jobs citing OOD 110 177 299
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.31% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.35% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 120 200
10th Percentile £335 £408 £456
25th Percentile £425 £517 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% - +28.21%
75th Percentile £640 £856 £750
90th Percentile £775 £1,000 £893
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £600 £488
% change year-on-year -20.83% +23.08% +5.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 11
10th Percentile - £46.39 £47.93
25th Percentile £72.50 £48.48 £53.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 £56.25 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -2.17% +1.77%
75th Percentile £77.50 £60.13 £60.00
90th Percentile - £65.43 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £56.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +33.33% +2.27% -2.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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%

OOD
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for OOD in the UK

OOD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for OOD in the UK

OOD
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for OOD in the UK

OOD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for OOD in the UK

OOD
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 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 +44 98 £541 -16.73% 56
London +36 71 £548 -15.77% 9
Work from Home +83 35 £519 -13.54% 29
UK excluding London +62 34 £475 -20.83% 46
South East +22 12 £525 -12.50% 21
Scotland +39 6 £375 -11.76% 1
North of England +30 6 £550 +10.00% 7
South West +3 6 £350 -41.67% 4
North West +22 5 £550 +10.00%
Midlands +23 2 £494 +5.95% 7
West Midlands +23 2 £494 +5.95% 3
Wales - 2 - - 3
North East - 1 £650 - 3

