Document Object Model (DOM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for DOM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DOM over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 578 689 741
Rank change year-on-year +111 +52 -104
Contract jobs citing DOM 20 30 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.050% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.23% 0.22% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 24 82
10th Percentile £400 £472 £360
25th Percentile £418 £513 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £638 £540
Median % change year-on-year -21.57% +18.06% +33.33%
75th Percentile - £713 £594
90th Percentile £525 £739 £698
UK excluding London median daily rate £408 £570 £519
% change year-on-year -28.51% +9.83% +44.07%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

DOM is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,876 13,931 24,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.50% 23.29% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,162 10,182 17,689
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £660
90th Percentile £767 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 153 242
10th Percentile £20.91 £31.60 £21.10
25th Percentile £39.98 £48.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £64.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.85 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +32.65% +8.89%

DOM
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DOM in the UK

DOM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for DOM in the UK

DOM
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DOM over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DOM in the UK

DOM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for DOM in the UK

DOM
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DOM within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +115 15 £450 -29.41% 5
Work from Home +127 13 £500 -12.28% 1
London +92 10 £450 -33.33% 4
UK excluding London +61 5 £408 -28.51% 1
South East - 4 £315 -
East of England - 1 £500 -

DOM
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 9 (45.00%) CMS
2 7 (35.00%) Headless CMS
2 7 (35.00%) Kentico
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 8 (40.00%) Azure
1 8 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
1 8 (40.00%) Google Analytics
2 5 (25.00%) Adobe Analytics
2 5 (25.00%) GCP
2 5 (25.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) BigQuery
1 5 (25.00%) Looker
1 5 (25.00%) Power BI
1 5 (25.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (40.00%) Git
2 7 (35.00%) Visual Studio Code
3 5 (25.00%) Postman
4 2 (10.00%) GitLab
4 2 (10.00%) Visual Website Optimizer
5 1 (5.00%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (5.00%) JIRA
5 1 (5.00%) VersionOne
5 1 (5.00%) Visual Studio
5 1 (5.00%) webpack
General
1 6 (30.00%) Banking
2 5 (25.00%) Advertising
2 5 (25.00%) Marketing
2 5 (25.00%) Retail
3 2 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Retail Banking
3 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Developer
2 7 (35.00%) React Developer
3 6 (30.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 6 (30.00%) JavaScript Developer
4 5 (25.00%) Azure Developer
4 5 (25.00%) CMS Developer
4 5 (25.00%) DevOps Developer
4 5 (25.00%) HTML CSS Developer
4 5 (25.00%) HTML Developer
5 3 (15.00%) Consultant
6 2 (10.00%) Architect
6 2 (10.00%) Data Architect
6 2 (10.00%) Optimisation Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Technical Consultant
7 1 (5.00%) .NET Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Analytics Consultant
7 1 (5.00%) Data Analytics Consultant
7 1 (5.00%) Implementation Consultant
7 1 (5.00%) JavaScript Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (95.00%) HTML
2 18 (90.00%) CSS
3 11 (55.00%) React
4 9 (45.00%) Node.js
5 8 (40.00%) GraphQL
6 7 (35.00%) GatsbyJS
6 7 (35.00%) JSON
7 5 (25.00%) jQuery
7 5 (25.00%) Swagger
8 2 (10.00%) Ajax
8 2 (10.00%) Express.js
8 2 (10.00%) REST
9 1 (5.00%) .NET
9 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
9 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET
9 1 (5.00%) OAuth
9 1 (5.00%) OpenID
9 1 (5.00%) RESTful
9 1 (5.00%) Sass
9 1 (5.00%) Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 5 (25.00%) Marketing Technology
2 2 (10.00%) Digital Media
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 9 (45.00%) DOM Manipulation/Scripting
3 8 (40.00%) Agile
3 8 (40.00%) Analytics
3 8 (40.00%) DevOps
4 5 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (25.00%) Data Collection
4 5 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
4 5 (25.00%) Digital Analytics
4 5 (25.00%) Event-Driven
4 5 (25.00%) Machine Learning
4 5 (25.00%) Tag Management
4 5 (25.00%) Web Analytics
5 4 (20.00%) Data Analytics
6 3 (15.00%) User Experience
6 3 (15.00%) UX Design
7 2 (10.00%) Computer Science
7 2 (10.00%) Copywriting
7 2 (10.00%) Customer Engagement
7 2 (10.00%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (95.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (5.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (10.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (40.00%) QA
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) Adobe
1 8 (40.00%) Google
1 8 (40.00%) Optimizely
2 5 (25.00%) Ensighten
2 5 (25.00%) Monetate
2 5 (25.00%) Omniture
2 5 (25.00%) Tealium
3 2 (10.00%) Maxymiser
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle