OOD Contracts

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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 471 509 551
Rank change year-on-year +38 +42 -4
Contract jobs citing OOD 108 175 301
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.31% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.35% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 119 206
10th Percentile £363 £403 £444
25th Percentile £433 £524 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +4.00% +26.26%
75th Percentile £635 £875 £750
90th Percentile £775 £980 £863
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 8 10
10th Percentile - £45.71 £47.89
25th Percentile £72.50 £50.38 £53.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 £56.25 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% - -0.44%
75th Percentile £77.50 £61.09 £59.38
90th Percentile - £66.15 £63.88
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 36,816 50,571 79,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.44% 89.70% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,638 35,025 55,934
10th Percentile £300 £325 £348
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,533 1,671 1,865
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.57 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.88%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +31 98 £538 -17.31% 58
London +33 70 £538 -20.37% 14
Work from Home +77 37 £494 -17.71% 21
UK excluding London +57 33 £475 -20.83% 42
South East +21 13 £550 - 20
North of England +33 6 £550 +10.00% 8
North West +19 5 £550 +10.00% 1
South West +3 5 £388 -35.42% 2
Scotland +43 4 £300 -29.41% 1
Wales - 3 - - 1
Midlands +21 2 £494 +5.95% 7
West Midlands +12 2 £494 +5.95% 4
North East - 1 £650 - 1

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 (13.89%) CMS
2 4 (3.70%) Apache
3 3 (2.78%) Confluence
3 3 (2.78%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.93%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.93%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (2.78%) Maximo
2 1 (0.93%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.93%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 64 (59.26%) Azure
2 54 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 40 (37.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 37 (34.26%) Azure Service Bus
5 36 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
6 21 (19.44%) AWS
7 18 (16.67%) Azure Pipelines
8 13 (12.04%) Serverless
9 10 (9.26%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (9.26%) Amazon S3
9 10 (9.26%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (2.78%) Amazon EventBridge
11 3 (2.78%) Amazon Kinesis
11 3 (2.78%) AWS Step Functions
11 3 (2.78%) dbt
11 3 (2.78%) Power Automate
12 2 (1.85%) Entra ID
12 2 (1.85%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.48%) FTP
2 3 (2.78%) BGP
2 3 (2.78%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (2.78%) IOS XR
3 2 (1.85%) Tactical Data Link
4 1 (0.93%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (55.56%) SQL Server
2 16 (14.81%) Relational Database
3 4 (3.70%) NoSQL
3 4 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.93%) Couchbase
5 1 (0.93%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.93%) KDB
5 1 (0.93%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 60 (55.56%) Git
2 14 (12.96%) JIRA
3 6 (5.56%) Bitbucket
3 6 (5.56%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.70%) Rational DOORS
4 4 (3.70%) Sourcetree
4 4 (3.70%) SpecFlow
5 3 (2.78%) Postman
5 3 (2.78%) Selenium
5 3 (2.78%) webpack
6 2 (1.85%) Babel
6 2 (1.85%) JMeter
7 1 (0.93%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (0.93%) ClearCase
7 1 (0.93%) ClearQuest
7 1 (0.93%) GitLab
7 1 (0.93%) MagicDraw
7 1 (0.93%) Spock
7 1 (0.93%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.93%) Visual Studio
General
1 38 (35.19%) Social Skills
2 34 (31.48%) Back Office
3 14 (12.96%) Public Sector
4 13 (12.04%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (11.11%) Finance
6 4 (3.70%) Banking
7 3 (2.78%) Front Office
7 3 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.78%) Local Government
8 2 (1.85%) Marketing
8 2 (1.85%) Retail
