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

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 522 599 648
Rank change year-on-year +77 +49 -109
Contract jobs citing Domain-Driven Design 51 101 210
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% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 76 158
10th Percentile £445 £456 £425
25th Percentile £525 £500 £473
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 £768 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £550 £531
% change year-on-year +13.64% +3.58% +16.07%

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 36,687 51,295 79,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.22% 89.83% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,611 35,552 55,630
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £476
% change year-on-year - +5.04% +8.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,428 1,693 1,906
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.77 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.52
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +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 15 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 15 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 +57 46 £625 +1.63% 43
UK excluding London +51 27 £625 +13.64% 31
London +73 22 £620 -4.62% 14
South East +26 12 £750 +2.74% 8
Work from Home +94 9 £520 +4.00% 26
Midlands +35 5 £445 +36.92% 8
East Midlands +19 5 £445 +36.92% 6
South West +11 5 £675 +22.73% 2
North of England +20 3 £445 -14.42% 10
North West +18 3 £445 -14.42% 6
Scotland - 2 £400 - 3
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 1
East of England +10 1 £550 -5.66%

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 (1.96%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 31 (60.78%) Azure
2 21 (41.18%) AWS
3 7 (13.73%) GCP
4 6 (11.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 6 (11.76%) Azure Service Bus
4 6 (11.76%) SaaS
5 4 (7.84%) Azure App Service
5 4 (7.84%) OCI
6 2 (3.92%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.92%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (3.92%) Serverless
6 2 (3.92%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.96%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.96%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.96%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (19.61%) NoSQL
2 8 (15.69%) SQL Server
3 7 (13.73%) DB2
4 6 (11.76%) Data Lake
5 4 (7.84%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (7.84%) MongoDB
5 4 (7.84%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.96%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.96%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (15.69%) Git
2 4 (7.84%) SpecFlow
3 3 (5.88%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.92%) CircleCI
4 2 (3.92%) Cypress.io
4 2 (3.92%) GitLab
4 2 (3.92%) Postman
4 2 (3.92%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.96%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.96%) Selenium
General
1 28 (54.90%) Finance
2 13 (25.49%) Banking
3 8 (15.69%) Social Skills
4 7 (13.73%) Front Office
5 6 (11.76%) Retail
6 4 (7.84%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.92%) Law
Job Titles
1 21 (41.18%) Architect
2 13 (25.49%) Developer
3 10 (19.61%) Software Engineer
3 10 (19.61%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (13.73%) C# Software Engineer
5 6 (11.76%) Senior
6 5 (9.80%) Software Developer
7 4 (7.84%) Data Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) Enterprise Architect
7 4 (7.84%) Java Developer
7 4 (7.84%) Lead
7 4 (7.84%) Technical Architect
8 3 (5.88%) C# Developer
8 3 (5.88%) Lead Developer
8 3 (5.88%) Senior Architect
9 2 (3.92%) .NET Developer
9 2 (3.92%) .NET Software Engineer
9 2 (3.92%) Head of Technology
9 2 (3.92%) Lead Java Developer
9 2 (3.92%) Payments Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (52.94%) .NET
2 14 (27.45%) AngularJS
2 14 (27.45%) React
3 8 (15.69%) HTML
3 8 (15.69%) HTML5
4 7 (13.73%) .NET Framework
4 7 (13.73%) Entity Framework
4 7 (13.73%) REST
5 6 (11.76%) Angular 2
5 6 (11.76%) Blazor
5 6 (11.76%) Kafka
5 6 (11.76%) Redux
6 5 (9.80%) Spring
7 4 (7.84%) OpenID
7 4 (7.84%) Oracle Fusion
8 3 (5.88%) JMS
8 3 (5.88%) RESTful
8 3 (5.88%) Spring Boot
9 2 (3.92%) Pyramid
9 2 (3.92%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.76%) Derivative
1 6 (11.76%) Replication
2 5 (9.80%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (9.80%) Mainframe
2 5 (9.80%) Public Cloud
3 4 (7.84%) Blockchain
3 4 (7.84%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (7.84%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.92%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.92%) Data Fabric
4 2 (3.92%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (3.92%) IoT
4 2 (3.92%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (3.92%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.96%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.80%) Android
1 5 (9.80%) Apple iOS
2 3 (5.88%) Linux
3 2 (3.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (72.55%) Microservices
2 27 (52.94%) Agile
3 19 (37.25%) DevOps
4 18 (35.29%) TDD
5 17 (33.33%) Software Engineering
6 12 (23.53%) Architectural Design
6 12 (23.53%) Architectural Patterns
6 12 (23.53%) Scrum
7 9 (17.65%) ArchiMate
7 9 (17.65%) BDD
7 9 (17.65%) Containerisation
8 8 (15.69%) SOLID
8 8 (15.69%) Test Automation
8 8 (15.69%) TOGAF
9 7 (13.73%) Design Patterns
10 6 (11.76%) API Design
10 6 (11.76%) Software Testing
11 5 (9.80%) CQRS
11 5 (9.80%) Project Management
11 5 (9.80%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 24 (47.06%) C#
2 20 (39.22%) SQL
3 14 (27.45%) Java
4 5 (9.80%) C
4 5 (9.80%) Python
5 4 (7.84%) Bicep
5 4 (7.84%) JavaScript
5 4 (7.84%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.92%) Go
6 2 (3.92%) Scala
6 2 (3.92%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.96%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (1.96%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (9.80%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.96%) Ansible
2 1 (1.96%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (1.96%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (13.73%) Oracle
2 2 (3.92%) Databricks
2 2 (3.92%) Genesys
2 2 (3.92%) Greenplum
2 2 (3.92%) Guidewire
2 2 (3.92%) TIBCO
3 1 (1.96%) Finsemble
3 1 (1.96%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.96%) Salesforce