Loose Coupling Contracts

Loose Coupling
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Loose Coupling skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Loose Coupling over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 582 708 798
Rank change year-on-year +126 +90 -
Contract jobs citing Loose Coupling 4 14 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.023% 0.037%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.011% 0.026% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 18
10th Percentile - £550 £465
25th Percentile - £663 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £775 £590
Median % change year-on-year -22.58% +31.36% -
75th Percentile £633 £794 £675
90th Percentile £652 £800 £755
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £550 £638
% change year-on-year +9.09% -13.73% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Loose Coupling 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 37,653 53,977 80,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.28% 89.91% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,313 37,392 56,301
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
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% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,429 1,779 1,937
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.54 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.98 £35.90 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.21% +79.50% -8.09%

Loose Coupling
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Loose Coupling in the UK

Loose Coupling
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Loose Coupling in the UK

Loose Coupling
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Loose Coupling within the UK over the 6 months to 25 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 +112 3 £600 -20.00% 1
Work from Home +120 2 £660 -16.19%
UK excluding London +67 2 £600 +9.09%
South West +23 2 £600 -
London +101 1 - - 1

Loose Coupling
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Serverless
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (50.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Full Stack Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Java Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Python Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) ERP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) CSS
1 2 (50.00%) CSS3
1 2 (50.00%) HTML
1 2 (50.00%) HTML5
1 2 (50.00%) Jest
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
1 2 (50.00%) React
1 2 (50.00%) React Native
1 2 (50.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Backlog Management
1 2 (50.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 2 (50.00%) BDD
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (50.00%) ERP
1 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (50.00%) Full Stack Development
1 2 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
1 2 (50.00%) Microservices
1 2 (50.00%) Runbook
1 2 (50.00%) SDLC
1 2 (50.00%) TDD
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (50.00%) TOGAF
1 2 (50.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) Kotlin
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft