OO Contracts with Work from Home Options

Object-Oriented (OO)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for OO skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OO over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 187 150 163
Rank change year-on-year -37 +13 +18
Contract jobs citing OO 168 398 714
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.14% 1.62% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 1.80% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 254 517
10th Percentile £375 £400 £400
25th Percentile £459 £505 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £645 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.73% +17.27% +15.79%
75th Percentile £672 £750 £675
90th Percentile £831 £875 £775
UK median daily rate £563 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -10.00% +4.17% +23.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 6
10th Percentile - - £42.08
25th Percentile - £47.50 £43.81
Median hourly rate £60.00 £50.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +2.56% +27.02%
75th Percentile - £52.50 £54.75
90th Percentile - £54.22 £60.75
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £56.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +19.11% +2.27% +22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

OO 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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,973 22,093 40,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.88% 89.67% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,721 15,633 29,139
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.58% +3.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 507 534
10th Percentile £14.94 £18.63 £14.08
25th Percentile £24.44 £26.25 £20.56
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing OO as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

OO trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing OO.

OO daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing OO over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

OO daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing OO.

OO hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 8 (4.76%) CMS
2 7 (4.17%) Confluence
2 7 (4.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (1.79%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.60%) Apache
4 1 (0.60%) IIS
4 1 (0.60%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (2.98%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (2.98%) Temenos T24
2 4 (2.38%) Distributed Ledger
2 4 (2.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.19%) Endur
3 2 (1.19%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.60%) SAP CAR
4 1 (0.60%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.60%) SAP POS DM
4 1 (0.60%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 59 (35.12%) Azure
2 31 (18.45%) Azure DevOps
3 26 (15.48%) AWS
4 18 (10.71%) Azure Service Bus
5 16 (9.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 15 (8.93%) Azure Monitor
7 13 (7.74%) Serverless
8 11 (6.55%) Azure Logic Apps
9 9 (5.36%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (4.76%) Azure API Management
10 8 (4.76%) Azure Pipelines
11 7 (4.17%) Amazon S3
11 7 (4.17%) Azure Functions
12 5 (2.98%) Apigee
12 5 (2.98%) dbt
12 5 (2.98%) Kong
12 5 (2.98%) PaaS
13 4 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (2.38%) Amazon Kinesis
13 4 (2.38%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.79%) BGP
1 3 (1.79%) Cisco IOS
1 3 (1.79%) IOS XR
2 1 (0.60%) 5G
2 1 (0.60%) DHCP
2 1 (0.60%) DNS
2 1 (0.60%) FTP
2 1 (0.60%) HTTP
2 1 (0.60%) Internet
2 1 (0.60%) LTE
2 1 (0.60%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (0.60%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.60%) VPN
2 1 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (23.81%) SQL Server
2 15 (8.93%) NoSQL
3 12 (7.14%) Relational Database
4 8 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.57%) KDB
5 6 (3.57%) MongoDB
5 6 (3.57%) MySQL
6 5 (2.98%) OLAP
6 5 (2.98%) OLTP
6 5 (2.98%) Oracle OLAP
7 4 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.79%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.60%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.60%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.60%) SAP BW
10 1 (0.60%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 33 (19.64%) Git
2 20 (11.90%) JIRA
3 10 (5.95%) Visual Studio
4 7 (4.17%) Jenkins
5 5 (2.98%) MSI
5 5 (2.98%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 5 (2.98%) WiX
6 4 (2.38%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (1.79%) PHPUnit
8 2 (1.19%) Postman
8 2 (1.19%) Pylint
8 2 (1.19%) Rational DOORS
8 2 (1.19%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.19%) Subversion
9 1 (0.60%) Checkstyle
9 1 (0.60%) PostCSS
9 1 (0.60%) rollup.js
9 1 (0.60%) VisualWorks
9 1 (0.60%) webpack
General
1 54 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 42 (25.00%) Finance
3 16 (9.52%) Banking
4 15 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 11 (6.55%) Back Office
