Domain-Driven Design Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Domain-Driven Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 116 127
Rank change year-on-year -5 +11 +41
Contract jobs citing Domain-Driven Design 5 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.26% 0.22% 0.084%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.24% 0.094%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £488 - £724
25th Percentile £489 - £743
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £585 £799
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% -26.76% +22.88%
75th Percentile £546 - £868
90th Percentile £556 - £895
Central London median daily rate £510 £585 £799
% change year-on-year -12.82% -26.76% +22.88%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Domain-Driven Design falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,738 1,682 2,127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.95% 91.61% 89.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,202 1,026 1,511
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £429 £463 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £669 £683 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -4.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 8 14
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.34 £28.94 £19.18
Median hourly rate £34.25 £40.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.43% +24.62% -7.14%
75th Percentile £46.29 £64.56 £45.52
90th Percentile £55.54 £112.00 £66.70
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -20.54%

Domain-Driven Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Domain-Driven Design relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Domain-Driven Design job vacancy trend in the City of London

Domain-Driven Design
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Domain-Driven Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Domain-Driven Design

Domain-Driven Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Functions
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Storage
3 1 (20.00%) dbt
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Metadata
2 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) ERwin
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Maven
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Forms
1 1 (20.00%) PowerBuilder
1 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Java Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Java Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Data Modeller
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Java Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (20.00%) CSS
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) J2EE
2 1 (20.00%) Playwright
2 1 (20.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Data Fabric
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (40.00%) Metadata Management
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) AI
3 1 (20.00%) Data Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Data Transformation
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Front End Development
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) Master Data Management
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Secure Coding
3 1 (20.00%) Software Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) C
3 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (20.00%) ProC
3 1 (20.00%) VB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) OutSystems
2 1 (20.00%) Salesforce