8 2 (1.85%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.93%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 61 (56.48%) Developer
2 38 (35.19%) Senior
3 28 (25.93%) Senior Developer
4 22 (20.37%) Lead
5 15 (13.89%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 12 (11.11%) Technical Leader
7 11 (10.19%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 11 (10.19%) Software Engineer
8 9 (8.33%) Backend Developer
9 8 (7.41%) .NET Developer
9 8 (7.41%) Software Developer
10 7 (6.48%) C# Developer
10 7 (6.48%) Java Developer
11 6 (5.56%) AWS Developer
11 6 (5.56%) Azure Developer
11 6 (5.56%) Senior Backend Developer
12 5 (4.63%) Full Stack Developer
12 5 (4.63%) Senior Software Engineer
13 4 (3.70%) Development Manager
13 4 (3.70%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (62.96%) .NET
2 56 (51.85%) .NET Core
3 24 (22.22%) CSS
4 23 (21.30%) React
5 22 (20.37%) HTML
6 19 (17.59%) REST
7 16 (14.81%) jQuery
8 15 (13.89%) ASP.NET
9 13 (12.04%) ASP.NET MVC
10 10 (9.26%) .NET Framework
11 8 (7.41%) YAML
12 7 (6.48%) JSON
12 7 (6.48%) Node.js
12 7 (6.48%) Spring
13 4 (3.70%) gRPC
13 4 (3.70%) Guice
13 4 (3.70%) NumPy
13 4 (3.70%) Pandas
13 4 (3.70%) Playwright
13 4 (3.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (17.59%) Product Ownership
2 16 (14.81%) Algorithms
3 13 (12.04%) Data Structures
3 13 (12.04%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (7.41%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (5.56%) Derivative
6 5 (4.63%) Mobile App
7 4 (3.70%) Credit Risk
7 4 (3.70%) Equity Derivative
7 4 (3.70%) Fixed Income
7 4 (3.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (3.70%) Low-Code
7 4 (3.70%) Market Risk
7 4 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (2.78%) Contactless
8 3 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (2.78%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.85%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 25 (23.15%) Linux
2 8 (7.41%) Windows
3 7 (6.48%) Unix
4 3 (2.78%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.93%) Android
5 1 (0.93%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.93%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (98.15%) OO
2 81 (75.00%) Agile
3 62 (57.41%) TDD
4 59 (54.63%) DevOps
5 54 (50.00%) Clean Code
6 43 (39.81%) API Management
7 29 (26.85%) CI/CD
8 22 (20.37%) Scrum
9 21 (19.44%) Computer Science
10 20 (18.52%) MVC
11 19 (17.59%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (17.59%) Software Engineering
12 17 (15.74%) Design Patterns
12 17 (15.74%) Front End Development
13 13 (12.04%) Decision-Making
14 12 (11.11%) SDLC
14 12 (11.11%) Unit Testing
15 10 (9.26%) Test Automation
16 9 (8.33%) Migration
16 9 (8.33%) UML
Programming Languages
1 73 (67.59%) C#
2 44 (40.74%) Bicep
3 34 (31.48%) JavaScript
4 30 (27.78%) Java
5 24 (22.22%) Python
6 21 (19.44%) SQL
7 20 (18.52%) TypeScript
8 13 (12.04%) C++
9 11 (10.19%) Perl
10 7 (6.48%) Bash
11 3 (2.78%) C
11 3 (2.78%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.93%) Assembly Language
12 1 (0.93%) Groovy
12 1 (0.93%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 23 (21.30%) Degree
2 20 (18.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (6.48%) Security Cleared
4 5 (4.63%) Master's Degree
4 5 (4.63%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.93%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (19.44%) Accessibility
2 20 (18.52%) WCAG
3 4 (3.70%) MiFID
4 2 (1.85%) QA
5 1 (0.93%) IEC 61508
5 1 (0.93%) MISRA
5 1 (0.93%) MISRA C
System Software
1 35 (32.41%) Active Directory
2 9 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (5.56%) Terraform
2 5 (4.63%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.78%) Ansible
4 1 (0.93%) Grafana
4 1 (0.93%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.93%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 46 (42.59%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.56%) Oracle
3 5 (4.63%) Xamarin
4 3 (2.78%) Cisco
4 3 (2.78%) IBM
4 3 (2.78%) Nintex
4 3 (2.78%) Pega
4 3 (2.78%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.78%) SAP
4 3 (2.78%) TOWER Software
5 1 (0.93%) Google
5 1 (0.93%) HP
5 1 (0.93%) NVIDIA
5 1 (0.93%) QNX
5 1 (0.93%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (0.93%) Sparx