Poetry Contract Job Trends in the South East

Poetry
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Poetry skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 183 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Poetry 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.045% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.42% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £375 - -
25th Percentile £376 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 - -
75th Percentile £385 - -
90th Percentile £387 - -
England median daily rate £390 £380 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% -24.00% -

All Development Application Skills
South East

Poetry falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 481 463 600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 10.91% 12.88% 12.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 355 272 408
10th Percentile £257 £334 £394
25th Percentile £363 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £615
90th Percentile £638 £645 £672
England median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 20 28
10th Percentile £43.13 £51.23 £52.13
25th Percentile £53.75 £54.56 £55.00
Median hourly rate £76.00 £59.02 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.77% -5.57% -
75th Percentile £89.63 £62.81 £70.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £67.44 £76.53
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

Poetry
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Poetry job vacancy trend in the South East

Poetry
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Poetry.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Poetry

Poetry
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 Poetry within the South East region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Hampshire - 2 £380 -
Poetry
England

Poetry
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Dagster
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) SSH
1 1 (50.00%) SSL
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Parquet
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) MLflow
2 1 (50.00%) PyCharm
2 1 (50.00%) Pylint
2 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio Code
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Avro
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) Flask
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) NumPy
1 1 (50.00%) Pandas
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
1 1 (50.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Memory Management
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Secrets Management
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Bicep
2 1 (50.00%) Groovy
2 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Argo
1 1 (50.00%) Istio
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cloudera
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat