Domain-Driven Design Contract Job Trends in England

Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Domain-Driven Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 488 460 516
Rank change year-on-year -28 +56 +59
Contract jobs citing Domain-Driven Design 59 35 43
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.19% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.14% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 23 31
10th Percentile £400 £450 £550
25th Percentile £445 £531 £584
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £675 £745
Median % change year-on-year -23.70% -9.40% +21.63%
75th Percentile £591 £734 £825
90th Percentile £625 £838 £913
UK median daily rate £518 £688 £745
% change year-on-year -24.73% -7.72% +24.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 28,123 25,389 32,672
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.50% 88.70% 88.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,892 15,664 22,179
10th Percentile £300 £313 £308
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £648 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,806 836 1,435
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £14.44
25th Percentile £18.00 £20.43 £19.09
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +23.09%
75th Percentile £56.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.29% +24.29%

Domain-Driven Design
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Domain-Driven Design job vacancy trend in England

Domain-Driven Design
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Domain-Driven Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Domain-Driven Design

Domain-Driven Design
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Domain-Driven Design in England over the 6 months to 26 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Domain-Driven Design in England

Domain-Driven Design
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 Domain-Driven Design within the England region over the 6 months to 26 December 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
London +8 36 £502 -28.36% 10
North of England -53 11 £485 +5.43% 1
North West -21 10 £400 -10.11% 1
East Midlands - 5 £393 - 1
Midlands - 5 £393 - 1
South West - 3 £600 - 2
East of England -21 1 £500 -4.76%
Yorkshire -40 1 £650 +30.00%
South East - 1 - - 7
Domain-Driven Design
UK