7 5 (2.98%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.38%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.38%) Retail
8 4 (2.38%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.79%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (1.79%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.79%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.79%) Tech for Good
10 2 (1.19%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.19%) Electronics
10 2 (1.19%) Marketing
11 1 (0.60%) Front Office
11 1 (0.60%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 97 (57.74%) Developer
2 24 (14.29%) Senior
3 19 (11.31%) Senior Developer
4 15 (8.93%) Full Stack Developer
5 12 (7.14%) C# Developer
5 12 (7.14%) Software Engineer
6 11 (6.55%) Lead
6 11 (6.55%) Linux Engineer
6 11 (6.55%) Network Engineer
7 10 (5.95%) .NET Developer
7 10 (5.95%) Python Engineer
7 10 (5.95%) SQL Developer
8 9 (5.36%) Data Engineer
8 9 (5.36%) Java Developer
8 9 (5.36%) Linux Scripter
9 8 (4.76%) Architect
9 8 (4.76%) Azure Developer
9 8 (4.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 8 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (4.76%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (35.12%) .NET
2 32 (19.05%) REST
3 27 (16.07%) .NET Core
4 24 (14.29%) CSS
5 23 (13.69%) ASP.NET
6 22 (13.10%) Web Services
7 20 (11.90%) HTML
8 15 (8.93%) React
9 14 (8.33%) .NET Framework
10 13 (7.74%) jQuery
10 13 (7.74%) JSON
10 13 (7.74%) SOAP
11 12 (7.14%) Kafka
11 12 (7.14%) Node.js
11 12 (7.14%) Spring
12 10 (5.95%) Entity Framework
12 10 (5.95%) Vue
12 10 (5.95%) XML
13 8 (4.76%) ASP.NET Core
14 7 (4.17%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.74%) Algorithms
2 10 (5.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 9 (5.36%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (5.36%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.17%) Mobile App
5 6 (3.57%) Derivative
5 6 (3.57%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.98%) Client/Server
6 5 (2.98%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.98%) DataPower
6 5 (2.98%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.98%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (2.98%) Web 2.0
7 4 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.38%) iPad
7 4 (2.38%) iPhone
8 2 (1.19%) Contactless
8 2 (1.19%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.19%) Market Risk
8 2 (1.19%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 41 (24.40%) Linux
2 24 (14.29%) Unix
3 15 (8.93%) Windows
4 9 (5.36%) Apple iOS
5 6 (3.57%) Android
6 4 (2.38%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.60%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (32.74%) DevOps
2 43 (25.60%) Agile
3 42 (25.00%) OOP
4 40 (23.81%) Design Patterns
5 39 (23.21%) CI/CD
6 37 (22.02%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (20.83%) OOD
8 29 (17.26%) Software Engineering
9 28 (16.67%) TDD
10 26 (15.48%) SOLID
11 25 (14.88%) Unit Testing
12 24 (14.29%) Clean Code
13 23 (13.69%) MVC
14 21 (12.50%) API Management
15 20 (11.90%) Test Automation
16 19 (11.31%) Full Stack Development
17 18 (10.71%) SDLC
18 17 (10.12%) Scrum
19 16 (9.52%) Analytics
20 15 (8.93%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 71 (42.26%) C#
2 56 (33.33%) SQL
3 44 (26.19%) Python
4 40 (23.81%) Java
5 32 (19.05%) JavaScript
6 26 (15.48%) Perl
7 18 (10.71%) Bicep
8 12 (7.14%) PowerShell
9 11 (6.55%) C++
9 11 (6.55%) TypeScript
10 10 (5.95%) ABAP
11 9 (5.36%) T-SQL
12 7 (4.17%) Scala
13 6 (3.57%) Bash
14 5 (2.98%) F#
15 4 (2.38%) Objective-C
15 4 (2.38%) Swift
16 3 (1.79%) C
16 3 (1.79%) PHP
16 3 (1.79%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (11.90%) Degree
2 10 (5.95%) Security Cleared
3 8 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (3.57%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.98%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.19%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.60%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.60%) ISEB
7 1 (0.60%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.60%) PhD
7 1 (0.60%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.55%) Accessibility
2 8 (4.76%) WCAG
3 7 (4.17%) QA
4 3 (1.79%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.19%) MiFID
6 1 (0.60%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (7.14%) Docker
2 11 (6.55%) Active Directory
3 7 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (7.14%) Terraform
2 6 (3.57%) Ansible
2 6 (3.57%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.79%) Dell DRAC
4 3 (1.79%) PowerCLI
5 1 (0.60%) SCOM
Vendors
1 26 (15.48%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.95%) Oracle
3 9 (5.36%) SAP
4 7 (4.17%) VMware
5 5 (2.98%) IBM
5 5 (2.98%) TSYS
5 5 (2.98%) Xamarin
6 3 (1.79%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.79%) BMC
6 3 (1.79%) Cisco
6 3 (1.79%) Dell
6 3 (1.79%) HP
6 3 (1.79%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.79%) TOWER Software
7 2 (1.19%) Adobe
7 2 (1.19%) Calypso
8 1 (0.60%) Ariba
8 1 (0.60%) Citrix
8 1 (0.60%) Google