Domain-Driven Design Contract Job Trends in London

Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London 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 340 348 377
Rank change year-on-year +8 +29 +61
Contract jobs citing Domain-Driven Design 36 27 24
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.25% 0.18% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.20% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 17 15
10th Percentile £400 £585 £550
25th Percentile £464 £663 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £700 £745
Median % change year-on-year -28.36% -6.04% +6.43%
75th Percentile £573 £825 £869
90th Percentile £631 £843 £903
England median daily rate £515 £675 £745
% change year-on-year -23.70% -9.40% +21.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,199 13,432 16,602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.29% 90.15% 89.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,690 8,615 11,895
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £681
90th Percentile £758 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 164 245
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.03 £17.85
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.80 £20.02
Median hourly rate £31.50 £36.65 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.05% +12.77% -15.72%
75th Percentile £53.75 £55.38 £58.75
90th Percentile £67.70 £80.75 £74.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +23.09%

Domain-Driven Design
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Domain-Driven Design job vacancy trend in London

Domain-Driven Design
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Domain-Driven Design
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Domain-Driven Design in London

Domain-Driven Design
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
South London - 6 £537 -
Central London +6 3 £495 -15.38% 4
Domain-Driven Design
England

Domain-Driven Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 (11.11%) Apache
2 2 (5.56%) WebLogic
3 1 (2.78%) Confluence
3 1 (2.78%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) NetSuite
1 1 (2.78%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 22 (61.11%) AWS
1 22 (61.11%) Azure
2 12 (33.33%) GCP
3 10 (27.78%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (25.00%) GitHub
5 7 (19.44%) Azure AKS
6 6 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (16.67%) Serverless
7 3 (8.33%) dbt
8 2 (5.56%) Amazon S3
8 2 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (5.56%) Azure Functions
8 2 (5.56%) Azure Storage
8 2 (5.56%) ChatGPT
8 2 (5.56%) GitHub Copilot
8 2 (5.56%) SaaS
9 1 (2.78%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (2.78%) Entra ID
9 1 (2.78%) iPaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (13.89%) Metadata
3 4 (11.11%) NoSQL
4 3 (8.33%) SQL Server
5 2 (5.56%) Oracle Database
5 2 (5.56%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (2.78%) BigQuery
6 1 (2.78%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.78%) MySQL
6 1 (2.78%) OLAP
6 1 (2.78%) OLTP
6 1 (2.78%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 5 (13.89%) JUnit
1 5 (13.89%) Mockito
2 4 (11.11%) Liquibase
3 3 (8.33%) ERwin
3 3 (8.33%) GitLab
3 3 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 3 (8.33%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (5.56%) CircleCI
5 1 (2.78%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.78%) Git
5 1 (2.78%) Gradle
5 1 (2.78%) JIRA
5 1 (2.78%) Postman
5 1 (2.78%) PowerBuilder
5 1 (2.78%) REST Assured
5 1 (2.78%) Selenium
5 1 (2.78%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.78%) Zephyr
General
1 11 (30.56%) Social Skills
2 8 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 4 (11.11%) Finance
4 3 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Billing
6 1 (2.78%) Front Office
6 1 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (25.00%) Developer
2 8 (22.22%) Architect
2 8 (22.22%) Lead
3 5 (13.89%) Java Developer
3 5 (13.89%) Senior
4 4 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Technical Leader
5 3 (8.33%) AWS Architect
5 3 (8.33%) Data Modeller
6 2 (5.56%) C# Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Digital Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Integration Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Java Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Lead Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Java Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Technical Architect
7 1 (2.78%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (36.11%) Spring
2 8 (22.22%) REST
3 7 (19.44%) Kafka
4 6 (16.67%) RESTful
5 5 (13.89%) Node.js
5 5 (13.89%) RAML
5 5 (13.89%) WireMock
6 4 (11.11%) React
6 4 (11.11%) Spring Boot
7 3 (8.33%) .NET
7 3 (8.33%) GraphQL
7 3 (8.33%) OpenAPI
7 3 (8.33%) Swagger
8 2 (5.56%) FHIR
8 2 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (5.56%) Spring Cloud
9 1 (2.78%) .NET Core
9 1 (2.78%) gRPC
9 1 (2.78%) Micronaut
9 1 (2.78%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 5 (13.89%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (11.11%) Onboarding
4 3 (8.33%) Product Ownership
5 2 (5.56%) NHS
6 1 (2.78%) Clustering
6 1 (2.78%) Credit Risk
6 1 (2.78%) Data Fabric
6 1 (2.78%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (2.78%) Legacy Code
6 1 (2.78%) Market Risk
6 1 (2.78%) Replication
6 1 (2.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (72.22%) Microservices
2 25 (69.44%) CI/CD
3 22 (61.11%) TDD
4 18 (50.00%) DevOps
5 17 (47.22%) CQRS
6 15 (41.67%) Containerisation
6 15 (41.67%) Design Patterns
7 12 (33.33%) Agile
8 11 (30.56%) Continuous Integration
9 10 (27.78%) Code Quality
9 10 (27.78%) Continuous Delivery
10 8 (22.22%) Event-Driven
10 8 (22.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 8 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
11 6 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
12 5 (13.89%) Data Governance
12 5 (13.89%) Data Modelling
12 5 (13.89%) Observability
12 5 (13.89%) Scrum
13 4 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 20 (55.56%) Java
2 8 (22.22%) SQL
3 5 (13.89%) TypeScript
4 3 (8.33%) C#
4 3 (8.33%) PHP
5 2 (5.56%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.56%) PL/SQL
5 2 (5.56%) Python
6 1 (2.78%) Bash
6 1 (2.78%) C
6 1 (2.78%) ProC
6 1 (2.78%) VB
Qualifications
1 17 (47.22%) Security Cleared
2 16 (44.44%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.78%) Degree
4 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.78%) MySQL Certification
4 1 (2.78%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) Data Quality
1 2 (5.56%) HL7
1 2 (5.56%) QA
2 1 (2.78%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (2.78%) EMIR
2 1 (2.78%) GDPR
2 1 (2.78%) MiFID
2 1 (2.78%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.78%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 16 (44.44%) Docker
2 1 (2.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (55.56%) Kubernetes
2 12 (33.33%) Terraform
3 3 (8.33%) Grafana
4 2 (5.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (13.89%) Microsoft
1 5 (13.89%) Oracle
2 3 (8.33%) Databricks
3 2 (5.56%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.78%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.78%) HubSpot
4 1 (2.78%) New Relic
4 1 (2.78%) OutSystems
4 1 (2.78%) Percona