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 15 (13.64%) CMS
2 4 (3.64%) Apache
3 3 (2.73%) IIS
4 2 (1.82%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.91%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (2.73%) Maximo
2 1 (0.91%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 63 (57.27%) Azure
2 55 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 39 (35.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 38 (34.55%) Azure Service Bus
5 37 (33.64%) Azure Monitor
6 24 (21.82%) AWS
7 18 (16.36%) Azure Pipelines
8 16 (14.55%) Serverless
9 13 (11.82%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (9.09%) Amazon S3
11 4 (3.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (3.64%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (3.64%) Amazon EventBridge
11 4 (3.64%) Amazon Kinesis
11 4 (3.64%) AWS Step Functions
11 4 (3.64%) dbt
12 3 (2.73%) Power Automate
13 2 (1.82%) Azure Functions
13 2 (1.82%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.36%) FTP
2 3 (2.73%) BGP
2 3 (2.73%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (2.73%) IOS XR
3 2 (1.82%) Tactical Data Link
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (55.45%) SQL Server
2 15 (13.64%) Relational Database
3 4 (3.64%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.73%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.91%) Couchbase
5 1 (0.91%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.91%) KDB
5 1 (0.91%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.91%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 61 (55.45%) Git
2 13 (11.82%) JIRA
3 6 (5.45%) Bitbucket
4 5 (4.55%) Jenkins
5 4 (3.64%) Rational DOORS
5 4 (3.64%) Sourcetree
5 4 (3.64%) SpecFlow
6 3 (2.73%) Postman
6 3 (2.73%) Selenium
6 3 (2.73%) webpack
7 2 (1.82%) Babel
7 2 (1.82%) JMeter
8 1 (0.91%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (0.91%) ClearCase
8 1 (0.91%) ClearQuest
8 1 (0.91%) CMake
8 1 (0.91%) MagicDraw
8 1 (0.91%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (0.91%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.91%) Visual Studio
General
1 34 (30.91%) Back Office
1 34 (30.91%) Social Skills
2 14 (12.73%) Finance
2 14 (12.73%) Public Sector
3 10 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.55%) Banking
5 3 (2.73%) Front Office
5 3 (2.73%) Local Government
6 2 (1.82%) Automotive
6 2 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.82%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.91%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.91%) Marketing
7 1 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.91%) Retail
Job Titles
1 61 (55.45%) Developer
2 37 (33.64%) Senior
3 27 (24.55%) Senior Developer
4 24 (21.82%) Lead
5 15 (13.64%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 12 (10.91%) Technical Leader
7 11 (10.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 11 (10.00%) Software Engineer
8 10 (9.09%) .NET Developer
9 9 (8.18%) Backend Developer
10 8 (7.27%) Software Developer
11 7 (6.36%) AWS Developer
11 7 (6.36%) C# Developer
11 7 (6.36%) Java Developer
12 6 (5.45%) Senior Backend Developer
13 5 (4.55%) Azure Developer
13 5 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
14 4 (3.64%) C# .NET Developer
14 4 (3.64%) Development Manager
14 4 (3.64%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (63.64%) .NET
2 60 (54.55%) .NET Core
3 24 (21.82%) CSS
4 22 (20.00%) HTML
4 22 (20.00%) React
5 19 (17.27%) REST
6 16 (14.55%) ASP.NET
6 16 (14.55%) jQuery
7 14 (12.73%) ASP.NET MVC
8 9 (8.18%) YAML
9 8 (7.27%) .NET Framework
10 7 (6.36%) JSON
10 7 (6.36%) Node.js
10 7 (6.36%) Spring
11 4 (3.64%) gRPC
11 4 (3.64%) Guice
11 4 (3.64%) NumPy
11 4 (3.64%) Pandas
11 4 (3.64%) Playwright
11 4 (3.64%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 18 (16.36%) Product Ownership
2 16 (14.55%) Algorithms
3 13 (11.82%) Data Structures
3 13 (11.82%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (7.27%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (5.45%) Derivative
6 4 (3.64%) Credit Risk
6 4 (3.64%) Equity Derivative
6 4 (3.64%) Fixed Income
6 4 (3.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (3.64%) Low-Code
6 4 (3.64%) Market Risk
7 3 (2.73%) Contactless
7 3 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.73%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.73%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.73%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.82%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 24 (21.82%) Linux
2 8 (7.27%) Windows
3 7 (6.36%) Unix
4 3 (2.73%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.91%) Android
5 1 (0.91%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.91%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (98.18%) OO
2 84 (76.36%) Agile
3 63 (57.27%) TDD
4 61 (55.45%) DevOps
5 55 (50.00%) Clean Code
6 44 (40.00%) API Management
7 29 (26.36%) CI/CD
8 23 (20.91%) MVC
9 21 (19.09%) Scrum
10 19 (17.27%) Computer Science
11 18 (16.36%) Software Engineering
12 17 (15.45%) Front End Development
13 16 (14.55%) Design Patterns
14 15 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
15 13 (11.82%) Decision-Making
16 12 (10.91%) SDLC
16 12 (10.91%) Unit Testing
17 10 (9.09%) Test Automation
18 8 (7.27%) Data Protection
18 8 (7.27%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 73 (66.36%) C#
2 45 (40.91%) Bicep
3 33 (30.00%) JavaScript
4 29 (26.36%) Java
5 26 (23.64%) Python
6 19 (17.27%) SQL
6 19 (17.27%) TypeScript
7 12 (10.91%) C++
8 11 (10.00%) Perl
9 7 (6.36%) Bash
10 3 (2.73%) C
10 3 (2.73%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.91%) Assembly Language
11 1 (0.91%) Groovy
11 1 (0.91%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 21 (19.09%) Degree
2 18 (16.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (6.36%) Security Cleared
4 5 (4.55%) Master's Degree
4 5 (4.55%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (19.09%) Accessibility
2 19 (17.27%) WCAG
3 4 (3.64%) MiFID
4 2 (1.82%) QA
5 1 (0.91%) IEC 61508
5 1 (0.91%) MISRA
5 1 (0.91%) MISRA C
System Software
1 36 (32.73%) Active Directory
2 9 (8.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (8.18%) Terraform
2 5 (4.55%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.73%) Ansible
4 1 (0.91%) Grafana
4 1 (0.91%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.91%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 43 (39.09%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.45%) Oracle
3 3 (2.73%) Cisco
3 3 (2.73%) IBM
3 3 (2.73%) Nintex
3 3 (2.73%) Pega
3 3 (2.73%) SAP
3 3 (2.73%) TOWER Software
3 3 (2.73%) Xamarin
4 2 (1.82%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.91%) HP
5 1 (0.91%) NVIDIA
5 1 (0.91%) QNX
5 1 (0.91%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (0.91%) Sparx