DOM Contract Job Trends in England

Document Object Model (DOM)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring DOM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 507 518 567
Rank change year-on-year +11 +49 +163
Contract jobs citing DOM 12 6 17
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.043% 0.018% 0.041%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.19% 0.083% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 11
10th Percentile £224 £285 -
25th Percentile £245 £338 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £269 £450 £675
Median % change year-on-year -40.22% -33.33% +35.00%
75th Percentile £356 £509 £713
90th Percentile £504 £530 -
UK median daily rate £269 £450 £675
% change year-on-year -40.22% -33.33% +35.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

DOM falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,386 7,255 9,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.79% 22.36% 21.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,293 4,671 6,699
10th Percentile £350 £356 £380
25th Percentile £413 £438 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £671 £675
90th Percentile £738 £810 £788
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 175 187
10th Percentile £31.25 £35.40 £41.25
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.00 £46.22
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +12.07% -10.77%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.72 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £63.36 £58.25
% change year-on-year -14.77% +8.76% -8.41%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DOM relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

DOM job vacancy trend in England

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Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing DOM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing DOM

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DOM in England over the 6 months to 3 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DOM in England

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Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing DOM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing DOM

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DOM within the England region over the 6 months to 3 October 2025. 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
East Midlands - 6 £256 - 1
Midlands - 6 £256 - 1
North of England -16 4 £354 -34.14% 3
Yorkshire -21 3 £358 -33.40% 3
London +21 2 £428 +22.14% 14
North West - 1 £223 -
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UK

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 2 (16.67%) npm
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (8.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) MySQL
1 2 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (58.33%) Cucumber
2 7 (58.33%) Selenium
3 3 (25.00%) Git
3 3 (25.00%) Postman
3 3 (25.00%) SonarQube
3 3 (25.00%) webpack
4 2 (16.67%) Babel
4 2 (16.67%) JIRA
5 1 (8.33%) Bundler
5 1 (8.33%) ESLint
5 1 (8.33%) Gatling
5 1 (8.33%) Jasmine
5 1 (8.33%) Karma Test Runner
5 1 (8.33%) LoadRunner
General
1 10 (83.33%) Banking
2 7 (58.33%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 2 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Tester
2 6 (50.00%) Automation Tester
3 3 (25.00%) Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Junior
4 2 (16.67%) Junior Automation Tester
4 2 (16.67%) Junior Tester
4 2 (16.67%) React Developer
5 1 (8.33%) JavaScript Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Lead
5 1 (8.33%) Lead Developer
5 1 (8.33%) PHP Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Salesforce Tester
5 1 (8.33%) Senior
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (100.00%) HTML
2 7 (58.33%) jQuery
3 4 (33.33%) CSS
3 4 (33.33%) HTML5
4 3 (25.00%) Bootstrap
4 3 (25.00%) CSS3
4 3 (25.00%) Jest
4 3 (25.00%) React
4 3 (25.00%) REST
5 2 (16.67%) lodash
5 2 (16.67%) Redux
6 1 (8.33%) Enzyme
6 1 (8.33%) Gherkin
6 1 (8.33%) GraphQL
6 1 (8.33%) Handlebars
6 1 (8.33%) Laravel
6 1 (8.33%) Mustache
6 1 (8.33%) Playwright
6 1 (8.33%) Semantic HTML
6 1 (8.33%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) e-Learning
2 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Agile
1 11 (91.67%) Test Automation
2 8 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (25.00%) DOM Manipulation/Scripting
3 3 (25.00%) Performance Testing
3 3 (25.00%) TDD
3 3 (25.00%) User Experience
4 2 (16.67%) Atomic Design
4 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 2 (16.67%) Design Patterns
4 2 (16.67%) Front End Development
4 2 (16.67%) Functional Testing
4 2 (16.67%) OO
4 2 (16.67%) SOLID
4 2 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
4 2 (16.67%) Sprint Retrospective
4 2 (16.67%) Story Points
4 2 (16.67%) Unit Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Java
2 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.33%) Apex Code
3 1 (8.33%) PHP
3 1 (8.33%) SOQL
3 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 2 (16.67%) QA
3 1 (8.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) MuleSoft
1 1 (8.33%) Salesforce