Poetry Contract Job Trends in London

Poetry
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Poetry skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 380 358 397
Rank change year-on-year -22 +39 -
Contract jobs citing Poetry 1 6 3
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.007% 0.041% 0.016%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.045% 0.29% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 3
10th Percentile - £368 -
25th Percentile £393 - £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £380 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.95% -24.00% -
75th Percentile £398 - £513
90th Percentile - £578 -
England median daily rate £390 £380 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% -24.00% -

All Development Application Skills
London

Poetry falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,242 2,034 2,363
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.60% 13.84% 12.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,528 1,331 1,740
10th Percentile £350 £345 £399
25th Percentile £425 £423 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £788
England median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 21
10th Percentile £37.65 £22.25 £25.38
25th Percentile £42.63 £25.63 £30.00
Median hourly rate £56.50 £48.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.90% +14.71% -26.09%
75th Percentile £86.88 £77.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £110.00 £87.88 £73.65
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

Poetry
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Poetry job vacancy trend in London

Poetry
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Poetry.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Poetry

Poetry
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 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Flask
1 1 (100.00%) NumPy
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes