Don't repeat yourself (DRY) Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Don't repeat yourself (DRY) skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Don't repeat yourself (DRY) 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.014% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.017% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £663 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - -
75th Percentile £688 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £625 £613 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% +16.67% -19.23%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,820 3,143 4,068
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 84.32% 89.95% 83.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,500 2,040 2,418
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £400 £379 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £465 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.09% -7.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £550 £585
90th Percentile £675 £646 £665
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 419 168 394
10th Percentile £16.62 £12.80 £11.08
25th Percentile £22.66 £17.44 £12.55
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% +14.32% -2.35%
75th Percentile £71.50 £52.13 £46.18
90th Percentile £80.00 £77.88 £63.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £26.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year +77.36% -30.26% +8.14%

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

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Don't repeat yourself (DRY) relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Don't repeat yourself (DRY) job vacancy trend in the North of England

Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Don't repeat yourself (DRY).

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Don't repeat yourself (DRY)

Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
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 Don't repeat yourself (DRY) within the North of England region over the 6 months to 24 June 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
Yorkshire - 1 £675 - 2
Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
England

Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Palantir Foundry
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS KMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Electronic Patient Records
1 1 (100.00%) Semantic Layer
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) IoT
1 1 (100.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Ontologies
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) HL7
1 1 (100.00%) SNOMED CT
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Foundry
1 1 (100.00%) Palantir