Domain-Driven Design Contracts

Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Domain-Driven Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Domain-Driven Design over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 538 596 638
Rank change year-on-year +58 +42 -91
Contract jobs citing Domain-Driven Design 52 103 207
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.18% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.20% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 78 157
10th Percentile £445 £454 £425
25th Percentile £531 £500 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £583 £585
Median % change year-on-year +7.20% -0.34% +11.43%
75th Percentile £750 £700 £638
90th Percentile £775 £765 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £675 £550 £530
% change year-on-year +22.73% +3.77% +15.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Domain-Driven Design 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 37,094 51,920 79,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.82% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,889 35,981 55,625
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,716 1,886
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.24 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

Domain-Driven Design
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Domain-Driven Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Domain-Driven Design in the UK

Domain-Driven Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Domain-Driven Design.

Daily rate trend for Domain-Driven Design in the UK

Domain-Driven Design
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Domain-Driven Design over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Domain-Driven Design in the UK

Domain-Driven Design
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 Domain-Driven Design within the UK over the 6 months to 11 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 +66 47 £638 +7.14% 43
UK excluding London +54 29 £675 +22.73% 30
London +68 21 £610 -6.12% 16
South East +25 14 £750 +3.09% 7
Work from Home +85 9 £520 +4.00% 26
Midlands +31 5 £445 -3.26% 7
East Midlands +24 5 £445 +36.92% 6
South West +5 5 £675 +22.73% 3
North of England +33 3 £445 -14.42% 8
North West +16 3 £445 -14.42% 5
Scotland - 2 £400 - 4
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 1
East of England +11 1 £550 -5.66% 1

Domain-Driven Design
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 1 (1.92%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Avolution ABACUS
2 1 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 31 (59.62%) Azure
2 23 (44.23%) AWS
3 7 (13.46%) GCP
4 6 (11.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 6 (11.54%) Azure Service Bus
4 6 (11.54%) SaaS
5 4 (7.69%) Azure App Service
5 4 (7.69%) OCI
6 2 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.85%) Serverless
6 2 (3.85%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.92%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.92%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.92%) PaaS
7 1 (1.92%) SAP Fieldglass
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (17.31%) NoSQL
2 7 (13.46%) DB2
2 7 (13.46%) SQL Server
3 6 (11.54%) Data Lake
4 4 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (7.69%) Relational Database
5 3 (5.77%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.92%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.92%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (15.38%) Git
2 4 (7.69%) SpecFlow
3 3 (5.77%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.85%) CircleCI
4 2 (3.85%) Cypress.io
4 2 (3.85%) GitLab
4 2 (3.85%) Postman
4 2 (3.85%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.92%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.92%) Selenium
General
1 30 (57.69%) Finance
2 13 (25.00%) Banking
3 8 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 7 (13.46%) Front Office
5 6 (11.54%) Retail
6 4 (7.69%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.85%) Law
8 1 (1.92%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.92%) Legal
8 1 (1.92%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 23 (44.23%) Architect
2 12 (23.08%) Developer
3 10 (19.23%) Software Engineer
3 10 (19.23%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (13.46%) C# Software Engineer
5 6 (11.54%) Enterprise Architect
5 6 (11.54%) Senior
6 5 (9.62%) Software Developer
7 4 (7.69%) Data Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) Lead
7 4 (7.69%) Technical Architect
8 3 (5.77%) C# Developer
8 3 (5.77%) Java Developer
8 3 (5.77%) Lead Developer
8 3 (5.77%) Senior Architect
9 2 (3.85%) .NET Software Engineer
9 2 (3.85%) Digital Architect
9 2 (3.85%) Digital Solutions Architect
9 2 (3.85%) Head of Technology
9 2 (3.85%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (51.92%) .NET
2 14 (26.92%) AngularJS
2 14 (26.92%) React
3 8 (15.38%) HTML
3 8 (15.38%) HTML5
4 7 (13.46%) .NET Framework
4 7 (13.46%) Entity Framework
4 7 (13.46%) REST
5 6 (11.54%) Angular 2
5 6 (11.54%) Blazor
5 6 (11.54%) Redux
6 5 (9.62%) Kafka
7 4 (7.69%) OpenID
7 4 (7.69%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (7.69%) Spring
8 3 (5.77%) JMS
9 2 (3.85%) CSS
9 2 (3.85%) CSS3
9 2 (3.85%) RESTful
9 2 (3.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.54%) Derivative
1 6 (11.54%) Replication
2 5 (9.62%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (9.62%) Mainframe
2 5 (9.62%) Public Cloud
3 4 (7.69%) Blockchain
3 4 (7.69%) Product Ownership
4 3 (5.77%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.85%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.85%) Data Fabric
5 2 (3.85%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (3.85%) IoT
5 2 (3.85%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (3.85%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.92%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.62%) Android
1 5 (9.62%) Apple iOS
2 2 (3.85%) Linux
2 2 (3.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (73.08%) Microservices
2 27 (51.92%) Agile
3 18 (34.62%) DevOps
4 17 (32.69%) Software Engineering
4 17 (32.69%) TDD
5 12 (23.08%) Architectural Design
5 12 (23.08%) Architectural Patterns
5 12 (23.08%) Scrum
6 11 (21.15%) ArchiMate
7 10 (19.23%) TOGAF
8 9 (17.31%) BDD
8 9 (17.31%) Containerisation
9 8 (15.38%) SOLID
10 7 (13.46%) Design Patterns
10 7 (13.46%) Test Automation
11 6 (11.54%) API Design
11 6 (11.54%) Software Testing
12 5 (9.62%) Coaching
12 5 (9.62%) Event-Driven
12 5 (9.62%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 24 (46.15%) C#
2 19 (36.54%) SQL
3 13 (25.00%) Java
4 5 (9.62%) C
4 5 (9.62%) Python
5 4 (7.69%) Bicep
5 4 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 4 (7.69%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.85%) Go
6 2 (3.85%) Scala
6 2 (3.85%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.92%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (1.92%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.92%) FATCA
1 1 (1.92%) MiFID
System Software
1 4 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.85%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.92%) Ansible
2 1 (1.92%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (1.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (11.54%) Oracle
2 2 (3.85%) Databricks
2 2 (3.85%) Genesys
2 2 (3.85%) Greenplum
2 2 (3.85%) Guidewire
3 1 (1.92%) Calypso
3 1 (1.92%) Concur
3 1 (1.92%) Finsemble
3 1 (1.92%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.92%) Murex
3 1 (1.92%) PeopleSoft
3 1 (1.92%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.92%) SAP
3 1 (1.92%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.92%) TIBCO
3 1 (1.92%) Wallstreet Suite
3 1 (1.92%) Workday