DOM Contracts in the UK excluding London

Document Object Model (DOM)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring DOM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DOM over the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 357 372 417
Rank change year-on-year +15 +45 +93
Contract jobs citing DOM 10 3 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.065% 0.016% 0.027%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.36% 0.097% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 1
10th Percentile £221 - -
25th Percentile £225 £531 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £256 £538 £275
Median % change year-on-year -52.33% +95.45% -49.07%
75th Percentile £270 £544 £288
90th Percentile £355 - -
UK median daily rate £268 £554 £675
% change year-on-year -51.60% -17.96% +25.23%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

DOM 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,785 3,094 3,868
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.16% 16.90% 17.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,854 1,992 2,811
10th Percentile £313 £325 £338
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £613 £600
90th Percentile £625 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 209 103
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.85 £37.59
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £58.91 £58.59
Median % change year-on-year -6.63% +0.54% -2.35%
75th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £74.09 £77.20
UK median hourly rate £54.44 £55.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -1.02% -8.33% +2.32%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing DOM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for DOM in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DOM in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for DOM in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DOM in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DOM in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DOM in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for DOM in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DOM within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 August 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
East Midlands - 7 £250 -
Midlands - 7 £250 -
North of England -13 3 £350 -34.88% 1
Yorkshire -13 2 £354 -34.14% 1
North West - 1 £223 -
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (20.00%) npm
Development Applications
1 10 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (80.00%) Cucumber
2 8 (80.00%) Selenium
3 2 (20.00%) Babel
3 2 (20.00%) Git
3 2 (20.00%) JIRA
3 2 (20.00%) Postman
3 2 (20.00%) SonarQube
3 2 (20.00%) webpack
General
1 10 (100.00%) Banking
2 8 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Automation Tester
1 6 (60.00%) Tester
2 3 (30.00%) Junior
3 2 (20.00%) Junior Automation Tester
3 2 (20.00%) Junior Tester
4 1 (10.00%) Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Junior Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Junior Test Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) React Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (100.00%) HTML
2 8 (80.00%) jQuery
3 2 (20.00%) Bootstrap
3 2 (20.00%) CSS
3 2 (20.00%) CSS3
3 2 (20.00%) HTML5
3 2 (20.00%) Jest
3 2 (20.00%) lodash
3 2 (20.00%) React
3 2 (20.00%) Redux
3 2 (20.00%) REST
4 1 (10.00%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Agile
1 10 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 8 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Atomic Design
3 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (20.00%) DOM Manipulation/Scripting
3 2 (20.00%) Front End Development
3 2 (20.00%) Performance Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
3 2 (20.00%) Sprint Retrospective
3 2 (20.00%) Story Points
3 2 (20.00%) TDD
3 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (20.00%) User Experience
3 2 (20.00%) Wireframes
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Thinking
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (20.00%) QA