Domain-Driven Design Contract Job Trends in the South East

Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Domain-Driven Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 154 188
Rank change year-on-year -53 +34 +30
Contract jobs citing Domain-Driven Design 3 1 16
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.052% 0.033% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.064% 0.036% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 16
10th Percentile £489 - £591
25th Percentile £509 - £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 - £750
Median % change year-on-year - - +26.32%
75th Percentile £589 - £775
90th Percentile £602 - £800
England median daily rate £492 £510 £685
% change year-on-year -3.53% -25.55% +5.38%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,686 2,742 4,751
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 81.58% 91.49% 85.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,058 1,743 2,778
10th Percentile £285 £256 £229
25th Percentile £406 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - -1.23%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £619
90th Percentile £713 £675 £699
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 425 171 431
10th Percentile £15.62 £13.85 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £16.34 £18.26
Median hourly rate £49.00 £28.00 £46.87
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -40.26% -6.26%
75th Percentile £81.00 £62.50 £62.48
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £76.86
England median hourly rate £42.50 £30.62 £35.00
% change year-on-year +38.82% -12.53% -6.67%

Domain-Driven Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Domain-Driven Design job vacancy trend in the South East

Domain-Driven Design
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Domain-Driven Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Domain-Driven Design

Domain-Driven Design
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 24 April 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
Thames Valley -39 3 £555 - 3
Buckinghamshire - 3 £555 - 1
Domain-Driven Design
England

Domain-Driven Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Retail
2 1 (33.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Backend Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Backend Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior C# .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior C# Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) .NET Core
1 2 (66.67%) React
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 1 (33.33%) Entity Framework
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) API Development
1 2 (66.67%) API Testing
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) API Integration
2 1 (33.33%) ArchiMate
2 1 (33.33%) Architecture Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Thought Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared