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

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Don't repeat yourself (DRY) skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Don't repeat yourself (DRY) 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.046% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.052% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £575 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,924 1,990 2,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.62% 83.58% 88.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,258 1,188 1,703
10th Percentile £300 £308 £282
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £561 £588 £594
90th Percentile £665 £688 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 121 160
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.92 £15.75
25th Percentile £17.44 £23.65 £18.38
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.63% +18.60% +55.32%
75th Percentile £51.63 £55.79 £46.18
90th Percentile £71.87 £70.90 £63.88
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +46.55%

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

Job postings citing Don't repeat yourself (DRY) as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Don't repeat yourself (DRY) in the North West

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

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

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

Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 7 September 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
Manchester - 1 - - 4
Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
England

Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) B2B
1 1 (100.00%) B2C
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) SOA
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) SOLID
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Java