Drools Contracts in England

Drools
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Drools skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Drools over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 519 640 750
Rank change year-on-year +121 +110 -138
Contract jobs citing Drools 20 5 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.054% 0.010% 0.021%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.27% 0.044% 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 14
10th Percentile £416 £670 £541
25th Percentile £450 £681 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £700 £600
Median % change year-on-year -29.11% +16.67% +14.01%
75th Percentile £527 - £636
90th Percentile £539 - £735
UK median daily rate £496 £700 £589
% change year-on-year -29.11% +18.90% +17.16%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Drools is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,502 11,262 18,934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.41% 23.04% 26.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,321 8,347 14,217
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £565
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -0.88% +13.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £788 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 139 215
10th Percentile £22.27 £29.15 £23.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.03 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +28.71% +12.22%
75th Percentile £65.01 £75.00 £67.65
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

Drools
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Drools as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Drools in England

Drools
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Drools in England.

Daily rate trend for Drools in England

Drools
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Drools in England over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Drools in England

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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 Drools within the England region over the 6 months to 11 May 2024. 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 of England - 13 £510 -
London - 7 £450 - 1
Drools
UK

Drools
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 6 (30.00%) Alfresco
1 6 (30.00%) Appian
1 6 (30.00%) Camunda
2 1 (5.00%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) Azure
1 5 (25.00%) OpenShift
2 2 (10.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (35.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (60.00%) Git
2 7 (35.00%) JUnit
2 7 (35.00%) Mockito
3 5 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 5 (25.00%) Maven
General
1 5 (25.00%) Front Office
2 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Aviation
4 1 (5.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Developer
2 4 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Java Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Java Software Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Consultant
4 2 (10.00%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Development Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Development Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (55.00%) JSON
2 7 (35.00%) Quarkus
2 7 (35.00%) RESTful
2 7 (35.00%) Spring
2 7 (35.00%) Spring Boot
3 6 (30.00%) jBPM
4 5 (25.00%) REST
4 5 (25.00%) Swagger
5 1 (5.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (25.00%) Low-Code
3 3 (15.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Microservices
2 7 (35.00%) Containerisation
2 7 (35.00%) Decision Table
2 7 (35.00%) TDD
3 6 (30.00%) BPMN
3 6 (30.00%) Test Automation
3 6 (30.00%) Workflow
4 5 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (25.00%) E-Commerce
4 5 (25.00%) Migration
5 3 (15.00%) Agile
5 3 (15.00%) Community of Practice
5 3 (15.00%) Software Engineering
6 2 (10.00%) Analytical Thinking
6 2 (10.00%) OO
6 2 (10.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 1 (5.00%) Conflict Resolution
7 1 (5.00%) Data Strategy
7 1 (5.00%) Mentoring
7 1 (5.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 19 (95.00%) Java
2 12 (60.00%) SQL
3 3 (15.00%) Groovy
System Software
1 12 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (35.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (25.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Pega
2 5 (25.00%) Splunk
3 4 (20.00%) Microsoft