OOD Contracts with Work from Home Options

Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
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 OOD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OOD over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 305 383 481
Rank change year-on-year +78 +98 -55
Contract jobs citing OOD 36 72 138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.24% 0.29% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.32% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 52 99
10th Percentile £422 £444 £450
25th Percentile £461 £534 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.54% +4.35% +21.05%
75th Percentile £666 £791 £719
90th Percentile £743 £875 £755
UK median daily rate £531 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -15.00% - +26.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £52.36 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -19.45% +69.36%
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £56.25 £56.25
% change year-on-year +33.33% - -0.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,942 22,217 40,480
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.66% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,728 15,724 29,400
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.49% +3.62% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £633
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 567 510 538
10th Percentile £14.70 £18.63 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.13 £26.46 £20.75
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 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

OOD
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

OOD 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 OOD.

OOD daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

OOD
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing OOD over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

OOD daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

OOD
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 OOD.

OOD hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

OOD
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 9 (25.00%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 25 (69.44%) Azure
2 17 (47.22%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (41.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 12 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
4 12 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
5 8 (22.22%) AWS
5 8 (22.22%) Azure Pipelines
6 7 (19.44%) Serverless
7 4 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (11.11%) Amazon EventBridge
7 4 (11.11%) Amazon Kinesis
7 4 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (11.11%) AWS Step Functions
7 4 (11.11%) dbt
8 2 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (5.56%) Amazon S3
8 2 (5.56%) Azure Functions
8 2 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (2.78%) PaaS
9 1 (2.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.33%) BGP
1 3 (8.33%) Cisco IOS
1 3 (8.33%) IOS XR
2 1 (2.78%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (55.56%) SQL Server
2 8 (22.22%) Relational Database
3 4 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 21 (58.33%) Git
2 5 (13.89%) JIRA
3 2 (5.56%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (36.11%) Social Skills
2 10 (27.78%) Back Office
3 8 (22.22%) Public Sector
4 4 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (8.33%) Finance
6 2 (5.56%) Banking
6 2 (5.56%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.78%) Marketing
7 1 (2.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (61.11%) Developer
2 11 (30.56%) Senior
3 9 (25.00%) Senior Developer
4 7 (19.44%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 6 (16.67%) Lead
6 5 (13.89%) C# Developer
7 4 (11.11%) AWS Data Engineer
7 4 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (11.11%) Data Engineer
7 4 (11.11%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 3 (8.33%) .NET Developer
8 3 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
8 3 (8.33%) Azure Developer
8 3 (8.33%) Backend Developer
8 3 (8.33%) C# .NET Developer
8 3 (8.33%) Full Stack Developer
8 3 (8.33%) Network Engineer
8 3 (8.33%) Technical Leader
9 2 (5.56%) Java Developer
9 2 (5.56%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (58.33%) .NET
2 18 (50.00%) .NET Core
3 9 (25.00%) React
4 8 (22.22%) CSS
4 8 (22.22%) jQuery
5 7 (19.44%) ASP.NET
6 6 (16.67%) .NET Framework
6 6 (16.67%) HTML
6 6 (16.67%) REST
7 5 (13.89%) ASP.NET MVC
8 4 (11.11%) JSON
8 4 (11.11%) PySpark
9 3 (8.33%) Django
9 3 (8.33%) RESTful
9 3 (8.33%) Spring
9 3 (8.33%) YANG
10 2 (5.56%) Entity Framework
10 2 (5.56%) FIX Protocol
10 2 (5.56%) Guice
10 2 (5.56%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 5 (13.89%) Algorithms
3 4 (11.11%) Mobile App
4 3 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (8.33%) Data Structures
4 3 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (8.33%) Public Cloud
5 2 (5.56%) Contactless
5 2 (5.56%) Derivative
5 2 (5.56%) Equity Derivative
5 2 (5.56%) Fixed Income
5 2 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.78%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (2.78%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 8 (22.22%) Linux
2 3 (8.33%) Unix
3 2 (5.56%) Windows
4 1 (2.78%) Android
4 1 (2.78%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.78%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (97.22%) OO
2 29 (80.56%) Agile
3 22 (61.11%) DevOps
4 21 (58.33%) Clean Code
5 20 (55.56%) TDD
6 14 (38.89%) CI/CD
7 11 (30.56%) API Management
8 9 (25.00%) Front End Development
9 7 (19.44%) Computer Science
9 7 (19.44%) Mentoring
9 7 (19.44%) MVC
10 6 (16.67%) Design Patterns
10 6 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (16.67%) Scrum
10 6 (16.67%) Unit Testing
11 5 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (13.89%) Full Stack Development
11 5 (13.89%) SDLC
11 5 (13.89%) SOLID
11 5 (13.89%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 25 (69.44%) C#
2 15 (41.67%) Bicep
3 12 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 9 (25.00%) Python
4 9 (25.00%) SQL
5 8 (22.22%) Java
5 8 (22.22%) TypeScript
6 5 (13.89%) Bash
6 5 (13.89%) Perl
7 4 (11.11%) C++
8 3 (8.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (19.44%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (19.44%) Degree
2 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (22.22%) Accessibility
1 8 (22.22%) WCAG
2 2 (5.56%) MiFID
System Software
1 11 (30.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) Terraform
2 3 (8.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 14 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.11%) Xamarin
3 3 (8.33%) Cisco
3 3 (8.33%) TOWER Software
4 1 (2.78%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.78%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud