Don't repeat yourself (DRY) Contracts in the City of London

Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Don't repeat yourself (DRY) skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Don't repeat yourself (DRY) over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 - 170
Rank change year-on-year - - +4
Contract jobs citing Don't repeat yourself (DRY) 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.057% - 0.055%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.061% - 0.060%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £390
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.00%
75th Percentile - - £395
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate - - £390
% change year-on-year - - -20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Don't repeat yourself (DRY) 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 1,637 1,989 3,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.53% 91.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,034 1,408 2,250
10th Percentile £363 £363 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £684 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Don't repeat yourself (DRY) as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Don't repeat yourself (DRY) in the City of London

Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Don't repeat yourself (DRY) in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Don't repeat yourself (DRY) in the City of London

Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Exploratory Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SDET
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) SOLID
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA