Domain-Driven Design Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Domain-Driven Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 170 149
Rank change year-on-year -72 -21 +49
Contract jobs citing Domain-Driven Design 9 14 10
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.12% 0.35% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.40% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 8
10th Percentile £400 £337 £438
25th Percentile £456 £380 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £500 £445
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +12.36% -
75th Percentile £552 £582 £448
90th Percentile £560 £596 £458
England median daily rate £545 £530 £601
% change year-on-year +2.83% -11.74% -17.74%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,382 3,527 3,426
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 83.31% 88.95% 84.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,776 2,275 2,009
10th Percentile £313 £268 £310
25th Percentile £405 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £550 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £681
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 524 199 181
10th Percentile £15.17 £13.26 £12.55
25th Percentile £21.14 £17.35 £18.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £22.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +94.26% -35.34% +27.27%
75th Percentile £70.00 £38.38 £51.91
90th Percentile £79.63 £72.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £43.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +72.96% -41.51% +0.58%

Domain-Driven Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Domain-Driven Design job vacancy trend in the North of England

Domain-Driven Design
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

Domain-Driven Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Domain-Driven Design in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Domain-Driven Design in the North of England

Domain-Driven Design
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 9 September 2026. 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
North West -51 9 £531 +6.25% 9
Domain-Driven Design
England

Domain-Driven Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure AKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Cucumber
1 2 (22.22%) Postman
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Finance
3 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Architect
2 4 (44.44%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Senior
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Technical Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Technical Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Test Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Applications Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Java Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Java Solutions Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) AngularJS
1 5 (55.56%) REST
2 4 (44.44%) React
3 3 (33.33%) .NET
4 1 (11.11%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Product Ownership
2 4 (44.44%) Mainframe
3 3 (33.33%) Cloud Native
4 2 (22.22%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (22.22%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (11.11%) AI Agents
5 1 (11.11%) Autonomous Agent
5 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Agile
2 6 (66.67%) Microservices
3 5 (55.56%) Event-Driven
3 5 (55.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
4 4 (44.44%) Containerisation
4 4 (44.44%) DevOps
4 4 (44.44%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (33.33%) Application Security
5 3 (33.33%) Data Integration
5 3 (33.33%) Design Patterns
5 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 2 (22.22%) Acceptance Criteria
6 2 (22.22%) BDD
6 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (22.22%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 2 (22.22%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (22.22%) Scenario Testing
6 2 (22.22%) Test Scripting
6 2 (22.22%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
2 2 (22.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes