Drools Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Drools
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Drools skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Drools 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.19% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.63% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate - - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Sheffield

Drools falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 316 69 124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 30.21% 20.91% 33.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 46 74
10th Percentile £383 £358 £400
25th Percentile £447 £391 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +1.56% -20.00%
75th Percentile £556 £634 £584
90th Percentile £630 £711 £643
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £513 £475
% change year-on-year -2.44% +7.89% -20.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £22.50

Drools
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Drools job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Drools
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Drools.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Drools

Drools
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 2 (100.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Flyway
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) git-flow
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
1 2 (100.00%) Liquibase
1 2 (100.00%) Mockito
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (100.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Gherkin
1 2 (100.00%) HATEOAS
1 2 (100.00%) Jasypt
1 2 (100.00%) JDBC
1 2 (100.00%) JPA
1 2 (100.00%) JWT
1 2 (100.00%) Loki
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAPI
1 2 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Batch
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Cloud
1 2 (100.00%) Spring MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Security
1 2 (100.00%) Swagger
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Inventory Management
1 2 (100.00%) Log Aggregation
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) OWASP
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 2 (100.00%) SOLID
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) PromQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Consul
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (100.00%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Solace