Domain-Driven Design
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (6.78%) Apache
2 2 (3.39%) Mule
2 2 (3.39%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.69%) Confluence
3 1 (1.69%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (1.69%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.69%) SAP MRS
1 1 (1.69%) SAP PM
1 1 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.69%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 34 (57.63%) Azure
2 33 (55.93%) AWS
3 19 (32.20%) GCP
4 17 (28.81%) GitHub
5 12 (20.34%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (20.34%) Serverless
6 7 (11.86%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (11.86%) Azure AKS
6 7 (11.86%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (10.17%) Amazon SQS
7 6 (10.17%) SaaS
8 5 (8.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (8.47%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (8.47%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (8.47%) Amazon EMR
8 5 (8.47%) Amazon EventBridge
8 5 (8.47%) Apigee
8 5 (8.47%) AWS Fargate
8 5 (8.47%) Datadog
8 5 (8.47%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.69%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (23.73%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (22.03%) NoSQL
3 8 (13.56%) Relational Database
4 6 (10.17%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (10.17%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (10.17%) BigQuery
4 6 (10.17%) DynamoDB
4 6 (10.17%) MySQL
5 5 (8.47%) Metadata
5 5 (8.47%) RDBMS
5 5 (8.47%) Redis
6 4 (6.78%) SQL Server
7 2 (3.39%) MariaDB
7 2 (3.39%) MongoDB
7 2 (3.39%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.69%) OLAP
8 1 (1.69%) OLTP
8 1 (1.69%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 10 (16.95%) Git
2 9 (15.25%) Jenkins
2 9 (15.25%) SonarQube
3 6 (10.17%) Gradle
4 5 (8.47%) JUnit
4 5 (8.47%) Maven
4 5 (8.47%) Mockito
4 5 (8.47%) Postman
4 5 (8.47%) SonarLint
5 4 (6.78%) Cucumber
5 4 (6.78%) Liquibase
6 3 (5.08%) ERwin
6 3 (5.08%) GitLab
6 3 (5.08%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (3.39%) Bitbucket
7 2 (3.39%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (3.39%) CircleCI
7 2 (3.39%) JIRA
8 1 (1.69%) REST Assured
8 1 (1.69%) Zephyr
General
1 20 (33.90%) Social Skills
2 15 (25.42%) Public Sector
3 5 (8.47%) Finance
4 3 (5.08%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.39%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.69%) Banking
6 1 (1.69%) Billing
6 1 (1.69%) Front Office
6 1 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (28.81%) Architect
1 17 (28.81%) Developer
2 8 (13.56%) Java Developer
2 8 (13.56%) Lead
2 8 (13.56%) Senior
2 8 (13.56%) Technical Architect
3 6 (10.17%) AWS Architect
3 6 (10.17%) Java Architect
3 6 (10.17%) Java Technical Architect
4 4 (6.78%) .NET Developer
4 4 (6.78%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (6.78%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (6.78%) Technical Leader
4 4 (6.78%) Test Engineer
5 3 (5.08%) C# Developer
5 3 (5.08%) Data Modeller
5 3 (5.08%) Enterprise Architect
5 3 (5.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 3 (5.08%) Java Engineer
5 3 (5.08%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (27.12%) Spring
2 14 (23.73%) RESTful
3 13 (22.03%) Spring Boot
4 11 (18.64%) REST
5 10 (16.95%) Kafka
6 9 (15.25%) J2EE
7 8 (13.56%) Node.js
7 8 (13.56%) RAML
7 8 (13.56%) React
8 7 (11.86%) Micronaut
9 6 (10.17%) .NET
9 6 (10.17%) Dropwizard
9 6 (10.17%) GraphQL
9 6 (10.17%) Swagger
10 5 (8.47%) Celery
10 5 (8.47%) JWT
10 5 (8.47%) WireMock
11 4 (6.78%) Spring Cloud
12 3 (5.08%) HTML
12 3 (5.08%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 14 (23.73%) Cloud Native
2 11 (18.64%) Product Ownership
3 6 (10.17%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (10.17%) N-Tier
4 5 (8.47%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (8.47%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.39%) NHS
6 1 (1.69%) Clustering
6 1 (1.69%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.69%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.69%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.69%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.69%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.69%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.69%) Raspberry Pi
6 1 (1.69%) Replication
6 1 (1.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.69%) Linux
1 1 (1.69%) Unix
1 1 (1.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (71.19%) Microservices
2 39 (66.10%) CI/CD
3 36 (61.02%) TDD
4 29 (49.15%) Agile
5 25 (42.37%) Containerisation
5 25 (42.37%) DevOps
6 24 (40.68%) Design Patterns
7 22 (37.29%) CQRS
8 18 (30.51%) Event-Driven
9 17 (28.81%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 13 (22.03%) Continuous Integration
11 12 (20.34%) AI
11 12 (20.34%) BDD
11 12 (20.34%) Code Quality
12 11 (18.64%) Clean Code
12 11 (18.64%) Integration Patterns
13 10 (16.95%) API Design
13 10 (16.95%) Continuous Delivery
13 10 (16.95%) Infrastructure as Code
14 9 (15.25%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (50.85%) Java
2 14 (23.73%) SQL
3 12 (20.34%) Python
4 9 (15.25%) TypeScript
5 6 (10.17%) C#
5 6 (10.17%) JavaScript
6 5 (8.47%) PHP
7 3 (5.08%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.69%) ABAP
8 1 (1.69%) Bash
8 1 (1.69%) C
8 1 (1.69%) Go
8 1 (1.69%) ProC
8 1 (1.69%) VB
Qualifications
1 23 (38.98%) Security Cleared
2 19 (32.20%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.08%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.69%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.69%) Degree
4 1 (1.69%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.69%) MySQL Certification
4 1 (1.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.39%) Accessibility
1 2 (3.39%) Data Quality
1 2 (3.39%) HL7
1 2 (3.39%) QA
2 1 (1.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (1.69%) EMIR
2 1 (1.69%) GDPR
2 1 (1.69%) MiFID
2 1 (1.69%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.69%) Software Quality Assurance
2 1 (1.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (42.37%) Docker
2 1 (1.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 30 (50.85%) Kubernetes
2 21 (35.59%) Terraform
3 3 (5.08%) Grafana
4 2 (3.39%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (11.86%) Oracle
2 6 (10.17%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.47%) Gigya
4 3 (5.08%) Checkmarx
4 3 (5.08%) Databricks
5 2 (3.39%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.69%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.69%) HubSpot
6 1 (1.69%) New Relic
6 1 (1.69%) OutSystems
6 1 (1.69%) Percona
6 1 (1.69%) SAP
6 1 (1.69%) Virgin Media