Don't repeat yourself (DRY) Contracts in England

Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 473 534 631
Rank change year-on-year +61 +97 +104
Contract jobs citing Don't repeat yourself (DRY) 9 3 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.037% 0.008% 0.033%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.040% 0.010% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 12
10th Percentile £516 - £402
25th Percentile £569 - £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £200 £650
Median % change year-on-year +212.50% -69.23% +23.81%
75th Percentile £706 - £675
90th Percentile £730 - £765
UK median daily rate £613 £200 £650
% change year-on-year +206.25% -69.23% +23.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,329 31,491 43,355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.21% 86.40% 90.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,605 20,622 30,435
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 949 2,249 1,535
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.92 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £15.95 £16.13
Median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -21.23% +0.69% +45.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £35.65
% change year-on-year -22.32% +1.11% +38.82%

Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Don't repeat yourself (DRY) in England

Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Don't repeat yourself (DRY) in England

Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Don't repeat yourself (DRY) in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Don't repeat yourself (DRY) in England

Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Don't repeat yourself (DRY) in England.

Hourly rate trend for Don't repeat yourself (DRY) in England

Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
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 Don't repeat yourself (DRY) within the England region over the 6 months to 18 May 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 - 9 £625 - 14
Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
UK

Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
1 4 (44.44%) GitHub
2 3 (33.33%) GCP
2 3 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (33.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 3 (33.33%) Sentry
3 2 (22.22%) Azure AKS
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (11.11%) Azure
4 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (33.33%) Redis
3 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
3 2 (22.22%) OLTP
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (11.11%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) CircleCI
1 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Banking
2 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Architect
2 3 (33.33%) GCP Architect
2 3 (33.33%) Platform Architect
2 3 (33.33%) Python Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
2 3 (33.33%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
3 1 (11.11%) Django Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) iOS Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Python Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Python/Django Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) REST
2 5 (55.56%) Node.js
2 5 (55.56%) React
3 3 (33.33%) Django
3 3 (33.33%) Express.js
4 2 (22.22%) AngularJS
4 2 (22.22%) GraphQL
4 2 (22.22%) gRPC
4 2 (22.22%) Pyramid
4 2 (22.22%) SOAP
4 2 (22.22%) Spring
4 2 (22.22%) Spring Boot
5 1 (11.11%) .NET
5 1 (11.11%) Kafka
5 1 (11.11%) RESTful
5 1 (11.11%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 3 (33.33%) Distributed Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) CI/CD
1 8 (88.89%) SOLID
2 6 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 5 (55.56%) Agile
4 4 (44.44%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (44.44%) Design Patterns
4 4 (44.44%) DevOps
4 4 (44.44%) Microservices
4 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (44.44%) Test Automation
5 3 (33.33%) Architectural Design
5 3 (33.33%) Clean Code
5 3 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
5 3 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
5 3 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
5 3 (33.33%) Event-Driven
5 3 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 3 (33.33%) Functional Testing
5 3 (33.33%) Observability
5 3 (33.33%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Python
1 7 (77.78%) SQL
2 4 (44.44%) C#
3 3 (33.33%) Go
3 3 (33.33%) Java
3 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 3 (33.33%) Scala
4 1 (11.11%) Objective-C
4 1 (11.11%) Swift
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Accessibility
2 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Apple